Compiled by Chris Lawrence, but only made possible with the
help of many trusty sonic youth fans.
most recent update: 7/18/99
experimental jet-setters have arrived here since i reset the counter on may 31st, 1998.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's been about 9 months since
I last updated this page, so I figured I'd give it a makeover of
sorts... I won't go into detail about what I've done, hopefully
the changes will speak for themselves. As always, send me any
tabs that you don't see here, or feel need improvement.
I've decided to remove all of the links I had here earlier, but
I feel there is one important one. It deals with Sonic Youth's
recent loss of the majority of their gear, and can be found
here.
This site features tabs for both guitar and bass, and will hopefully
one day have every song "filled in." I've put the guitar and bass
tabs in the same section now to cut down on space. Obviously,
click "Guitar" for the guitar tab and "Bass" for the bass tab.
If there is no bass in the song, no bass will be listed.
I have considered adding a section dealing with side projects, etc..
However, aside from Psychic Hearts and the occasional Free Kitten
tab, there's not much to include. However, feel free to submit
anything dealing with side projects. One thing I couldn't pass up
including was a tab of Lee's excellent "Here".
These tabs vary in degree from near-perfect to downright terrible.
The latter are mainly sourced from age-old websites and OLGA
servers, created back before many tunings were well known.. eventually
I will filter these tabs out, but until then they'll have to do.
Naturally, not featured here are improvisational recordings like
SYR3, the Silver Session, etc.
Sonic Youth are notorious for their vast use of alternate guitar tunings.
Some of these tabs may be in standard, but I should advise you that SY haven't done much in standard since the first EP (Kim plays bass in standard, though, normally). The only exceptions are some of the covers they do. A list of all their known tunings and the songs they are known to
be used on can be found HERE.
Since the majority of songs on this soundtrack are variations
on two or three themes, I don't expect to see much elaboration
here. However, all submissions are welcome.
I tabbed the entire album, all guitar lines. Download all songs in one text
file (best viewed with a small point courier font). It may need some reformatting
to look proper on yr computer, so if you have trouble, e-mail me. Click HERE to
download it. Here it is broken up: