(Late to this game)

That's interesting, I've thought exactly the same thing about Bad Moon Rising. Well, maybe not the Midwest so much as the Great Plains. I was on a bus trip in early '87, and had just bought Bad Moon Rising (my own entry point). It was the perfect soundtrack to the vast expanses of open land, which were occasionally…

Very late to this conversation, but Bad Moon Rising was my entry point. IMO it is their high water mark. For someone like myself who'd been listening to (for example) the first two Velvet Underground albums, then Bad Moon Rising was an easy and natural step. And Bad Moon Rising is, itself, another gateway — there…