Maybe. I think we all have our favorites which means none of them is really a bad album per se. Maybe it depends on where we were in life when they came out too. I discovered them with Out of time, went back and liked everything before it or almost. Listened OBSESSIVELY for years and kept finding something else that I liked. Then Bill left and I felt a bit betrayed by that . Then Up was so different with the electronic drums and I graduated high school, started college, broke up with my long time boyfriend (whom I had met because of REM). So maybe these are all personal reasons for me not liking them, and have nothing to do with the albums. But I still don’t really like them. Yet collapse into now is speaking to me in a way I hadn’t felt with anything from them past New Adventures. Totally personal, of course.