Album Rating: 4.0

That's exactly what I've been thinking about recently - the fact that they're so huge in the UK, and yet solidly an underground entity in the US. A slew of hit singles and albums in the former... not even one iota of chart impact in the latter. They deserve to be so much bigger on this side of the pond.

Album Rating: 4.2

For sure. I can at least see why their Richey-era albums wouldn't be as popular, since their music and politics were a lot more explicitly UK-based (granted, they still kinda are), but their later stuff has much more universal topics and messages. More than anything, I'm just surprised that Everything Must Go didn't get more popular in the US since it was right in the middle of the country's Britpop explosion.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah honestly at the very least "Australia" feels universal enough that it should've been huge in the US, maybe "A Design for Life" too

Album Rating: 4.2

A Design for Life has a few UK-specific things, but "we don't talk about love / we only wanna get drunk" is pretty damn universal

Album Rating: 4.0

I remember in some interview in the This is My Truth era Nicky Wire jokingly said their politics are why they aren't big in the US, especially with a single called If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next from an album titled This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours. From what I understand, lack of promotion in the US may also be part of it since the band cancelled what would've been their first US tour when Richey went missing and they still don't tour much in the US. Not to mention a lot of their music vids are region blocked on YouTube lol