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Originally Posted by NeatFreakGeek
initial reaction was "yay they went back and finished the LWS...let's give it a listen.....uh....what the hell is this? where's that energy? that pace? why the hell didnt lillywhite get to finish the job?....oh cool dave is friends with Adam Sandler now..."
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That sounds pretty accurate to me. I think the fanbase was excited about these songs getting the full studio treatment, and then when the album dropped...it was like...uh.....ok? And given the love for the LWS songs, there was a good chuck of the base that was all-in and loved the album. But there was this undercurrent of...underwhelment (not a word but should be). Many people, to me, seemed afraid to out and out criticize (sound familiar?) the band or the release. And of course there was the "welp, it's not LWS, but it's still better than 99% of the stuff out there" canned response.
There were a couple of songs that served as "on the fence" examples of BS being a better release than the non-release that the LWS were. Captain, Kit Kat Jam and Raven were used as examples that BS was superior to the LWS. When I think of Busted Stuff, ultimately I think we got You Never Know from those sessions. The rest is a massive missed opportunity to give proper due to some of the greatest songs in the band's catalog.
The album was recorded in two weeks with a sound engineer (Steve Harris did a masterful job on Some Devil, interestingly enough), and it sounded like it was recorded in two weeks with an engineer. The BS studio sessions were essentially the antithesis of the Lillywhite Sessions and it shows in the music.