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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
I won't say those albums are their very best work, but they still blow out of the water 90% of every rock album that came out the same year. The cover of "Green Manalishi" on The Maggot successfully one ups the Priest version. And if you look up the purchaser ratings on Amazon you'll find those record getting 4.5 stars average from people that actually bought them. Which is admitedly way less people than bought Houdini or probably even Eggnog. Still if making three very good albums in one year rather than just one excellent album is a crime, it's one light misdimeanor.
To be fair, those records are all better in my estimation than Rather Ripped, and I even like RR.
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hahahahahahahahaha, burn!!!
let's just look at it objectively, without saying "it's good" or "it's not"; these discs are very experimental for them, and the band was coming out of their major label deal, they were already THE MELVINS, all powerful godz of the riff and survivors of grunge and godfathers of modern doom; indies were killing each other to have the band sign with them, so, instead of diving head first into the pressure of releasing another houdini, they avoided it by doing a complete turn instead of doing what they always do; and once they were through with being odd with themselves, they got their riffs back and their pounding drums and became the melvins again, tried and true. avoiding any expectations.