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Hot Take: Long Tall Weekend is an underrated album. (startrek.website)

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I feel like it is often called one of the band's worst albums despite it having a lot of good songs: Certain People I Could Name, Reprehensible, and Counterfeit Faker.

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[–] n1ck_n4m3 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe I Know and Rat Patrol are both solid as well

[–] nuachtan 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All of these tunes are also on They Got Lost.

I had a whole rant about how Long Tall Weekend is just a greatest hits album but now reality is messing with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think part of it is Long Tall Weekend sort of maintains a specific chill vibe throughout the album. One description I have for is is the album I would use to introduce TMBG to a Squirrel Nut Zippers or Petrovich Blasting Company fan. Definitely prefer Severe Tire Damage's version of They Got Lost, though.

I can see a rationalization for Long Tall Weekend as a greatest hits album, though, in the sense that it was a bunch of concert stuff (some of it which people had enjoyed) the Johns had been procrastinating on releasing, though not as much as Superfueled Freaksicle. 🙄