I don't understand people who like that 'Fields Of Gold'-era Sting. It couldn't be any more aimed at the 30-something white housewives of the day, staring into Sting's soulful eyes in the video. Bland as utter fuck. His album after that (Mercury Falling) was even more terrible treacle. After that I knew he was…

Nobody's Empire is better than anybody else's song written that year, so they stay alive for me.

It saddens me that someone with such an awesome username, likes such a shitty, shitty band.

Glad you're still alive, talking to us whippersnappers.

Damn, harsh but pretty true. As an electronic music fan, I never understood how anyone was fooled by Kid A - weren't all those critics shitting all over IDM for a whole decade before that? Why was a pale imitation of it now cool? I really love Hail To The Thief though.

They lost me for Kid A and Amnesiac at least. I can't find people to agree with me that Kid A sucks ass.

I really dislike The Goo Goo Dolls. They so personify for me that completely safe AOR sound - and I instantly think of like 30-something (well, maybe now 40/50-something) women in mom jeans going to their concerts after a cocktail and swooning over the singer - who is solely a 'bad boy' because he has messy hair, not…

I never thought I'd read someone refer to any Goo Goo Dolls album as 'near-perfect' on the avclub, but here we are.

I fail to see why this album is critically acclaimed at all. I love hiphop, but I feel like new hiphop has such a low bar for what is considered 'genius' - it's really nothing special at all to me.

I remember I was SO into what Pitchfork thought at the time, and they gave TM&A the best review I had ever seen. But man, that was a disappointing listen and my first introduction to them. I feel like some of their later stuff is much better, though I'm still not a huge fan.

Anything after Exciter just lacks songs completely - they have the 'sound' still, but no 'songs' to put them in.. and really, DM were strong because of the songs. There's tons of bad bands who make music that SOUNDS like them.

My total elitism is coming out, but I just can't understand how anyone could be 'into' Pearl Jam. Even at that Ten/Vs peak, they were so bland and thudding and humorless. It just sounded like something you'd listen to if you worked in a gas station or fixed trucks all day, and had nothing going on 'upstairs' at…

They're a bad band, with their career taken as a whole. However, most of the songs on The Soft Bulletin are works of musical genius.

I really fail to understand how so many people claim to really be into Murmur. it just doesn't seem like an album that would warrant such devotion.

Summerteeth blew my mind completely at the time. YHF was alright. After that, snooze fest.

I don't get The Flaming Lips. Their output before The Soft Bulletin is nothing like The Soft Bulletin, which is one of the best albums of the 90s if not the best. Where did that genius come from…. and more importantly, where did it go afterwards?

Bedtime Stories is just that.. 'smooth'. A lot of people turn off if something is smooth. But yeah, it has a lot of great moments. Unfortunately the production style is really dated to me now, it was made at the time where every song had to have a drumloop sample mixed in.

No, it WANTS to be up there, and that's why its failure is all the more depressing.

You are correct, nothing after Wish is great. Wild Mood Swings tried to ape Kiss me and failed, and Bloodflowers tried to be a big and important Disintegration followup and so so so wasn't. Both seemed cynical and calculated to me.

Interestingly, tons of people got off the bandwagon with Zooropa, which is now considered an underrated classic. I doubt that will happen with any of the later albums though.