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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 16:16:24 GMT -5
She started going in more of a pop direction, which turned off the fans of her more hard-rocking stuff (ie, Heartbreaker). Problem was, the pop fans could never really gravitate toward her either. Havent heard much of her post-80s material, but from what i've heard it's got more of a blues-rock sound, which is fine for what it is, but a far cry from the older stuff. Sounds kinda like what happened to Liz Phair. One amazing debut album, two OK follow ups and then she decided to go the pop route to the delight of no one. Liz had a child, new perspectives on life. They're alright, but nothing I'd exactly go out of my way to hear. Blondie does this a lot. They fall off the musical radar for a few years, then come out with a fresh new album. They just released "Pollinator" within the past couple of weeks. They still tour often, but mainly to do their older stuff. (I dont care how old she is, Debbie is still the Queen Of Cool to me.)
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 17, 2017 17:50:23 GMT -5
They were good. I liked them but they're not great albums. This raises an interesting question about what we're talking in this thread when we say "fell off". Because in terms of sales, Get a Grip and Nine Lives sold an assload of albums. If you wanna argue sound/style-wise, then that's subjective I'm arguing they weren't great albums but I'm also telling you Nine Lives is probably my favourite album of theirs too. I like all their stuff but I realize there's a ton of crap too.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 17:53:32 GMT -5
As much as I love her as a person and musician Patti Smith, Horses is (imo) the greatest debut album there will ever be so everything else would have a hard time living up. Still I geek out whenever she announces new music because I'm so in love with her voice no matter how many forgettable albums she's made This might make me sound crazy, but Gone Again is my favorite Patti Smith album.
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Post by King Boo on May 17, 2017 18:07:47 GMT -5
Sounds kinda like what happened to Liz Phair. One amazing debut album, two OK follow ups and then she decided to go the pop route to the delight of no one. Liz had a child, new perspectives on life. They're alright, but nothing I'd exactly go out of my way to hear. Blondie does this a lot. They fall off the musical radar for a few years, then come out with a fresh new album. They just released "Pollinator" within the past couple of weeks. They still tour often, but mainly to do their older stuff. (I dont care how old she is, Debbie is still the Queen Of Cool to me.) Debbie Harry is the definition of fabulous.
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on May 17, 2017 18:14:59 GMT -5
Morbid Angel are THE band that got me into death metal but they haven't made an album worth listening to since the mid 90s. I liked everything up to Illud, which I have listened to exactly one song from and it's only OK at best. So hopefully the new Tucker-led lineup can come up with something good. Slayer hasn't come up with anything good since Christ Illusion so they're my go-to answer, although Judas Priest has gotten bad lately too. Haven't listened to Atheist's Jupiter album but that supposedly is more a victim of shit production than anything the band themselves have done.
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Post by wildojinx on May 17, 2017 18:33:19 GMT -5
Judas Priest has gotten bad lately too. Have you heard "Redeemer of Souls"? Excellent album and it shows Priest have gotten back on track IMO
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on May 17, 2017 18:35:42 GMT -5
Judas Priest has gotten bad lately too. Have you heard "Redeemer of Souls"? Excellent album and it shows Priest have gotten back on track IMO I did, and maybe I'm in the minority but I really thought it sounded very weak.
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Post by Albino Heat on May 17, 2017 22:27:02 GMT -5
Garth Brooks' last 3 albums have all been quite dissapointing. Still puts on one hell of a live show, though.
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Post by eDemento2099 on May 17, 2017 23:21:21 GMT -5
Aerosmith. They're career went this so. Debut album. Even with two classics on it but it's just meh. Second album. Eh. Third album...now we're looking good. Excellent. Rocks is one of the best rock albums of the 70's. Then about 15 years of suck. 89 Pump comes out is awesome. All down hill from there. Their last album was just embarrassing. I think that Get A Grip is, track-for-track, one of the band's strongest albums. The subsequent studio album (Nine Lives) disappointed me, but it did have a few noteworthy highlights like "Ain't That a Bitch?" But yeah, everything after that has been bad, and don't even get me started on the most recent (and presumably final) studio album...
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Post by eDemento2099 on May 17, 2017 23:26:39 GMT -5
Yeah, IMO they fell off with Just Push Play, though Honkin on Bobo is pretty good, and even the new album has a few killer tunes (Street Jesus, Beautiful) Also, they put on an AMAZING show. If you ever get a chance to see them, do so. That's true, but that's also largely true because they stick to playing the classics live. When I saw the band with Run-DMC and Kid Rock circa 2002, the only post-Pump song I can remember them playing was "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." Of course, Aerosmith didn't even write the song and it sounds nothing like the band's signature style, but I guess they felt obligated to play it since it was their biggest cross-demographic single and was perhaps the reason why some people came to the show in the first place.
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Post by eDemento2099 on May 17, 2017 23:35:53 GMT -5
Other than Aerosmith, I can't think of many artists or bands that I really dug that 'fell off' for me. I guess The Offspring and Green Day would be my answers.
My favorite Offspring album is Ixnay, and although Americana had some very strong singles and got the band incredible popularity, the band kind of became a joke thanks to the success of "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)," and each subsequent album had fewer and fewer songs I enjoyed.
