| Artist |
Sonic Youth |
| Album Title: |
Sonic Nurse |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Experimental |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
06/08/2004 |
| Label |
DGC Records |
| Catalog No |
0002549-12 |
| Bar Code No |
6 02498 62361 9 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
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Pattern Recognition (6:32)
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| 2.
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Unmade Bed (3:53)
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| 3.
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Dripping Dream (7:46)
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| 4.
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Kim Gordon & The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream (4:51)
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Stones (7:08)
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Dude Ranch Nurse (5:44)
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New Hampshire (5:12)
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Paper Cup Exit (5:57)
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| 9.
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I Love You Golden Blue (7:03)
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| 10.
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Peace Attack (6:12)
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| Date Acquired |
06/29/2004 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Let It Be |
| Purchase Price |
13.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
Art Direction – Frank Olinsky
Bass, Vocals – Kim Gordon
Drums – Steve Shelley
Engineer [Recording] – Aaron Mullan
Guitar, Vocals – Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore
Keyboards – Jim O'Rourke
Mastered By – John Golden
Mixed By – Jim O'Rourke
Mixed By [Assistant] – Juan Garcia
Painting [Nurse Paintings], Photography By [Band Photo] – Richard Prince
Producer [Additional Vocal] – Don Fleming
Producer, Written-By – Sonic Youth
Record Company – Universal Music
Manufactured By – Universal Music & Video Distribution
Distributed By – Universal Music & Video Distribution
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Geffen Records, Inc.
Copyright (c) – Geffen Records, Inc.
Published By – Sonik Tooth
Published By – Field Code Music
Recorded At – Echo Canyon
Mixed At – The Magic Shop
Mixed At – Echo Canyon
Recorded July 2003-February 2004.
Mixed February 2004
except "Kim Gordon..." Rec/Mix'd Echo Canyon NYC January-March 2003.
Enhanced CD with link to a secret website.
℗ © 2004 Geffen Records, Inc.
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Analyzed: Sonic Youth / Sonic Nurse
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -0.10 dB -9.16 dB 6:33 01-Pattern Recognition
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.51 dB 3:54 02-Unmade Bed
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.32 dB 7:46 03-Dripping Dream
DR6 -0.10 dB -7.73 dB 4:51 04-Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.72 dB 7:08 05-Stones
DR7 -0.10 dB -8.64 dB 5:44 06-Dude Ranch Nurse
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.09 dB 5:12 07-New Hampshire
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.87 dB 5:57 08-Paper Cup Exit
DR8 -0.10 dB -10.04 dB 7:03 09-I Love You Golden Blue
DR7 -0.10 dB -8.88 dB 6:11 10-Peace Attack
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 867 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Heather Phares
Picking up where Murray Street's languid experimentalism left off, Sonic Youth's somewhat awkwardly named Sonic Nurse shows that the band still sounds revitalized, and may have even tapped into a more fruitful creative streak than they did on their previous album. Anyone who has stuck with Sonic Youth this long knows more or less what to expect from them, but the group still has the potential to surprise; one of Sonic Nurse's biggest surprises is the return of Kim Gordon. She had a relatively limited presence on NYC Ghosts & Flowers and Murray Street, but she's back in a big way on this album, contributing four tracks; not coincidentally, Gordon's songs are among the strongest on the album. "Pattern Recognition" gets Sonic Nurse off to a strong start and ranks among her best rock songs, falling somewhere between "Kool Thing" and "Bull in the Heather" in its icy-hot appeal. Her quieter songs have just as much impact: "Dude Ranch Nurse" boasts an oddly timeless guitar lick and lyrics ("Let me ride you till you fall/Let's pretend that there's nothing at all") that blur the line between alluring and nihilistic. "I Love You Golden Blue" is another standout, a beautiful but bleak ballad with ghostly vocals that recall Nico at her most fragile. Of course, the rest of the band finds moments to shine: Thurston Moore's "Dripping Dream" begins as absurdist, angular rock (although he still has the ability to make phrases like "We've been searching for the cream dream wax" sound like the coolest thing ever) and stretches out into a beautiful epic, with the interplay of feedback and guitar lines giving it a comet-tail majesty. "Paper Cup Exit," the requisite Lee Ranaldo track, has a sharper-edged mix of noise and melody than most of Sonic Nurse. Another of the album's surprises is how much of its inspiration seems to come from the band's late-'80s/early-'90s material. It's not just that the band slams George W. Bush on the mellow protest song "Peace Attack," just as Dirty's "Youth Against Fascism" railed against the first President Bush, or that they peer into the void of pop culture on "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" as they did on Goo's Karen Carpenter tribute, "Tunic." On songs like "New Hampshire" -- which could pass for a lost track from Daydream Nation -- Sonic Youth actually sound younger and more enthusiastic than they have in a few albums. All told, this album is probably the band's best balance of pop melodies and avant-leaning structures since Washing Machine; even if it doesn't rank among their most ambitious work, Sonic Nurse sounds like the kind of album Sonic Youth should be making at this point in their career.
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