Sonic Youth - Murray Street
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Artist: Sonic YouthEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced
Published: 2002-06-14
CD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Music Label: Geffen Records
Product features:
- SONIC YOUTH MURRAY STREET
- The Empty Page
- Disconnection Notice
- Rain On Tin
- Karen Revisited
- Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
- Plastic Sun
- Sympathy for the Strawberry
Free Music Notes for Murray Street
Free Music Review: Music to Win Back a Jaded Fan
Hit: 5 Stars
Faith No More is responsible for long ago providing me a comfy bridge between metal and 'alternative' music, leading me out of the abyss and introducing me to a wider world of music. Being thirsty for new sounds, I signed on to one of the Columbia House scams and ordered a bunch of CDs from their 'alternative' section. The only one that really stuck with me was Sonic Youth's Dirty. From that point on I was a huge Sonic Youth fan. I quickly bought up all their earlier albums and even learned how to tune my guitar to some of the strange settings that Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo used. I stayed devoted to the band through Washing Maching, but quickly lost interest in all of their following material. Thousand Leaves and NYC Ghosts and Flowers just didn't do much for me, and their several experimental EPs on SYR were too experimental. I had all but forgotten about Sonic Youth up until two weeks ago. I didn't even know they had a new album coming out. Then some reviews for Murray Street started rolling in, which told of a Sonic Youth that had regained much of what made them popular in the first place. Reviewers made bold claims about the band sounding better than they ever have and some even went so far as to compare the new album to the classic Daydream Nation album of 1988. I was intrigued, yet remained skeptical until I heard a couple songs on the local college radio station, songs that plucked the rusty and oddly-tuned guitar strings in my heart that hadn't been touched since 1995. With the old feelings overwhelming me, I went and bought Murray Street as soon as I could. The reviews were true. The comparisons were true. I was so happy to experience a truly great Sonic Youth album again after so many years that it nearly moved me to tears.
I wont get into any technical aspects, since those are usually boring, highly opinionated and best left to music critics, a class of people that I am glad to not fit in. But I will say the tempo is quite relaxed throughout the album. The weaving guitars of Moore, Renaldo and O'Rourke do for geeky audiophiles what Grateful Dead jams do for hippies. There are excellent melodies everywhere, even for the usually tuneless Kim Gordan, whose two songs are pushed to the tail end of the album, where they fit perfectly. There are no snags for me on this album. From start to finish it holds me in a trance and makes it hard for me to do anything else but listen, and then let out a satisfied sigh at the end right before I press 'play' again.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who have plenty of problems with this album that they wish to waste plenty of words describing, but consider this: If it can bring back a jaded fan and rekindle the magic, what more is there really to say? Just listen and enjoy, which is what it was made for in the first place.
Murray Street Poster
Japanese edition of 2002 album includes one bonus track, 'Street Sauce'. Eight tracks in all.As Sonic Youth will testify, it's not easy being avant-rock superstars. Follow your urge to experiment, and you risk alienating your more conservative fans. Stop experimenting, and you lose the impetus that made you so exciting in the first place. Such is the dilemma faced by this exceptional band in 2002, now wryly rechristened "Radical Adults" in one Thurston Moore lyric. Given the bewilderment that's unfairly greeted recent attempts to push their remarkable music to new extremes--notably their contemporary classical project, Goodbye 20th Century --Murray Street initially feels like something of a compromise; the band themselves admit it's more "song-oriented" than their last few albums. But hell, what a magnificent compromise. Named after the New York street where their studio is situated--and where a plane engine landed on September 11, 2001--Murray Street is potent, accessible, daring, and often obliteratingly lovely. For a start, the first three songs ("The Empty Page," "Disconnection Notice," and "Rain On Tin") easily rank with the highlights of SY's previous 15 albums. Obliquely melancholic, tuneful but unorthodox, all are enriched by great cascades of intricate three-guitar noise. When the Youth spin off on one of these bright and wild trips, these rich musical elegies for their city, they remain one of the world's great musical wonders. --John Mulvey
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