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Sonic Death
Live album by Sonic Youth
Released	1984
Recorded	1981 – 1983
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	68:02
Label	Ecstatic Peace
Producer(s)	Sonic Youth
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Sonic Youth chronology
Kill Yr Idols (1983)	Sonic Death (1984)	Bad Moon Rising (1985)

Sonic Death is a live album by Sonic Youth, released in 1984. It contains live recordings from 1981 to 1983.

Many of the songs on this album appear only as fragments, often with no breaks between. Most of the songs are taken from Sonic Youth's first 3 releases, Sonic Youth, Confusion Is Sex and the Kill Yr Idols EP.

The album was originally released as a cassette on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label and was later released in the cassette and CD formats by Blast First and SST.

Because Sonic Youth use many different alternative tunings, but couldn't afford to travel with separate instruments for each tuning in the band's early years, members of the band can be heard changing between tunings between songs.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 References

The album's cover has no track listing, and CD versions are either only 1 track, or 2 tracks (matching the 2 sides of the original cassette). The following is a list of songs that can be recognized clearly, with approximate times from the beginning of the disk:

1. "The Good and the Bad" (fragment) – 0:00 – 5:05
2. "She Is Not Alone" (fragment) – 7:16 – 10:31
3. "The Good and the Bad" (fragment) – 12:21 – 17:02
4. "The World Looks Red" – 17:02 – 19:15
5. "Confusion Is Next" – 20:26 – 23:44
6. "Inhuman" (fragment) – 23:44 – 25:16
7. "Shaking Hell" (fragment) – 29:29 – 30:20
8. "Burning Spear" – 30:21 – 33:39

1. "Brother James" (fragment) – 40:05 – 40:23
2. "Early American" – 40:23 – 47:31
3. "Burning Spear" (fragment) – 47:32 – 48:43
4. "Kill Yr Idols" – 48:44 – 51:35
5. "Confusion is Next" (fragment) – 51:36 – 53:05
6. "Kill Yr Idols" (fragment) – 56:18 – 57:03
7. "Shaking Hell" (fragment) – 58:45 – 60:20
8. "(She's in a) Bad Mood" (fragment) – 62:46 – 63:40

• Lawrence, Chris. Sonic Youth Discography.

Sonic Youth
Kim Gordon | Thurston Moore | Lee Ranaldo | Steve Shelley
Jim Sclavunos | Richard Edson | Bob Bert | Jim O'Rourke | Coco Hayley Gordon Moore
Discography
Albums	Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex| Sonic Death | Bad Moon Rising | EVOL | Sister | The Whitey Album | Daydream Nation | Goo | Dirty | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Washing Machine | Made in USA | A Thousand Leaves | NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Murray Street | Sonic Nurse | Rather Ripped | The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities
Extended plays	Kill Yr Idols | TV Shit | Silver Session for Jason Knuth | In the Fishtank
SYR series	SYR1: Anagrama | SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom | SYR3: Invito Al Ĉielo | SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century | SYR5 | SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
Singles	Death Valley '69 | Flower/Halloween | Flower/Satan Is Boring | Starpower | Into the Groove(y) | Teen Age Riot | Kool Thing | Disappearer | Dirty Boots | 100% | Youth Against Fascism | Sugar Kane | Drunken Butterfly | Bull in the Heather | Superstar | The Diamond Sea | Little Trouble Girl | Sunday
Video releases	1991: The Year Punk Broke | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Corporate Ghost: The Videos: 1990-2002
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