I have to agree with nurse, and I'm glad to see it being championed here.

The first song that really hit me in this way was stones, and I'd like to mention it because I haven't heard much about it. From 4 minutes onward it's heaven, and when the riffs kick in at 5:16 and 6:21 it just elevates my mood somehow.

I really have to check out some of these other albums. I feel like a dick for even posting since I haven't even heard 1000 leaves, murray st., NYCG&F, Bad moon rising, confusion is sex, or evol.

Holy shit that's a lot of albums :s

NYCG+F and Bad Moon for me. Wasn't so into them at first but now I like them a lot more than almost all of the 90s albums minus ATL.

Bad Moon Rising. I've had that for two years and still find something different every time I listen to it

For me it's simple.

Washing Machine !!!

I'm surprised noone has mentioned it yet.

I vote Nurse, Washing Machine close second, even if the "texturing" in WM is less subtle, while in Nurse it's ALWAYS there and kinda more hidden. Understood?

Goo
 

thank you groar. you made me put on a BECK cd out of fear that i don't have what it tkes to warp a thread so beautifully as you.

imho Goo is the best for layers, my lair and everything in between,
e.g. i visit the deli tonight for a coffee. i need coffee to get my
game on. and after i show the cashier the new diskaholics record i bought
i think of Dirty Boots. that was ''such a surprise." urban surrealism.

caged bird. you know knot of witch ewe speek!

Yeah! Funny thing, I discovered the exact thing this morning. I thought, in the "chorus" that too-sexy voice isn't Lee's...I thought it must be Thurston or I am going nuts?

going thru a sonic nurse love phase at the moment!
the voices get me on this. kim's singing voice on "kim gordon and the arthur doyle hand cream" is sublime. growly, but not grungy growly as on Dirty, just real beautiful.
thurston sings so wonderfully on it as well, eg. dripping dream, peace attack and new hampshire...
plus paper cut exit is the most melodic lee song. at first the
"sing, sing along" bit annoyed me, but it's sorta grown on me!

My time spent with Sonic Nurse was sooo brief. I can't remember much from it at all. Of their LPs released since Confusion is Sex, I've enjoyed every single one of them at least for a certain period of time, including NYC, but never this one. I don't know what I was expecting at the time (I bought it maybe a month after its release). The mood of it - if I remember correctly - isn't too different from A Thousand Leaves (my favorite of their 1990 releases); maybe it's more melancholy. I'll definitely check it out again, though. I think I'm "ready" for it now.

My favorite SY releases
Bad Moon Rising
Evol
Daydream Nation
A Thousand Leaves

I really liked Nurse. Still do. I still put it in SY's top ten records. easily. It's so much better than Rather Ripped, with or without Helen Lundeberg and Eyeliner. I'd say Washing Machine is really layeed too. I notice new things about Washing Machine (song), Saucer-like, SkipTracer and Diamond Sea all the time. On every listen, I find at least one thing new on there that I had never consciously noticed.

I'll have to go listen to all the reocrds I have, but I'd say that all their records from EVOL onwards are really layered, with the exception of perhaps Experimental Jet set, it's very bare-bones.

Murray Street is up there too.
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Ben Stiller - "How can I cheer up this orphaned kid? By showing him the DVD of Dodgeball? Well, sure, then he'll be happy for an hour and a half, but what then? Do I show him Dodgeball again? Of course, he'll get more out of it, because he'll spot new things the second time round. It's layered; it's written that way. But how many times can I show him Dodgeball? Seven, eight, maybe. Then what?"