Iām insisting on listening to the CD rather than streaming it at work so tonight or tomorrow 
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and with all that said, with barely a second to catch our breath ā¦ itās reunion time with LETāS GO EAT THE FACTORY
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Donāt call OSHA!
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what a comeback song, when I heard this on P4K it made my year basically. Played it pretty relentlessly
all-time Bob song title also
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BEYOND THE VULNERABILITIES
AND NUCLEAR FACILITIES
That sound when Greg hits the floor!! 
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Here is the writeup for Letās Go Eat The Factory over at the Earful 'O Wax fan blog.
(Looks like we have finally caught up with the Constant Bleeder page, I think he adds like a release per month and heās reached as far as late 2005 to this point).
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Hmm, Earful man doesnāt dig it much does he? I started reading the Pitchfork review earlier too, but it was too annoying to finish. Suffice to say they didnāt like it much either.
My thoughts - before a proper listen and reappraisal - is that the critics place too much value on the need for cohesiveness, really. If it wasnāt being compared to Bee Thousand and had decent artwork, I reckon theyād dig it more. Also reckon thereās more to it than was immediately noticeable at the time. The singles, for example, hold up very well - even if Demos canāt get through a live TV performance without falling over.
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Yeah Iāve liked reading both blogs but I very rarely actually agree with Earfulās scores - God Loves Us a one?? Madness
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as the waves crash around youuuu
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Soā¦I donāt really know what to say about this album, other than I REALLY donāt like it. Itās easily my least fave GBV album post-Sandbox.
Factory came out years before I belatedly discovered the band, but I can only think it mustāve been a huge anti-climax to the fans at the time. A real wet fart of a comeback album 
I remember one of the blog guys saying that Sandbox is missing any personality, and I think the same applies here as well to be honest. It just all feels a bit half-hearted to these ears, the songs just arenāt there which is something you can hardly ever say about anything with Bobās name attached to it.
The highlights:
- A couple of all-timers in āLaundry & Lasersā and of course āThe Unsinkable Fats Dominoā
- I guess āThe Headā and āImperial Racehorsingā are pretty good
- The Tobes songs are solid
ā¦and that is it. Nothing else really stands out to me 
Iām listening to it now as I type having not heard it for a few years. REALLY enjoying it to be honest.
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I mean, even the album artwork is half-assed.
Bob, what the hell man???
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Sorry, from a real-time fan - wrong!
Think some of the solo Bob stuff between Half Smiles and this was better, but it all blurred together - this had the hiss and weirdness and Tobin that his albums had been missing
Feels more like a throwback to Fly or VoT than anything else imho, for better and worse
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Some was definitely it being ānewā though - not sure how Iād view it if it was the 3rd or 5th reunion album instead of the one that kicked things off again
I just noticed that the Earful dude described Factory as
ā¦which kinda sums it up for me too
funny cos Iād say personality is what it had the most of more than tunes or cohesion or any of those other pesky positive things lol
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True, but on VoT, Fly etc. the hiss and weirdness framed some truly fantastic songwriting. Iām just not hearing that at all on this album tbh.
tbf this is a lot of defending for an album im gonna give a high 6, decent 7 to
its good and stands out over a lot of other reunion stuff imho, but it is plenty flawed too
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