Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex & Kill Yr. Idols (Full Album)

[@birberking6999]

This is definitely what one of the lower rings of hell sounds like. It's incredible, this album has made me viscerally sick! Combine the impenetrably dark guitars, flailing bass, primal singing, and lyrics about humanity at its worst (and inhumanity) and you get an album that rips the darkness of our souls to the top of our vision. Incredible. One of the most underrated albums ever.

[@alinazaranska9135]

Well said

[@jackhietpas2097]

Freaked me out when "I wanna be your dog" just comes out of nowhere.

[@sannhetiblodet2813]

+jack h I absolutely love Kim Gordon's vocals on that.

[@jacksonpage1580]

+jack h I was listening to it today and I was tired as shit and I was falling asleep as Freezer Burn was playing and I literally jumped about 10 feet in the air.

[@BarbEricNinja]

+Jackson Page lolz

[@brandonedge]

lol jackson page, yeah it's happened to me as well

[@Skiptracer1981]

Album is terrifying at parts. Shaking Hell and The World looks Red still freak me out to this day and I heard for the first time around 93 or so.

[@stephensmith4558]

You know an album is good when you cannot decide if it is the best album you have ever heard, or the worst album you have ever heard. What an epic album

[@Skiptracer1981]

I had the same reaction hearing it for the first time back in the early 90s. I was a decade late to Sonic Youth's music, but man did it ever surprise me. Wish they were still together.

[@progfox]

i like this comment

[@gavinkurn]

There so good way ahead of there time 😉

[@curly_wyn]

It’s their best album, five stars.

[@lipiarskisteve]

yes you're right ! like there's a riot goin' on

[@gaborgalda5404]

Not even any of today's indie horror games have made me jumpscare as big as I Wanna Be Your Dog did... Still fucking dig this album, and SY.

[@levoldunom]

Yes!

[@MP-ti3gl]

wow, this album stole my soul, i never felt like this. Love noise

[@valeriexvegan]

+TomorrowNeverKnows It's technically classified as something between noise rock and no wave. Basically about as abrasive you could get back then in the rock genre. It's definitely no power electronics album but it's still noise.

[@Skiptracer1981]

In 1983, this was absolutely considered noise, thank you very much. Read Robert Christgau's reviews of Sonic Youth and their contemporaries in the no wave/ art rock scene of the early 80s.

[@AngryNegativeHistoryProject]

​@@Skiptracer1981 did Brian Eno coin the term no wave?

[@alinazaranska9135]

× industrial

[@sanicyouth6540]

My favorite Sonic Youth album. Better than Daydream Nation.

[@llllemomn]

same

[@sanicyouth6540]

logan zepeda I do like Daydream Nation as well as Bad Moon Rising, EVOL, and Sister. But their first EP and Confusion Is Sex are in a realm of their own.

[@llllemomn]

Andrew Mohler I can completely relate. Confusion is Sex is my favorite, EVOL comes 2nd, Bad Moon Rising, Sister, then Daydream Nation.

[@jjamo5]

Andrew Mohler Agreed this album kicks

[@OneFlockOneShepherd]

logan Bad Moon Rising over Sister?! And EVOL? I'll have to spend some more time with that record and see what you're talking about.

[@KurtKurdtNirvana]

The most psychological album they ever made, and one of the best.

[@KurtKurdtNirvana]

Allen Sentinery Its pretty out there, psychologically.

[@impeachy1518]

Curt, Kurt Kurdt.

[@curly_wyn]

Their best.

[@alinazaranska9135]

it's true

[@eightytwo8282]

Ever since I heard Spiderland for the first time, I have been trying to find stuff that has a similar aesthetic to it. Everyone would always recommend Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound, which I always thought didn't fit. Sure, October all Over sounds like Washer, but the record as a whole is too bright and "indie rock" to capture that same feeling of anxiety. I also got Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans, which is closer. But it's more of a heavy psychedelic record, it remains me of Deathconsciousness more than anything. Then, after exploring through SY discography and becoming obsessed with EVOL, I finally stumbled on this record. It blew me the fuck away, this record is entirely what I was looking for and more. It's like the anxiety of Slint turned up to 11 and thrown onto a belt sander. Best SY record by far.

