Is that really popular opinion? I thought the popular opinion was that "Stories From The City..." and "Rid Of Me" were her best albums?

People like Stories From The City...? It was was so roundly trashed when it came out that I never had any interest in giving it a listen.

I don't remember it being trashed, in fact I remember it being high up in most end of year lists. And it won her a Mercury Music prize.

^What he said. Stories from the city was like the combination of everything that made her great up to that point. Some didn't like it b/c it was too "polished" for a PJ album.

Was it? I loved it and played the hell out of it for about a month when I got it.

I'm not sure if this is popular or unpopular, but whatevs. The second half of The Stooges' Funhouse is the best part of the record. How it slowly devolves into freeform madness is just wonderful.

Took me a while to get there but I agree with this. I love how the guitars & the horns on the title track wind around each other.

Hell yeah. I love that it sounds like they're playing two different songs and not really paying attention to one another while Iggy just sort of shouts random noises and it's only brought together by the rhythm section. I even like "LA Blues" now. On it's own it's unlistenable, but in the context of the album it's the logical conclusion to the other two songs and is just wonderfully insane.

Edit: Whenever I listen to the second half I always have this fantasy of a band that just plays randomness to piss of a crowd, gets thrown out by the bouncers, and then plays on non-electric instruments in the parking lot until the cops show up.

I think it was mostly trashed by people who were upset that she didn't sound 'raw' or 'heavy' anymore and this one was even poppier sounding than 'Is This Desire?' Don't quote me on that, I don't really remember. I do remember a general feeling in the air that she had totally lost her intensity, polished her sound, and just wasn't the same.

I was one of the people who wanted more of the earliest stuff but I still really liked the album when I listened to it. Still do.

An unknown but large percentage of people who say Nirvana are overrated are tools. Nirvana were brilliant.