Good Lord, no. You have to go at least through 1992, and in my opinion 1996. A few widely hated singles like Shiny Happy People don't cancel out the dozens of great album tracks from those years.

"WTF Kenneth" is annoying and grating too now? Wow, so many wrong opinions here.

What's wrong with that song? It's a perfect 2-minute palate-cleanser after EH.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. I only have time for R.E.M. Who are these "Rolling Stones" you speak of?

I can understand where you're coming from, yet Automatic for the People as a whole is still an all-time great album, on par with Murmur, Fables, etc., in terms of quality but in a totally different way. The evolution and variety in their work is one of the reasons they'll be remembered as one of the greatest bands…

Isn't that always true of whoever is the most popular, overplayed artist of the moment?

Too simple for what?

I don't know, man. I couldn't get a ride. [sobs] I COULDN'T GET A RIDE. It was worse than that time I could have met Mr. T at the mall!

I'd be interested to hear which songs from their IRS years you consider so terrible, because as far as I've seen you'd be pretty much alone in that opinion.

When they resumed the tour after Bill recovered, the band said they considered renaming it "Aneurysm '95."

Seconded. I've read that Buck didn't even play on that one. It was pure Mills.

I love both of those songs, but that mysterious Nathaniel Hornblower guy (RIP) did have a point regarding the respective videos.

Cuyahoga, Fall on Me, Pretty Persuasion, Pilgrimage, World Leader Pretend, Country Feedback, Half a World Away, Drive, Try Not to Breathe, Life and How to Live It, These Days, It's the End of the World, Finest Worksong, WTF Kenneth, Crush w/ Eyeliner, Suspicion, Uberlin, Electrolite, Leave….

You can't hurt all the people all the time.

A little unibrow to comb out…

We do feel bad. That's why we like it.

Yeah, what were they thinking trying to convince teens not to kill themselves? What possible good could ever come of that? I mean, sure, they sold millions of records, but they should have foreseen that future cranky Internet commentators would declare the song to be a MASSIVE FAILURE.

I don't think 45 seconds of KRS-One at the end really qualifies as a "rap odyssey."

My favorite thing about SHP was Bill Berry's description of it in the liner notes to their recent "Best of" as a "God-rock anthem of yore."

Mills' electric piano is one of the best things about Everybody Hurts.