[@ILoveDavidLynch]

Same here, I listened to Spiderland yesterday and it left me wanting to listen to this also. I listen to a lot of Punk/Hardcore and stuff under the umbrella of that, but I'm also just trying to find stuff that shoots in a similar direction to this. There's clearly an awareness of crazy abrasive Punk and Hardcore, like early 80s DC bands but it's as if that has been channeled into a slow, dark, jarring, repetitive well of sound. It's so unique and masterful.

[@vincenzopanzarino3148]

Ti manca Bad Moon Rising

[@curly_wyn]

Abso-fucking-lutely! Everyone says Daydream Nation is their best? Fuck no. They just became a generic indie rock band with that album.

[@rohan_christopher]

listen to U.S. Maple

[@Skiptracer1981]

This album was a shock to my system the first time I heard it. It's better every time I listen to it. There will never be another band like Sonic Youth. They broke the mold completely within guitar music/rock/punk/experimentalism and evolved into a beast of a band, who constantly evolved and put out albums every 2 years for 30 years. The music got less chaotic and more refined as the years went by almost like they were a nuclear explosion in reverse, yet never lost the chaos and dissonant aspects. Even when they were doing melodic masterpieces like "I love you Golden Blue" and "Hoarfrost" they still brought the noise in their interludes and jam outs between verses and what not. Oh and the song structures? Rarely following Verse, Chorus, Verse. . Wish they hadn't broke up. Fuck Thurston for cheating on Kim.

[@mariaquiet6211]

Thanks for vomiting back the cliff notes of everything ever written about Sonic Youth.

[@eeplordsupreme]

@@mariaquiet6211 chill lol

[@osvaldovieira9451]

Maria, Quiet should be your first name

[@ptathholroyd4128]

@@mariaquiet6211 haha

[@gavinkurn]

I wish they were still together as well they really were amazing They inspired me to learn to play guitar and experiment myself I also still listen to them now and still love them

[@OffOnAnotherOneOfHisAdventures]

It's funny how time changes your perception. I remember listening to this when it first came out and it sounded so chaotic and disorganized. I imagined a few people with stolen instruments just banging and flailing away with no talent, but now it's still chaotic, but intentional, orchestrated and perfect banging and flailing way. I used to blast this on my crappy car stereo to annoy my friends at full volume, crackling speakers, too much treble and all.

[@alinazaranska9135]

this is an invention

[@curly_wyn]

Sonic Youth’s 1987-1992 era will always be their best, but their no wave deserves more recognition and respect for its importance!

[@kevinmyles6369]

This gem simply gets better with every spin! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@rizkiqayasinakbar9671]

Sanic tooth...sanic tooth..this album stuck in my brain since I was youth

[@normanewmeyer5340]

I'm very proud of you

[@Skiptracer1981]

Shaking Hell, Inhuman and The World Looks Red are three of the craziest pieces of music that existed in 1983.

[@sleepingchildhood5640]

Confusion Is Next It's a song to show your family

[@jaceyp.8457]

this album could make a great horror/thriller score

[@alinazaranska9135]

scaring as hell

[@GazmoSin1960s]

One of noise rock's finest. Great debut.

[@SergioDanielBenitez-ud1sk]

this isn't the SY's debut

[@sannhetiblodet2813]

When I first listened to this album I felt that I was hearing every punk group I had ever heard on this album. On top of that it is extremely avant-garde. Great stuff.

[@sannhetiblodet2813]

+sannhetiblodet I just noticed the note about the prepared guitars. I've heard of prepared piano (e.g. John Cage), but not prepared guitars. Absolutely incredible.

[@LorcaLoca]

I wouldn't call it extremely avant-garde seems how allot of the sound is based on that of the No New York compilation and Glenn branca.

[@DEE_EXX]

Yes...they are the very essence of punk

[@JohnCane147]

Damn this is brilliant. Btw, the lyrics of "The World looks Red" were written by Michael Gira of SWANS

[@tstrother4243]

my youth was way sonic thanks to their records

[@pterodactylmeat]

+t strother d00d pound it

[@DoodleNoodle26]

oh this sounds absolutely terrible, i love it!

