Murray Street
by Sonic Youth
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Sonic Youth bestography
Murray Street is ranked 8th best out of 43 albums by Sonic Youth on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sonic Youth is Daydream Nation which is ranked number 75 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,833.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Murray Street track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Murray Street rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | CultureDose Best Albums 2002 | 13/30 | - |
| 2026 |  ForegroundNoise | Less Than Halfway to a Guide to Jim O'Rourke | 9/10 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 44/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2002 Pt 2 | 44/53 | - |
| 2026 |  Wasinski | Top 80 Music Albums of 2002 | 4/80 | 5 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 95 Music Albums of 2002 | 13/95 | 4 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 79/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  craola | Top 20 Music Albums of 2002 | 10/20 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 93 Music Albums of 2002 | 14/93 | 4 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 36 Music Albums of 2002 | 29/36 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 168 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 605 | |||
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Murray Street ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/16/2026 15:56 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,803 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2026 03:31 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,595 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/03/2026 01:52 | Gussy | 1,261 | 88/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Forum mentions
Repo 06/25/2023 03:33 in What album are you listening to right now?
NoisyBeast 06/15/2023 19:37 in What album are you listening to right now?Murray Street comments
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Nowhere near their best album but probably my favorite album cover of all time (Edited)
Their cleanest sounding album. Unique in their catalogue. I don't listen to it a lot, but I like it as a full album
teague 07/25/2020 21:40 | #256207
I haven't heard every Sonic Youth album ever (yet), but Murray Street is my least favorite. The songs meander pointlessly a bit more than I would like them to. That being said, most of the songs on here are still flowing with creativity. (Edited)
An Amazing album, one of my favorites of the 21st century. Sonic Youth continued to go into new territory they had been searching in their last few records, but this time they blended some more structure, but there's still an eerie edge that makes the record unique. My biggest criticism is that Lee and Kim together didn't sing half the songs, and whats worse than that is that their 3 don't measure up to Thurston's 4 (but they're still good songs).
Favorite Tracks: The Empty Page, Disconnection Notice, Rain On Tin, Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style.
Very good album!
Favorite tracks: Disconnection Notice, Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
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