We care a lot is VG.

Introduce yourself is awesome methinks.

The Real Thing is Great for the most part although Patton's voice sounds bad on some songs, too nasal

Angel Dust is one of the most amazing records ever. Patton's voice is incredible.

King for a day is almost as good as the previous record

Album of the year is so so. Kinda meh

Sol Invictus I haven't checked

Not crap, very few waffles.

They had an incredible run. Angel Dust and KFAD are two of my favorite albums. Even The Real Thing songs sung post AD are great (Patton's voice on TRT is kind of immature compared to later work).

Personally KFAD is one of my Desert Island Disks.

One that Angel Dust tour Patton seemed genuinely dangerous on stage. I've seen them a bunch live and they always brang it.

Gramsci wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 1:46 pm (Patton's voice on TRT is kind of immature compared to later work).

Funnily, on one of Mr Bungle's demo's, recorded pretty much at the same time his voice sounds A LOT more confident and less estrident.

semi kerble

NC, but not something I reach for anymore.

penningtron wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 2:27 pm semi kerble

NC, but not something I reach for anymore.

I Swear I did search and didn't find. Wtf

First album is pretty raw, but good.

Introduce Yourself is their best album, easily makes the top tier of shit I was into in my teen years, must have listened to it thousands of times.

The Real Thing has aged more poorly than any other music I was once into. Unlistenable, apart from the pure pop of From Out of Nowhere.

Angel Dust is peak post-Chuck era. RV is the only real dud, but the rest is terrific.

Serious decline into mostly stodgy middle ground in the next three albums.

Crap. Could never get into them at all and the fusion of genres or more appropriately *textures*/techniques associated with various genres strike me as clumsy, inorganic and too post-Zappa clever to sound good to my ears; same with MR Bungle and most stuff involving Patton. I can see some value in "Introduce yourself" though but I'm just not into that style... still, it's better than what followed.

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 2:47 pm Introduce Yourself is their best album, easily makes the top tier of shit I was into in my teen years, must have listened to it thousands of times.

The Real Thing has aged more poorly than any other music I was once into.

My thoughts exactly.

I cannot vote Crap on this band although, for me now, it is 80% crap

N.C, but after The Real Thing they became one of the most cynical bands in existence, almost purposefully sabotaging their careers. Kinda crazy in hindsight when you think how HUGE TRT was and how commercially and critically unsuccessful Album of the Year was despite nu metal (their baby) taking off in 97.

King for a Day is the only one I really like (though I totally get why many dislike it... but I think forcing their idiosyncratic sound into a varied array of conventially structured songs works a treat; also Roddy's absence means fewer dated keyboard parts... Patton's performance here might be one of the best vocals on a rock album, and I say that with zero hyperbole, he's just incredible here), but Introduce Yourself and The Real Thing are awesome and clearly their peak (Killing Joke + mid-tempo thrash riffs = power) despite both the vocalists being a hindrance to the otherwise killer music.

Angel Dust has not aged well for me at all; an unpleasant, ugly mess to my ears these days.

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 2:47 pm First album is pretty raw, but good.

Introduce Yourself is their best album, easily makes the top tier of shit I was into in my teen years, must have listened to it thousands of times.

The Real Thing has aged more poorly than any other music I was once into. Unlistenable, apart from the pure pop of From Out of Nowhere.

Angel Dust is peak post-Chuck era. RV is the only real dud, but the rest is terrific.

Serious decline into mostly stodgy middle ground in the next three albums.

Am I posting in my sleep under a different account?

This sums it all up for me. Pretty sure I bought The Real Thing, Introduce Yourself and WE Care A Lot the same week. within weeks of "Epic" debuting on MTV.

The Chuck years are my favourite