I spent most of the week after I bought *Below the Salt* (25 years ago it was) with my head sandwiched between the speakers trying successfully to absorb the music into my very bones. One decibel more and I'd be deaf now. Ran out ASAP to buy their other stuff. It was YEARS before they laid down even one, um, "infelicitous" track.

Surely their first four five albums are among the greatest pop (in the broadest sense) albums ever recorded! (Incredible that 3 different lineups could maintain that quality!)

I'm rambling. Best song: "Sheep Crook and Black Dog," perhaps.