Music from Matt-Sonic Youth

So, the other day I began listening to an 80's punk/grunge band called Sonic Youth. They utulize the general power chords, a dirty noisey sound, angsty vocals, etc... However, one element key to their sound is their use of noise. Noise? Noise isn't music...is it? Some say noise in music can be soul-less or too chaotic or that it doesn't require any skill of playing an instrument. Sonic Youth took noise to a new level that gave their sound more depth. Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in an interview said that all the band could afford was poorly made instruments. In order to counter the low quality instruments they began experiementing with them. As many know, the standard tuning for a guitar is EADGBE. One of the things Sonic Youth did was change their guitars' tunings completly to give them a different range of sound and to allow for diferent chordal oppurtunities. This website shows the tunings they use for each song!! (They're different most of the time!!)http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/tab/tuning.html Their very unorthodox tunings led them to more interesting chords, sounds and even timbre of their instruments that made them more than an average punk band. The other main thing Sonic Youth did to add to their sound was create noise. This noise ranges from messing around with effects pedals to create abstract sounds, to wedging screw drivers inbetween their guitars' strings, putting an unbelievable amount of pressure on the instrument. In many videos of them on youtube you can see them hitting their guitars with drum sticks, throwing their guitars into the air, bending the neck extremely far back while getting feedback, etc... Some of their acts were pretty destructive but it didn't matter to them because their instruments were never of high quality and the sound it created was a new step for music. Sonic Youth, a creative punk band. Keep on groovin'