I have never heard that POS album, XJD, but I agree that an acoustic/folky album from them could be sweet. I think they could pull of a Damnation-type album really well: lots of acoustic, clean, non-metal guitars, piano, mellotron, etc. I mean, just imagine a whole album of songs similar to the Rotterdam songs on the 5YIAL video. That would be great. Sure, some of the more metal fans of theirs wouldn't like it,
I think this is something that pretty much everyone would be interested in, besides people who ONLY like metal and nothing else. I think they could do a really great job. I love Damnation, although I can understand why some people think it's quite narrow in scope, but 12:5 by PoS is incredibly varied considering that everything is entirely acoustic. It's a little different as it's a live album, where they rearranged (in some cases completely changed) existing songs, rather than writing new ones, but something with that kind of feel would be amazing.
but I think time has shown that making every DT fan happy is pretty much impossible.
You can say that again.