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by dfglv
Five or six of these (Goo, Dirty, Washing Machine, Thousand Leaves, Nurse, Murray Street) are among my favourite records by anybody. I genuinely have no clue how much time I've spent with them: lots and lots and lots! Murray Street is my favourite of their records for travelling with - lost and alone in my car in the dark with 'Karen Revisited' was a peak experience, and the whole thing is assured and poised without an instant of complacency. Nurse, on the other hand, has 'I Love You Golden Blue', which fucks me right up every time I hear it. And I've always deeply admired the perversity of how 'Pattern Recognition' both opens the record and ends like it's trying to burn every song that follows right off the plastic. And Jim's on it, and no-one else has picked it. So Nurse it is.