I don't like any material Green Day has done starting with the American Idiot album.
I was going to say Weezer. Raditude was actually the album that got me into the band thanks to the strength of a few singles. I explored the band's back catalog and fell in love with its work, particularly that of Pinkerton. However, I hated everything the band did after Raditude, and recognize that most of Raditude is crap. Everything Will Be Alright In the End struck me like a decent redemption, but I haven't yet heard the White Album, and am not sure I can say I still dig the band's newer sound. Maybe Everything Will Be Alright is just an anomaly.
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Post by Knailsic From Now On on May 17, 2017 23:51:56 GMT -5
Other than Aerosmith, I can't think of many artists or bands that I really dug that 'fell off' for me. I guess The Offspring and Green Day would be my answers. My favorite Offspring album is Ixnay, and although Americana had some very strong singles and got the band incredible popularity, the band kind of became a joke thanks to the success of "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)," and each subsequent album had fewer and fewer songs I enjoyed. I don't like any material Green Day has done starting with the American Idiot album. I was going to say Weezer. Raditude was actually the album that got me into the band thanks to the strength of a few singles. I explored the band's back catalog and fell in love with its work, particularly that of Pinkerton. However, I hated everything the band did after Raditude, and recognize that most of Raditude is crap. Everything Will Be Alright In the End struck me like a decent redemption, but I haven't yet heard the White Album, and am not sure I can say I still dig the band's newer sound. Maybe Everything Will Be Alright is just an anomaly. White is is stronger than EWBA, Do You Wanna Get High could sit nicely on Pinkerton
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Post by Alice Syndrome on May 18, 2017 2:22:48 GMT -5
Relapse and Recovery wasn't a good era for Eminem, but it's good that he's back now.
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 18, 2017 2:58:39 GMT -5
Iron Maiden. Their newer stuff is basically just prog-metal, complete with super-long songs (though I will admit that I enjoyed their newest album The Book Of Souls quite a bit, but I wish they'd go back to the style of albums like Piece of Mind). Piece of Mind was a concept album devoted to turning the band's favorite literary works into song, with one being an 8-minute devotion to Frank Herbert's Dune. Their next album had a 15-minute reworking of an 18th century poem, and the album after that had a near-ten minute retelling of the biography of Alexander the Great. They've been prog-metal with super-long songs the whole time.
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Post by Rican on May 18, 2017 5:15:33 GMT -5
I'd say Muse. Drones was decent but nowhere near the old stuff.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on May 18, 2017 6:03:51 GMT -5
In Flames
Older stuff especially cayman and colony are fantastic albums and really good stuff.
Heck I even liked reroute to remain which a lot of people didn't, I don't think that album is anyway near as bad as people make out.
Soundtrack to your escape was hit and miss and come clarity had some ok stuff.
But after that they really began to suck.
Ashame,
And I don't care much for Anders new hipster look either..but that's a different story.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 7:04:46 GMT -5
Eminem. Dropped three classics and it's been a whole lot of bullshit ever since. Encore was pretty solid, although there was some nonsense on there. Even "My First Single" is still fun to listen to and "Yellow Brick Road" is one of his best songs ever. Relapse had a ton of really good horrorcore and he was flowing like a madman. Wasn't until Recovery that his music dove off a cliff for me.
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Post by wildojinx on May 18, 2017 7:14:25 GMT -5
Iron Maiden. Their newer stuff is basically just prog-metal, complete with super-long songs (though I will admit that I enjoyed their newest album The Book Of Souls quite a bit, but I wish they'd go back to the style of albums like Piece of Mind). Piece of Mind was a concept album devoted to turning the band's favorite literary works into song, with one being an 8-minute devotion to Frank Herbert's Dune. Their next album had a 15-minute reworking of an 18th century poem, and the album after that had a near-ten minute retelling of the biography of Alexander the Great. They've been prog-metal with super-long songs the whole time. Agreed on the lyrical themes, but as it pertains to song length, the "epic" songs were usually the exception, or at least, just one an album. Now there are few songs on the new album that are under 6 minutes (and nothing under 5 minutes).
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Post by Mozenrath on May 18, 2017 7:25:36 GMT -5
Liz had a child, new perspectives on life. They're alright, but nothing I'd exactly go out of my way to hear. Blondie does this a lot. They fall off the musical radar for a few years, then come out with a fresh new album. They just released "Pollinator" within the past couple of weeks. They still tour often, but mainly to do their older stuff. (I dont care how old she is, Debbie is still the Queen Of Cool to me.) Debbie Harry is the definition of fabulous. You have to be to deliver a line like "walking on imported air", and make it sound totally natural. I think most artists would sound like a doofus.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 18, 2017 7:27:34 GMT -5
I know that this guy was reviled, but I remember that I liked Kid Rock when I was a lot younger. I basically stopped caring for his stuff when he started rapping a lot less to just only singing. Don't get me wrong, he is not a bad singer, but I actually liked him better as a rapper. I still stand by that "Lonely Road of Faith" is one of the best fitting songs the WWF/WWE ever used for their basic Historical Tribute at the time. I LOVED that Video Package and it's one of my all time favorites they ever did still.
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