Cracker - Kerosene Hat poll

^^from berkeley to bakersfield is great — dispenses w the more jokey for more wry humor and a lot of it is kinda moving. totally excellent and overlooked by me til now.

It really is great, I like it a lot. Are any of the albums between it and Forever worth hearing?

not sure, i kinda checked out after Gentleman's Blues (which i didn't listen to that much either.) I read the negative pitchfork review of Forever the other day, like pretty much all early-to-mid era PF reviews it's full of uninformed shit opinions. It's spurred me on to have a listening sesh soon, start w/revisiting Gentleman's Blues, and all the way thru Greenland.

feel like kerosene hat remains their classic, though i might argue that the golden age has their highest peaks. the s/t is still fun. They remain kinda underrated considering everything, they aren't "eclectic" in the same way CVB and lie within their shadow culturally but they're great. and Berkeley to Bakersfield feels like more of a major statement than any band supposedly 20+ years beyond their sell-by date would be able to release.

Forever is where I stopped paying attention until I checked back in with Berkeley, I will always defend the three album run starting with Kerosene Hat as one of the most underrated runs of the decade (in other words, you are otm big time).

Greenland is as good as Forever if I remember right. Countrysides is pretty fun, especially their take on Springsteen’s “Sinaloa Cowboys.”

Here come ol’ kerosene hat

I finally picked up a copy of Berkeley to Bakersfield, because my kid has become obsessed with the song "Almond Grove" to the point that he's playing it on the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5VEojXFtyI

I don't know if it's going to wind up being their last album, but they really did go out on on ambitious high if so.

Never listened to much after mid 90s, but from here listened to Berkeley to Bakersfield.

A lot of mid for me, but rave-up San Bernadino Boy, at least, is a keeper. Whose vox they are, I cannot guess. Cannot be lowery.