Sonic Nurse [Enhanced]
Editorial Reviews
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If all Sonic Youth albums pretty much sound alike, as skeptics grumble, some Sonic Youth albums definitely sound more alike than others. And Sonic Nurse is one of those. Practically Sonic Youth concentrate, the disc manages to sound like a distillation of the band's career and a promise that they can keep doing this forever. Sonic Youth has trimmed away its more direct hooks, while also curbing its artier indulgences. That isn't to say that melody or noise is absent--especially when it's Kim Gordon's turn to rant on cuts such as "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream"--but that these elements are carefully balanced and defer to an overall sound that's richer than ever now that newest member Jim O'Rourke has fully integrated himself into the band's gestalt. The mood may be pastoral and domestic, but often, as on "Peace Attack," it's grounded in an undercurrent of concern. --Keith Harris --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Sonic Nurse, Music, Sonic Youth, Alternative Pop/Rock, Bass (Electric), Drums, Experimental Rock, Guitar (Electric), Guitar Effects, Guitar Feedback, Indie Rock, Noise, Percussion, Pop, Post-Rock/Experimental, Rock, Vocals
Average customer rating:
- Gave up, but this renews my faith in good music!
- Sonic Youth Progressing
- A tribute to the electric guitar
- This nurse can take my temperature anytime!
- Sonic Youth keeps it going.
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Sonic Nurse
Sonic Youth
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
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Similar Items:
- Murray Street
- Rather Ripped
- A Thousand Leaves
- Washing Machine
- Sister
ASIN: B000255LAM
Release Date: 2004-06-08 |
Tracks:
- Pattern Recognition
- Unmade Bed
- Dripping Dream
- Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
- Stones
- Dude Ranch Nurse
- New Hampshire
- Paper Cup Exit
- I Love You Golden Blue
- Peace Attack
Amazon.com
If all Sonic Youth albums pretty much sound alike, as skeptics grumble, some Sonic Youth albums definitely sound more alike than others. And Sonic Nurse is one of those. Practically Sonic Youth concentrate, the disc manages to sound like a distillation of the band's career and a promise that they can keep doing this forever. Sonic Youth has trimmed away its more direct hooks, while also curbing its artier indulgences. That isn't to say that melody or noise is absent--especially when it's Kim Gordon's turn to rant on cuts such as "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream"--but that these elements are carefully balanced and defer to an overall sound that's richer than ever now that newest member Jim O'Rourke has fully integrated himself into the band's gestalt. The mood may be pastoral and domestic, but often, as on "Peace Attack," it's grounded in an undercurrent of concern. --Keith Harris
Customer Reviews:
Gave up, but this renews my faith in good music!.......2006-05-26
I wasn't a huge fan of Murray Street, but this album blows me away. After Murray Street, I thought maybe they had lost their touch and weren't going to retire with a kick. Well I was proven wrong. I was really surprised that they came out with this, I had kind of given up on them since they came out with Murray Street (Sorry Murray Street fans), and then I just looked them up for old times sake, and whadya know - an awesome album. This is as good as it gets as far as good music is concerned. I can't wait for their new album to come out!
Sonic Youth Progressing .......2006-03-18
Another album, experimental as always, but at the same time it is listenable.....The melodies are obscure, consisting of harmonics, and sound manipulation with the effects.deep bass ..the drums are used in complex time signatures, making it stand out and has a new approach making it different than the other albums......chaotic noize and complex melodies... the sound goes on........
A tribute to the electric guitar.......2006-01-27
I liked 2000's "MURRAY STREET" a lot, and was interested to see what direction they would take this one in. I wasn't sure I would like it. I was not disappointed though, and now i think of the two albums as companion pieces, not sure which i like more, though certainly this is a more lengthy, and probably developed record.
PATTERN RECOGNITION - this song just kicks ass, no way around that. i love the riff, the lyrics, kim's vocals, everything.
UNMADE BED - this might be my favorite song on the album, but that would be hard to say for sure. not too much noise or experimentation here, just a very poignant song that is sonically blistering and beautiful, and has excellent arrangement, touching vocals, and amazing feeling. the guitars are just unbelievably great. short, but packs so much into it.
DRIPPING DREAM - i've heard a lot of good things about this song, and i think it was one of the first ones i liked when i first heard this album, but now it doesn't seem as good as i thought. it's good, just.. it gets better.
MARIAH CAREY AND THE ARTHUR DOYLE HAND CREAM - oh, wait.. did they change the name? oh, i see. it's now KIM GORDON. probably afraid of offending ole' miss carey. not a bad song, they played this when i saw them on tour for murray street. it's enjoyable, but nothing amazing.
STONES - this would have to rival UNMADE BED for favorite on the album. the guitar work here just blows my mind, and the bridge and climax of this song just send me into sonic ecstasy. due to misfortunate events, i didn't get to see them tour on this album, but i had REALLY wanted to hear this song live. there is so much intensity in the playing.
