Murray Street [Enhanced]

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Japanese edition of 2002 album includes one bonus track, 'Street Sauce'. Eight tracks in all. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Murray Street
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • top-notch Sonic Youth
  • To me, This is their Best since 'Daydream Nation'
  • Brilliant
  • Amazing
  • Not nearly their best work but still pretty damn good...
 Murray Street
Sonic Youth
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000066I6F
Release Date: 2002-06-25

Tracks:

  1. The Empty Page
  2. Disconnection Notice
  3. Rain On Tin
  4. Karen Revisited
  5. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
  6. Plastic Sun
  7. Sympathy for the Strawberry

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As Sonic Youth will testify, it's not easy being avant-rock superstars. Follow your urge to experiment, and you risk alienating your more conservative fans. Stop experimenting, and you lose the impetus that made you so exciting in the first place. Such is the dilemma faced by this exceptional band in 2002, now wryly rechristened "Radical Adults" in one Thurston Moore lyric. Given the bewilderment that's unfairly greeted recent attempts to push their remarkable music to new extremes--notably their contemporary classical project, Goodbye 20th Century --Murray Street initially feels like something of a compromise; the band themselves admit it's more "song-oriented" than their last few albums. But hell, what a magnificent compromise. Named after the New York street where their studio is situated--and where a plane engine landed on September 11, 2001--Murray Street is potent, accessible, daring, and often obliteratingly lovely. For a start, the first three songs ("The Empty Page," "Disconnection Notice," and "Rain On Tin") easily rank with the highlights of SY's previous 15 albums. Obliquely melancholic, tuneful but unorthodox, all are enriched by great cascades of intricate three-guitar noise. When the Youth spin off on one of these bright and wild trips, these rich musical elegies for their city, they remain one of the world's great musical wonders. --John Mulvey

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars top-notch Sonic Youth.......2007-07-18

As someone relatively new to SY (I first learned about them through their recent release "Rather Ripped") I have been discovering their catalogue over the last year and never cease to be impressed by their musical range, largely driven by having three active songwriters, each with their own style and sound, and by their exquisite skill at making noise sound beautiful. This album stands out for its more laid-back folky feel (Empty Page) and to the meditative sandpaper-like feedback on Disconnection Notice. A gem.

5 out of 5 stars To me, This is their Best since 'Daydream Nation'.......2007-07-16

With this release, Sonic Youth's 'Murray Street' sounds like a return to their indie masterpiece -Daydream Nation- with a more soothing better produced recording.
To this day in 2007, and out of all of Sonic Youth's releases I do believe this one will be considered one of the band's highpoints among their 25 + year career.
This is their most lush album yet, from the opening chords of "The Empty Page" on through one of Kim Gordon's best sung songs with "Sympathy for the Strawberry"-
I find myself a bit more relaxed listening to 'Murray Street' even though at times the listener can hear some frenetic jam sections. It's back to the longer instrumental passages, that the band hasn't shown much since the 80s and their indie days. Although, throughout the 90s, Sonic Youth had a few notable 10 + min. songs which includes the epic-suite off of 1995's 'The Washing Machine' and it's 20 minute closer "The Diamond Sea"-
I do believe that die hard S.Y. fans prefer Sonic Youth and their more jam band side rather then their poppier side like with 'Goo' and 'Dirty' (of course to me, their both fantastic).
-This 7 song album contains my absolute favorite SY song, the 11 minute Lee Ranaldo's Epic "Karen Revisited"-
Jim O' Rourke makes a nice addition, now the fifth member of Sonic Youth and remains in the line-up through the next album - 2004's 'Sonic Nurse'.
Kim Gordon sings lead on only the last two tracks -"Plastic Sun"- an energetic 'riot grrl' like song. A punkier edge from Kim, not heard since 'Daydream's' "Eliminator Jr." and possibly 'Dirty's' "Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit"-
And the closer "Sympathy for the Strawberry" is one of her best songs yet.
'Murray Street' is a much more rewarding effort then 1998's 'A Thousand Leaves' and the horrible Ep 'NYC Ghosts and Flowers' (2000).
As a long time devoted fan of Sonic Youth (N.Y. based) -'Murray Street'(released one year after 9/11) really is one of the band's best and most gorgeous offerings yet.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant.......2006-01-27

