inspired by the song 'expressway to yr skull' from the 1986 album 'e.v.o.l.' by american band sonic youth. On CD's, 'Expressway To Yr Skull' is also listed as 'Madonna, Sean, And Me' and 'The Crucifixion of Sean Penn'.the lyrics of this song are as following:

We're gonna kill the california girls
We're gonna fire the exploding load in the milkmaid maiden head
We're gonna find the meaning of feeling good
And we're gonna stay there as long as we think we shouldMystery train, three way plane
Expressway to your skull
Mystery train, three way plane
Expressway to your skull
Mystery train, three way plane
Expressway
To your skull

The roots of Sonic Youth lie in New York's No Wave music scene of the early 1980's.

In 1981 guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, singer/bassist Kim Gordon and drummer Richard Edson played their first gig at New York's Noise Festival. Four years and four drummers later, the band hit their stride, mixing their dissonant avant garde sound with more conventional pop song rhythms. In 1985, now backed by drummer Steve Shelley, Sonic Youth signed with SST Records. The union was short-lived however; after arguing with SST over royalty payments, the band began distributing through Enigma Records in 1986. Their mid-'80s 'Evol' (1986), 'sister' (1986) and 'Daydream Nation' (1988) firmly established their popularity on the college music scene.

Throughout their career Sonic Youth have straddled the fence of mainstream culture; at once embracing it and making fun of it. The band's offshoot project, 'Ciccone Youth', was a tongue-in-cheek jab at pop diva madonna ciccone. Their release, 'The Whitey Album' (1988), featured a parody of Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love'.

In 1990, the band kissed their indie status goodbye and shocked many of their hardcore fans when they signed with David Geffen's DGC label, explaining their jump to the mainstream recording industry as a "Warholian art-act" (see andy warhol.

In the early 90s Sonic Youth toured with such bands as Public Enemy (see false media - we don't need it do we., london, england, consider yourselves warned!, revolution, revolution, revolution, you're blind baby, you're blind baby, you're blind... and elvis was a hero to most, but never meant shit to ...), Mudhoney and Nirvana. They agreed to open for Neil Young on his 1991 'Ragged Glory' tour, further buttressing their entree into the mainstream. Young called the band's 'Expressway to Yr Skull' one of the greatest guitar songs ever written.

In 1999 Sonic Youth released 'Goodbye 20th Century', a two CD set of pieces by modern classical and avant-garde composers like John Cage and Steve Reich. by now their latest release is 'sonic nurse' (2004).

Sonic Youth produced more than 25 albums.