Listening Posts

There have been a few requests for some more Listening Posts and the suggestions are....interesting, to say the least.
The project started when I realized that i owned Make Believe by Weezer but had never listened to it. And, with the Red Album coming out, I thought I would go through the discography to see, well, to see what I thought.
And what I thought was, Red sucks, Blue is antiquated, Pinkerton is a clunky classic, Green is short and to the point, Maladroit is correctly titled and Make Believe is unfortunately maligned. Weezer are the last decade's version of The Cars and Make Believe was their Heartbeat City. Red, on the other hand, is an ep's worth of music at best.
Then I decided to delve into another band that I owned but only occasioned: Everclear.
What I discovered there was Art Alexakis writes two or three songs over and over and over again and, once you are past So Much for the Afterglow and American Movie part One, it's all over. There's absolutely nothing you haven't heard and been bored by before.
Which brought me, somehow, to U2. You've read that. That was fun.
So, where to go next? The thing about the Listening Post, for me, is it has to be a once-iconic band, I have to be peripherally knowledgeable of their music, mainly the hits and it has to be a challenge.
Some of the bands that have been mentioned, R.E.M, Pearl Jam, Beck, hold some interest and I might, MIGHT, visit them but I am more inclined to look at the oeuvre of the likes of Cheap Trick, Bon Jovi, Journey and, dare I say, AC/DC.
So, prepare yourselves. A Listening Post is on the way. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.