okay, so i got this album without knowing what to expect. i fell in love.
THE EMPTY PAGE - such a clean, refreshing song. powerful.
DISCONNECTION NOTICE - very good song, dissonant guitar work.
RAIN ON TIN - second-best song on the album. the beginning part has very simplistic but nice vocal by thurston, and then comes the fun part, the next 7 hypnotic minutes. when i saw this live it was nothing short of AMAZING. amazing. seriously. it changed me, probably.
KARENOLOGY - something about this song has always bothered me somewhat, but it has grown on me a lot. i think mostly i just don't like lee's vocal here. maybe if it were in a different key or something. either way i do like the lyrics, and it's not a bad song. the static part at the end was somewhat interesting live, since Kim was rubbing her guitar in the bushes in front of the stage and stuff, but it got kind of boring, honestly. Sorry. I love noise and all, but..
RADICAL ADULTS.. - this song is pretty good sonically but i don't like the vocal.
PLASTIC SUN - okay this is good songwriting, but i don't like the production or the arrangement, or that annoying squeaky noise. i do like the lyrics a lot though. it would be better if it were done in a more traditional punk style in which it seems to kick back to, like on SISTER.
SYMPATHY FOR THE STRAWBERRY - i don't know what other people think of this song, but it's one of my favorite songs of ANY band. everything about it just sends me into euphoric intoxication. the noise builds and builds, until you almost can't take it any longer, and then cuts out to snare and guitar and some soft organ, and then kim's sultry vocals. these are some of my favorite lyrics ever, as well. 'i'm a girl scout searching for the new stuff!' this song is a bit esoteric, i'll admit, and some of my friends don't like it "what is this weird music?" but i think it's one of their best. the crashing guitars end the song as if to suggest that a small girl is being devoured by vengeful strawberry vines. but i was on acid. lol. not really.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing.......2005-09-18

It all started one rainy day the library. I was filing through the mass of cds to check out and came across Sonic Youth "Murray Street". I had heard of Sonic Youth before and listened to some songs off of Goo, and wasn't very pleased. But even with the past experience, I picked it up. When driving home I started listening to it, and well, thought it was crap. Boring, slow, garbage. But I made a copy of the cd anyways. Two months later I came across it again. Since first having it I had already listened to Daydream Nation and other songs by Sonic Youth. I had fallen in love with them, but still hadn't listened to Murray Street. So I did, and now I am addicted to it. It is one of those cds that at first listen you may think it's talent less and full of filler, but when you really sit down and go through every song, without skipping through the "filler", and try to appreciate the atmosphere that Sonic Youth creates for you, you really start to get it; This is a masterpiece. My favorite songs are Rain On Tin and Karen Revisited. My least favorite is Plastic Sun. It is the oddball of the other songs, but I still respect it as a good song. The whole cd is much slower compared to other Sonic Youth songs, such as Drunken Butterfly or Purr, but still keeps me in bliss.

4 out of 5 stars Not nearly their best work but still pretty damn good..........2005-03-12

Named after the NY street where Sonic Youth's studio is located, this release goes off on less noisy tangents than they typically do. But if you're looking for noisy tangents there are a couple of 11 minute epics such as "Karen Revisited" and "Sympathy for the Strawberry" to sustain you. The first three cuts are almost radio friendly and contain my two favorite tracks from this CD..."The Empty Page" which sounds like Neil Young singing for Television and "Rain On Tin" with a transcending guitar solo by Lee Renaldo. Of course Mission of Burma's sound is all over this as well as a touch of King Crimson in a few places. Not nearly their best work but still pretty good.
The Broadway Musicals of 1953
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Release Date: 2005-04-12

Tracks:

  1. Big Black Giant [Me and Juliet]
  2. Tin Pan Alley [John Murray Anderson's Almanac]
  3. Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town)
  4. Quiet Girl (Wonderful Town)
  5. How Far Can a Lady Go? [Carnival in Flanders]
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  7. Ohio (Wonderful Town)
  8. Ev'ry Street's a Boulevard (In Old New York) [Hazel Flagg]
  9. You Become Me/My Mind's on You [Maggie May]
  10. C'est Magnifique [Can-Can]
  11. Come Along with Me [Can-Can]
  12. I Love Paris [Can-Can]
  13. Stranger in Paradise [From Kismet]
  14. You Can Take the Word of a Gentleman [Carnival in Flanders]
  15. You're So Much a Part of Me [John Murray Anderson's Almanac]
  16. One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man (Wonderful Town)
  17. Salomee [Hazel Flagg]
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  19. Here's That Rainy Day [Carnival in Flanders]
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  21. Baubles, Bangles and Beads [From Kismet]

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Another strong Broadway by the Year.......2006-08-20

