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Originally Posted by zelocia
I really wanted to include Murray Street and Sonic Nurse as part of my top five because I love those albums to death, but I just couldn't. I really feel that between '86 and '92... they reached a level of greatness that cannot be matched ever again. And the majority of the reason for that is just the time period. Just with music in general I have a hard time listening to anything past '93. I make exceptions of course but not many.
When I was waiting in line to see Lee at Other Music on the 20th of March, I was talking about why I loved those five Sonic Youth albums and my friend said to me "You gotta include BMR." And I just always say no because I feel that Thurston and Kim's songwriting on that album (and Confusion) pales in comparison to EVOL, Sister, and Daydream. I do love BMR and Confusion though.
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I just mean that Murray Street was as beautiful and perfect a representation of their music in 2002 as Daydream was in '88. Neither is my favorite, but I can't deny that those two albums are the true peaks of the band's career.
Some will say Washing Machine was one as well-- that on it the band (finally) put together an accurate representation of what they wanted to be in the '90s. And while I think that's true, I see WM as a lead-up to A Thousand Leaves.
Nurse, though great, will never make a list of mine, because I believe "Dude Ranch Nurse" should have been a b-side. It would have been a fun track on Destroyed Room, but on Nurse it just serves to interrupt and confound. Funnily enough it was my favorite track when I first heard the album. Now I skip it every time.