Murray Street (studio album)
by Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth bestography
Murray Street is ranked 8th best out of 42 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 15,555.
(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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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/15/2025 04:31 |  Kingturtle | 7,441 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/12/2025 02:36 | Olli | 6,672 | 64/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 14:54 | Araldo | 1,469 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2025 11:17 | WayneMC | 5,282 | 86/100 |
| ! | 06/12/2025 22:52 | Invader666 | 2,623 | 65/100 |
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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 76.6/100, 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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Nowhere near their best album but probably my favorite album cover of all time
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.
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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mulidorerik 11/23/2014 01:18 | #127745
Wow, this album is incredible. I like Sonic Nurse more but not by much.
Great Album!
JoaoMoreira 07/02/2013 18:16 | #80265
This one got me. It's Sonic Youth with Jim O'Rourke. It's guitar work at its finest.
Beautifully crafted jams with amazing melodic works.
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