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##    Sonic Youth - *Teenage Riot*


## Sonic Youth are another band
that I now consider to be a favorite, though it took me a long time to really come to appreciate them.  They were formed in 1981 in New York City by Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, guitars, vocals), and Lee Ronaldo (guitar, vocals), with drummers coming and going in the early years, before Steve Shelley became a permanent member in 1985.  Their early music is characterized by really experimental and weird sounds and effects, usually achieved by manipulating guitars/basses in strange ways, but over the course of the '80s, they began incorporating more solid rhythmic and harmonic ideas, and more straight-forward pop-structures.


###### <center>[Listen to *Teenage Riot* by **Sonic Youth** here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4z62VrXAlM&list=RDp4z62VrXAlM&start_radio=1&t=1)</center>


## This song is the opening track
on the band's 1988 album ***Daydream Nation***.  This album was definitely the least 'noisey' in their catalog up to that point, and showed them really growing in their writing.  Of course, they still used all kinds of strange tunings throughout, but they serve the greater song, and don't feel experimental for the sake of it.  I've attached a video below the song which shows YouTube user [SlackerVK's](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ-v9vsOrqv98LR0vvBDQ9A) playthrough.  The tuning used is GABDEG, which looks like it would be a lot of fun to play with; of course, you don't alternate tunings to play something, but it can help open up different creative avenues, and help you break away from using the shapes you're used to.



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