Shai
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Post by Shai on May 18, 2017 8:30:57 GMT -5
Limp Bizkit.
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Gus Richlen Was Wrong
Patti Mayonnaise
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Fun while it lasted
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on May 18, 2017 8:36:22 GMT -5
Boy did they ever. Puddle Of Mudd is almost as bad thanks to Wes' recent issues.
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Shai
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Post by Shai on May 18, 2017 8:41:05 GMT -5
Boy did they ever. Puddle Of Mudd is almost as bad thanks to Wes' recent issues. I used to listen to them too. Their on the "bands I found out about through wrestling list"
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on May 18, 2017 9:16:01 GMT -5
I still enjoy Bizkit in a "late 90's camp" ironic way. Same with KoRn and other bands from the alt-metal heyday.
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Post by SmashTV on May 18, 2017 14:16:31 GMT -5
Depeche Mode are my favourite band, and from their twinkly synthesizer sound in 1981 up to Songs of Faith and Devotion in 1993, every album sounded different to the other. 1997's Ultra was a band finding their feet again after nearly imploding, 2001's Exciter was a reflective, subdued affair and all albums since then have sounded similar.
They're still my favourite band, but they seem to have settled into a 'this is our sound' routine and stuck with it.
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Post by Big Poppa Pumpkin on May 18, 2017 16:59:07 GMT -5
I haven't heard any new Third Eye Blind stuff but I assume its pretty bad, first album is still a big nostalgic hit for me
edit: actually a lot of bands fall into this category
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Post by Big Poppa Pumpkin on May 18, 2017 17:03:40 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. also, regardless of the quality of the song itself, you have to admire the chutzpah of a man choosing to open up his Greatest Hits album with the first track being an original non-hit about shoving gerbils up his ass
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Hawk Hart
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Sold his organs.
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Post by Hawk Hart on May 18, 2017 17:13:32 GMT -5
In 2002, I thought the Eminem Show was one the most complex, deep rap albums of all time but, to quote my close, personal friend Magic knows Black Lives Matter, "It's 2017, Eminem ain't hot no more."
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Post by wildojinx on May 18, 2017 17:32:30 GMT -5
In 2002, I thought the Eminem Show was one the most complex, deep rap albums of all time but, to quote my close, personal friend Magic knows Black Lives Matter, "It's 2017, Eminem ain't hot no more." Rap Music seems to have less of a "shelf life" than other forms of music, mostly due to it "evolving" so fast that an album that may have been seen as groundbreaking 2 years ago sounds dated now.
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Hawk Hart
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Post by Hawk Hart on May 18, 2017 17:43:00 GMT -5
In 2002, I thought the Eminem Show was one the most complex, deep rap albums of all time but, to quote my close, personal friend Magic knows Black Lives Matter, "It's 2017, Eminem ain't hot no more." Rap Music seems to have less of a "shelf life" than other forms of music, mostly due to it "evolving" so fast that an album that may have been seen as groundbreaking 2 years ago sounds dated now. I think it depends on both the listener and the artist. Illmatic is still a fantastic listen even 23 years later with tons of relatable content, 18 years later he put out Life is Good and Nas was still hot. Ready to Die is another great example of an album still being great 20 years or more later, unfortunately, we don't have a more current comparison. Hell, Kanye's first album came out 13 years ago (two years after the Eminem Show) and it still holds up, not to mention the fact that he's evolved as an artist to the point that his new stuff sounds totally different but still retains a ton of the spirit of his early stuff. With Eminem, it's a matter of dude has been making basically the same kind of songs with similar lyrical content for twenty years now. Nobody really wants to hear a 44 year old man cry about the fact that he had a shitty childhood the same way he did when he was 24.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on May 19, 2017 7:13:59 GMT -5
Fear Factory. Their first two albums Soul of a new machine and Demanufacture are classics and should be owned by anyone into industrial metal but after that they haven't done anything that I would recommend listing to.
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Post by crashmatsbazz on May 19, 2017 9:29:10 GMT -5
Rancid,
fell right off after life won't wait.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on May 19, 2017 9:49:48 GMT -5
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). The average length of songs has definitely increased, even before they got Adrian Smith back, and they had three guitarists. And while The Final Frontier sounded like they were making a conscious effort to incorporate a more progressive sound, overall I wouldn't consider Maiden progressive. Bands like Dream Theater and Queensryche? Now they are progressive. And I just want to add Lord of the Flies. A literary adaptation Maiden did that is often forgotten.
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Post by eDemento2099 on May 19, 2017 10:01:41 GMT -5
Rancid, fell right off after life won't wait. It's almost like the band concentrated the greatness that otherwise would have gone into subsequent albums into that one. For the band's last solid album, it's a damned good one!
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Post by Georgina's Fancy Water on May 19, 2017 12:32:54 GMT -5
Incubus was a pretty seminal band for me as a kid and was one of my first exposures to music that was experimental in some sort of way.
But dude, that later materiel. Oh dude. Dude no. Please no.
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Post by Raskovnik on May 19, 2017 12:42:25 GMT -5
I still love them but Coheed and Cambria haven't put out anything that's blown me away since the first Good Apollo album. No World for Tomorrow has some great songs but it's nowhere near as consistent. I actually LIKE Year of the Black Rainbow despite it being the fan consensus for their worst album and even then I think it's just pretty good but I go years at a time without listening to a single song from it. Afterman has the No World for Tomorrow problem where I dig just a couple tracks from it. The Color Before the Sun was super blah. I like two songs from it and the rest felt like royalty-free music.
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mizerable
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Post by mizerable on May 19, 2017 13:18:23 GMT -5
RHCP: Uplift Mofo Party Plan and Mother's Milk are two of the greatest albums ever. Why does it feel like they've been on autopilot for the last 20 years? God why is all their shit so f***ing mellow? No effort.
Also good points about a lot of bands, I'll add on about a few.
Offspring: I went through a period where I couldn't listen to them anymore, I'd say it was likely due to Americana being severely overplayed at work. Splinter was the last decent album after that, but nowadays I only really like Smash and Ixnay.
Weezer: Jesus, what happened? Was Matt Sharpe's departure that bad? I like the first album and Pinkerton, but after that I'm just at a loss.
Megadeth: The System Has Failed is probably the last great album. I think Thirteen is decent, but yeah it is what it is.
Incubus: Light Grenades is awful. Pure awful. Everything before that is amazing besides their first album.
Depeche Mode: Ultra was probably their low point, but I love Playing the Angel.
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Post by wildojinx on May 19, 2017 13:38:09 GMT -5
Just listened to the new Linkin Park on Spotify. Yeah, I think they qualify for this thread now (actually, Talking to Myself and Battle Symphony arent bad for what they are, but the rest is dire, even as a pop album).
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malloc
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Post by malloc on May 19, 2017 14:11:13 GMT -5
I saw L7 in London last year they still own it. Great gig.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on May 19, 2017 18:15:25 GMT -5
I saw L7 in London last year they still own it. Great gig. I saw them in Seattle last year donita sparks still rules
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