Are we about due for a re-appreciation of Nu-Metal?

Fans are too subdivided

Mentioned it elsewhere, but god was 1998 such a confluence of bullshit trends with Nu Metal somehow being the worst of all of them. I didn’t mind Korn’s debut (I haven’t listened to it in 20 years and I’m not sure how much I’d like it now), but I hated Follow the Leader and that stupid scat thing Johnathan Davis did…

yeah praising 1997 and 1998 is weird for me. In my mind, it’s where a lot of totally bullshit trends all seemed to happen all at once. But looking back, there’s quite a few strong releases. Those years certainly have to be the biggest disparity between what was popular and what was actually good.

I get the criteria, though I’m pretty sure Placebo’s Pure Morning charted too

eh, I liked him fine. He could maybe stand to have his comic relief spread to the other characters a bit more. His absence in the last episode was pretty noticeable as it the show shifted into something a bit too serious.

Not sure what to think about the series. I liked it over all, and probably better than most it seems, but the last few episodes felt like they would’ve worked better if they had interspersed the long-running plots a bit better. I like that this may indicate the show reaching its true potential, but it felt like a…

I can’t find anything backing this up, but I believe the cited chart is only weighing in singles released in 1998, but factoring in singles from 1997 brings all those songs into the fray.

I think I liked the show more than you did, but I agree that the show not entirely sticking to the serialization made the last two episodes feel quite a bit different than what came before.

looked like Jane Levy (who also looks like Gillian Jacobs)

It looks like a shitty Fear Street knock-off.

S9 definitely has some quality episodes, but the number of mediocre or flat out bad episodes rises dramatically. Good overall, it really shouldn’t be put in the the peak years.

Cleopatra Records has a film-making wing? Are all the credits misspelled and is every movie noticeably missing scenes? Are Electric Hellfire Club and Razed in Black doing the soundtrack, which would assuredly consist of electro-industrial covers of 80s hair metal songs?

Just so we’re all on the same page here, as rough as S1 Simpsons is, it’s still better than your average post-S10 episode, right? (and also this demarcation of the show’s quality really shouldn’t go beyond S8; S9 is a mixed bag at best and S10 is worse.)

Simpsons being better than Family Guy is a really low bar. That Simpsons is better than them isn’t especially impressive.

The ‘problem’ is, for me, I don’t think the show in consistent enough for me to just watch it week to week.

even AV Club liked it:

sounds way too depressing

Chelsea Girl is pleasant enough, but her next 3 albums are way better.

The Secret Agent song is from Backyardigans: