Right now I've only heard 8 of their records, so I have a couple more 'essentials' to buy and countless side projects to discover.
I'm into them now, though I don't listen as often as I did when I first got into them a year or so ago.
I listen to a decent amount of music and although I have favorites, sonic youth definitely stand out as the best of the best in my collection. Before hearing sonic nurse I thought they were just some old punk band (I was wrong about the punk part). Definitely not the case, however. They have a ton of great influences (many of which I was familiar with before ie. Can, Captain Beefheart), a vast discography, and to top it off they make good music.
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