Sonic Nurse Appreciation Thread
 

What do you like most about this album? I love the artwork. The first 5 songs on the album blow me away, them I'm let down gently by Dude Ranch Nurse and the rest, by the time Peace Attack rolls by, it's sheer sonic bliss. Tell me, please, what turns you on about Sonic Nurse.

unmade bed was the first sonic youth song i ever heard. which is kind of a bad start off point. then later when i listened to the rest of the sy albums i was greatly relieved

I didn't like this album at first, then it really grew on me after a while. I think that "I Love You Golden Blue" is beautiful, it gives me chills.

appreciated

i love this album, my first ever sy song was pattern recognition and i appreciate the album a lot

I love this album too, my favorite songs are Dude Ranch Nurse and I Love You Golden Blue

I saw SY on the Nurse tour. That made the album come alive.

appreciated.

Unmade Bed rules!!!! I remember the first time I heard it after I bought the album on my bike ride home I was totally blown away! Such an amazing groove! The solo is amazing!

Peace Attack's mid section is the most gorgeous bridge I've ever heard in music. Instantly sends the listener into orbit time and time again.

Good album. Helped that I saw them live before its release, what a great show. Highlights: Peace Attack, Golden Blue, Mariah, Paper Cup Exit, Kim Chords.

appreciated muchly

Remember when they used to open up with 'I Love you Golden Blue' ? HUH?
*sigh*

Most underated SY release. Simply Brilliant.

Peace Attack, Dripping Dream, Unmade Bed are amazing!

I don't like Kim's songs on Nurse at all.

Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Handcream got me into it ultimatley. Then the rest was dominos.

Everything turns me on with Sonic Nurse. I agree that half way through the album (starting with Dude Ranch Nurse) the albm kinda loses momentum, but Peace Attack does really bring it back. All in all it's a tremendous album. Some of SonicYouth's best work is on this album. Nurse makes me feel all warm and energetic. It's much better than Rather Ripped. RR looks sounds like a dog taking a dump compared to Nurse. Nurse has lush, beautiful chords and an immediacy that just hits you like a truck. It also has some of their more signature noisey tracks that sound great too.

Sonic Nurse: ain't nothin wrong with that.

the sound

It is teh sex.

good album, but it would probably fall into the lower half if I ranked my favorite Sonic Youth records.

sonic nurse material live shows how great that album actually is.
fell in love with this album, coz first time i saw sy live was on nurse tour, so obviously...i like it from beginning to the end.

This will probably always stand as my favorite SY album. Their show at the Avalon in Boston in 2004 is probably still the best show I've ever seen, so the memory of Unmade Bed, Paper Cup Exit, Stones and Pattern Recognition lingers pretty loudly.

Long Live Sonic Nurse, I guess, would be the central thesis of this post.

i dont what it is that makes me love this album, but i do.
stones, dripping dream, and paper cup exit are my faves

i saw them on the nurse tour, it was quite spectacular.
i love you golden blue is my favorite.

Pattern Recognition was impressive live, too. Lee leaned out into the crowd with his Orange Jazzblaster. It was sex.

Its probably the Sonic youth album thats affected me most emotionally, Unmade bed, Golden Blue, Stones, Dude Ranch Nurse and Paper cup exit really struck a chord with me at the time. I had a chance to see them at Brixton Academy in September 04 which was before id bought Nurse, i wish to god i had done now as if it happened now it would probably be the greatest gig ever for me.
Ive STILL not seen Sonic youth play!

Same song x10. Poor production, too. One of SY's worst albums.

nah you could level that criticism at any SY album.
But sometimes the feel of an album just doesnt grab you (I still dont feel Washing machine)

Appreciated

Fuck yeah! That show was great! Remember how they opened up with Burning Spear and Thurston was going crazy with the guitar, scraping it agaiunst the walls and the amps? Amazing.

And remember his little spiel about Peter Frampton? Very funny.

Possibly my favorite since Washing Machine.

That opening (with Thurston trying to, I don't know, throw his guitar through the ceiling?) was one of the craziest things I've ever seen in person. It was something like 7 solid minutes of noise before "the Burning Spear" really got going, too. It was like a jet took off in that place.

The Peter Frampton bit (how he saw him in 1974 "and he sucked!") was funny, as was Lee saying "We took his beer." Any and all Simpsons references at shows are OK by me.

Another fun story from this show: I was standing along the raised part in the back so that I could see over everyone's heads, and during the last 20 minutes of the show (more or less from "Unmade Bed" on), there was what I think was a NAMBLA couple stitting in one of the booths in front of me. The guy had to be about 50, glasses, cowboy shirt and jeans, the kid about 8, and... man, I don't know, it was just creepy as hell. They didn't act like father/son or uncle/nephew, the guy was acting like this kid was his date, and was sort of singing the words to some of the songs (Unmade Bed, for example) to him... I was weirded out for a while there. They also had matching rings on their left ring fingers. Creepy.

What the hey, here's the setlist that night:

Sonic Youth
Boston, MA
08-14-2004

Burning Spear
Pattern Recognition
Disconnection Notice
Mote
New Hampshire
Sugar Kane
Dude Ranch Nurse
Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Stones
I Love You Golden Blue
Paper Cup Exit
White Cross
1st encore:
Unmade Bed
Pacific Coast Highway
2nd encore:
Expressway to Yr. Skul

The Toronto show at the kool haus was awesome. Unmade Bed had the crowd jumping, it was just so awesome to see so many people digging all the new songs from a band with a heavily worshipped back catalogue.

I remember Thurston asking the crowd what the 'hot read' was in town, and then joking that Lee was a '[Nicholas] Sparks fan'

They also screwed up on Dude Ranch Nurse when Thurston got the wrong guitar for the song. He apologized and gave Kim a hug with smiles all around.

Silver Rocket was excellent, with excellent use of their light blocks. During this song Sunburned Hand of the Man stood bowing on the side of the stage.

I Love You Golden Blue
100%
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Skip Tracer
Mariah Carey
Stones
New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
Silver Rocket
Dude Ranch Nurse
Drunken Butterfly
--
Disconnection Notice
Sugar Kane
--
Spressway
Expressway

it's such a lovely album to listen to at while driving at night.

this was the set list when i saw them on his tour
I Love You Golden Blue
Stones
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Eric's Trip
Teenage Riot
New Hampshire
Mariah Carey
Paper Cup Exit
Dude Ranch Nurse
Brother James
--
PCH
Expressway

I dunno about this album though, its not one of my favourites, for me certain sonic youth albums really stand out like 'sister', 'evol', 'daydream nation', 'washing machine', and 'Murray Street'.

I'm not a big fan, but I just haven't been able to get into it. I love the artwork, though. I'm listening to it now and am not quite sure why I didn't like it in the first place. I think it just doesn't stick out as anything spectacular to me. Still good.

Dripping Dream has always been really bizarre to me. "Mother Africa awake your son" is just not something I expect to hear from them.

It's one of my favorite albums.
Pattern recognition rocks for me.

the art on the LP is better because you can see it more clearly.

Of course, the art is always better on the LP ;)

Be kind, people. Buy big, buy vinyl.

my favorite is the painting of the blonde nurse on the back cover. i wonder who did those paintings?