DUDE RANCH NURSE - this song is really good as well. i mostly like it for its lyrics, and thought the album should have been called this instead of sonic nurse. kim really grabs you with her vocals in this song, "Let nurse give you a shot!".. it's very erotic in some weird way that only some of us could understand, haha.
NEW HAMPSHIRE - a good song, somewhat autobiographical for thurston, i gather. good lyrics, good vocal, great guitar work once again.
PAPER CUP EXIT - another high point of the album, but i'm not sure what to say about it. love the lyrics, love the guitar work, yadda yadda. i sound like a broken record. this is a lee vocal, and one of his best ones. one of the more political songs on the album, and a bit less obnoxiously so than the last track..
I LOVE YOU GOLDEN BLUE - somewhat in the vein of 'SYMPATHY FOR THE STRAWBERRY,' and although i like the other better, this does a good job. starts out with the noisy part like 'sympathy,' and then goes into a sultry kim vocal. very haunting, beautiful. but also, somewhat hopeful at moments. very good song.
PEACE ATTACK - i really liked this song when i first got the album, and i still think it definitely has a good point, and the climax of the guitars is pretty kickass. it just seems a bit kitsch now.
so overall, this is one of the best albums, like, ever. buy it. steal it. whatever you have to do, if you're a fan of the guitar, get this album.
This nurse can take my temperature anytime!.......2006-01-13
This would be album 13 by the greatest rock band of the last 25 years (that is, "major" albums, as opposed to EPs, live albums, best-of's, SYR releases, side/solo projects and various other sonic effluvia). The band will be eligible for Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame membership in about 2007 (don't start writing that speech yet, Thurston; if Patti Smith and Iggy can't make the cut yet, the Hall is useless anyway) and by now their name can apply more to their actual kids. Normally this means that it would be time to bland out and gently jam their way into senescence. For Our Heroes, this is fortunately not the case.
Upon intitial listenings to "Sonic Nurse," one can be forgiven for thinking otherwise. The songs are generally long (only two clock in under 5 minutes) and some have relatively little--or none--of the free form sonic freakouts that are supposed to be the band's stock in trade. Heck, some of Thurston's offerings here have more than a little of a certain hippy-ish vibe. On "Stones" he even sings "the dead are alright with me." Wait, is that as in the Grateful freakin' Dead? The full lyrics are of course too eliptical to tell for sure, although they seem to be about endurance in the face of adversity and death, so there's a definite acknowledgement of getting older, anyway. Mind you, song titles like "Peace Attack" with its "nature sex" refrain (at first I thought it was the more punkish "nature sucks") can worry even hard-core SY fans. Thurston has described "Sonic Nurse" as a cross between Black Flag's "Damaged" and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," and one can argue that it's too much of the latter, but give this one a chance to sink in and you'll be hooked.
Not everything is peace n' love, thankfully. Kim Gordon has turned out to be the band's edgiest songwriter (check out her SYR project with Ikue Mori and DJ Olive), and her contributions kick those jams out the door, down the street, into your house and knock you over but good. The album's opening salvo "Pattern Recognition," about pro corporate trendspotters, buzzes and screams like some of the primo "Dirty" material, and what can be said about the puckishly titled "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream"? It's a gossipy, hilarious take on recent events in the life of Mariah Carey ("how was your date with Eminem?/Did he bake you and then forsake you?") with the album's stormiest musical backing that is, in a word, fierce. Kudos also for name-checking free jazz great Doyle as well.
It should also be noted that despite the softer moments, the album is still loads more dissonant than most of what passes for "alt rock" these days. Sure, I love the Arcade Fire as much as anyone, but it's great to have a group that combines that level of songwriting prowess with the musical un-orthodoxy bred of punk, free jazz and experimental musics. Sonic Youth are still more than relevant, my friend--they're necessary. No Wave? Try Now Wave.
Sonic Youth keeps it going........2005-09-08
Wow. Sonic Youth is indeed a band that has racked up the years as they continue to throw out album after album. And still, their magic hasn't faded a bit with Sonic Nurse. Starting off with "Pattern Recognition", this album is loaded with catchy noise songs, an array of sounds accompanied by the amazing vocals of Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. Despite not having the mainstream, `normal' sound of most music nowadays, the songs on this album, such as "Pattern Recognition", "Unmade Bed", and "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream", and the like, are, dare I say, catchier than anything you can find on Top 40 radio.
So as a whole, this album really is a pleasure to the ears. If you like noise rock, Sonic Youth, or just good music at all, I strongly recommend "Sonic Nurse". It's one of, if not the best, album of 2004.
Average customer rating:
- Gave up, but this renews my faith in good music!
- Sonic Youth Progressing
- A tribute to the electric guitar
- This nurse can take my temperature anytime!
