Sonic Youth's highest charting single: what is it?

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Please help me, it's for a school paper.

I think it's Bull In The Heather. Of course, AMG WAS NO FUCKING HELP.

My girlfriend thinks it's 100% or Kool Thing.

Much appreciated.

― blan! blan!, Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonic Youth never had a charting Hot 100 single.

If you mean on the alternative chart ("Modern Rock"), it's probably "100 %"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

TEENAGE RIOT

― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Bull In The Heather charted top 30(possibly around no 23) in the UK Singles chart.

― Rock Bastard, Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a site where you can easily search and look up data like this? I've always found Billboard.com to be fairly unhelpful.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it was that one by babyshambles.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

According to the lovely http://www.everyhit.co.uk

Bull in the Heather hit #24 in May 1994.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

That's for the UK, by the way...

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that wasn't a bad guess I made!

― Rock Bastard, Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

just curious, may i ask what's the school papers subject ?

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 29 January 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it is a paper on how blan! blan! is 31. School paper indeed.

― pingpong, Saturday, 29 January 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, you used to be youth crew, and now you drink.

― Steven Klink, Saturday, 29 January 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Never charted on the Hot 100, as Alfred said. Here's their charting Modern Rock Tracks, though:

1988: Teen Age Riot: 20
1990: Kool Thing: 7
1992: 100%: 4
1994: Bull in the Heather: 13
1994: Superstar: 26

BTW, I just registered on AMG (pretty easy) so I could access that data.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 January 2005 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to "Sugar Kane" then? (UK)

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 29 January 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugar Kane rules. I didn't realize that was released as a single.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 January 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

CHLOE

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 29 January 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Technically "Get into the Groovvy" when they did Ciccone Youth....technically...

Was Sugar Kane a pretty big "hit" in the US?

― Mike D (nullnvoid), Saturday, 29 January 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

No. Sonic Youth have never had any hits here in the U.S. ever. The only time you would ever EVER see their videos would be on that "120 Minutes" show really late at night.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 29 January 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Sugar Kane was a hit in the UK; it certainly got a lot of airplay. Don't know for sure though.

― KeithW (kmw), Saturday, 29 January 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

man, I remember seeing "100%" on MTV and everything but I'm kind of flabbergasted that it got so high on the modern rock charts.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure what Modern Rock meant in 1992. Chicago's alt-rock station, Q101, only debuted the summer of that year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah it's early on, but even then I'm impressed.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

But Modern Rock charts did exist before then (I mean, "Teenage Riot" charted in 1988, apparently) -- so where did they come from? Was there a modern rock radio format in other markets?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

#4!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

But what did it even mean? I don't remember hearing it on alternative rock radio.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Modern rock" is the anodyne, meaningless term for "college radio," used by Billboard.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Nowadays you surely have to have a lot of commercial radio airplay to chart that high, though.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, that makes sense.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The early-90s modern rock charts were a funny thing. Even though pretty much no one remembers hearing them on the radio at the time, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Boo Radleys, Catherine Wheel, Kitchens of Distinction, Lush, and Chapterhouse all had top 40 modern rock hits (most of them several).

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember every one of those bands on Miami's WVUM FM, Dr. Bill (Chapterhouse...Christ...). I often thought the reverse: whether other college radio stations played the same shit.

The success of "Nevermind" didn't change much of the dynamic, in my experience. However I rue the day that Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Oasis, and other multiplatinum acts had a stranglehold ont he playlist, to the exclusion of wonderful stuff you used to hear all the time: Kate Bush, Pet Shop Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, several of whom were still scoring hits in the early '90s.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 29 January 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

so its kinda like the evolution of 120 minutes, i guess

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

According to everyhit, "Sugar Kane" peaked at #26 in Apr '93 and "100%" at #28 in Jul '92. Everyhit's search engine makes out like it'll return info below the top 40 but - a-ha - I caught it out with The House Of Love. So, my guess is that "Kool Thing" went top 50 or 60 in the UK.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 29 January 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i think 'sunday' charted here in new zealand

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

New Zealand doesn't count as Fall records have been #1 in New Zealand haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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