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Originally Posted by demonrail666
You make some great points there, even if I don't necessarily agree with the core comparison which, to be fair you also acknowledge as being a bit of a 'stretch'. I don't want to come across as dismissing SY's post 80s output. Some of it I think is excellent. It just doesn't capture my imagination the way LPs like CiS, BMR, etc, did and, to an extent, still do. I think Murmer got it spot on when describing a certain nightmarish quality to those records. There's a strange bum trip campfire quality to songs like Halloween, Shaking Hell, Brother James, etc, which I think they pretty much abandoned quite early on. I can see why they moved on from that and in many ways respect them even more for doing so but I still think of those songs as the reason why I got into them in the first place and sort of became increasingly distant from them as a band the further they moved on from that template. But that's my problem, ultimately, not theirs.
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I definitely understand. When bands shift or change styles it's hard to view their new styles objectively, and not just see the absence of the old style.
But, funnily enough, I think their biggest change, and the one that lead to all the others, was from the twisted nightmare of Sister to the pristine daydream of... well... Daydream
lol!