Kool Thing

Kool Thing

"Kool Thing" was the first major label single from Sonic Youth's 1990 album Goo. It was released in June 1990 on DGC. The song was inspired by an interview bassist/singer Kim Gordon conducted with LL Cool J for Spin in which the two artists clashed. Although he is never mentioned by name, the...

• From the album Goo
  Goo (album)
  Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
  
  
• Directed by Tamra Davis
  Tamra Davis
  Tamra Davis is an American film, television and music video director.-Biography:She is known for directing films such as Billy Madison, CB4 and Half Baked and television shows such as My Name Is Earl and Everybody Hates Chris. She also directed the film Crossroads, starring Britney Spears.She...
  
  
• Guest appearance by Chuck D
  Chuck D
  Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the mid-1980s as the leader of the rap group Public Enemy.- Early life :Ridenhour was born in Queens, New York...
  
  

My Friend Goo

• From the album Goo
  Goo (album)
  Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
  
  
• Directed by Dave Markey
  Dave Markey
  Dave Markey is an American film director.As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, Markey directed, produced, edited, and photographed most of his films, the majority of which has been self-funded and distributed. His work documents the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  , Joe Cole
  Joe Cole (roadie)
  Joseph Dennis "Joe" Cole was a roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. He was the best friend and roommate of the musician/author/actor Henry Rollins. His memoirs were published posthumously by 2.13.61 publishing, Planet Joe, in which he documented his experiences on the last Black Flag tour and...
  
  , Kim Gordon
  Kim Gordon
  Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
  
   and Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
  
• Guest appearances by Joe Cole
  Joe Cole (roadie)
  Joseph Dennis "Joe" Cole was a roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. He was the best friend and roommate of the musician/author/actor Henry Rollins. His memoirs were published posthumously by 2.13.61 publishing, Planet Joe, in which he documented his experiences on the last Black Flag tour and...
  
   and Mike Watt
  Mike Watt
  Michael David Watt is an American bassist, singer and songwriter.He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, dos, and Firehose; , he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen...
  
  

Mildred Pierce

• From the album Goo
  Goo (album)
  Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
  
  
• Directed by Dave Markey
  Dave Markey
  Dave Markey is an American film director.As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, Markey directed, produced, edited, and photographed most of his films, the majority of which has been self-funded and distributed. His work documents the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  
• Guest appearances by Sophia Coppola and Sally STP

Cinderella's Big Score

• From the album Goo
  Goo (album)
  Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
  
  
• Directed by Dave Markey
  Dave Markey
  Dave Markey is an American film director.As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, Markey directed, produced, edited, and photographed most of his films, the majority of which has been self-funded and distributed. His work documents the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  
• Guest appearances by Bill Bartell and Chris Cohen
  Chris Cohen
  Christopher 'Chris' David Cohen is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Nottingham Forest. Notionally a midfielder, able to operate equally at centre-midfield or left-midfield, he has also been employed for periods as an emergency left-back...
  
  

Scooter & Jinx

• From the album Goo
  Goo (album)
  Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
  
  
• Directed by Richard Kern
  Richard Kern
  Richard Kern is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time...
  
  
• Guest appearances by Karen Disney and Linda Serbu

Titanium Expose

• From the album Goo
  Goo (album)
  Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
  
  
• Directed by Phil Morrison
  Phil Morrison (director)
  Phil Morrison is an American film director best known for the Academy Award-nominated feature film, Junebug.In 2006, Morrison directed the "Get a Mac" advertising campaign for Apple Inc..-External links:...
  
  

100%

• From the album Dirty
• Directed by Tamra Davis
  Tamra Davis
  Tamra Davis is an American film, television and music video director.-Biography:She is known for directing films such as Billy Madison, CB4 and Half Baked and television shows such as My Name Is Earl and Everybody Hates Chris. She also directed the film Crossroads, starring Britney Spears.She...
  
   and Spike Jonze
  Spike Jonze
  Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television...
  
  
• Guest appearances by Jason Lee
  Jason Lee (actor)
  Jason Michael Lee is an American actor and skateboarder known for his role as the title character on the NBC television series My Name is Earl, his portrayal of Syndrome in the film The Incredibles, his role as Dave Seville in the Alvin and the Chipmunks films, and his work with director Kevin...
  
   and Guy Mariano
  Guy Mariano
  Guy Mariano is a professional skateboarder who gained widespread recognition at the age of 14 for his part in Blind Skateboards' Video Days . Before Blind, Mariano was sponsored by Powell Peralta, and appeared in their video Ban This. In his later years, Guy rode for Girl Skateboards and had a...
  
