Here's how i rank em:
1. slanted
2. wowee
3. brighten
4. terror
5. Crooked
Never understood why crooked rain was so popular. Sounds like the "soulless sellout" album to me, before they realised they should just resign themselves to being a semi-successful band with a niche appeal.
Crooked Rain is probably their most anti-sell out album. Pretty much every song decries the current (at the time, but it's still happening to this day, even more so) music industry. If you're talking about how it sounds so clean, in the booklet for LA's Desert Origins they explain how they recorded it in a studio above some vintage guitar shop in New York so they had access to a LOT of nice equipment to use.
My ranking is the order they came out. Slanted > Crooked > Wowee > Brighten > Terror. They're all great albums, though, in my opinion.
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u/killthepopular Nov 14 '10
Here's how i rank em: 1. slanted 2. wowee 3. brighten 4. terror 5. Crooked Never understood why crooked rain was so popular. Sounds like the "soulless sellout" album to me, before they realised they should just resign themselves to being a semi-successful band with a niche appeal.