Their first record was NOT CRAP. zero

Everything since was boring, predictable CRAP.

CRAP.

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I'm not voting because up to and including "See you on the other side" I loved 'em.

Can we not change the poll to

Either/or Mercury Rev<1995 Vs Mercury Rev>1995?

Crap.

Yerself Is Steam: thumbs up

BOCES: thumbs WAY up! ("Something For Joey" is one of my favorite songs)

See You On The Other Side: thumbs kinda up

Deserter's Songs: thumbs kinda up

All Is Dream: flat hand

The Migration something or other: OH MY GOD GET THAT FACE OUT OF THAT MOTH ABDOMEN YOU GODDAMN HIPPIES!

The band were at their best when they made everyone confused. It was clear this was the David Baker factor. Once he left, the confusion left... and slowly but surely the appeal.

Baker produced one of my other favorite albums along these lines.. the one and only album by Comet.. from Denton, TX.

One of the few truly talented american bands that i have heard in a long time.They deserve much more recognition and success than they have. Live the band is amazing.

I find myself coming back to them over and over again.

I really love Deserter's Songs, where they channel The Band better than any of the individual surviving Band members.

I would like to play guitar like Grasshopper some day, but I have heard a lot of things about his crappy attitude that give me pause, as if wielding that sort of sonic aptitude would make me an asshole. If that's the case, I don't want it.

Caveat: the one time I met them, back in the David Baker days, they were all sorts of nice, but obviously the kind of people who just couldn't get along with one another for long periods of time.

Not Crap, with a waffle factor for some of the questionable throwaway records they made.

DESERTER SONGS is fucking awesome !!!!!!!

Both of the David Baker albums have some of my favorite music. The first one has bigger high points, and the second one is a little more consistent, although there's some boring crap on each of them.

I need to listen to SYOTOS again, but I recall a lot of it being flat out bad and distasteful.

Deserter's Songs had some pretty moments, but some of it could soundtrack some Disney movies.

NOT CRAP for the first two records alone.

They do a pretty nice cover of Motion Pictures, not crap.