Nobody asked me, but I think American Candy is my favorite. My least favorite is probably Black & White, but Forever Halloween is right up (errr down) there. I still like Can't Stop, Won't Stop but it feels like a much different band that wrote that album and it's tough to rank it along with the rest of the albums. LLL and Pioneer are really close for me. I guess my ranking would go something like AC Pioneer LLL CS, WS FH B&W Thanks for reading
Yea I don't know Pioneer is one of my favorite albums ever so we are just very different on this one haha but I get your complaint more with FH (but there are a few notable exceptions)
It makes sense that they didn't like B&W, because they didn't enjoy making it. I don't really think that has any bearing on how much a listener can/should enjoy it, though. I think there are great moments on Pioneer, it just doesn't really hold together as a full album for me and felt pretty jarring after Black & White. It's better than Forever Halloween, which I think is a dull mess.
I think I'm in the same boat as Craig... Not that I enjoyed Black & White immensely (at the time, I basically put "Inside of You" on repeat and ignored the rest of the album), but the Pioneer and Forever Halloween era doesn't do a lot for me musically. "When I'm At Home" might be the only song I truly enjoy out of that era. I think that's what allowed American Candy to take me by surprise. I don't know if I've ever been more surprised by a band that I had written off turning into one of my most-listened-to bands.
END OF ROUND 2 /// FINAL SCORES Bad Behavior: 6 Taxi: 13 ---------- Lonely: 4 How Do You Feel?: 15 ---------- Do You Remember? (The Other Half of 23): 6 Little / The Sound of Reverie: 13 ---------- Don't Come Down: 2 Lovely / Black Butterflies & Déjà Vu: 17 ROUND 3 3a) Taxi vs. How Do You Feel? 3b) Little/The Sound of Reverie vs. Lovely/Black Butterflies & Déjà Vu Go!
Taxi L/SOR Lonely losing so early is big bummer, but I guess I’m not gunning for it to win the record anyway
How Do You Feel? Lovely/Black Butterflies & Déjà Vu These two are my ideal picks for the finals, but I'm expecting to be disappointed.
How Do You Feel? (this was pretty close to a coin toss for me) Lovely/Black Butterflies & Déjà Vu (fairly easy decision for me)
CURRENT SCORES Taxi: 6 How Do You Feel?: 10 ---------- Lovely / Black Butterflies & Déjà Vu: 8 Little / The Sound of Reverie: 8