I love you Golden blue
 

I read on the "Ask the band a question" thread that it was maligned by fans and critics, is this true? I personally think its beautiful, it even made me cry once.

It's never made me cry by I agree with you. It's one of my favorites off of sonic Nurse.

i love it, i love kim's half hushed whisper, it is entrancing. the song is enthralling, completely beautiful.
i'm going to listen to it now.

People have been bastards to 'sonic nurse' and 'rather ripped' because, of course, after all these years, sonic youth owe them, right?

The fact is that both of the albums are killers and people are just being bitchy.

I love Sonic Nurse more than any other SY album. I LIKE Rather Ripped rather than loving it. But since NYCGhosts and Flowers i cant imagine another band who has done 4 albums in a row that are so good. PLUS theyve done that a few times before.

The Live version from Malmo is pretty fantastic....I can just see the band emerging on the stage to a long intro very cool

Love, love, LOVE this song. The video's great too. Unfortunately, the only live version I have of it is rather poor.

If I was musical and in a band, I would open every show with this tune. That is, until the audience started protesting and hurling things.

its probably my fave of that album and i really dont know why anyone wouldnt like it really.

It is my favourite on that album too and i particularly like the lyrics and Kim's singing on it.

You' re so right, it gives me the same feeling too... Isn't melancholy so... strange?

Gorgeous

That sure is a great song. Nice to see that Nurse is still being talked about.

I mean, it can be such a sweet feeling... Artists need to be a little melancholic in order to produce a good result, because it has to come straight from the heart.

Opened with Golden Blue the majority of the time on the NA Nurse tour, about the best song they could have opened with.

yea i really like this song too, I dont understand how anyone could hate it.It has a real fragile beauty to it with Kim's whispery vocals sounding like shes on her last two legs.

This thread made me play Sonic Nurse once again. One of my favorite albums.

Maligned? I don't understand that. I think it's one of the best Kim songs, period. She said in an interview that it was the darkest SY song she'd written lyrics for. It made me cry too......

It's true. It's pretty perfect.

reminds me of that song from superman. anyone else?

Best song on Nurse.

Does anyone know what Jim played on this track? Organ, guitar, bass? Anyone? The bass-line sounds rather simple, and I'm thinking Kim played it on this one.

It's also my favourite off Sonic Nurse since the first time I heard this album.

Anyone?

Lee played a synth organ type thing. Jim played guitar, so I Kim played bass

Thank you very much! ^

first for me too...

one of my favourite sy songs period... and i agree about the best song they could open with... along with candle which i also got at atp.

Does anyone know what this song is about?

i adore that song (as i do the whole album). We did a poll on here not long ago and Sonic Nurse came up as the favourite SY album of the 00's. I think its a Kim Gordon classic. Shes so much better doing quieter songs, they really show off the beauty of her voice. Thats why I love 'Shadow of a Doubt', 'Beauty Lies in the Eye', 'Secret Girls' and 'Little Trouble Girl'.

Wow, I'm not the only one who digs 'Little trouble girl'.

i love it. it is gorgeous.
who is golden blue, i wonder?

I think most people love it.
The board voted Washing Machine SY's best album of the 90's too
If I remember correctly it was

80's - Sister / Daydream Nation
90's - Washing Machine
00's - Sonic Nurse

You have to take Washing Machine in the context of when it came out, hearing songs like 'Little Trouble Girl', 'The Diamond Sea' and 'Skip Tracer' must have been mindblowing, they had done nothing of the sort previously. I always see Washing Machine as the turning point in which you see the modern sonic youth evolving.

golden blue is fucking great. live it was amazing.
i rank it right up there with beaty llies in th eeyeeye and shadow of a doubt and FUCKING DUDE RANCH NURSE!!!!! That song does not get it's due! It is a fucking great song!

I got this one after Dirty, and has always been one of my favorites. I hold this one way on top. Right before DDN.

Song sucks. Accept it.

to my mind this song is simply the best SY song ever. the intro in crescendo is marvellous and you find the same instrument sounding like a siren of boat that you also find on "slaapkamers met slagroom". how does it name? does anyone know?

i would like more insight into the lyrics.

Its a stunning song. So beautiful

i've allways thought it was to do with dead babies for some reason

i love you golden blue starts off sweetly noisy and gets very sad.

i think it is about remembering a dead pet, a dog, from long ago.