[GrungeMonkey]

Originally Posted by hansjoakim

it's not really my impression that people are disgruntled by the lack of noise on recent albums...

if anything, i'd say it's more a lack of potent, punky, high energy, mosh-riffy songs compared to their older days. there are no silver rockets, catholic blocks etc. on the newer records, they're more mellow. were we supposed to expect something else? kim, thurston et al. are the same age as my parents, i wouldn't expect them to cook up such stuff when they're hitting fifty.

i like and enjoy listening to their latest records (particularly nurse and ripped), but you have to listen to them on their own premises so to speak. you shouldn't compare everything with sister, DDN or dirty even. thank god they have evolved and changed their sound over the last twenty years, right?

Well said my friend.