OK I'm in! It's a foot in the door. Today, I'm mucking out the latrines, tomorrow, TO THE STARS!!!

Giant birthday cakes don't grow on trees you know.

He's got an awesome voice, and his writing is all over the map style wise. He also is a great performer, so as much as I don't have a deep knowledge of his stuff, I respect him hugely.  It's hard to keep up with everything, but he's on my list of artists to dig into more.

Nah.

Agree with you on the "genius takes time" being bullshit. I'd never make that argument with him, for sure. I'd be ok if it took a little longer, but not 14 years long.

I also think CD could have been a magnum opus, and despite still being awesome (IMO), it was lessened by tinkering and listless direction. The tracks we got weren't necessarily the tracks that would have been on CD 1999, 2002, or 2006. Ultimately, if he had gotten it out 6-8 years earlier, and given us the 2-4 albums worth that were thrown around over the years, I think it easily could have been another UYI set, but taken in a new direction. A new direction that would have still befitted its time back then.