Sonic Nurse was the beginning of the end for Sonic Youth as the sort of band that tickled my curiosity in terms of "what now and what next". I like The Eternal a lot and personally prefer it to SN and RR by a mile. The magic's gone for a good number of years now. They didn't strike me as following a sort of creative path for aeons, more like "let's see if this'll do for the fans". Not a huge deal though, great band etc. They certainly achieved creatively more than I could ever hope for.
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