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Originally Posted by mankycaaant
objection!
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Originally Posted by Salami
Please Charlie, they were always a very commercial band, "too scared to be metal but too metal to be cool" as I remember someone saying.
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They were decent on their first two albums. Showbiz is like a slightly less good version of The Bends but still quite good and with the odd piano now and then. I still think the title track is a killer song no matter what people say.
Origin Of Symmetry is also pretty good with a sound more developed and slightly more adventurous than that of Showbiz with that Space Dementia song which I also still enjoy.
Their B-sides collection from that era has some good stuff on there as well.
Unfortunately, from then onwards they sounded more and more bland with more, more focus on self indulgent pseudo-political themes and just a much more "stadium rock" style generally.
This new stuff just takes the cake though.