Dirty

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Dirty
Studio album by Sonic Youth
Released	July 21, 1992 March 25, 2003 (Deluxe edition)
Recorded	1992
Genre	Alternative Rock
Length	58:45
Label	DGC
Producer(s)	Butch Vig, Sonic Youth
Professional reviews
Original release: All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A) link Rolling Stone 1/31/97 Entertainment Weekly (A) link Deluxe edition: All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (8.6/10) 15 May 2003
Sonic Youth chronology
Goo (1990)	Dirty (1992)	TV Shit (1993)

Dirty is an album by Sonic Youth that was originally released on July 21, 1992. It was deemed best album of 1992 by Entertainment Weekly magazine.[1]

On March 25, 2003, a double-CD deluxe edition of the album was released. It comprised the original album with additional B-sides, demos and rehearsal recordings.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Original release 1.2 Deluxe edition 1.2.1 Disc one 1.2.2 Disc two 2 Singles 3 Album charts 4 Charting singles 5 Miscellanea

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Original release

1. "100%" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 2:28
2. "Swimsuit Issue" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 2:57
3. "Theresa's Sound-World" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 5:27
4. "Drunken Butterfly" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:03
5. "Shoot" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 5:16
6. "Wish Fulfillment" (lyrics/vocals Lee) – 3:24
7. "Sugar Kane" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 5:56
8. "Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 4:17
9. "Youth Against Fascism" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 3:36
10. "Nic Fit" (Untouchables) (vocals Thurston) – 0:59
11. "On the Strip" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 5:41
12. "Chapel Hill" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 4:46
13. "JC" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 4:01
14. "Purr" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 4:21
15. "Créme Brûlèe" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 2:33
16. "Stalker" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) (bonus track on vinyl edition only) – 3:01

[edit] Deluxe edition

[edit] Disc one

1. "100%" – 2:28
2. "Swimsuit Issue" – 2:57
3. "Theresa's Sound-World" – 5:27
4. "Drunken Butterfly" – 3:03
5. "Shoot" – 5:16
6. "Wish Fulfillment" – 3:24
7. "Sugar Kane" – 5:56
8. "Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit" – 4:17
9. "Youth Against Fascism" – 3:36
10. "Nic Fit" (Untouchables) – 0:59
11. "On the Strip" – 5:41
12. "Chapel Hill" – 4:46
13. "JC" – 4:01
14. "Purr" – 4:21
15. "Créme Brûlèe" – 2:33
16. "Stalker" – 3:01
17. "Genetic" (lyrics/vocals Lee) – 3:35
18. "Hendrix Necro" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 2:49
19. "The Destroyed Room" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:21

[edit] Disc two

1. "Is It My Body" (Alice Cooper) – 2:52
2. "Personality Crisis" (New York Dolls) – 3:41
3. "The End of the End of the Ugly" – 4:19
4. "Tamra" – 8:34
5. "Little Jammy Thing" – 2:20
6. "Lite Damage" – 5:22
7. "Dreamfinger" – 7:41
8. "Barracuda" – 4:22
9. "New White Kross" – 1:29
10. "Guido" – 3:50
11. "Stalker" – 3:37
12. "Moonface" – 4:44
13. "Poet in the Pit" – 2:41
14. "Theoretical Chaos" – 3:07
15. "Youth Against Fascism" – 5:03
16. "Wish Fulfillment" – 3:50

[edit] Singles

• "100%" (July 1992)
• "Youth Against Fascism" (December 1992)
• "Sugar Kane" (February 1993)
• "Drunken Butterfly" (August 1993, Germany only)

[edit] Album charts

Year	Album	Chart	Position
1992	Dirty	Official UK Albums Chart	No. 6
1992	Dirty	Official Sweden Albums Chart	No. 26
1992	Dirty	Official Austrian Albums Chart	No. 37
1992	Dirty	Official German Albums Chart	No. 59
1992	Dirty	Billboard Top 200	No. 83

[edit] Charting singles

Year	Song	Chart	Position
1992	100%	Modern Rock Tracks (US)	No. 4
1992	100%	UK Singles Chart	No. 28
1992	Youth Against Fascism	UK Singles Chart	No. 52
1993	Sugar Kane	UK Singles Chart	No. 26
1993	Whore's Moaning (Australian EP)	Australia Singles Chart	No. 44

[edit] Miscellanea

• Ian MacKaye got credit for the "xtra guitar" on "Youth Against Fascism"
• As noted above, "Nic Fit" is a song originally by the DC band Untouchables. In that band is Ian's brother Alec MacKaye
• Under the tray of the first pressing of the "Dirty" CD (and later in the booklet of the deluxe edition CD/LP) is a controversial photograph of performance artist Bob Flanagan. It was removed from all other pressings.
• The track "Sugar Kane" includes a possible reference to fellow alternative rock band Half Japanese. The lyric "kiss me like a frog" may refer to the Half Japanese song of the same name.

Sonic Youth
Kim Gordon | Thurston Moore | Lee Ranaldo | Steve Shelley
Jim Sclavunos | Richard Edson | Bob Bert | Jim O'Rourke | Coco Hayley Gordon Moore
Discography
Albums	Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex| Sonic Death | Bad Moon Rising | EVOL | Sister | The Whitey Album | Daydream Nation | Goo | Dirty | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Washing Machine | Made in USA | A Thousand Leaves | NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Murray Street | Sonic Nurse | Rather Ripped | The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities
Extended plays	Kill Yr Idols | TV Shit | Silver Session for Jason Knuth | In the Fishtank
SYR series	SYR1: Anagrama | SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom | SYR3: Invito Al Ĉielo | SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century | SYR5 | SYR6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
Singles	Death Valley '69 | Flower/Halloween | Flower/Satan Is Boring | Starpower | Into the Groove(y) | Teen Age Riot | Kool Thing | Disappearer | Dirty Boots | 100% | Youth Against Fascism | Sugar Kane | Drunken Butterfly | Bull in the Heather | Superstar | The Diamond Sea | Little Trouble Girl | Sunday
Video releases	1991: The Year Punk Broke | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Corporate Ghost: The Videos: 1990-2002
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