Scott Seigel's concerts, Broadway by the Year gather a group of the current crop of Broadway performers and turn them loose on songs from Musicals that opened during 1 year on Broadway. It helps that 1953 was a strong year musically, with Bernstein's Wonderful Town, Porter's Can Can, Kismet and Me and Juliet from Rogers and Hammerstein. Jule Styne also chimed in with Hazel Flagg which contains one almost standard "Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York. Some great stuff on this album, wonderfully sung as almost always. I love this series and hope to acquire each and every one at some point.
Murray Street
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    		Murray Street
    Sonic Youth
    Manufacturer: Smells Like Records
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    ASIN: B00006AGG6
    Release Date: 2002-06-25

    Album Description

    Japanese edition of 2002 album includes one bonus track, 'Street Sauce'. Eight tracks in all.

    Album Details

    Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: "Street Sauce"
    Murray Street
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      		Murray Street
      Sonic Youth
      Manufacturer: Universal
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      ASIN: B000065E9U
      Release Date: 2002-06-05

      Tracks:

      1. The Empty Page
      2. Disconnection Notice
      3. Rain On Tin
      4. Karen Revisited
      5. Radical Adults Lick Goghead Style
      6. Plastic Sun
      7. Sympathy For The Strawberry
      8. Street Sauce (Bonus Track)

      Album Description

      Japanese edition of 2002 album includes one bonus track, 'Street Sauce'. Eight tracks in all.

      Album Details

      Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: "Street Sauce"
      The Rodgers & Hammerstein 50th Anniversary Collection
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        		The Rodgers & Hammerstein 50th Anniversary Collection

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        Release Date: 1993-03-30

        Tracks:

        1. Overture - Oklahoma! Orchestra/Jay Blackton
        2. Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' - Original New York Cast
        3. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top - Original New York Cast
        4. Kansas City - Original New York Cast
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        3. If I Loved You - Original New York Cast
        4. June Is Bustin' Out All Over - Original New York Cast
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        6. Blow High, Blow Low - Original New York Cast
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        8. A Real Nice Clambake - Original New York Cast
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        18. Edelweiss - The Do-Re-Mi Chorus
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          Release Date: 2001-09-25

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          1. Mississippi: Soon - Bing Crosby
          2. Mississippi: Down By The River - Bing Crosby
          3. Mississippi: It's Easy To Remember - Bing Crosby
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          10. On Your Toes: There's A Small Hotel - Jack Whiting
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          13. Babes In Arms: Johnny One Note - Wynn Murray
          14. Babes In Arms: All At Once - Edgar Fairchild/Adam Carroll
          15. Babes In Arms: Where Or When - Ray Heatherton
          16. Babes In Arms: My Funny Valentine - Edgar Fairchild/Adam Carroll
          17. Babes In Arms: I Wish I Were In Love Again - Judy Garland
          18. I Married An Angel: I Married An Angel - Nelson Eddy
          19. I Married An Angel: At The Roxy Music Hall - Audrey Christie
          20. I Married An Angel: Little Work-A-Day World - Nelson Eddy
          21. I Married An Angel: Spring Is Here - Nelson Eddy
          22. I Married An Angel: How To Win Friends And Influence People - Audrey Christie
          23. I Married An Angel: I'll Tell The Man In The Street - Nelson Eddy
          24. Too Many Girls: You're Nearer - Frances Langford
          Murray Street
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            		Murray Street
            Sonic Youth
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            ASIN: B000LY35ES
            Chilltown New York
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              ASIN: B000AEFZTC
              Count John McCormack-The Final Recordings
              Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
              • A valuable collection.
              • A good sampling of the last days of an inimitable artist.
              		 Count John McCormack-The Final Recordings

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              ASIN: B000000WQ6
              Release Date: 1995-10-17

              Tracks:

              1. God Keep You Is My Prayer
              2. At The Mid Hour Of Night
              3. When I Awake
              4. Down By The Sally Gardens
              5. She Rested By The Broken Brook
              6. Jesus Christ The Son Of God
              7. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
              8. Silent Noon
              9. The Street Sounds To The Soldiers' Tread
              10. Loveliest Of Trees
              11. While In The Moon The Long RoadLies
              12. The Dawn Will Break
              13. The Village That Nobody Knows
              14. Praise Ye The Lord
              15. Linden Lea
              16. The White Peace
              17. Little Boats
              18. She Moved Through The Fair
              19. No, Not More Welcome
              20. The Green Bushes
              21. Bantry Bay
              22. Maureen (Irish Cradle Song)
              23. Our Finest Hour
              24. Our Finest Hour
              25. Smilin' Through

