Little known fact:

In fact, it is NOT the same album. About 3 years ago they rerecorded it and had spies find each and every copy and replace them all.

^ Rep for wolf eye.

I too like to hear good technical playing but I look to Built to spill or something like that for well crafted rock songs. I look to sonic youth to make the energy flow through my brain and balls. Murray street does not do this.

Haha, balls.

Adam is under the influence of some sort of drugs RIGHT NOW.

Yeah I took 3 somas (shitty muscle relaxers). That's the only time I post. My favorite thing is to get drunk on everclear and take some hydros and listen to shoegaze full blast and then post. That's when I post all the rep-worthyy stuff.

This song is absolutely perfect. The lat seconds right after the drums go away....is amazing. That part always get me. Murray Street took me a while to listen due to my limited funds and increasing number of bands that I had to listen to. It was really different considering I started at Confusion/Kill yr idols, DDN, Sister, Rather Ripped, and Sonic Nurse. The album is actually top five for my SY albums.

@ASP: he he, see i can tell.

I think I'm gonna go home and do that right now...heh.

How?

ANYWAY first time I EVER got stoned in my LIFE, I was listening to "rain on tin". Oh man. You always remember the things you listen to on the first drug you ever do, because it usually feels so perfect.

First time doing dex: boredoms - vision creation newsun, oval - 94diskont, then william basinski - disintegration loops vol. 2
First time doing acid: thank you - terrible two, then boredoms - super ae
First time doing hydros: Staring at the Twin Peaks season 1 disc 1 DVD intro for an hour and then listening to Stars of the Lid and Captain Beefheart
First time doing shrooms: Captain Beefheart, and I was laughing my fucking ass off!

Uhhhhhhh..............

First time I got drunk, I listened to the Misfits.

bah. pass the joint, fucka!

because i'm standing right behind you.
BOOOOOO!

haha.

The best album to listen to on drugs (any drug) is definitely Boris - Flood.

Yes, so Murray Street huh? There was a time when I proclaimed this the best SY record, which by default makes it the best record ever. I don't hold in such high esteem largely due to the dirty sordid and filthy love affair I later had with daydream nation, but MS surely is their most concise record- and it flows perfectly and is appreciable as one suite of music. I don't understand it when people call this record boring, the instrumental passage on Karen Revisted never fails to take me on a wonderful journey everytime I hear it. It's a masterpeice, I tells ya.

Flash forward 6 years later, I play it again and am absolutely knocked back by it.

The same happened with me and NYC Flowers and Ghosts...Hit me like a brick

I think it's a good album, except for the first two songs.

Did you get your dick connection notice?
It came inside your vag to-day
I seem to think your pussy's dick connected
Watch how quickly you'll impregnate

Who is Murray Street anyway?

i was on holiday in tuscany at the precise moment it came out and i drove a lot of mileage and talked to a lot of record store salesmen til i finally could lay my hands on a copy of ms the day it was published in europe. next thing i remember is finding the highest spot on the old town of San Gimignano, lying down beneath a tree and hitting play on my discman. fuckin great record. i also remember lying on the poolside listening to this wonderful album while two little girls that almost looked like the girls on the cover were jumping all around. SERIOUSLY: what a fantastic album.

Who is Murray Street anyway?

He was an English roadie that worked with the Youth on their previous tour. He was tragically killed by falling amps.

RIP Murray

I went to Murray St. once, and knocked on the door. It was right after the album came out.

I find Murray Street and Sonic Nurse to be the compliment to each other, they both have a really nice sound to them.

Murray Street is a great album. I just played it about an hour ago. All the tracks are great. It's really great to listen to when you don't have anything to do. Time just flies by.

Plastic Sun bothers me a little though.

Why? I think it's a cool track.

Nah it's too "Kim" for my liking haha.

Hahahhaha

plastic sun sounds like a song they could've written in 2 seconds

it's an sonic youth album. pretty boring at times.

nah

that is indeed a priceles moment on the album.

Agreed ...a wonderful, 8 minute or so studio mixing board solo. Fantastic. Love the clapping at the end.

yes it's excellentissimo!

Thanks for that. It was nice of them to commemorate him like that.

One of my favorite SY records. I love the merge between pop songs and textured noisy bliss. The comments on Karen revisited are spot on, so I won't add to them, Plastic Sun actually was written in 2 seconds, Sympathy For The Starwberry is so so so underrated/appreciated, etc, etc etc.

Also I can't rep asp, but his comment made on A Thousand Leaves being the perfectly executed mix of noise and melody was absolutely true.

yes he is right, but 1k leaves is a lil bit too long. and there is some truth innit that they ve overdone some tunes on it, I think.
so murray street over 1k leaves for me, but 1k leaves short after

Oddly enough, this is the most obvious piece of Jim's PRODUCING on the album.

imo it is the best sounding SY album and one one of the best albums released in the 2000's.