The point here is that the brand name eclipses any merits of the album as a standalone piece of work. I would argue that with other artists, poor work would be more readily dismissed. However, this band happens to have a particularly insidiously fashionable strain of pseudo-intellectual prestige associated with their brand name (albeit a reputation probably deservedly earned from 1 or 2 early instances of genuine creative genius), but in part also derived from the ambiguous nature of their art/experimental musical leanings which implies in and of itself some sort of 'cleverness', that many of their fans buy into, thus it's much harder for them to be objective about any single album. IMHO only Street Spirit and Paranoid Android are really undisputedly deserving of the hype. Just and Creep come extremely close.
