It Bites

I sometimes wonder to myself why it is I like It Bites. I mean, I really like them. I was at work the other day & 'Screaming On The Beaches' came on & I had to stop and listen to it. It's weird, they came along around the same time that Marillion had split with Fish and when IQ & Jadis and all that lot were trying to go kind of commercial. None of them had the weird prog-pop thing so well down.
Dunnery is quite a poor lyric writer, a fairly OK singer. The rest of the band are OK too - but they ain't Rush, they ain't Genesis, they're not Yes but they still make music that I want to listen to more than those guys. Dunnery's guitar is obviously a high point, there's something to be said for artists who can play their shit off and still make unboring and moderately commercial material. Level 42 is a case in point. Anything up to and including World Machine has an awesome amount of musicianship encased within it, but without Jazz Fusion's tendency to rub your face in it's musical mess. If you take Yes - there's a whole heap of muscial hubs to bite into. Everything from Jon's daft pixie voice to Rick's live curry eating & on to the mathematical drumming & Rickenbacker stylings of Fish-man, Bites just don't have the same nub-ness - but it doesn't matter.
When Bites' last album - 'Eat Me In St Louis' came out, I initially was not impressed. In the slightest. It was again plumped full of cringeworthy lyrics (Murder Of The Planet Earth anyone?) but somehow now I love it. What is wrong with me? I'm obviously not a journalist (as you can tell by now) but if anyone could email & let me know I'd find life a little easier to cope with. I have the questions - no answers.