  

Sugar Kane

Sugar Kane

"Sugar Kane" was the third single from Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty. It was released in 1993 on DGC.-Track listing:US version:# "Sugar Kane" - 5:03# "The Destroyed Room" - 3:25# "Purr" - 4:22...

• From the album Dirty
• Directed by Nick Egan
  Nick Egan
  Nick Egan is a visual design artist, and director of music videos, commercials and film. He graduated from the Watford College of Art and Design with a DGA in 1976...
  
  
• Guest appearance by Chloë Sevigny
  Chloë Sevigny
  Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American film actress, fashion designer and former model. Sevigny gained reputation for her eclectic fashion sense and developed a broad career in the fashion industry in the mid 1990s, both for modeling and for her work at New York's Sassy magazine, which labeled her...
  
  

Youth Against Fascism

Youth Against Fascism

"Youth Against Fascism" was the second single from Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty. It was released in 1992 on DGC.-Track listing:# "Youth Against Fascism" # "The Destroyed Room"# "Purr"...

• From the album Dirty
• Directed by Nick Egan
  Nick Egan
  Nick Egan is a visual design artist, and director of music videos, commercials and film. He graduated from the Watford College of Art and Design with a DGA in 1976...
  
  

Bull in the Heather

Bull in the Heather

"Bull in the Heather" is a song by Sonic Youth, released as the only single from their 1994 album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star....

• From the album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
  Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
  Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is the eighth album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in May 1994. The album includes one of the group's biggest hits, "Bull in the Heather"...
  
  
• Directed by Tamra Davis
  Tamra Davis
  Tamra Davis is an American film, television and music video director.-Biography:She is known for directing films such as Billy Madison, CB4 and Half Baked and television shows such as My Name Is Earl and Everybody Hates Chris. She also directed the film Crossroads, starring Britney Spears.She...
  
   and Kim Gordon
  Kim Gordon
  Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
  
  
• Guest appearance by Kathleen Hanna
  Kathleen Hanna
  Kathleen Hanna is an American musician, feminist activist, and punk zine writer. In the early- to mid-1990s she was the lead singer and songwriter of Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s...
  
  

Superstar

• From the album If I Were A Carpenter
• Directed by Dave Markey
  Dave Markey
  Dave Markey is an American film director.As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, Markey directed, produced, edited, and photographed most of his films, the majority of which has been self-funded and distributed. His work documents the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  

Little Trouble Girl

Little Trouble Girl

"Little Trouble Girl" is a song by Sonic Youth, released as the second and final single from their 1995 album Washing Machine. Guest vocals for the song were provided by Kim Deal.-CD single:# "Little Trouble Girl" - 4:29...

• From the album Washing Machine
• Directed by Mark Romanek
  Mark Romanek
  Mark Romanek is an American filmmaker, whose directing work includes feature films, music videos and commercials.He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed 2002 film One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams...
  
  
• Guest appearance by Kim Deal
  Kim Deal
  Kimberley Ann Deal is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the bassist of the alternative rock band the Pixies and the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Breeders. Deal first joined the Pixies in January 1986 as the band's bassist, adopting the stage name Mrs...
  
  

The Diamond Sea

The Diamond Sea

"The Diamond Sea" is a song by Sonic Youth, released as the first single from their 1995 album Washing Machine. The song has also been covered by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and can be found on their iTunes Session EP.-Tracklisting:...

• From the album Washing Machine
• Directed by Spike Jonze
  Spike Jonze
  Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television...
  
  , Lance Bangs
  Lance Bangs
  Lance Bangs is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, and...
  
  , Dave Markey
  Dave Markey
  Dave Markey is an American film director.As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, Markey directed, produced, edited, and photographed most of his films, the majority of which has been self-funded and distributed. His work documents the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  , Steve Paine and Angus Wall
  Angus Wall
  Angus Wall is a film editor and film title designer. His editing, with Kirk Baxter, of the film The Social Network won the Academy Award for Film Editing...
  
  

Sunday

• From the album A Thousand Leaves
  A Thousand Leaves
  A Thousand Leaves is an album by Sonic Youth. It was the group's first major album to be recorded in their private Manhattan studio, dubbed Echo Canyon....
  
  
• Directed by Harmony Korine
  Harmony Korine
  The story is told from the perspective of a young man suffering from untreated schizophrenia, played by Ewen Bremner, as he tries to understand his deteriorating world. Julien's abusive father is played by Werner Herzog...
  
