whats your favorite song off Murray Street
 

today is actually only my second time hearing it :eek:

are there any bonus or additional tracks i'm leaving off?

yes, there's a song that didn't made it into the actual album.

it's called "our fans suck and we rip them off all the time"

so there wasnt anything like they did for Sonic Nurse where the european version had two extra songs?

I love this album.
Rain on Tin is my favorite.

Karenology.

Radical Adults is a crazily close second.

oh shit wait, so it isnt called Karen Revisited?

yeah it is. it has two names, just Lee decided after the album art was made that he prefers the title Karenology over Karen Revisited. (see the mustang site)
and i like Karenology more, too.

mustang site?

karenology karenology karenology.

the instrumental part of the song always makes me picture a bomb just kind of floating towards the ground in slo-mo.

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang - basically, sy info headquarters (apart from the sonic youth thread). chris lawrence= kickass.

for non-album takes, there's a weird little piece called "street sauce" and the kali yug express ep.

Sympathy...the only Great Song on the album.

thanks fro covering for me, dearest.

no problem, honeybunch

goodnight now, sugarplum.

oh wow this is awesome. my favorite Lee song since Wish Fulfillment!

Sympathy for the Strawberry, Kim's vocals on this song are so amazing. Maybe Radical Adults as a close second.

NP: Sympathy for the Strawberry

the vocals havent even started yet and its already blowing my mind

Plastic Sun

I like Sympathy for the Strawberry, followed by Rain on Tin.

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It has to be 'Rain on Tin', I think. The mighty Zeus in the pantheon of godlike rock songs.

Sympathy
Rain On Tin
Karen Reviseted
Empty Page
Radical Adults
Plastic Sun
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RALGS

after listening to ms 4 first time it was def. disconnection notice.

Rain on Tin, duh.

Sympathy For the Strawberry...but it always changes.

This album was the perfect intro to SY for me, The Empty Page was just perfect pop and I loved it the first time I heard it.... then it slowly leaaned me into the more difficult peices like Karenology. I remember I was 14 at the time when this came out and was trippin' balls to the mid section of Karenology. (sober at the time, never even had a drink until I was 17) What an amazing album.

I heard somewhere that Karenology was done like Female Mechanic with some of the stuff taken from a show. ..

Anyway, does anyone know where portion of Karenology that was taken from a concert starts? I'm pretty sure it starts somewhere in the noisey section and goes right to the end (Thus the cheering).

Oh, that one is fucking hard. There are so many killer tunes on the record. I went with Sympathy, but Karen Revisited and Rain On Tin are just as good.

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i'm not that much of a fan of this album, but yeah.

plastic sun is pretty good too.

I luv this album.............Radical Adults probably is my fav. Sympathy is wonderful as well.....same for the album as a whole.

hmm, interesting choice of words all things considered. weird in what way? i would assume this is a good thing. i was a little underwhelmed by kim's chords though so maybe not, but i still havent heard street sauce yet.

Karenology. Sympathy and Godhead Style are both up there, though.

I see Empty Page is pretty unpopular around here...it's my favourite anyways.

Karen Revisited, then Sympathy

Best album since Dirty...Murray Street has legs

Rain on Tin tops, but Sympathy and Radical close behind.

What's best about Murray is it's run time of around 40minutes. SY knows that it's best to be short and to the point even with songs that regularly last beyond the six minute mark. It makes the cd/record that much more listenable.

i think the length does give it an advantage. i dont hear one single weak song in the whole album but the one or maybe two at most kind of weak entries on sn and rr are roughly the time absent from ms. also the limited number of tracks is an advantage imo

It was extremely difficult to decide between Rain on Tin and Radical Adults but I chose Rain on Tin.

1 - Karen Revisited
2 - Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style

Karen revisited. I found it hard to decide between this one and Radical adults, though.

mine came in the mail today

Radical Adult Lick Godhead Style

the studio version for Jim Sauter and Don Dietrichs' sax freak out

the live version actaully surpasses though, Lee's behind the bridge pickup on his Koll guitar really amplifies that high octive shrill during the first part of the song, and to make up for the absence of for the Borbetomagus duo, Jim goes fucking full skronk splut during it all

Murray Street is definitely in my top 5 sonic youth albums and Karen Revisited is by far the best song on that album!