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Originally Posted by patrick
well a counter point to this is that i am 24 and i don't know new orders old stuff as good as their new stuff. i was exposed to their new stuff first/more (other than the 5 or so common classics). I think their last 2 albumns are the best, even now, that i have had exposure to a lot of their earlier albumns...
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I was gonna say the same thing. I think NO's last album was great and not can hold it's own against most of the older stuff. I too only got into NO quite recently so I don't have the same emotional realtion to the earlier stuff that someone might have that grew up with those songs.
Same for Underworld, hearing STITI for the first time was a revelation to me and it just clicked with the point I was at in my life and the feelings and emotions I had. So that will always be the "best" album. But as the article illustrates, someone like Sherburne who probably did not have the kind of relation to that album actually thinks it's the weakest! So who's right? Obviously no one, he's as entitled to his opinion as I am, although I disagree with the argumentation he uses.
If the first album of UW someone would hear now was AHDO, they may have a lesser opinion of the other albums, or at least they won't have the added experience of listening to the old stuff to influence their opinion.
btw I realise my first reaction in the thread came across as kinda knee-jerk, but I didn't mean to imply "omg this guy is slagging off UW, what a dick! Everything they do is amazing!" or anything like that. I just thought it sounded like he was pulling out all kinds of arguments and assumptions that didn't make much sense from my point of view and trying to draw parralels with other music instead of taking it at face value. As a general evaluation of UW's career and their future direction it was inadequately researched by disregarding anything they've done since AHDO in 2002, making his conclusions pretty pointless. (anyway this all has been said more clearly and eloquently by others in this thread)