Reply To: TMBG
I’ve loved TMBG for a long time, and yeah I take the above point that a lot of their music is genuinely fairly weak. But they’ve been around 25 years-ish and put out hundreds of songs, so some of them are bound to be pretty below par. Their older stuff like They’ll Need a Crane and Don’t Let’s Start is brilliant, but I like a lot of their newer stuff (to name four from one recent album alone, The Mesopotamians, The Cap’m, Withered Hope and I’m Impressed are all outstanding).
Some of their music is a little weird, and they do seem to have a fixation on songs about death, but in general they’re a great band.
And three08, Linnell’s vocals especially are indeed a bit odd, to the extent that he really seems to suffer live.