Nurse

Therapy? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000008LIW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,704 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nausea

2. Teethgrinder

3. Disgracelands

4. Accelerator

5. Neck Freak

6. Perversonality

7. Gone

8. Zipless

9. Deep Sleep

10. Hypermania

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent debut, October 16, 2003

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"gastoryrguffa" (Kitee, Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nurse (Audio CD)

In terms of production values, Nurse is almost as much an opposite to the following masterpiece "Troublegum" as is their cathartic "Suicide Pact - You First". The difference is that during "Suicide Pact...", the sound was left brutal and unaccessible on purpose, while as with "Nurse", they sound was left thin by circumstances (lack of money being one, perhaps?). All in all, this thin, clunky and fuzzy sound sometimes fits the music almost perfecdtly. at least it brings a certain freshness to the music, something taht lacks from some of their "more produced" albums like "Infernal Love" or "Shameless". This is not your commercially succesful indie-metal-anthem Therapy? of the "Troublegum"-era, nor is it the goth-driven experimentalist band we learned to love/loathe/tolerate with "Infernal Love". Nurse is full of uncompromising and inventive rock songs, less melodic and less straight-forward than with the following album, but nevertheless brilliant.

5.0 out of 5 stars A narcissistic onslaught of staggering dimensions!, January 17, 2012

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Wayne Dawson (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nurse (Audio CD)

The beauty of Nurse is its uncompromising ability to play at the outer limits of post punk, post grunge music and be totally convincing about it. One of the determining qualities of a great soul/gospel singer is whether or not they truly believe in what they are singing about; phoneys just don't carry the day which is why James Brown, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples had the power to effect the listener in the most profound way - they all had total emotional commitment to match their musical talents. Nurse achieves that same over powering delivery.

The music coming from this trio is massive, with big sounding chords perfectly chosen to carry such a heavy sound, yet paradoxically some of the riffs may have their origin in something as innocuous as an Irish jig. Tension continues to be cranked up by a super charged grunge gone into over drive that suddenly plunges into release by duo interplays of bass and drums while sustained razor edge guitar tones hover and recede. This is a sound that blows Joy Division clean out of the water and reminded me at certain moments of early Pere Ubu. It makes Oasis sound silly and transcends Nirvana to the outer grunge limits. I'm convinced until told otherwise that the opening bars to the track 'Gone' are a doffing of the hat to the Velvet Underground's Heroin, while bringing the cello in on that same track is surely the masters touch.

Finally, due to the spacious sense of the recording, you need to have the volume up for the full sonic delivery. Unlike another reviewer who found the sound thin, I haven't been left with that impression at all, just have the volume well up and you actually get the full dividends of a cautious engineering decision - plenty of bloom and resonance with no strain or distortion. The bass is full and fabulous, the drumming tight in tuning and execution and the lead vocalist/guitarist carries the day with conviction. I also have the sneaking suspicion that Therapy's Nurse has influenced a lot of wannabees who just can't cut it, turning out limp watered down attempts that pale to insignificance next to this blistering original. Hear for yourselves.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, November 18, 2006

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Katya Simone (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nurse (Audio CD)

I've never heard anything quite like it. It's raw, dark and it lingers. They have amazing energy. My favorite songs are Disgracelands, Neck Freak and Gone.