Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star (studio album)
by Sonic Youth

Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star by Sonic Youth
Year: 1994
Overall rank: 5,076th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 189 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1994 (103rd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (847th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,076th)

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Sonic Youth bestography

Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star is ranked 13th best out of 42 albums by Sonic Youth on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sonic Youth is Daydream Nation which is ranked number 74 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,767.

Sonic Youth album bestography « Higher ranked (3,835th)
The Eternal
This album (5,076th)
Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star
Lower ranked (5,804th) »
Confusion Is Sex

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 189 votes)
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05/01/2025 05:49 juanr1096  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,02478/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.0/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.

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55/100
From 09/07/2021 15:34
Their weakest release for sure, but I'm definitely not inclined to call it bad.
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70/100
From 11/28/2020 18:01
Surprised this gets ranked so low consistently for them. Sure it's not their best but Bull in the heather winners blues and bone are all really good
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From 02/08/2018 16:40
After delivering 3 masterpieces in a row, Sonic Youth's inspiration fell drastically short on that one... There really isn't anything good about that complete bore of an album.
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From 10/22/2017 02:04
Definitely Sonic Youth's worst album. They just repeated the same formula they used on Dirty, but this time, they made it noisy and boring. There isn't much to say about most of the songs, they're mostly just forgettable and straight up boring.

However there are a few gems in here: Bull In the Heather, Androgynous Mind, Sweet Shine (best track)

But then there are the sucky forgettable and boring tracks: Bone, Quest For the Cup, Tokyo Eye, Doctor's Orders

I mean don't get me wrong I don't hate this album, but it's Sonic Youth's worst, and their least relevant.
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From 10/19/2014 23:09
Great Album! Definitely deserves a higher rank on this site.

Standout Tracks: Winner's Blue, Bull In The Heather, Screaming Skull, Self-Obsessed and Sexxee, Androgynous Mind, Waist, In The Mind Of The Bourgeois Reader, Sweet Shine

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85/100
From 07/13/2014 07:43
Not their best...but, maybe, second best! :o)
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90/100
From 02/13/2014 05:14
Man, this awesome is sooooo dope. Don't know why it doesn't get more press on this site. Another classic by Sonic Youth
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