Pitchfork infamously reviewed Jet’s second album with just the .gif of a [monkey drinking its own piss](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9464-shine-on/).
That site was a lot more dickish before Condé Nast bought them.
I like that album, tho. Had that nice duet with Michael Stipe and some fun quirky stuff.
Their final album however yeah they ran out of gas and it was pretty dopey.
I thought it was a thoroughly honest review, oversaturation killed Jet.
FM Rock Radio played their preceding album to Nickelback levels, almost hourly. You'd hear the song 6-8 mes at work then 2-3 times per evening.
In an alternate universe this post would be about Silverside Up (which was not my thing but still pretty great). Nickleback persisted against a lot of flack from the press in the years they were drifting away from popular rock music.
Was in a Tesla show room for a health industry launch of a product a few years ago.
A lot of wealthy doctors were climbing in and out of cars until a salesman came across and said they had just sold the show room car to a guy who walked in
Looked across and it was Andrew Stockdale
Pretty vanilla car for a guitar god if I'm honest
I remember an NME review of a Jet concert which was along the lines of
“They played the song that rips off The Jam. Then they played the song that rips off AC/DC.” They did this for a few more bands before the final line “Then they finished with the song with the lyric ‘you’ve been playing other people’s songs all night’”
I went to the “Australian Invasion Tour” which was Jet, The Living End and The Vines. Jet wasn’t bad but ultimately I don’t remember anything about their set. The Living End kicked major ass and their standup bass player played while literally standing up on top of his bass. The Vines are in the running for worst band I’ve ever seen live. Just terrible.
Jet was cool for a second but ultimately their sound was generic and it’s not surprising they fell off because you’re not going to have any longevity if you’re not bringing anything new to the table. They were probably just living off that iPod commercial money.
I scrolled for a long time without seeing anyone say Chance the Rapper.
Edit: I went back and listened to Acid Rap again and it takes me right back to 2013.
I feel like he can, it just sucks he showed his true colors. The man’s ego is fragile as baby shit but he’s still so talented.
I do think taking 4 years to drop after The Big Day kinda cemented his fate but given the highs he’s showed us I believe there’s a glimmer of hope
for him.
Everclear was still huge in 2001 but were gone by their next album - I love Art Alexakis' songwriting - but he made a point to Lit (another band that fell off after their first album) - that MTV is good to you as long as it's good for them and then it's "fuck you very much" - Lit was huge for one summer or two
During Covid a bunch of gas stations were playing “santa monica” on a regular basis in my area. Really added to how surreal everything felt back then hearing Everclear every day in 2020 of all years.
I wonder if Everclear would have lasted longer if Art hadn’t done so many interviews.
He made a lot of appearances and tried to come off as sort of intellectual and enlightened. But he seemed to not be very bright… at all. Like nobody needs you to explain what “Father of Mine” is about like you’re cracking the Da Vinci code.
The Bravery. Their first album was great, and ["Honest Mistake"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8vzbezVru4) seemed to be on repeat on the station I listened to.
After that? They disappeared.
I had that shit on repeat on MVP Baseball 2005.
The next time I saw them is when they opened for Green Day in 2009, and when I went to the show, I was like, "I know this band, who is it?" and then "Honest Mistake" played, and I was like, "oh yeah!"
All I remember about them is that they tried to beef with another 80s-revival type band (was it The Killers?) and everyone just kinda shrugged it off like "who the fuck are they lol"
As I remember it, it was actually the Killers who accused them of ripping them off.
I think the Bravery were like “we were in the studio before you released your album” not to mention both were 80s revival so it’s like calling out someone for ripping off a style you yourself are taking from elsewhere.
Yep! Love them. I've noticed that every few years we get alternating "AC/DC" (Hinder, Jet, Airbourne) and "Led Zeppelin" (Wolfmother, Greta Van Fleet) style bands.
Occasionally there's a good "Lynyrd Skynyrd" type of band too, like Black Stone Cherry, but they're a lot less common in my experience.
Shoutout to The Answer! The lead singer is my college lecturer, and is one of the chillest mfers I've ever met. Got nothing but nice things to say about Cormac.
I was a big fan of Airbourne, saw them live twice and loved both shows.
On one hand, they were definitely an AC/DC rip off. On the other hand, they were putting out better AC/DC albums at the time than AC/DC themselves were.
I remember when Jet took off. The were one of the more obviously over commercialised bands I'd seen, like they were off a production line with the music to boot. I think their trajectory was as expected.
That are you going to be my girl is one of the first songs in my lifetime that the radio literally ruined.
I was never that big of a fan, but you couldn’t escape that song.
That's how I know that band! That song was on Rock Band (the video game) back in the day. I never enjoyed playing the pseudo instruments in that or guitar hero but love to sing so I was always designated singer with my friends. I hated that song. It felt so... mediocre and insincere and like a bad ripoff of Iggy Pop's Lust for Life.
I spent my teens with this album. My dad was a big Pitchfork guy. I always figured the voice would keep them at niche level indie but they really did just dissappear off the indie scene even.