              Tracks:

              1. The Devout Lover
              2. Oh, Promise Me (Romanaza)
              3. A Rose Still Blooms In Picardy
              4. Jerusalem
              5. A Rose Still Blooms In Picardy
              6. Will You Go With Me
              7. Night Hynm At Sea
              8. Still As The Night
              9. Off To Philadelphia
              10. Come Back My Love
              11. Here In The Quiet Hills
              12. God Bless America
              13. The Battle Hymn Of The American Republic
              14. Interview And Conversation - The Gentle Maiden
              15. I'll Walk Beside You
              16. By The Lakes OF Killarney
              17. Love Thee, Dearest, Love Thee
              18. A Children's Prayer In Wartime
              19. One Love Forever
              20. Say A Little Prayer
              21. Ave Verum Corpus
              22. To Chloe
              23. Waiting For You

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars A valuable collection........2003-01-12

              Admirers of this very major singer may well judge this to be the very best collection of John McCormack reissues on the market. It gathers together everything he recorded in the last twenty months of his singing life. Joining with accompanist Gerald Moore at London's Abbey Road Studios, he recorded sometimes as many as six items at a recording session.

              Gerald Moore, in his autobiography, recalled that John McComack was averse both to rehearsing and to recording more than one take of each song. Of the dozens of items here, almost all derive from a first take. Only once was there a tiny error. It occurred in the song "The Green Bushes". Listen carefully, and you will hear John McCormack begin to sing "So sweetly she sang" before correcting it, in the nick of time, to "So sweetly sang she". There was never a chance to do another take, but fortunately the item was eventually issued after McCormack's death. Indeed, there are many items here that were issued posthumously, and at least six published here for the first time. A couple of duets with Maggie Teyte have had little or no circulation. One of them here sounds to be copied from a slightly faulty but perhaps only existing copy.

              In the old-fashioned, sentimental and imprecise terminology of his day, McCormack sang from his heart, and aimed to touch the hearts of his hearers. It is fortunate that sound recording caught these performances so well, before emphysema silenced McCormack forever, and it is fortunate that Pavilion Records and supervisor Brian Fawcett-Johnston make them available today.

              4 out of 5 stars A good sampling of the last days of an inimitable artist........1999-04-21

              By the time these performances were put to wax, McCormack's voice was twenty or more years past it's prime. But, unlike most classically trained singers, McCormack's vocal limitations appear to have encouraged a more musically adventurous approach to his singing. His later recordings have an immediacy and sponteneity that is absolutely unique to a singer of his era and training. His singing is, in fact, more like that of a "pop" singer, in that the voice takes a back seat to the phrasing, and ablility to convey a lyric with honest emotion instead of histrionics. The clarity of tone, and the ring of the high notes is gone in these recordings, but the "presence" of McCormack the songster is stronger than ever. The transfers are excellent, as we have come to expect from Pearl. While the fidelity is not what most expect from today's recording techniques, to my ear they are more satisfying. The voice is recorded up-front and very clearly, and we can revel in the knowledge that it was all originally recorded "honestly"; that is, without edits and without electronic alterations of any sort. McCormack was a great artist who never became boring. In this day of bellicose tenors who are content to sing the same repertoire in the same manner year after year, that is saying a lot. If McCormack's singing is new to you, do yourself a favor and get this one. Also pick up one of his youthful operatic recitals, and you will come to know just what a great performer and amazingly varied artist he was. Enjoy, for his like will probably not be heard again.

              Music:

              1. My Friends [CD-single]
              2. Negotiation Limerick File [CD-single]
              3. Nothing Safe: Best of the Box
              4. Now I Got Worry
              5. Oh Perfect Masters
              6. Once Upon a Time in America [CD-single] [Import]
              7. One Beat
              8. Ownliness
              9. Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998 [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics] [Live]
              10. Rarities [Import]

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              Live at the Haunted House

              Overtures / Divertimenti / Fantasias

              Patrick Husson, Sopraniste

              Southern Style: Western Swing

              Uri Geller [Import]

              Puccini: Manon Lescaut

              Take 6 - The Greatest Hits

              Lebendige Vergangenheit: Tiana Lemnitz

              Sharp Dressed Men: Tribute to ZZ Top

              Only You

              Root Down [EP]

              Mis Tiempos Con Chepin [Import]

              Packin' Heat, Vol. 1

              Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, Vol. 2

              The Big Challenge