Murray Street Vs Sonic Nurse Vs Rather Ripped
 

I don't know if this has been a thread before, i searched it and found nothing, so here we go!

What's the best??? or what's your favorite?

Murray Street is beautiful

Mine is
1st - Murray Street
2nd - Sonic Nurse
3rd - Rather Ripped

*edit, Best not Bset.

confusion is sex

thats not an option in the poll everyneurotic, Doh!

1. Sonic Nurse
2. Rather Ripped / Murray Street ex aequo

oopsy daisy.

ok, i'll answer seriously. murray street, although this is going to raise some eyebrows, i don't really think it sounds much like sonic youth; in fact, i think it's one of their more experimental albums since they decided to base themselves on a cleaner sound and to rely on musicianship to deliver the "sonic" aspect that has been their trademark, that in itself is atypical and why i consider it to be a one off for the band, and one quite risky since it's a major label album and not an ep or a syr. it's a fantastic album.

nurse, on the other hand, is sonic youth through and through, although they used many of the sounds found on murray street to do it. it showcases some of their sharpest songwriting skills since dirty, coupled with meassured blasts of noise and their new found clean, musical fervor breaks. overall, their most focused in years.

and rather ripped, well, i think it was really rushed and the songs are not as developed, although the ideas were there and, had they recorded the album now instead of a year ago, now that the songs are road tested and more developed instrumentally, it would be a far better album than it is. it's not ultra horrible, it's just mediocre, a quick stop collection of songs from off the top of their heads.

so, i don't know, can't decide between murray and nurse, but rr is definitely third.

RR rules!

I say sonic nurse first, then Rather ripped, then Murray street.
murray street is a good album but it is dull and lifeless.

rather ripped is joy through and through, simple rock n roll a la sonic youth.

sonic nurse though, oh man, pattern recognition gets me amped so hard

1.sn
2.ms
3.rr

Sonic Nurse
Rather Ripped
Murray Street

"Now you live in the trees and salty seas
Trippin' out in the blue skies
You shut the door on everything
Too busy getting high
And me, just another dream theory
Lost inside your eyes"

I love this song!!!!!!

Sonic Nurse is for me the best thing they have done this decade. Such a beautiful album through and through.

Murray street. It was close though, I think Sonic Nurse is also brilliant. Rain On Tin just makes Murray Street that little bit better for me.

Murray Street, definitely. Followed closely by Nurse.

sonic nurse
murray street
rather ripped

haha kill me but i fuckin LOOOOVE Rather Ripped.
its such a good pop album, and theres nothing wrong with that.
my vote goes for RR.

I do!

pick that one.

Rather Ripped though still good is the tamest of all three and lacks the dose of heaviness and fuzz guitar noise that exists on Sonic Nurse and Murray Street.

Sonic Nurse is well balanced with clean and distorted guitar tones and some old SY sounds mixed with the new though they don't really amp it up like on certain sections of Murray Street (Rain on Tin, Radical Adults...) which has some amazing guitar interplay that is not much unlike some of the best moments of Amon Duul II's Dance of the Lemmings and thats some killer shit.

so Murray Street is number one.

nurse, murray st, rr

murray st.
nurse
rather ripped

Like I just said a bit ago... that was here, right? Nurse is so fucking good. I even will go so far as to say it's my favourite of the 2000's. One of my top five of all-time (SY) for sure.
Then MS, and third RR.

easily murray street.

nice topic

Sonic Nurse
Murray Street
Rather Ripped

what was that, a compliment from Atari on a tread that I made????????
surely not.

I concur.

i think nurse is great, almost faultless, but murray street has an amazing warmth and beauty to it,

a month ago i would have said nurse but murray street as time proves is better,

i dont really rate rr

Sonic Nurse is amazing.
Murray Street ain't bad.
Rather Ripped is terrible.

Sonic Nurse
Murray Street





















Rather Ripped

Rather Ripped
Sonic Nurse
Murray Street

Actually Rather Ripped wins easily, it's their best record in 15 years.

Same here

except their best record in 9 years.

Murray Street 9.8




Sonic Nurse 7.0































Rather Ripped 4.5

I kind of never got around to giving Sonic Nurse a decent sit-down listen. Rather Ripped is nice but I didn't find anything that made the album as a whole all that memorable. Maybe "Rats."

But Murray Street is a stand out. The coolness of The Empty Page, Karen Revisited is just poetically beautiful, Sympathy for the Strawberry brings the sexy Kim vocals that made Washing Machine so great.

Murray Street.

no

fucking

doubt.

I'm kind of with what Moshe said on the rankings.

Too hard for me to list 1,2,3.....

but I will say, the trio is my favorite music of the 2000's so far. So I CAN make a list.

1. (MS, SN, RR)
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?

It's after SY where this becomes tougher.

that's too difficult... murray probably has my favorites then rr then sn

ms at the moment, although i have been listening to rr quite a bit lately

1. sonic nurse
2. rather ripped
3. murray street

Murray Street
Sonic Nurse
Rather Ripped

Sonic Nurse.
A classic no doubt.

this is a tough one so im nit gonna vote yet and just listen to these three albums for at least a couple days.

i will say i dont understand hate for any sonic youth album

at all.

I'd like to take this opportunity to agree completely with Tokolosh.

Nurse blew me away with how good it was, and how enduring. Over a year later and I was still playing it constantly.