 Sonic Nurse (2004) [ larger cover art ] |
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[Thurston]
Lights on the stones on backed up drain
Warped lovers loosed on languid stain
We've come together to gather stars
Shooting up stones our powdered hearts
Dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are all right, with me
We're not gonna run away,
We're not gonna leave you stranger
Turn the light on, yr lonely love
Camera on the haunted stones
Bloodshed a gentle painted score
Notes dance in ink across yr skin
Heiroglyphic lover, nature friend
Dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are all right, with me
We're not gonna run away,
We're not gonna leave you stranger
Turn the light on, yr lonely love
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 21:29 Have to say I have never liked a sonic youth tune..... Before this one cool |
| mrdak (Middle GA) | Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 04:34 Ouch!!! |
| jkhandy (Near the ocean (in my mind)) | Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 11:21 Garage band that should stay in the garage. |
| Dave_Mack (Ball of Confusion) | Posted: Jul 13, 2011 - 14:42 teapot wrote: It's pretty clear from this song that Silversun Pickups listen to a lot of Sonic Youth... Definitely. Nice catch. Good song, by the way. I'll give it a 6.3. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: May 11, 2011 - 07:58 rjewyo wrote: What's a Sonic Nurse? Been a nurse for 30 years and haven't yet experienced the sonic part  Do you ever work with an otologist? They might do some sort of "sonic" tests. |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: May 11, 2011 - 07:46 Sounds like every other Sonic Youth song? |
| muse_Kidd | Posted: Dec 04, 2010 - 23:29 When I read comments on RP about Sonic Youth... I should just shut the fuck up. |
| rjewyo (Ventura, CA) | Posted: Aug 31, 2010 - 16:06 What's a Sonic Nurse? Been a nurse for 30 years and haven't yet experienced the sonic part |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Jul 30, 2010 - 15:41 Thanks again RP. As a New York I of course know of the band. Hell I even own one album and saw them live opening for Pearl Jam. I've read 100 stories where they were mentioned. Yet I did not own this fantastic piece of rock and roll music. Until about 20 minutes from now when I leave work and head over to J&R music and buy this. Thanks |
| Shaker (Canada) | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 05:48  Don't think I have ever heard this tune before-I like it. |
| mcYammer (Beervana) | Posted: Jan 21, 2010 - 15:16 from that first gooney bird with evol in my walkman the day 9th grade ended, all the way to today; it's been an expressway of sonic truth |
| houston (Tsawwassen B.C.) | Posted: Nov 19, 2009 - 19:06 Zowwee this rocks |
| Skorokoro (Jurmala, Latvia) | Posted: Oct 19, 2009 - 08:35 daydream nation was fantastic, really timeless, the tape in my cars recorder must be twenty years old! |
| maroubra (British Columbia Canada) | Posted: Sep 17, 2009 - 18:53 To me the Youth have a stripped of all the "B—- S——" quality to their music. Pure and straight rock band. No pretense and no BS. Magnificent. |
| Spud (Newcastle, Australia) | Posted: Sep 17, 2009 - 18:52 Great sound.    |
| WayUpNorth (Down on the Farm) | Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 07:01 DrCyKosis wrote: I love it more everytime I hear it. Zactly  |
| siandbeth (Santa Cruz California) | Posted: Nov 05, 2008 - 14:51 Just went from 8 to 9 because it gets better every time I hear it. I think if I heard it too much I might get burnt, but for now, I love it! |
| ROSSinDETROIT (Detroit, more or less. By teh Zoo.) | Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 11:13 Awesome band! I can't think of many others who have consistently grown more varied and interesting well into the second (third?) decade of their careers. Of many many live shows I have seen, Sonic Youth have always been outstanding. |
| lwilkinson (North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists) | Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 11:13 So where's the lyrics about "nurse good body" and some personalized bed-side manners? Aren't nurses part of the top three male fantasies?  (lighten up now everybody, after all, it's Hump Day Wednesday at the office)  |
| stevesaw (Northern VA USA) | Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 11:12 When I bought this CD I only really liked 2 or 3 songs. The more I listen to it the more I like - there's really only one song I skip over much anymore. Such a great CD! "Pattern Recognition" walks a wonderful fine line between harshness and beauty. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 11:08 etwilson wrote: SoCal? Sacrilege! Sonic Youth is the quintessential NYC band. word |
| DrCyKosis (~Galveston~) | Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 06:17 I love it more everytime I hear it. |
| etwilson (Pittsburgh, PA) | Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 06:15 E_A_D_G wrote: SoCal vibe. Crank up the Daytona.
SoCal? Sacrilege! Sonic Youth is the quintessential NYC band. |
| E_A_D_G (DC) | Posted: Feb 27, 2008 - 07:51 SoCal vibe. Crank up the Daytona. |
| lathyris (Houston, TX) | Posted: Feb 27, 2008 - 07:41 Maaaan, I just totally love the Sonic Youth guitar sound. You can hear it from a thousand miles away! |
| rconlon (The Jersey Shore) | Posted: Feb 11, 2008 - 16:41 I like the opening and closing instrumental |
| teapot (in orbit) | Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 10:20 It's pretty clear from this song that Silversun Pickups listen to a lot of Sonic Youth... |
| Tagish_girl (happily seeking hammock) | Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 10:19 Have to agree with my Copenhagen friend... Not a bad tune, but the lame singing kind of kills it for me. |
| siandbeth (Santa Cruz California) | Posted: Oct 24, 2007 - 15:19 xkolibuul wrote: This is good. But so is that McMurtry stuff. Really good. I for one don't know how anyone can work to RP! I get too distracted by the songs and my efficiency plummets. But I do have fun.
