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Sonic Nurse [Enhanced] [Extra tracks]

~ Sonic Youth
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (7 Jun 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B00027EFIY
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 89,174 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Pattern Recognition
2. Unmade Bed
3. Dripping Dream
4. Kim Gordon And The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
5. Stones
6. Dude Ranch Nurse
7. New Hampshire
8. Paper Cup Exit
9. I Love You Golden Blue
10. Peace Attack
11. Kim Chords (Bonus track)
12. Website Link

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Continuing to live up to their name in sound, if perhaps, no longer in body, Sonic Youth have, in Sonic Nurse delivered one of the finest albums of their seminal 23-year career. Being three tracks and 15 minutes longer than its predecessor, Murray Street, and not dissimilar in its melodious appeal, in many ways Sonic Nurse offers more of the same. Again refraining from the wanton experimentalism that has peppered much of their work since Washing Machine, Sonic Nurse mixes walls of feedback with smooth basslines and guitar hooks that range from the thunderous to delightfully deft.

The 17th album from the ever inventive quartet, Sonic Nurse finds the band refining their three-pronged guitar attack in favour of subtlety, mixing upbeat rhythms with guitar lines that seduce before threatening to scramble from the fret board. Alongside the lush musical menace comes extolled exasperation aplenty, not least on the Bush-battering "Peace Attack". Brave in its refrain, spellbinding in its delivery, Sonic Nurse provides an essential dose of refined garage rock that carries a delicious kick. --Christopher Barrett



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'Sonic Nurse' is the nineteenth studio album from the New York grandfathers of noise Sonic Youth. Featuring the production talents of Jim O'Rourke for a second time, the album harks back to the sounds of 1988's 'Daydream Nation' and has been described by the band as a cross between Fleetwood Mac and Black Flag.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely brilliant, 17 Jul 2004
i never expected that sonic youth would make it again to the top of my albums-of-the-year top. i mean as a big fun, i always counted them in my top ten, but this album is undoubtedly their best since long time
tha ballance between experimentation and kicking rock songwriting is to be taught in any school of rock
i hear new bands of 20-year-olds and the kids are already old and boring
these fellas in their 50's they totally justify their name once again
sonic youth, tell the nurse to keep waiting...
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Deep sleep, 12 Oct 2006
By Aettila (Budapest, Hungary) - See all my reviews
Well, I am not familiar with Sonic Youth. But I listened to this album, then I listened two times more, and I bought it.
This is a masterpiece. U hear 'Pattern Recognition' for first, a riff overdosed, screaming hard ride. The shift between Kim's and Thurston's voice and between feelings gives a real color to the disk. As we are coming along, once just 'Dude Ranch Nurse' can be heard. I had to get some takes to get inside this, really...I was always into deep and dark things, but this is a feeling I rarely ever get. Those melodies, the singing, the whole sound gently puts inside a strange, inhuman, breathless world. These are probably one of the most strong line I've ever heard:
"Let nurse give you a shot
It's something to do...
I could love you
I could have you
Deep sleep coming along"
Yeah deep sleep. A slight nightmare. And 'New Hampshire' wakes you up. And finally 'I Love You Golden Blue' should be highlighted. It's not a nightmare, just something beautiful melancoly. Good enough for epilogue, on which 'Peace Attack' is the point.
So all in all..perfect start, perfect finish. Perfect.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wondrous, and Sublime, 22 May 2005
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Sonic Youth are so on form right now, that this album is just unbelievable! Having been a fan for well over a decade , I always wonder how they can come up with fresh creativity, but this album is excellent. This is their most epic album since Washing Machine. The quality of the songs in terms of range and depth are wonderful. Particular highlights are Kim numbers 'I love you golden blue', and the chaotic scramble of 'Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream'.
Also featured is one of Lee Ranaldo's finest songs the political anti-Bush administration 'Paper Cup Exit'. Elsewhere, in 'Stones' you have wonderful riffs that recall such era defining highs as 'Sugar Kane' from the Dirty album.
The whole album is much more melodic and warmer than recent outings, and is very focused.
SY seem to be enjoying their status as Grand Purveyers of Slacker Cool, and it shows. This is an album, demonstrating a band so comfortable with where they are at, and for anyone who has found them largely innaccesible this is probably a very good place to start. It's wonderful, and with great album artwork by legendary NY artist Richard Prince you cannot go wrong. 5 stars!
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5.0 out of 5 stars amazing...
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Return to Form
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