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> I don't think your taste is edgy.. at least in a negative connotation of the word. For you the edgyness is not an aesthetic but an expression. You aren't wholly defined by it either. 

for the most part, it´s the one that you would expect from a /mu/tant in its first phases of discovering music. It´s just that I don´t know where to clean the image of having this "not positive" nor comfy material about it. I can feel happy to an extent, hell some of the songs I listen to the most are really happy but the cutting edge material noteworthy to show up, is hardly that. 

> it's also ant collectivist in meaning if you can't tell 
I don´t get that part 

> Most people consider there early stuff to be the best with it starting to go downhill somepoint in the mid 80's. Though there recent stuff is considered more true to form 

it has a 3.53 rating in RYM, best one since 1981, so yeah, not all bands follow the trend of going downhill after the first successful albums despite its cliche and failing to prove it wrong. 
> I actually listen to a fair bit beyond what is considered good albums by most and have a few songs I like from that era. it may not be the songs themselves.

 One album can contain a few good songs that deserve some praise from a not so popular album from an artist. There are always hidden gems, even on the b-sides. 

> There songs became more depressing and reflective rather then wrapped in a fantasy or sci-fi concept albums, philosophy and there rabid individualist themes  >They also did a lot of experimentation in style as well, rather then in complexity. While I don't hate most of there work from that era i can understand why it is off putting to some. 

 It´s always the cycle of not liking change and the execution of that change. Radiohead for example, went full electronica with all its consequences and they played nicely with it, REM went completely pop and while, they didn´t hit at first with Out Of Time(Shiny Happy People(ugh), they nailed it with Automatic for the People and it´s pop music. It just depends and tings vary and differ a lot in each case.

 >They also did a lot of experimentation in style as well, rather then in complexity. While I don't hate most of there work from that era i can understand why it is off putting to some. 
 >slightly more popish song with an out of no where rap segment being one of best examples of more mixed reception on experimentation these are the type of songs that people would find really disappointing. It promises to be enjoyable(in this case it is for some chill moments) but then, all of a sudden, it doesn´t flow that well or it has some elements that don´t fit and ruin its purpose rather than helping on it. This has happened to a lot of artists who went pop or introduced rap, they fail for its commercial spotlight.