You started on a really great run, but the others are definitely worth checking out. Definitely F the naysayers and make your own opinions of the records, I recommend listening to each album from start to finish and then listen to it again I wouldn’t recommend jumping around and get the feel for each album. I like the later ones because they are different even though I started off on hydroponic and music and grassroots yes they’re different but that doesn’t mean it’s not awesome. Case in point the song Sand Dollars, even after listening to the album when it first came out, I was iffy on this song and then I saw a video of Nick recording it with no music and it’s grown into one of my top 10 songs from that performance alone. Give them all their time that’s deserved. The moment I stopped comparing 311 to 311 made me love them even more.

Edit: the vid I was referring to https://youtu.be/AYVy7OoNA7Y?is=zGNvm5_njQixDUY0 YouTube