Because it's a pretty great album that sounds nothing like No Rain, and it's about 40 minutes long, and a bunch of good songs are embedded in the article above? Even if it's not to your taste, it's a long way from Armond Whiteism to say that Soup is an underrated album.

Maybe this is all part of the hagiography, but who's read more than a few pages of DFW and doesn't think that he's a funny fucking guy? For me that was always part of the appeal, he's like the coolest, funniest nerd you ever met.