damning with faint praise

I was listening to a Nightwatchman CD and trying to find songs I like - I really enjoy Tom Morello's voice, but he's got some lyrics that sound as though Trent and Jesse wrote them, y'know? Anyway, I was listening to one song and I thought, "wow, this isn't bad - it's reminiscent of Paul Gross, just maybe not quite as good". That might have been the moment when I realized I wasn't listening to very good music.