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Sonic Youth: Nurse LP Details

Punk-Noize-pioneers release that difficult Ninteenth LP...

In June, ATP04 currators Sonic Youth release their 19th album entitled 'Nurse'. Talkin' to Rolling Stone, Thurston said the vibe is "Bare Trees-era Fleetwood Mac jamming with Jealous Again-era Black Flag... In a way, the sound is a marriage of those two things, just when you're relaxed, your speakers kind of fry."

There's a track called 'Peace Attack,' which he told Rolling Stone that it represents "America was pushed into war against everybody's wishes except the President's and his own cabinet's, so it's just about the whole co modification of peace. [President Bush] was delivering this thing that was like a McDonald's hamburger. It was like 'McPeace' to me. He's gonna attack people with this thing he calls 'peace.' There was something so malevolent about it."

And here's the full tracklisting, nabbed off sonicyouth.com:

New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
I Love You Golden Blue
Peace Attack
Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Dripping Dream
Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Creme
Stones
Dude Ranch Nurse

'Nurse' is due on 7th June and tracks are being unveiled at this year's South By Southwest which kicks off today.

In other release news, their own SYR label, is planning to release their 2001 'performance' from All Tomorrow's Parties with some added previously unreleased studio session to boot. SY're also re-releasing a revamped two-CD deluxe edition of 'Goo' in the near future, which'll be summat like the re-released 'Dirty' last year.

DiScuss: Where will their new record take them? Anyone heard any of the tracks? Best re-release of all-time? Pixies vs SY? If you were to interview SY what would be your top three questions? (DiS may get the chance to ask your q's at the start of April when the band are over!) Off to ATP, gloat away...

Sonic Youth: Nurse LP Details

surefire chart smash "mariah carey and the arthur doyle hand creme" will set NURSE up for a record breaking 3 year lp chart run.

pixies vs SY? looks like a pretty even match, three boys and one lady apiece until you get face to face, for example; kim deal (ex-junkie, lives in tough hispanic neighbourhood, wrote most of "pod") squares up to kim gordon (art schooler, lives on manhatten, designs clothes) or, frank black ("the real wave of mutilation" as he is known in wrestling circles) mano a mano with thurston moore... Not pretty.

Sonic Youth: Nurse LP Details

Pixies v. SY, hmmm.... no contest, Pixies every time. The indie world obviously has an intrinsic fascination with both but there's just a such charisma and emotive depth to the Pixies' work that I just can't find in Sonic Youth, much as I think they're pretty good. There's also the small matter of the Pixies not having five-minute long feedback solos just because they're "art"...

Best reissue ever must be either "Slanted and Enchanted" or "Forever Changes".

As for questions I'd ask them, I think they'd probably all be about why they didn't just leave their career at "Washing Machine".

Sonic Youth: Nurse LP Details

Washing machine was good, and thousand leaves was also great, the latest release is a return to form. Different direction but brimming with wonderful melodies (and a touch of feedback). Leaving it at washing machine? Its hardly THE album of their career.

If i was to ask them a question i'd ask would they ever record an album with steve albini? (answer prob being no).

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who's produced this one? fleming?

Sonic Youth: Nurse LP Details

anyway they'are really noisy.i mean by sense.

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<<Leaving it at washing machine? Its hardly THE album of their career. >>

Yeah I didn't mean it was, personally I don't think it's that great. For me, though, "A Thousand Leaves", "NYC Ghosts and Flowers", "Goodbye 20th Century" et al have just been dire - completely humourless self-parody. "Murray Street" is the only post-"Washing Machine" release of theirs that has actually done anything for me at all.

Don't get me wrong, I think SY are a good band, but there's just such a devious sense of humour and nosebleed-incducing glee to "Daydream Nation", "Sister" etc. that simply isn't there in their newer stuff.

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NYC ghosts was pretty good in places, there were 2 outstanding songs that were basically spoken word over music. 'Small flowers crack pavement' ithink was one , off the top of my head. Although you're right on the rest of the lp, dire. The same with goodbye 20th century, im sure that most of that is tv interference.
They also did an album 'in the fishtank' with some bands from europe. That got goodreivews, but i couldnt really hear where the melody was meant to be?

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I love experimental jet set trash and no star..........

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Not really up on their recent stuff, will have to check this

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