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Originally Posted by demonrail666
You make it sound as though people are deliberately going against their true instincts by saying they dislike those albums. I suppose some might but as someone who dislikes both (although I quite like a couple of songs on Eternal) it seems to me that SY in recent years have almost no connection with what initially got me interested in them. Not better or worse, necessarily, just incomparably different. Apart from loyalty or curiosity, what is there in Rather Ripped or The Eternal that should make a fan of Confusion is Sex or Bad Moon Rising feel in any way obliged to care about them?
That may well make me narrow minded but not dishonest or (heaven forbid) searching for respect here. I never expected or wanted SY to stop progressing, I just don't really care much for where that progression has taken them.
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So, do you see SY's "evolution" over the past 30 years as more of a "devolution?"
Personally I've always felt that their changing sound has been the result of growth and adaptation. I love every one pf SY's "eras," and if I had to choose a favorite I would be stumped. But I can also understand how someone might see it differently. It isto definitely true that SY in 88 and SY 2008/9 are extremely different.