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An issue is that Everything Falls Apart and Metal Circus sound better than all the acclaimed stuff that makes up 90% of conversation on this topic.
I get that the underwater, snow-flurry blur that is New Day Rising is an interesting deliberate aesthetic choice but I’m baffled with the approach to Warehouse, if indeed that was what they were after; all that biscuit tin snare and thin sound is just jarring for what is their most conventional pop-rock album, especially with Warners money behind it.
I think there’s a case that it doesn’t really help their legacy long term that the more approachable their music became, the worse the albums sounded (or at best, levelled off without much improvement). I do think that the Warners era was a missed opportunity, even beyond what we already know about the era
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 2 July 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Trouble Boys did more to ruin my ability to enjoy the Replacements than it helped because they were so insufferable. I don't think I could ever feel that negatively about Grant, Bob, and Greg because they weren't as insufferable. I'm sure they had their moments and engaged in a lot of infighting/sniping, but they didn't light cash money on fire for larfs.
Yeah, I don’t see Grant or Bob insulting a radio station dj on the air and then complaining that the station isn’t playing their records. Nor do I see them, say, ostracizing Greg for trying to curb his drinking. Whatever sniping went on, the Dü members were never just plain
mean to each other.
Not until they very end, and even then it mostly happened in private, and not in person.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 July 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link