[adam]

Sorry, BLD, if your, "Am I fanboy if..." comments refer to what I was saying, I meant it to be tongue in cheek and not taken at face value. What I meant, I guess, is that the droves of threads dissecting the minutiae of every official or semi-official release have left me unable and uninclined to try and sift through for information I find actually valuable.

I meant to buy Riverrun; at the age you're describing they were one of my favorite acts, and so I wouldn't "write them off" because I had less interest in a single album. I think it more has to do with my tastes drifting from their aesthetic than a matter of their output becoming less satisfactory. I just never got around to buying any of it, and it's still far down my priority list.

I don't think I can agree with your comments about how you to relate to the music you liked when you were 16-25. I'm just outside of that age now (29), so maybe I'm too close to see the effect you're predicting, but I find I don't really relate to most of the stuff I liked at that age. Every once in a while I throw on some for nostalgia's sake, and I can rarely make it through an album, despite the fact that some of that stuff meant the world to me.

BB, that isn't at all what Duckie was saying. Not in the slightest degree. I'm surprised that that is your honest interpretation.

(edit: that's weird, when I edit my post that weird character in the first word isnt' there...)