I just never listen to them because the album sounds like shit.

My apologies to Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Unemployable and Army Reserve specifically. You deserved better.

i would probably sub parachutes and marker for unemployable and AR but i agree with your premise zeborino.

Yeah, it sucks.

i'd only add Parachutes to Zeb's list and that would quite sum it up. oh, and Wasted Reprise.
good to see some Avocado appreciation

i think i've heard that ST's production sucks before.

oh and mine would be Severed, Life Wasted, COmatose, and Parachutes.

The good songs on this record (almost?) compare favourably to the good songs on their other records.

of course they do.

in terms of songs about psychotropic drugs i think SH is top notch.

if world wide suicide had a different name, and therefore a different chorus, i would add it to that list.

ps.

i like come back.

Comatose, Severed Hand, Marker..., Parachutes, and Army Reserve are all great songs.

Gone isn't great, but I like it.

And I like this album a lot (and I mean, a lot) more than Backspacer. There, I said it.

plus it did give us the demo of Gone, which is a nice little ditty too.

There is, if you put the record on a stereo in a field, and walk really really far away from it. Then there's some good songs on there.

Too soon for the S/T revival I think. After the next album the newfound love can begin.

Heh, you've just listed my favourites. I heartily agree.

The SNL performance of Severed Hand is just amazing!
Avacado can hold its own as an album.

I think theres too much hate for Avocado. It is the worst PJ album, but that dosent mean it isnt a good album, it is, it just dosent stand up against the rest of their catalog.

Agreed on every count. The only songs on s/t I don't dig are Big Wave, Gone and Inside Job. Even Gone isn't bad, though. Inside Job on the other hand...ugh.

I really like Big Wave, at least musically. Lyrically it kinda sucks, but at least it's not trying too hard (and failing) like Inside Job.

I think, apart from Inside Job, this album's not so bad.

I think it would be improved greatly with production more like Riot Act and a different tracklisting - I'll try and find the alternate tracklisting I made that I really liked. Severed Hand to open, OF COURSE.

That album artwork though, for fucking real now, was that some kind of joke?

I like the idea of just having an avocado on the front cover - it's bold as fuck, and there's even room for symbolist interpretations that would work with the themes of the album....I just wish they executed it with a bit more class. I also wish they'd put some thought into the sleeve (and that pic behind the disk is lame). I also like the avocado t-shirts.

I like the Avocado artwork alot more than Backspacer's.

I was really into this album for a while after it came out, but the songs did not age well at all. I can't explain why. I never liked Gone and Inside Job isn't good, but I thought the rest were spot on.

Other than SH and Parachutes, I don't have a reason to put in the CD anymore.