The main problem with Euphoria is that it's sound is exactly whjat they did in the 80's except not as good, and that exactly what makes me cringe about the album.
With X in my opinion the band lost a lot of credibility, it sounds like they were triyng to hard to have a hit and loosing their integrity in the way, plus the fact that 2 songs on X didn't have anything to do with DL in a songwriting sense and I thought that was completely lame.

Though Slang is one of my all time favorite albums, I wouldn't compare it to Crush of Bounce or TLFR, but to These Days for the era it was released in, and Having said that These Days is 10x times better than Slang.