>>Ok, if you say they were something, I'll accept that. If you can explain what that something was, I'll be even happier.
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>>Translation: I never liked them - young or old. I might have liked them better had they not sounded like they were singing inside a cocktail shaker.
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>Most of the stuff they produced before, say, '72 or so was OK, they even managed to arrange the strings in a few imaginative ways, and had a few memorable hits, and that was it. By '74, they should have started doing something else. After that, whoever put them up to redo Sgt Pepper or join that Johntra guy, should be up the wall with them.

Well, I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree about what qualifies as 'OK'.