Although his politics, and how he expresses them, I find reprehensible, I like a lot of Ted's music:
I too played in several bands growing up, and we played lots of Nuge...
We used to goof around during practice and play the music to Cat Scratch Fever, while singing the lyrics to his other songs (making fun of the fact that many of his songs during that period were quite similar)...I guess we were ahead of our time in doing mash-ups.
Only goes to prove that talent at one thing (guitar) does not necessarily translate into talent at other things (like eloquent civil discourse and rational thought).
ADG