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Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
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Studio album by
Sonic Youth
ReleasedMay 10, 1994
RecordedLate 1993
Studio Sear Sound, New York City
Genre Noise rock
Length50:10
Label DGC
Producer Butch Vig, Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth chronology
TV Shit
(1993)		Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
(1994)		 Made in USA
(1995)
Sonic Youth studio album chronology
Dirty
(1992)		Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
(1994)		 Washing Machine
(1995)
No.TitleVocalsLength
1."Winner's Blues"Moore2:07
2."Bull in the Heather"Gordon3:04
3."Starfield Road"Moore2:15
4."Skink"Gordon4:12
5."Screaming Skull" (additional lyrics by Dave Markey)Moore2:38
6."Self-Obsessed and Sexxee"Moore4:30
7."Bone"Gordon3:57
8."Androgynous Mind"Moore3:30
9."Quest for the Cup"Gordon2:30
10."Waist"Moore2:49
11."Doctor's Orders"Gordon4:20
12."Tokyo Eye"Moore3:55
13."In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader"Moore2:33
14."Sweet Shine" (contains hidden track of "bonus noise" at 6:25)Gordon7:50
Total length:50:10

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [37]

Charts

Album

Chart (1994)Peak
Australian Albums Chart 25 [18]
Dutch Albums Chart 65 [20]
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [38] 87
New Zealand Albums Chart 16 [19]
Swedish Albums Chart 27 [21]
UK Albums Chart 10 [4]
US Billboard 200 34 [3]

Singles

SongChart (1994)Peak
"Bull in the Heather" UK Singles Chart 24 [4]
US Modern Rock Tracks 13 [3]

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