I like the first 2 or 3 albums, and then after that they’re just pretty meh
EDIT1: upon overhaul I moved them down to D range, though I’m curious enough about them that I’ll likely do a relisten at some point
RELISTEN1: so I started these guys at a B- and then moved them down to a D+ without a relisten as part of my reworking of the lower tiers. This made sense at the time because I remember feeling so genuinely bored by them during my initial listen. Almost startlingly so, I felt so confident in my apathy for them. But as the songs I kept from them have cycled through my listening, I kept… well, liking them, a good bit. So, a relisten.
My overall conclusion from this relisten is that my general read the first go around was actually pretty close. I think the first three albums are good, and after them there’s a pretty stark drop in quality. That said, the later albums are better than I remembered. In my head they were utterly lifeless and boring, but upon review I think they’re just… fine, they’re mid. Albums four and five are thoroughly mid, everything in them decidedly under the threshold of what I need for something to be engaging, for something to be “good”. Albums six and seven aren’t great, but they’re fine, there are a couple songs in each that I like. Those four albums I think do represent a range between B- and D+.
The kicker is those first three albums, which are solid. Loads of songs I really quite like, that really sell their vibe: fun and dry, willing to not take itself too seriously but be serious about it in a way that I tend to enjoy. That vibe never goes away, but it’s never quite as pure as in those first three albums. Yours Truly, Angry Mob (that’s album two) in particular is excellent, song after song that I love. That combo of half lame, half great would usually net a C but I feel that the lame is closer to a (very) low B than to a D- and I really do like that second album. With that in mind, I think a high B+ should do the trick
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