[Kate Adams]

I'm sitting here reading this and thinking wow, we really are a pretty damn 
spoiled bunch of fans aren't we?

It seems to me that when our guys are "on" they are really "on".  And they 
are so much more often "on" than "off" that we get upset when their 
artistic experiments bellyflop on our turntables and carousels.

The consensus, if there is one, seems to be that the uneven or not entirely 
together albums get the most bashing.  The Blue Album is an interesting 
germinal preview, but suffers from the band not yet working together like 
we now know they can.  If you can erase nearly thrity years of perspective, 
it wasn't bad to start with, just not as great as the others.  And Breathe 
plays like an experiment with too many variables going in too many 
directions, some of them serious dead ends ... did too many cooks spoil the 
breath?

Other than that we have personal preference, and it has been interesting to 
see how that plays out across powderworkers across albums.

Been a fun thread for sure.

At 02:47 PM 9/9/02 -0700, msira@calis.com wrote:
>You know, the funny thing is that I recently revisited Breathe for the first
>time in a couple of years and was suprised at how many GOOD songs there 
>are on
>this album.
>
>I think Breathe's problem was that the low points are VERY low.  Some (I'm
>thinking of the "Surf's Up" spoken word part) are "Cringe"-worthy.
>
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