Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is the eighth album

Album

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 by alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

. It was released in May 1994. The album includes one of the group's biggest hits, "Bull in the Heather

Bull in the Heather

"Bull in the Heather" is a song by Sonic Youth, released as the only single from their 1994 album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star....

". Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna is an American musician, feminist activist, and punk zine writer. In the early- to mid-1990s she was the lead singer and songwriter of Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s...

 of Bikini Kill

Bikini Kill

Bikini Kill was an American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington in October 1990. The group consisted of vocalist and songwriter Kathleen Hanna, guitarist Billy Karren, bassist Kathi Wilcox, and drummer Tobi Vail. The band is widely considered to be the pioneer of the riot grrrl movement,...

 and Le Tigre

Le Tigre

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 appears in the music video

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 for the song.

Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo

Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...

 did not write or sing any songs on this album.

Chart performance

The album peaked at #34 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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 chart. Previously, the band's best performance on that chart was Dirty, which reached #89. It was their highest peak on the US charts until The Eternal

The Eternal (album)

The Eternal is the sixteenth studio album by Sonic Youth, released by Matador Records on June 9, 2009, their first on that label. It is their first studio album in three years , making it the band's longest delay between studio albums...

reached #18 in 2009. The album has sold 242,000 copies in the US according to Soundscan.

Cancelled single

"Self-Obsessed and Sexxee" was intended to be the second single from this album. A promo CD was issued, but plans for a regular release were cancelled and promo pressing ceased. The remaining copies were sold off through Sonic Death. The CD included the same b-sides as "Bull in the Heather".

Track listing

• Track 14 contains hidden bonus noise at 6:25

Album charts

Year	Album	Chart	Position
1994	Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star	UK Albums Chart	10
		Sweden Albums Chart	27
		US Billboard 200	34
		German Albums Chart	87

Charting singles

Year	Song	Chart	Position
1994	"Bull in the Heather Bull in the Heather "Bull in the Heather" is a song by Sonic Youth, released as the only single from their 1994 album Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.... "	US Modern Rock Tracks	13
		UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	24