[@MaxJasper-ek3yi]

One of the best albums ever in music

[@brandonhill4197]

Track list 1. 0:00 (She's In A) Bad Mood 2. 5:36 Protect Me You 3. 11:05 Freezer Burn/ I Wanna Be Your Dog 4. 14:44 Shaking Hell 5. 18:51 Inhuman 6. 22:54 The World Looks Red 7. 25:37 Confusion Is Next 8. 29:05 Making The Nature Scene 9. 32:07 Lee Is Free 10. 35:44 Kill Yr Idols 11. 38:36 Brother James 12. 41:54 Early American 13. 48:01 Shaking Hell (Live)

[@dmac7344]

I wanna be your dog after freezer burn still jolts me when it kicks in. 😵😆

[@veiodahavancomunistabolada3326]

Obrigado ✌🏼

[@smellycaravans2397]

So confused, must be sex.

[@jmckenzie962]

Early American is hella underrated IMO. Genuinely one of the most terrifying songs I've ever heard - the drums in the first bit give off the sound of some horrific giant bug crawling and scuttling around. A travesty that none of the songs from this album have been used in a horror movie yet.

[@nowavevermeer8569]

this should be listen like you listen to Bach. this is art in state of grace

[@bronghusphidalski522]

Every year this album sounds better and better. No wave is the future.

[@HermitMoth]

The noise feeds me, man.

[@Alifesalife]

TomorrowNeverKnows lol

[@perspii2808]

TomorrowNeverKnows Did you just unironically call somebody a poser in 2018

[@supermax957]

"protect me" is a very deep song. Love it since I heard it first time in 1989...

[@markbarrett4440]

The build up with Thurston's guitar getting higher and higher shot me through 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@radiotomi]

😂😂😂😂

[@Sound8VisionVibe]

I think this May be my favorite sonic youth album.

[@ShiceSquad]

Same here. Changed my life. I find it surprisingly accessible. Far from a bunch of pretentious art-noise, this is a bunch of actual *songs* that rock!!! They proved that it can actually be done.

[@Sound8VisionVibe]

Among other things.

[@availdname]

Washing Machine still holds that special place in my heart.

[@brandonedge]

for me, nothin beats evol, but it's splitting hairs

[@Sound8VisionVibe]

brandonedge I totally agree. I honestly would probably pick Evol, but I guess at the time posted the comment nostalgia had gotten the best of me.

[@rafaelcabralwilliams]

It's been years since the last time I heard this album. RAW!!!

[@ShiceSquad]

(i do have this on CD and vinyl, of course, but it is highly convenient to have this iconic work at my constant disposal on KZbin) SONIC TOOTH!!!

[@108ThiagoVentura]

Getting high when I was a teenager listening to this was an intense transcending experience, but in a scary way.

[@VincentSaan]

Yea Kim Gordon vocals always made me so horny, but when i got older i realize lust is a sin that numbs your moral compass so it feels like shes angry with men for the stupid things we do, and keep you on your toes to be a decent human being. Truly a mindfucking wonderfull woman

[@martinbuchanan3963]

This is a good album

[@NOWtheband]

#truth

[@curly_wyn]

Fuck yeah it is. It is their best album.

[@stevencuevas3563]

Ive lived with and loved SY for decades and at this moment in time I say these are possibly their greatest recordings when the dye was first cast the template first set this is the blueprint and the bones

[@MrNahcardoso]

A true masterpiece!

[@AP-ek2mt]

When I feel very bad, lonely, sad and when I hate the whole world and all the people I know, I play this album. One of the darkest and roughest, on a par with Swans - filth or Xiu Xiu - girl with basket of fruit. An album that helps to ease the negative thoughts. all the blackest and ugliest things that sit deep in your darkest consciousness manifest themselves in the light

[@ucewillis]

the guitars are fantastic, a strong influence on Cindy Lee's tatlashea

[@user-gv8vv2id7t]

Cindy Lee is incredible! hear alot of sonic youth influence in pats guitar playing

[@ms-iz9ye]

Jordan McCone you can thank Glenn Branca for being a huge influence on their style of playing guitars with screwdrivers against the fret board and banging on them..

[@ImaginalComponent]

Some fine wine right here.

[@kaylynzoe8117]

This album's in my top 5. 1). Sister/Evol are tied 2.) Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star 3.) Bad Moon Rising 4.) Confusion Is Sex 5.) Dirty

[@ekardnamable]

+Kaylyn Zoe 1) DN 2) This one and rest of the 80s tied 3) I dunno, I like The Eternal? Since we're nerding out, I'd say that if you took all of Lee's songs (of which there are usually one or two per album) from the late 80s onward and put them on one record, that would def be one of my favorites

[@ekardnamable]

+ekardnamable Rain King, Eric's Trip, Hey Joni, Theresa's Sound World, Wish Fulfillment, Skip Tracer, Karen Coltrane, What We Know...

