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Originally Posted by almauro
Unfortunately, they developed such an arrogant attitude, that they believed anything they did was brilliant, and lost all objectivity, and consequently released a series of albums that did nothing for me. Most recently, "Hail to to the Thief", can only be described as a difficult album, covering many musical styles, but failing to rein the album into a unifiying whole. Some of the songs are virtually unlistenalbe, which I never would have thought possible for a band that produced the first 2 mention albums. I thought if they would have focused more on the stoner rock sounds of "There, There", and used those rhythms and grooves throughout the album, they would have really had something.
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I disagree
Those series of albums with unlistenable songs is what made me love them as much as I do. Before that I could take them or leave them. The fact they had the balls to do what they wanted is what appealed to me the most.
I don`t call it arrogance , I call it a brave move , alienating most of your fan base to make the music you want to make. I wish more bands had the guts to do it.
The first 2 albums in my opinion are their worst and sound extremely dated and i`m glad they don`t carry on retreading old ground from 10-15 years ago.