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Originally Posted by evollove
SUCH: As usual, your enthusiasm is charming (which is why we all love you) but unconvincing.
And for the record: no one WANTS to dislike Eternal. I'm sure we'd all be happy if it had been the greatest thing SY ever made. But I think the general verdict says it's simply not.
But you are right about how the songs improved live. Then again, a fantastic boot I have features Tom Violence, a DDN song or two, and a big chunk of Sister. Those songs, even after 10,000 listens, are still mind-blowing. The Eternal stuff is merely better than the studio recordings. And that's the way it is.
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I wasn't trying to acclaim The Eternal as anything near the best ever, more like, a great way to end things by incorporating a bit of everything from every album. A lot of bands begin to sound like a cliche of themselves when they revisit their past styles like this, or worse, the milk it forever as if they were Aerosmith. Sonic Youth evolved perfectly over three decades, and yet also never abandoned their "sound" even as it changed with them.
For the record, I didn't like the Eternal AT ALL for like the first year after it came out, but then I really
listened to it..