02-27-2018, 02:01 PM
I should have added, even with my more favorable view on the album years after its release, I still put it at the bottom of my list.
Ahead of the EP, but changing bottom spot with M@W depending on my mood. Both of those albums are very similar for me. Some really great songs, some I've grown to appreciate if for anything their ambition, some clunkers, and some I have to really think hard to recall a tune or line of lyrics. Then weirdly, both had memorable tours.
This also feels like a really long album, maybe their longest (I don't have the album in front of me). In a separate thread there's an REM comparison. If I were to compare the cannons, this is the Hip's Around the Sun (though not nearly as bad as that steaming mess). Both bands then came back with much tighter, concise albums to close their recording careers (sucks to write that).
Ahead of the EP, but changing bottom spot with M@W depending on my mood. Both of those albums are very similar for me. Some really great songs, some I've grown to appreciate if for anything their ambition, some clunkers, and some I have to really think hard to recall a tune or line of lyrics. Then weirdly, both had memorable tours.
This also feels like a really long album, maybe their longest (I don't have the album in front of me). In a separate thread there's an REM comparison. If I were to compare the cannons, this is the Hip's Around the Sun (though not nearly as bad as that steaming mess). Both bands then came back with much tighter, concise albums to close their recording careers (sucks to write that).