- Sonic Youth keeps it going.
|
Sonic Nurse
Sonic Youth
Manufacturer: Goofin Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Indie Rock
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Noise
| Rock
| Alternative Styles
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Experimental Rock
| Rock
| Alternative Styles
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Experimental Music
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Murray Street
- Rather Ripped
- A Thousand Leaves
- Washing Machine
- Daydream Nation
ASIN: B00025OINS
Release Date: 2004-07-20 |
Tracks:
- Pattern Recognition
- Unmade Bed
- Dripping Dream
- Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
- Stones
- Dude Ranch Nurse
- New Hampshire
- Paper Cup Exit
- I Love You Golden Blue
- Peace Attack
Amazon.com
If all Sonic Youth albums pretty much sound alike, as skeptics grumble, some Sonic Youth albums definitely sound more alike than others. And Sonic Nurse is one of those. Practically Sonic Youth concentrate, the disc manages to sound like a distillation of the band's career and a promise that they can keep doing this forever. Sonic Youth has trimmed away its more direct hooks, while also curbing its artier indulgences. That isn't to say that melody or noise is absent--especially when it's Kim Gordon's turn to rant on cuts such as "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream"--but that these elements are carefully balanced and defer to an overall sound that's richer than ever now that newest member Jim O'Rourke has fully integrated himself into the band's gestalt. The mood may be pastoral and domestic, but often, as on "Peace Attack," it's grounded in an undercurrent of concern. --Keith Harris
Customer Reviews:
Gave up, but this renews my faith in good music!.......2006-05-26
I wasn't a huge fan of Murray Street, but this album blows me away. After Murray Street, I thought maybe they had lost their touch and weren't going to retire with a kick. Well I was proven wrong. I was really surprised that they came out with this, I had kind of given up on them since they came out with Murray Street (Sorry Murray Street fans), and then I just looked them up for old times sake, and whadya know - an awesome album. This is as good as it gets as far as good music is concerned. I can't wait for their new album to come out!
Sonic Youth Progressing .......2006-03-18
Another album, experimental as always, but at the same time it is listenable.....The melodies are obscure, consisting of harmonics, and sound manipulation with the effects.deep bass ..the drums are used in complex time signatures, making it stand out and has a new approach making it different than the other albums......chaotic noize and complex melodies... the sound goes on........
A tribute to the electric guitar.......2006-01-27
I liked 2000's "MURRAY STREET" a lot, and was interested to see what direction they would take this one in. I wasn't sure I would like it. I was not disappointed though, and now i think of the two albums as companion pieces, not sure which i like more, though certainly this is a more lengthy, and probably developed record.
PATTERN RECOGNITION - this song just kicks ass, no way around that. i love the riff, the lyrics, kim's vocals, everything.
UNMADE BED - this might be my favorite song on the album, but that would be hard to say for sure. not too much noise or experimentation here, just a very poignant song that is sonically blistering and beautiful, and has excellent arrangement, touching vocals, and amazing feeling. the guitars are just unbelievably great. short, but packs so much into it.
DRIPPING DREAM - i've heard a lot of good things about this song, and i think it was one of the first ones i liked when i first heard this album, but now it doesn't seem as good as i thought. it's good, just.. it gets better.
MARIAH CAREY AND THE ARTHUR DOYLE HAND CREAM - oh, wait.. did they change the name? oh, i see. it's now KIM GORDON. probably afraid of offending ole' miss carey. not a bad song, they played this when i saw them on tour for murray street. it's enjoyable, but nothing amazing.
STONES - this would have to rival UNMADE BED for favorite on the album. the guitar work here just blows my mind, and the bridge and climax of this song just send me into sonic ecstasy. due to misfortunate events, i didn't get to see them tour on this album, but i had REALLY wanted to hear this song live. there is so much intensity in the playing.
DUDE RANCH NURSE - this song is really good as well. i mostly like it for its lyrics, and thought the album should have been called this instead of sonic nurse. kim really grabs you with her vocals in this song, "Let nurse give you a shot!".. it's very erotic in some weird way that only some of us could understand, haha.
NEW HAMPSHIRE - a good song, somewhat autobiographical for thurston, i gather. good lyrics, good vocal, great guitar work once again.
PAPER CUP EXIT - another high point of the album, but i'm not sure what to say about it. love the lyrics, love the guitar work, yadda yadda. i sound like a broken record. this is a lee vocal, and one of his best ones. one of the more political songs on the album, and a bit less obnoxiously so than the last track..
I LOVE YOU GOLDEN BLUE - somewhat in the vein of 'SYMPATHY FOR THE STRAWBERRY,' and although i like the other better, this does a good job. starts out with the noisy part like 'sympathy,' and then goes into a sultry kim vocal. very haunting, beautiful. but also, somewhat hopeful at moments. very good song.
