As cheesy as Styx might be I’d be curious to listen to their music on the grounds that it’s a lot more colorful than Kansas’s music–Kansas really only changed once in their entire career, in the early 80s like most prog bands did, but when they got back together with Steve Morse (!) on guitars it was same old same old. I cannot name or remember a single song from their albums after 1983 and none of their albums before that are terribly good anyway.

In the case of Weezer I’ve just stuck to their publicity stunts and singles. I mean, I didn’t mind that Tears for Fears cover! It’s sitting through the rest of the stuff on the album that usually provides the disappointment!

My experience with the Flower Kings was hearing one of their good albums (Retropolis) on a prog CDR someone sent me in about 2000 and then being warned away from the rest of their discography by that same person, and when I defied him and listened to stuff like that 60 minute song they did back in 1999, it was turd burglary.

I only know the big Elephant 6 bands anyway, and hey, aside from Mangum, they’re all dead or inactive now, aren’t they? The main guys you said? Bill Doss and Cullen Hart?

That’s very positive minded of you to call the 2020s a “more interesting decade”