  
• Guest appearances by Macaulay Culkin
  Macaulay Culkin
  Macaulay Carson Culkin is an American actor. He became widely known for his portrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. He is also known for his roles in Richie Rich, Uncle Buck, My Girl, The Pagemaster, and Party Monster...
  
   and Rachel Miner
  Rachel Miner
  Rachel Miner is a Broadway, film and television actress, born in New York City.-Personal life:A third generation Miner in show business, she is the daughter of director and teacher Peter Miner and the granddaughter of director/producer Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller...
  
  

Hoarfrost

• From the album A Thousand Leaves
  A Thousand Leaves
  A Thousand Leaves is an album by Sonic Youth. It was the group's first major album to be recorded in their private Manhattan studio, dubbed Echo Canyon....
  
  
• Directed by Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
  
• Guest appearance by Leah Singer
  Leah Singer
  Leah Singer is a photographer and multimedia artist. She is the long-time artistic collaborator and wife of Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Singer performs with multiple modified film projectors that allow her to improvise and manipulate the film projections by adjusting the frame rate...
  
  

Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)

• From the album NYC Ghosts & Flowers
  NYC Ghosts & Flowers
  NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a 2000 album by Sonic Youth. The album was a slight departure, mainly as a creative reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999. Irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals with numerous modifications were stolen...
  
  
• Directed by frogme
• Guest appearances by Pierre Bailly
  Pierre Bailly
  Pierre Bailly was a French architect.In 1932 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Summer Olympics...
  
   and Sleater-Kinney
  Sleater-Kinney
  Sleater-Kinney was an alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon that formed in 1994. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington, the group's name is derived from Sleater-Kinney Road, Interstate 5 off ramp #108 in Lacey, Washington, the location of one of their early practice spaces. They were a...
  
  

The Empty Page

• From the album Murray Street
  Murray Street (album)
  Murray Street is the twelfth album by Sonic Youth. It was released in 2002. It was the first album by the group to feature Jim O'Rourke as an official fifth member.Members of noise improv group Borbetomagus appear on "Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style"...
  
  
• Directed by Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
   & Chris Habib

Disconnection Notice

• From the album Murray Street
  Murray Street (album)
  Murray Street is the twelfth album by Sonic Youth. It was released in 2002. It was the first album by the group to feature Jim O'Rourke as an official fifth member.Members of noise improv group Borbetomagus appear on "Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style"...
  
  
• Directed by Tom Surgal
• Guest appearances by Eszter Balint
  Eszter Balint
  Eszter Balint is a singer, songwriter, violinist, and actress. She first emerged as a child member of the avant-garde Squat Theatre troupe before making her cinematic debut in 1984 in director Jim Jarmusch's independent film Stranger Than Paradise...
  
  , Markus Miller, Linas Phillips and Clay Weiner
  Clay Weiner
  Clay Weiner is an American director and writer of commercials, film and television. Clay is a known pioneer of viral videos. He was featured in the 2008 Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase in Cannes, was the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2008 First Boards Awards and has had...
  
  

Drunken Butterfly

Drunken Butterfly

"Drunken Butterfly" is a song by Sonic Youth, released as the fourth and final single from their 1992 album Dirty. It was released in 1993 on DGC.-Music video:...

• From the album Dirty
• Directed by Stephen Hellweg (MTV's 120 Minutes / Sonic Youth Homemade Video Contest Winner)

Swimsuit Issue

• From the album Dirty
• Directed by Morty
  Morty
  - People :* Morty Corb , an American jazz double-bassist* Morty Black, stage name of Morten Skaget , a bassist- Fictional characters :* Morty Fieldmouse, nephew of Disney character Mickey Mouse...
  
   (MTV's 120 Minutes / Sonic Youth Homemade Video Contest Runner-up)

Disappearer

Disappearer

"Disappearer" was the second single from Sonic Youth's 1990 album Goo. It was released in 1990 on DGC.-Tracklisting:# "Disappearer" # "Disappearer" # "That's All I Know "...

 (Director's Cut)

• From the album Goo
  Goo (album)
  Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
  
  
• Directed by Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.- Style and themes :The writes that "Haynes is...
  
  

Interviews

• Lance Bangs
• Tamra Davis
• Kathleen Hannah
• Todd Haynes
• Richard Kern
• Jason Lee
• Dave Markey
• Mike Watt

Video commentaries

• Tamra Davis
• Todd Haynes
• Richard Kern
• Dave Markey
• Phil Morrison
• Mark Romanek
• Sonic Youth
• Tom Surgal
• Mike Watt

Other

• Spike Jonze photo memory montage
• "My Sonic Room": a fan film document by Patty Orsini from 1990.
• Sonic Youth "Corporate Ghost" sticker