PEACE ATTACK - i really liked this song when i first got the album, and i still think it definitely has a good point, and the climax of the guitars is pretty kickass. it just seems a bit kitsch now.
so overall, this is one of the best albums, like, ever. buy it. steal it. whatever you have to do, if you're a fan of the guitar, get this album.
This nurse can take my temperature anytime!.......2006-01-13
This would be album 13 by the greatest rock band of the last 25 years (that is, "major" albums, as opposed to EPs, live albums, best-of's, SYR releases, side/solo projects and various other sonic effluvia). The band will be eligible for Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame membership in about 2007 (don't start writing that speech yet, Thurston; if Patti Smith and Iggy can't make the cut yet, the Hall is useless anyway) and by now their name can apply more to their actual kids. Normally this means that it would be time to bland out and gently jam their way into senescence. For Our Heroes, this is fortunately not the case.
Upon intitial listenings to "Sonic Nurse," one can be forgiven for thinking otherwise. The songs are generally long (only two clock in under 5 minutes) and some have relatively little--or none--of the free form sonic freakouts that are supposed to be the band's stock in trade. Heck, some of Thurston's offerings here have more than a little of a certain hippy-ish vibe. On "Stones" he even sings "the dead are alright with me." Wait, is that as in the Grateful freakin' Dead? The full lyrics are of course too eliptical to tell for sure, although they seem to be about endurance in the face of adversity and death, so there's a definite acknowledgement of getting older, anyway. Mind you, song titles like "Peace Attack" with its "nature sex" refrain (at first I thought it was the more punkish "nature sucks") can worry even hard-core SY fans. Thurston has described "Sonic Nurse" as a cross between Black Flag's "Damaged" and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," and one can argue that it's too much of the latter, but give this one a chance to sink in and you'll be hooked.
Not everything is peace n' love, thankfully. Kim Gordon has turned out to be the band's edgiest songwriter (check out her SYR project with Ikue Mori and DJ Olive), and her contributions kick those jams out the door, down the street, into your house and knock you over but good. The album's opening salvo "Pattern Recognition," about pro corporate trendspotters, buzzes and screams like some of the primo "Dirty" material, and what can be said about the puckishly titled "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream"? It's a gossipy, hilarious take on recent events in the life of Mariah Carey ("how was your date with Eminem?/Did he bake you and then forsake you?") with the album's stormiest musical backing that is, in a word, fierce. Kudos also for name-checking free jazz great Doyle as well.
It should also be noted that despite the softer moments, the album is still loads more dissonant than most of what passes for "alt rock" these days. Sure, I love the Arcade Fire as much as anyone, but it's great to have a group that combines that level of songwriting prowess with the musical un-orthodoxy bred of punk, free jazz and experimental musics. Sonic Youth are still more than relevant, my friend--they're necessary. No Wave? Try Now Wave.
Sonic Youth keeps it going........2005-09-08
Wow. Sonic Youth is indeed a band that has racked up the years as they continue to throw out album after album. And still, their magic hasn't faded a bit with Sonic Nurse. Starting off with "Pattern Recognition", this album is loaded with catchy noise songs, an array of sounds accompanied by the amazing vocals of Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. Despite not having the mainstream, `normal' sound of most music nowadays, the songs on this album, such as "Pattern Recognition", "Unmade Bed", and "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream", and the like, are, dare I say, catchier than anything you can find on Top 40 radio.
So as a whole, this album really is a pleasure to the ears. If you like noise rock, Sonic Youth, or just good music at all, I strongly recommend "Sonic Nurse". It's one of, if not the best, album of 2004.
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Sonic Nurse
Sonic Youth
Manufacturer: Universal Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Indie Rock
| Indie & Lo-Fi
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ASIN: B0001ZX1YG
Release Date: 2004-06-14 |
Tracks:
- Pattern Recognition
- Unmade Bed
- Dripping Dream
- Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
- Stones
- Dude Ranch Nurse
- New Hampshire
- Paper Cut Exit
- I Love You Golden Blue
- Peace Attack
- Kim Chord
- Beautiful Plateau
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Sonic Nurse
Sonic Youth
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Indie Rock
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Experimental Rock
| Rock
| Alternative Styles
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
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General
| Rock
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Pop Rock
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| Music
Experimental Music
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
Alternative Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00027EFIY
Release Date: 2004-06-14 |
Tracks:
- Pattern Recognition
- Unmade Bed
- Dripping Dream
- Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
- Stones
- Dude Ranch Nurse
- New Hampshire
- Paper Cup Exit
- I Love You Golden Blue
- Peace Attack
- Kim Chords [*]
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- Temperamental, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Import]
- The Classic Interviews
- The Last Archaeopteyx [Explicit Lyrics]
- The Man Who
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Viola [Import]
Viva Club Rotation, Vol. 11 [Import]
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