[@brandonedge]

you didn't mention the 3 best lee songs: 'genetic', 'in the kingdom #19' and 'pipeline/kill time'

[@ybhekhirst5496]

Wow! Dirty ahead of Daydream Nation or Goo. Diff'rent Strokes an all that.

[@martinkineavy9039]

Got a bootleg of this and made me a fan from 1989

[@migsea7830]

i´m shaking my flesh, stop it, i'm turning around!

[@alegaitan9696]

Amo esta banda!!!!!!!...

[@gavinkurn1878]

Am listening to this at precisely 733 in the morning perfect for the way things are for me in this mad world we have to live in

[@mime3761]

March 8th 2022, 05:44 am here in Milan (Italy), Protect Me You is playing and your comment still stands.

[@overcast2959]

The World Looks Red 6/2/22 22:00 Sacramento California

[@jackcravford8744]

First Ken Mode, then Helmet, Unsane and now Sonic Youth - the oldschool noise/sludge is really so detailed with constant guitar feedbacks, odd noises everywhere. It has so much going on!

[@oliviercornut9520]

Pour moi c'est le plus fort,la 1ère est exactement ce que je pourrais imaginer derrière le mot rock,un des meilleurs albums que j'ai entendu

[@damienriley79]

I met Thurston last night. Nearly quammed my kecks.

[@hedgroz]

Saw them play at the Carver Gym in Bellingham, WA in 95 or 96 and they closed the set with Brother James. Super Dark. Intense. Kim really let herself just wail, and in the best way.

[@rodrigomunoz5768]

I just can say.... Beautiful album!

[@moesgard]

Great record, thank you Glenn Branca though

[@SoundwormBite]

Unique band

[@ms-iz9ye]

"You are an unnatural growth on a funny sunny street"

[@alexandrearaujo8009]

I like Neutral Milk Hotel a lot. Untitled is perfect, a very interesting sound.

[@Heliosphan15]

One of the best debuts ever

[@danielpayne500]

Wow love to see this live as well as i have always Been in the experimental Sound mind you Seen Thriston moore a Few times Brilliant

[@ShiceSquad]

You, Mr. J. Magnum, are a good man for bringing this to the world.

[@curly_wyn]

Magnum? Like the gun?

[@ShiceSquad]

@@curly_wyn Like the bass. The Ovation Magnum Bass. Or the guy who posted this :-)

[@BillPappas-e8n]

That sound, incredible beyond devoted to ( She's in A ) Bad Moon,sick AF,

[@gobeco]

Glenn Branca's pupil at their best!!

[@tomaszkomperda5436]

Very strange music but when it 's on I can't stop listening to it. I am 40 years old now and I still don't understand why I like them so much

[@justinkline1294]

I'm going on 40 now, and Sonic Youth still rocks my face off.

[@octaviobobadilla3060]

Este album me recuerda al White Ligth/White Heat de Velvet Underground

[@stephenkane2464]

It's similar

[@natalisnjznd1640]

Real

[@veiodahavancomunistabolada3326]

É possível sentir o cheiro do Velvet Underground ao ouvir os discos do Sonic Youth, em especial, os três primeiros.

[@zoroztheg4mer]

Wow, I thank you a lot for this!

[@harrybous7418]

It sounds exactly as my existence Rapidly going by & it has been an awesome onE

[@deanweedy1743]

Another Monster Album

[@wander_joseph]

very good this album . is the third time i hear . this album shows the most brutal and abstract sound possible root .

[@cjparrott]

psychedelic punk rock..... pink floyd on 45rpm

[@kiannrodrick2426]

One of the albums ever made.

[@radiotomi]

For sure.

[@JL-mu9sl]

"Let that shit die. And find out the new dawn." - TM

[@Accidentinparadiable]

BEST ONE FOR ME FOREVER

[@australianratpatrol]

issues...dont worry mate they can afford it,i cant,so thanks ive always wanted it...and its fantastic...thank you sonic youth ...(got alice cooper...boot..live in launceston,Tasmania)

[@latonpowers5356]

Just for the record, this is the their debut LP. The first release was an EP, so while it is their debut, this is their first full length LP, which most of the world considers an "album" to be LP length.

