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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You're crazy. I'm sure it was a landmark for its time, but it really hasn't aged particularly well. I think it was basically a transitional album and they were trying to figure out how to write songs for an entirely different type of vocalist, with mixed results. I mean, "22 Acacia Avenue" is fun the first few times you hear it, but after that it just gets more and more dull, "The Prisoner" is just kinda meh, and "Children of the Damned" is just kinda terrible.
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As far as #OTB: if you were buying it at the time it was first available, it was their best work to date. Any theories as to which one was better before or after from that viewpoint was purely subjective from then on forward when it comes to the circles I was involved in.
Piece Of Mind on the other hand holds an extremely sacred home in my camp.
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