Absolute 
One of those foundational artists for me. Nicked my sister’s copy of the best-of, Once In A Lifetime, as a kid and played it to death. Realised later how unrepresentative it was! Also remember being weirded out by Stop Making Sense as I had no idea what a live album was lol
Loved that they didn’t just write ‘songs about girlfriends’, everything was a oblique in some way. Made other bands seem pedestrian, lyrically at least - why weren’t Ash or whoever writing songs about houses and not moving to the country? My idea of what songs should be about was probably a bit miscalibrated as a result
Only very recently heard their last three albums in full! Little Creatures and True Stories had a few good tunes each, but were otherwise as average as I’d feared for me. Naked was nice, though
Remain in Light is their best album for me, with Houses in Motion or The Great Curve as the tunes, and Stop Making Sense is one of the great live albums
I like this band so much I tried retelling S1 of True Detective in TH lyrics, and found they work surprisingly well:
tl;dr uh-oh, five comes to town