Are you trying to work, too? Gosh, it's the reason I show up now, so I can hear RP. Bill, you've saved my employer from having to fill my shoes, and you should be congratulated. Actually, I get more done because I'm in a good mood! |
| OHMish (Copenhagen) | Posted: Sep 23, 2007 - 05:44 Oh this music is so sweet. Especially when there is no singing. |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: Sep 07, 2007 - 14:14 I gave this an 8 right out of the chute and I want to hear it again. :-) this is a great set I think: 3:07 pm - Sonic Youth - Stones 3:03 pm - The Frames - The Cost 2:59 pm - Sixteen Horsepower - Hutterite Mile |
| dionysius (The People\\\'s Republic of Austin) | Posted: Sep 07, 2007 - 14:09 Even relatively tame late-period SY scrubs the floor with most of the rest of all so-called rock bands put together. This is great! |
| Nabla (Ver-Cork-st (Ireland)) | Posted: Aug 07, 2007 - 04:16 Well,... is this a tune from the washkitchen? There is no possibility of comparison with Neil Young!  |
| eastcoast | Posted: Aug 07, 2007 - 04:10 I saw them once, opening for Neil Young...all I remember is the song Highway to my Skull... |
| squidish (under the sea) | Posted: Jul 06, 2007 - 15:45 Sonic Youth are TUFF. |
| Melt_down (Hamburg, Germany) | Posted: May 20, 2007 - 13:15 Simply greaaaaat SY's guitars are always superb and this is one of their best concerning this aspect. 
Their concert in Berlin last dec was... was... well, no words can describe the energy and the passion that this 40s have on the stage. SY rules !!!!  |
| xkolibuul (Pacific Rim, salmon, big trees) | Posted: Apr 19, 2007 - 01:15 This is good. But so is that McMurtry stuff. Really good. I for one don't know how anyone can work to RP! I get too distracted by the songs and my efficiency plummets. But I do have fun. Shesdifferent wrote: I'm so glad you are playing this set this morning instead of that "James McMurtry" type of country boring stuff. I need this inspiring stuff before I have to go to W O R K |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Apr 03, 2007 - 07:55 I'm so glad you are playing this set this morning instead of that "James McMurtry" type of country boring stuff. I need this inspiring stuff before I have to go to W O R K |
| coloradojohn (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe) | Posted: Mar 03, 2007 - 02:38 How I DO LIKE this song. Deceptively simple. Decidedly complex. Treadworthy scales and tonal rompage, it's all here and digable -- and all laid down right next to that killer SY straight-to-ground-line that gets me sitting up like one of Syd's old Siam Cats every single time. Aye, an' let 'er rip, lads and lassies! Now that you've established your grooveworthiness beyond all possible belief by playing stuff like this, Bill, how's about a little something off of Dirty maybe? Bill is that some BigHead coming on? YOU ROCK, DUDE! |
| Photo-John (Nor Cal) | Posted: Jan 29, 2007 - 18:46 Like the Butthole Surfers, I liked them way, way, way back. But now they both pretty much bore me to death. What happened? Is it me, is it them? Where's the passion? |
| Darkmatter (Sweden) | Posted: Jan 15, 2007 - 04:06 Everything I want to know about rock'n'roll is contained in this song. And the guitar solo rocks! |
| slowhand (South!!!!!!!!!!) | Posted: Dec 31, 2006 - 14:24 Saw them w/Neil Young one night...earsplitting loud magic! 9 |
| grant | Posted: Nov 03, 2006 - 06:34 eman wrote: Kick Ass...!!!
agree - this is a really great album. These guys have really matured nicely - they have continued to develop and expand as musicians. |
| strick (Syracuse- your sympathy accepted...) | Posted: Nov 03, 2006 - 06:27 physicsgenius wrote: A featureless, undifferentiated expanse of guitar and alterna-whining.
A rare opportunity to agree with PG.... Wow, must be time to take my medication.... |
| kaviksdad | Posted: Oct 19, 2006 - 15:23 rgrace wrote: I can understand why many people on RP like Sonic Youth but I am decidedly not one of them. I feel like I'm SUPPOSED to like them because they're from New York and they have the cool urban wearing-black TriBeCa/East Village/art gallery thing going but that stuff makes me puke, so.... OK, I just don't like them. Doesn't mean others shouldn't.
You're not alone...never saw the attraction either.  |
| fuh2 (I think I'm in the USA) | Posted: Oct 19, 2006 - 15:21  |
| gillespp (Portland, OR) | Posted: Sep 24, 2006 - 21:04 physicsgenius wrote: A featureless, undifferentiated expanse of guitar and alterna-whining.
A PG whine -- our first clue that this is a great song! |
| eman (PDX) | Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 16:39 Kick Ass...!!! |
| jtdiver (Connecticut) | Posted: Jul 23, 2006 - 18:50 wow good stuff. veteran rockers. |
| ChardRemains (Pepperland) | Posted: May 26, 2006 - 06:27 catsoup wrote: Reminds me a lot of "Television". Good stuff. Must be that cool, black-wearing, TriBeCa East Village SoHo art gallery thing...
Oh, no, wait. It's good. Like Television. |