I think you are gonna have a lot of people disagree-ing with you!

I personally perfer Crush to Bounce (I know I'm in the minority). I also prefer all the post-90 albums to the 80's albums. Whilst I love some of the 80's songs (Prayer, There For You) I think These Days is the bands best album and I doubt they'll top it (I hope I'm wrong though).

As for Dave Bryan - I think his playing on Bounce is superb and fits well with the whole album.

On another point - if the band hadn't evolved and were still writing and playing 80's rock songs they wouldn't be here today (see Poison, Cinderella, and any number of other similar bands) - those that are still around are not selling out stadium across Europe anymore.


Edit - P.S. I'm not checking your website out on principal - I realise your whole post was supposed to infuriate us into looking at it.