Album:Sonic Nurse

crap
Total votes: 4 (16%)
not crap
Total votes: 21 (84%)
Total votes: 25

Album: Sonic Nurse

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Sonic Nurse was the second SY album I ever heard (the first was Daydream Nation). There's just so many great songs on it. I even like Peace Attack.

How the hell did they go from this album to fucking Rather Ripped? I don't even think I got to the end of that one, it just bored the hell out of me.

Album: Sonic Nurse

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Top 5 SY for me too, probably. "New Hampshire," "Stones," "Pattern Recognition," "I Love You Golden Blue" -- excellent. No idea how they went from that to Rather Ripped. I loved "Reena" so much that it skewed my opinion of that record for a while, but I eventually decided that that was the only good track, with maybe two other decent-ish ones. Sonic Nurse might turn out to have been the end of SY being what I would call "good."

Album: Sonic Nurse

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kazoozak wrote:Sonic Nurse was the second SY album I ever heard (the first was Daydream Nation). There's just so many great songs on it. I even like Peace Attack.

How the hell did they go from this album to fucking Rather Ripped? I don't even think I got to the end of that one, it just bored the hell out of me.


I disagree with your second statement. I love Rather Ripped in the same way/for a lot of the same reasons that I love Sonic Nurse.

You should give it another chance.
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Album: Sonic Nurse

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I just listened to this album last night for the first time in a while and I had forgotten how good it is. Definitely the best thing they've done since Washing Machine.

kazoozak wrote:How the hell did they go from this album to fucking Rather Ripped? I don't even think I got to the end of that one, it just bored the hell out of me.


I agree with you completely. I've tried listening to this album so many times but I just cannot get into it. Even after seeing them play the songs live, which really did impress me, it still is a chore to listen to.

Album: Sonic Nurse

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Every Sonic Youth album since Daydream Nation has been wildly inconsistent. To varying degrees -a couple of songs that are the best thing they've done up to that point, a couple of noteworthy textural noise exercises, and cringeworthy toss- offs (on Rather Ripped, that would be 'Sleeping Around').

I think NYC Ghosts and Flowers is really underrated.
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