Demon Days by Gorillaz
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Metallica (Black Album)
Stone Roses - Stone Roses.
Their debut album put them on a very high pedestal that they were never able to match.
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
They had an incredible decade prior to this releasing 3 other top notch albums, but by far this one sticks out as the most successful and easiest to pickup. They have a lot more after this release as well, but I think Wayne found himself diving into an era of depression and it absolutely showed on those later releases. The last release was good but also nothing special at the same time.
Ahhh they toured this album last year and it was amazing.
It’s not the shows from 20 years ago, but there’s still lots of confetti and smoke and glitter and sparkles.
He got in the ball but stayed on stage with it which was weird cuz it just looked like he was trying to hotbox farts
Green Day - Dookie
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac
System of a down - Toxicity
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
I love that game!
I’d have to disagree with QotSA, but I can definitely see why. I’m a huuuge fan of theirs, but for some reason every new QotSA album seems to take years for me to fully appreciate. I absolutely hated Era Vulgaris when it first came out. It’s by far my favorite album of theirs now. Even …like clockwork is barely starting to really grow on me, but I’m definitely coming around. I haven’t even bothered to listen to their newest one yet.
Disagree on Green Day and SoaD, imo American Idiot is green days best album and Mezmerize and Hypnotize are slightly better than Toxicity.
I just really don’t like Daron’s voice 😂
As for Green Day, I feel like American idiot is the album where we could see they were really letting go of their punk roots and wanted to make stuff that would sell… But Dookie was my first cassette ever so I’m biased.
Yeah that’s fair, and dookie is a really good album, though I do like american idiot more. Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming, Holiday, Boulevard and American Idiot are just such bangers and the concept of the album is just really cool.
Fair enough ‘Steal This Album’ has a few flat tracks but there are so many great songs. Also, every song on Mezmerize is wicked. Granted, not in the same mood as Toxicity but far out… So so good.
I agree that Songs for the deaf is QOTSA’s magnum opus, but majority of their other albums are bangers too and it feels unfair to say they fell off after it
Oh for sure, I can listen to all their albums and be totally happy which one I chose, SftD just has something special.
In rainbows?
Also a great album, I just feel the other two were their peak and contrary to Green Day (that I also mentioned), I’ve continued listening to Radiohead, including their new albums and they’re all great!
QoS has a bunch of awesome albums after Songs for the Deaf. Unless we’re talking about popularity, but quality def not.
Songs for the Deaf is incredible, but how could you say they fell off when
Like ClockworkEra Vulgaris exists and is clearly their best album all the way through?“fell off” is interpreted very strongly by some, I just see it as “here’s their peak, after that they never made something quite as good as that”
And to me that’s SftD even if EV is still awesome!
100%
Era Vulgaris is by far my favorite album of theirs.
No way with Green Day. Insomniac, Nimrod, and American Idiot are all excellent.
The thing that impresses me so much about Green Day is that they peaked, had the usual big falloff in quality a few albums later, then they peaked again about a decade after Dookie. I can’t think of any other band that managed to do this off the top of my head.
Yep. Although I really just think of Warning as one OK album in a run of great first 7 albums, which is a pretty remarkable.
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Massive Attack - Mezzanine
They still had a few good tracks afterwards but that album really was a masterpiece.
Endtroducing
This seems to happen with progressive rock at alarming levels. They just reach a point where they take their pretentious bullshit a little too far, and the fans grow weary of it. You saw that with Jethro Tull, which pushed its luck with A Passion Play after scoring a critical success with Thick as a Brick. Yes took it too far with Topographic Oceans. I’m sure ELP has an album where they pushed the envelope a little too far and pushed away the audience in the process. Unfortunately, that had a pendulum effect, with ELP releasing the wimpy Love Beach in an attempt to reel back in those lapsed fans.
I feel like Topographic Oceans could’ve been way better if it was condensed by almost half its runtime. The songs have cool ideas, but no focus and they all blend together.
Marilyn Manson - Holywood
I’d put ACS as peak, MA and Holywood were both great, then a very long lull. Pale Emperor was the last one that caught my ear like the older ones did.
Yeah, I really liked ACS, but it didn’t feel right leaving the next 2 out. Pale Emperor was the last half decent one for sure.
Gorillaz fell off? Since when?
Idk if I would say they “fell off” but Demon Days was fucking AMAZING and Plastic Beach was really good. Plus all their stuff from before that ranged from good to great too. Everything that came after Plastic Beach was…. Mediocre at best and this is just my own subjective opinion obviously as is anyone’s opinion on music but like I grew up listening to all sorts of EDM and I just don’t like any of their newer stuff it’s experimental though which aligns with their style I’ll give them that
Side note: as a fan of electronica/electronic music I HATE how “EDM” is now the blanket term used. Not all songs by Gorillaz are EDM.
You’re right and I corrected myself
Yeah wtf is OP smoking their last album was one of my favs of the year
A Rush of Blood to the Head by Cold Play…
Of what came after I like X&Y and Mylo Xyloto too, but this one was their best.
I know bands can change their style over 20 years, and I’m glad the band can be happy touring and making music they like and I don’t hate people that like their new stuff, but something about the brilliant, raw feeling their music had (imo anyway) gave way for generic electronic music trend-chasing. When I heard “Higher Power” I was like “wow it’s The Weekend just with Chris Martin singing.”
Sadly, Guns n Roses, Appetite for Destruction.
Nothing any of them have done since has matched the quality of creativity that they did on aod.
I’m not saying I didn’t like the use your illusion pair, and Slash has done some damn good work on specific songs in his various projects. But the band as a whole fell off hard after their very first. Axl in particular kinda lost his songwriting during use your illusion, which had some great songs, but it wasn’t consistently great as albums
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. And in no way do I mean this as a dis for anything that followed. A masterpiece is simply just that.
Metallica (Black Album)
Is this a joke? This is where they’re newfound mediocrity was cemented. They peaked at Ride the Lightning, everything after that was more and more watered down garbage.Sorry, I meant I strongly disagree.
Sam’s Town - The Killers
