Emergency & IThe Dismemberment Plan · 1999

pitchfork

10

“**The Short Review:**If you consider yourself a fan of groundbreaking pop, go out and buy this album right now. Now. Get up. Go. **The Long Review:**Judd handed me a purple children's book and said, "Check this out." The hardback felt about the size of a gatefold double vinyl album. In bold letters, the cover proclaimed *The Worst Band in the Universe!* Immediately we opened the book in an attemp”

ben

4.3

“I genuinely can't sit through this album. 4.3 because I get the ideas and I hear how influential it was. But basically every single interesting idea ended up getting done more successfully elsewhere. This album feels like an atonal disaster that never resolves. I don't get how people actually enjoy it. Even Pavement, which seems to have done a lot of these ideas way better, I don't find particularly interesting or enjoyable. But it has at least some bright spots that I can't really find in this album. In the back of my mind is the idea that maybe I just need to listen to it a lot more. Maybe! But for now you get reamed. L bot”

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