Justin G
Member
I see your point, but as a huge fan of the first two albums, S&B was such a drastic change to their sound and image, the only thing I can compare it to was when Metallica went from the Black album to Load
Except that Load was a bad album by all measures. Strange and Beautiful is a very different album than its predecessors, but it's still a very good album if you can judge it on its own merits.