UNSANE.

Been going 30 years and every lp sounds almost the same. Even the lp jackets all look pretty much the same. Only minor tweaks to the sound over 30 years, added a bit more distorted treble tone on the bass after a feeling out process during the first 2 lp's then BAM we got it now

Not the kind of band you can play on the stereo at vol 4. It just sounds ragged and squally down there. Needs extreme volume so the farty bass can meld with guitar murder and make babies in your earbrain

Hate to brag but at one stage I had virtually the entire canon on vineel but inexplicably along the way I must have been overcome by brain herpes because I sold a couple on the line. Lured by big paydays probably.

s/t (1991) 6/10 TOTAL SQUALL. this tinpot cunt is hard going. what a fucking racket and it's not always a pleasant one
Total Destruction (1993) 6/10 less squall second time around but still a very, very torrid inaccessible motherfucker.
Scattered, Covered and Smothered (1995) 9/10. they got it now. slowed it up a bit, mid-tempo motherfuckers and the requisite 2 or 3 real slow burners, farty bass steamroller deathroll.
Attack On Japan (1996) 10/10 greatest live document in recorded history
Amrep Xmas (1997) 10/10 also greatest live document in recorded history
Occupational Hazard (1997) 7/10 slight falling off here, too quick and hectic and squally, needs more midtempo murderburn. Saved by "Sick."
Blood Run (2005) 10/10 BACK IN BUSINESS NOW, knuckle drag, lava roll, everything got crushed. And hello, Captain Dipshit here SOLD the cunt. Wft was I thinking. ($$)
Visqueen (2007) 10/10 oh god the treble warble murder quack bass oh FAHHHHK, looking back now maybe this and Visqueen were their high point, the sales history of discogs certainly thinks so, big bucks for these 2 cunts on vinyl which still doesnt explain the brain herpes that commandeered my dick that fateful day and compelled me to SELL THE 2 CUNTS ONLINE. "Oh yeah, 1 time pressing of 1,000, I'll just pick up another copy one day." MORAN.
Wreck (2012) 8/10 faster and more clipped, still has some farty bass but no more slow roll murderburn
Sterilize (2017) 8/10 takes the sound of last one and pushes it towards a 9 but still a bit too fast to be my Unsane.

my Cocteau Twins LP ranking:

1. Treasure 9.1/10 dreamscape of menace waft with added echoey drums
2. Heaven or Las Vegas 9/10 shimmering haze of sumptuous loud jangle waffle
3. Blue Bell Knoll 8/10 synth wobble waffle pillows
4. Garlands 7/10 wee bit more doilied-up menace to their first outing
5. Head Over Heels 7/10 ethereal wibble from the planet art fop
6. Victorialand. 6/10 more edgy elevator music for the Enya-on-drugs set
7. Four Calendar cafe 4/10 the ethereal shit was gone. a misstep, it was over and this LP "broke character" and shouldnt have happened

my take on Dinosaur Jr, makers of my 2nd favourite burnout music ever (after Neil Young)

You're Living All Over Me (1987) 10/10. Or 0/10. can't think of a single other band where the mood you're in completely dictates your enjoyment. Sometimes I come at this or "Bug" and its just gahhh fucken turn it off, these solos are goddamn painful. Yet other days its like the world's oldest most comfortable sofa
Bug (1988) ditto
Green Mind. only got the cd of this and it sounds like utterly shrill tinpot compressed dogshit so hard to judge
Beyond (2007) 8/10. EXTREMELY skeptical of a band comign back after 20 years but man they still got it
Farm (2009) 7/10. ditto. this is meaty as hell. fuck it is raucous
newest one "Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not" (2016) also on my wantlist