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Interesting, when I saw the title of this thread, I immediately thought, "Well, for layered, I'd have to say Sonic Nurse." Even so, I'm actually mildly surprised there is such consensus agreement to it so far.
I don't know if it's underrated, because I know a lot of people who hadn't given the band the time of day in years who really like it, and even some people who never tried them before who do. It's certainly an awesome studio achievement, and though I'm actually finding that the songs on Rather Ripped are starting to stick with me the way the one's on Nurse did, obviously the older record had a lot more going on in terms of layers and levels of sound. I think O' Rourke had more to do with that than any of us seem to want to give him credit for, but I'm loathe to start that argument again. I remember from the live set that there were parts where he actually played guitar along with kim, so that there were four guitars and no bass.
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