I love These Days and thought it could herald a real shift away from the whole " hair metal " tag some gave them. It had a much darker more mature sound, so I was hugely disappointed with Crush and Bounce that followed it. For me they began the decline that they have never halted. I saw them on all the tours for the first 6 albums and they were great, I then saw them on the Lost Highway tour and as with their recorded output, they were a shadow of the band they had been.