[@adrynhillg3657]

mi disco favoritoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@reginaldobittencourt878]

To me, it always sounded kinda perfect soundtrack for a nightmare. Lurv it

[@zeina2793]

Technically it's not the debut album. Sonic Youth EP is what they consider to be their first album. Just in case people haven't checked out Sonic Youth in its most primal stage, now ya know. This is rad though

[@galetinm]

But that's an EP. This is their first full length

[@bigblackrunt]

thanks Jeff!

[@MrLouisfine]

My ears are bleeding!

[@saftovooey4569]

I am sex, therefore I am confusion.

[@pterodactylmeat]

+Mark Squier get yer head outchyerass bro

[@summerofgeorge1327]

That is correct! I am proud of you :P

[@jmckenzie962]

"And here we have the Dissonant Tortoises, soothed only by the music of Alexander Scriabin or early Sonic Youth"

[@giantjuggernaut]

Best Album since Sgt Pepper

[@jackhietpas2097]

Duane Vogel I'll take Sonic Youth over the Beatles any day.

[@temenia8]

Yesss a fan of tool!!!!

[@NotJoseph]

I think this would've sounded even better with Albini production, too bad he wasn't an audio engineer at the time.

[@Rogueofmv]

The "Lungs" EP had already come out by this time. But Albini was just getting going as an engineer in 1983, and tbh I could not imagine this album without Wharton Tiers behind the console if I tried.

[@alinazaranska9135]

what an album !!

[@iamdamosuzuki_]

Second favorite Sonic Youth Album

[@martinevensen406]

Shes in a bad mood mood is best song, very sinister

[@markojungels6740]

Melted Punk & Psychedelic👍

[@VincentSaan]

Woa this is so fucking psycadelic even when ur sober its mesmerizing AF, i woudnt dare listen this on acid

[@DEE_EXX]

I WOULD 😉

[@Ryan-fs2xj]

shaking hell reminds me of swans

[@NvisibleTreeMan]

Michael Gira and Kim Gordon were friends from college, Swans and Sonic Youth would often play concerts together. Apparently, Gira would let Sonic Youth go first because Swans would clear out the venue due to their sheer volume.

[@delhidelirium9091]

Gira was fucking KIm silly at this point ... all full of speed (and acid occasionally)

[@Skiptracer1981]

Thurston and Kim were already together by the time the first SY EP was recorded. What's your source for Gira fucking Kim silly during this era?

[@Jack_nnn_]

Zen Jenga dont you know? For a woman and a man to work together in equal capacity, they obviously have to be screwing each other. Theres just no other option :)

[@curly_wyn]

@@Skiptracer1981 source: trust me bro

[@ramoninsanodokbecinha4685]

Parece que o Velvet Underground convidou o Rock Erickson para tocar guitarra e se entupiram de ácido!!

[@fredytellez8108]

Nothing its better

[@MrTromaville]

le melleur album de sonic youth

[@4NTIFULL]

debut studio album=/=debut album

[@NOWtheband]

e x c e l l e n c e

[@justinbeard6464]

get in the mutha fuckin' groove

[@cannfodder1]

I remember when I was young and I didn't do drugs I thought that if I was on drugs that this is what music would sound like on drugs and when I got older and did drugs and heard it again it didn't sound any different> Juno was right it is a bunch of noise but I like (just noise) sometimes. This sounds better then any new song on the radio today " Even collage radio"

[@markuselipka]

GLENN BRANCA (r.i.p.) was their initial ignition to handle electric guitars like they did...

[@craiganderson3894]

1991 the year punk broke. Er, no, Never will break big, underground HC Punk will never die. Sonic Youth and Nirvana decent Indie rock on safe major Geffen then whining about it. Early Sonic Youth excellent. Kim is 70 now and in early days were as good as indie rock gets. Craig in tiny Alford Scotland

[@positive.juice.apartment]

one of the most incredible albums ive heard. haunting

[@uberphawx8305]

First track is like listening to a slow succumb to leprosy

[@roy_for_real2674]

it's not right they had a self titled debut before this one with the blue and the black and the white and the song burning spear from 1982

[@zorozotz]

gold!

[@lacasadellamusica5383]

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