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Old 03-25-2020, 04:10 PM   #29
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I think there was a lot of shit-talking about him reforming SP without James and D'Arcy when Zeitgeist came out and I recall seeing a few reviews going "The fuck is he thinking" when the album dropped. So I've always felt that while that album has a fair few stinkers and some shite production, the alt version songs save it a fair bit, and it never deserved all the hate it got.

Oceania was more or less seen as him going "Okay, fine, here's me proving that it doesn't matter who SP is aside from me", and for all that I remember it even got some okay reviews.

And with Monuments, that "three-star record" comment really demonstrated once and for all how self-absorbed he was, and it completely failing in every respect had to serve as a huge wake-up call for him. Literally nobody gave a shit when it dropped. It had no impact whatsoever.

The critical reviews were always way kinder to the albums than the fanbase was, usually about what, the 5-7/10 range?

I'd call it 75% based on their content and 25% based on his attitude.

 
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