Drawing from their two best albums (‘Automatic For The People’/’Monster’) and nothing but produces the single best collection of music in one place they’ve ever managed. Irrelevant by this point, perhaps, but I couldn’t resist. Not for 99 cents.
And the video for “Everybody Hurts” is so obviously and completely heartfelt that it achieves grandiosity while avoiding maudlin sentimentality. A benefit of sincerity, I suppose.
For the last five songs, I believe R. Christgau sums it up best: “Peter Buck’s sonic palette is rainbow grunge–variegated dirt and distortion as casual rhetoric–and he’s so cranked even the slow ones seem born to be loud.”
Inspirational Quote: “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy”
Grade: A-