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"Pop album"? If Sister was a pop album, then all their "mainstream" records are essentially pop albums. As for the jamming issue, you can hear 2 numbers on this album crying out for it: "Pipeline-Kill Time" and "P.C.H."; if this had been a double set, I could see either of these taking half a side.
As for Confusion Is Sex, I totally agree with you: It's a scary trip. Some people have called this the darkest, bleakest, most sinisterly atmospheric thing ever put to wax--I'm inclined to agree. The bass on "Protect Me You" alone is enough to frighten the piss out of a ten-year old in his/her own bedroom.
One thing I've never understood about Sister, by the way: Why do so many fans go nuts over "Kotton Krown", to the point where even the band has found themselves making it somewhat of a staple of live performances? True, it's a nice little track--a rare duet from Kim and Thurston and all, but I would still have to rank it as probably the weakest song on the album. And its seems rather probable that the band felt the same way in the beginning, otherwise they wouldn't have placed it next to last in the running order.
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