I know that it is part of the Canon of Contemporary Western Music now, in that same region of critical love-in as Sgt Peppers or Pet Sounds or Beggar's Banquet (though, admittedly, to a mostly different audience), bit I still love it. Teenage Riot gets me every time. Only bit I'm not keen on is the last of the Trilogy.
Do you not think that there's a bit of that over familiarity thing? I was reading the pitchfork 100 albums of the 70s and led zep IV came in at 7th-ish and the reviewer was saying that if you could erase any memory of the album and listento it fresh, it would surely top the list... that's how i feel about DDN (and i apologise for invoking pitchfork in my defence...)
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