The Best Sonic Youth Guitar Solos

Sonic Youth replaced the conventional guitar solo with alternate tunings, prepared guitars and walls of feedback, and in doing so changed the vocabulary of alternative rock. The interlocking noise of Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo influenced everyone from Nirvana to modern shoegaze and noise rock.

Informed by: Wikipedia - Daydream Nation, Wikipedia - Sonic Youth discography

1. 1
   Teen Age Riot

   Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1988
2. 2
   The Sprawl

   Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1988
3. 3
   'Cross the Breeze

   Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1988
4. 4
   Silver Rocket

   Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1988
5. 5
   The Diamond Sea

   Sonic Youth · solo by Lee Ranaldo & Thurston Moore · 1995
6. 6
   Schizophrenia

   Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1987
7. 7
   Expressway to Yr Skull

   Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1986
8. 8
   Eric's Trip

   Sonic Youth · solo by Lee Ranaldo · 1988
9. 9
   Death Valley '69

   Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1985
10. 10
    Kool Thing

    Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1990
11. 11
    Dirty Boots

    Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1990
12. 12
    Sugar Kane

    Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1992
13. 13
    Theresa's Sound-World

    Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1992
14. 14
    Incinerate

    Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 2006
15. 15
    Bull in the Heather

    Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1994
16. 16
    Sunday

    Sonic Youth · solo by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo · 1998