Pick a side!!!!

Aw. It wasn't as good as NHIN, but I still quite liked Ten Silver Drops. Alone Jealous and Stoned? 1,000 Seconds? Those are great, great tunes.

I stand by DM and U2 after the points you mentioned, though I understand the sentiment.

I find something endearing in how just proudly, blatantly meaningless Simple Minds lyrics often are.

Although I've followed them since then, I maintain that ATYCLB could really be U2's "last album". The 90's were all adventure and experimental stuff, and then ATYCLB is the "coming back home" album. Part of their problem since then is it's hard to follow an album like that—if you go experimental again, you're just…

Man, I was really into that album for a bit. Felt like it was a perfect blend of Mellon Collie and Adore. I don't listen to them much at all these days, but I still have a soft spot for that one.

I might agree with you. Pretty sure that was the song that got me into them in the first place.

It was the 90's! Who's going swimming, when there's the internet? Have you seen Minesweeper? It came with the computer! Whoa!

He's probably just calculating how many mic-stand spins he has to do each time they tour. Martin has to play some guitar and sing a couple songs, and Andy has to show up and clap. Gahan carries their live shows single-handedly. I'd probably be getting tired of that at his age, too.

My taste in Rush varies—I'm probably more an 80's fan, and actually like Roll the Bones, so take my opinion with that in mind. But on many days, Far Cry is my favorite Rush song. If only the rest of that album could live up to it.

Sounds like it! I just think it's cool that the guitar guy isn't pointing to a guitar moment as the greatest ever. Seems like a cool guy to get lessons from.

I agree about Delta Machine, but the tour for that album actually managed to redeem some of those songs for me. I'm not entirely sure about this new single, but I'm hopeful. But man, I wish they'd work with someone who's willing to put in the time to produce their stuff like it was back on Violator and SOFAD.

Yeah, my friend has extolled the virtues of later PJ to me. And I've listened to quite a bit of it. But it's one of those things—I have a hard time caring enough about the band after the fact. They are very much rooted to 1991 - 1993 for me. I may be missing out, but….ah well.

Well, when you see those ticket prices, you're going to be Mellon Collie.

I just really like the idea that a guitar teacher thinks the greatest moment is a synth/rap thing on a pop album. There's an odd amount of specificity to that.

Huh! Although, "not more than 50 bucks"? No way it's THAT cheap.

Ooh, thought of another one: Vitalogy was where I walked away from Pearl Jam. I LOVED Ten, and quite liked Vs. as well, but Vitalogy just didn't do anything for me. I was still interested to hear new songs of theirs on the radio or whatever, but I didn't buy anything from them after that. (A friend did give me some…

SP is? Really? Is D'arcy even alive? And functional? I saw them a few times, but the first was on the Mellon Collie tour—the only time the four of them were still in the band together. As interesting as it is they could reunite, I'm afraid my interest in them died a long time ago. I can't even listen to that…

Aw, come on! What about Virtuousity? "Net boy, net girl; send your signal 'round the world; put your message in a modem, and throw it in the cyber sea!" It's like Neal Peart got a copy of Windows 95 and wrote a song about it.

I'm impressed with folks that are objective enough to walk away from a band when they stop putting out great stuff. I'm usually a loyalist—despite a few mis-steps (sometimes rather large ones), I'm still following U2 and Depeche Mode.