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View Poll Results: what's the bset, what's your favorite
Murray Street 51 35.66%
Sonic Nurse 69 48.25%
Rather Ripped 23 16.08%
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Old 05.14.2007, 11:59 AM   #1
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I don't know if this has been a thread before, i searched it and found nothing, so here we go!

What's the best??? or what's your favorite?

Murray Street is beautiful

Mine is
1st - Murray Street
2nd - Sonic Nurse
3rd - Rather Ripped

*edit, Best not Bset.
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Old 05.14.2007, 12:01 PM   #3
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thats not an option in the poll everyneurotic, Doh!
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Old 05.14.2007, 12:01 PM   #4
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1. Sonic Nurse
2. Rather Ripped / Murray Street ex aequo
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Old 05.14.2007, 12:11 PM   #5
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thats not an option in the poll everyneurotic, Doh!


oopsy daisy.

ok, i'll answer seriously. murray street, although this is going to raise some eyebrows, i don't really think it sounds much like sonic youth; in fact, i think it's one of their more experimental albums since they decided to base themselves on a cleaner sound and to rely on musicianship to deliver the "sonic" aspect that has been their trademark, that in itself is atypical and why i consider it to be a one off for the band, and one quite risky since it's a major label album and not an ep or a syr. it's a fantastic album.

nurse, on the other hand, is sonic youth through and through, although they used many of the sounds found on murray street to do it. it showcases some of their sharpest songwriting skills since dirty, coupled with meassured blasts of noise and their new found clean, musical fervor breaks. overall, their most focused in years.

and rather ripped, well, i think it was really rushed and the songs are not as developed, although the ideas were there and, had they recorded the album now instead of a year ago, now that the songs are road tested and more developed instrumentally, it would be a far better album than it is. it's not ultra horrible, it's just mediocre, a quick stop collection of songs from off the top of their heads.

so, i don't know, can't decide between murray and nurse, but rr is definitely third.
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Old 05.14.2007, 12:37 PM   #6
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RR rules!

I say sonic nurse first, then Rather ripped, then Murray street.
murray street is a good album but it is dull and lifeless.

rather ripped is joy through and through, simple rock n roll a la sonic youth.

sonic nurse though, oh man, pattern recognition gets me amped so hard
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Old 05.14.2007, 12:56 PM   #7
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1.sn
2.ms
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Old 05.14.2007, 01:02 PM   #8
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Sonic Nurse
Rather Ripped
Murray Street
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Old 05.14.2007, 01:05 PM   #9
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"Now you live in the trees and salty seas
Trippin' out in the blue skies
You shut the door on everything
Too busy getting high
And me, just another dream theory
Lost inside your eyes"

I love this song!!!!!!
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Old 05.14.2007, 01:35 PM   #10
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Sonic Nurse is for me the best thing they have done this decade. Such a beautiful album through and through.
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Old 05.14.2007, 02:09 PM   #11
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Murray street. It was close though, I think Sonic Nurse is also brilliant. Rain On Tin just makes Murray Street that little bit better for me.
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Old 05.14.2007, 02:18 PM   #12
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Murray Street, definitely. Followed closely by Nurse.
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Old 05.14.2007, 02:22 PM   #13
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sonic nurse
murray street
rather ripped
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Old 05.14.2007, 02:30 PM   #14
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haha kill me but i fuckin LOOOOVE Rather Ripped.
its such a good pop album, and theres nothing wrong with that.
my vote goes for RR.
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Old 05.14.2007, 02:51 PM   #15
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I do!

pick that one.
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Old 05.14.2007, 05:02 PM   #16
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Rather Ripped though still good is the tamest of all three and lacks the dose of heaviness and fuzz guitar noise that exists on Sonic Nurse and Murray Street.

Sonic Nurse is well balanced with clean and distorted guitar tones and some old SY sounds mixed with the new though they don't really amp it up like on certain sections of Murray Street (Rain on Tin, Radical Adults...) which has some amazing guitar interplay that is not much unlike some of the best moments of Amon Duul II's Dance of the Lemmings and thats some killer shit.

so Murray Street is number one.
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Old 05.14.2007, 05:21 PM   #17
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Old 05.14.2007, 05:32 PM   #18
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Old 05.14.2007, 05:33 PM   #19
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Like I just said a bit ago... that was here, right? Nurse is so fucking good. I even will go so far as to say it's my favourite of the 2000's. One of my top five of all-time (SY) for sure.
Then MS, and third RR.
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Old 05.14.2007, 05:38 PM   #20
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easily murray street.
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