Monsieur_Moneybags t1_iy3ijit wrote on November 28, 2022 at 1:59 PM

Reply to comment by RestlessSubjective in The soundtrack to the 2000 Jim Carey film Me, Myself and Irene had no business being so good. by jj_maxx

I think most people who know about them can agree that their first 4 albums—up through Black Sea—were brilliant, but after that opinion is divided. English Settlement (1982) was the start of their "pastoral" change in musical direction, which I wasn't a huge fan of. They still had some good songs here and there from that point on (e.g. "Dear God" from Skylarking), but I don't think on average it matched their earlier quality. I do think their early stuff was better than Talking Heads.

RestlessSubjective t1_iy59fcz wrote on November 28, 2022 at 9:12 PM

It's definitely an interesting change in musical direction - one that I am a big fan of. I love both ends of the band's history almost equally, tbh. But I think a lot of that is because the first album I heard from them was Apple Venus Pt. 2. Then I kind of floated backwards through their catalogue.