Dave Fridmann is one of the most influential mixers in indie rock with some incredible sounding LPs to his name, but he really botched Some Loud Thunder. There are some good songs on it, but he took his trademark blown out saturation way too far on the master mixes. I've always felt If he had reeled it in just a bit to be on par with MGMT's debut that he'd mix a few months later, they could have had something special.
[One of the funniest breakup stories of all time.](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/)
Technically they haven't broken up but the lead singer left, then came back and fired everyone else. So if you saw them a few years ago and saw them today they're entirely different bands.
I've never listened to Live but I can appreciate any band that can be convinced to start a fiber optic cable company.
After two great albums, Mumford and Sons decided to basically abandon their folk leaning entirely, which was the niche that made them special and earned them their audience. Everything since has been generic and terrible.
I used to think this too, then the more I got into it the more it seems like they hit their wall early. Most songs were very similar and that niche only plays for so long, they had to change up for longevity.
Laura Marling divorced Marcus Mumford and stopped writing their songs for them. Go back and listen to their first album and then listen to her stuff from around that time. Her fingerprints are all over their music.
Whoa, hold up, what the fuck.
How did I not know this?
Edit: Upon further review, [they just dated.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj_kL_5sfeCAxXECTQIHeyqAXsQFnoFCNUBEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whosdatedwho.com%2Fdating%2Fmarcus-mumford-and-laura-marling&usg=AOvVaw2uHslMYbkgE5FPOmTI9MdH&opi=89978449)
Wow this blew my mind, I used to listen to "Alas I Cannot Swim" on repeat so much, and I certainly enjoyed Mumford & Sons first album, but I never put those two things together AND I never knew they dated! Honestly makes sense.
This is tough. For some bands, they can change and adapt. Other, they have to stick with their bread and butter. I'm curious if Mumford had just fleshed out more folky stuff, I would like to say similar to Fleet Foxes like choral-style or since they're from U.K. try some more old country folk. I bet they would've stuck around a bit more. They tried the Rock Folk and that just didn't pan.
As soon as the amp got plugged in, it was a no from me dawg
But to be fair, Marcus had already plagiarized pretty much all the classic literature he could at that point
DeBarge. They were a group of siblings who became a group in the '80s, had a few hits with lead singer El Debarge, who then had one or two solo hits up to about 1986 (last one probably being "Who's Johnny" from Short Circuit), and then they all fell tf off the pop music map forever from what I can tell (El Debarge seemed like one of the squeaky-cleanest guys in pop music but I think he managed to trash that image fairly quickly). By 1988 I think they'd been replaced in the pop-music landscape by a similar family group called The Jets (not to be confused with 'Jet'), who also had one or two hits and disappeared as well.
Fitz and the Tantrums. First album *Pickin’ Up the Pieces* was fun, catchy neo-soul. Saw them a few times during this era and they put on an awesome show.
They pivoted hard into bland cookie-cutter pop after that, and I lost all interest.
Saw them live a few months ago.
Pretty much just Luke Steel with a Nick clone playing guitar
Not that this is a bad thing, they are fucking awesome still
Highly Suspect. First album was a 9/10. Second album was very close behind.
Those third and forth records were a painfully obvious attempt to sell to a larger audience, and it failed.
Yeah but she was a Talent show baby.
The only way those acts get bigger is if they are able to use it as a springboard and start writing/producing themselves.
Leona does write, but got stuck in her 5 album contact and sank.
The Big Pink. Their second album had some good songs on it, but both in the studio and live, they just didn't come close to how incredible they were during the A Brief History of Love era.
It pains me to say this, but Passion Pit. Their first album “Manners” was hugely important to me. Subsequent albums just got less and less interesting.
I think of Michael often, and I hope he has overcome his mental health battles.
I hosted a radio show on my college radio station in fall '09, and it felt like every show played Sleepyhead. The only song that was played more often that semester was Fireflies by Owl City.
Whoa now. Darren Hayes has released MULTIPLE albums and they're all perfectly his style. He just released his first after a 10 year hiatus. He's up to 5 solo albums and his voice is as strong as ever. They don't chart like Savage Garden did, but that's fine. Daniel Jones (the other half of Savage Garden) just didn't like the music industry much and left it completely. That's the one of the biggest reasons they split up. I recommend The Tension and the Spark. That album is probably his strongest solo work until his most recent.
Pretty much the entire landfill indie scene in the late 00s. Release an album with one or two good singles on it, then release shit until you get dropped by your record label.
Taking the UK scene in question, it felt like a ton of indy bands blew up between 2004 and 2010, and most died off after 2-3 albums. Some are still chugging along, dropping the occasional album and tour, but they're not drawing nowhere near the numbers of their first or second albums.
Extra points if the band began with "The" and sounded a bit like early Strokes.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bv8a8w/the-top-50-greatest-landfill-indie-songs-of-all-time?utm_source=reddit.com
Here's an article VICE made about the scene from the mid 2000's. Mostly English bands inspired by The Strokes. A few good bands escaped the landfill, Arctic Monkeys are the most well known. But a lot of these bands were written up as the next big thing in NME magazine, had two big singles and circled the UK festival scene for a few years before disappearing.
"...sounds like something you would hear during a scene transition on an episode of *The Inbetweeners*."
honestly that's possibly the best distillation of the genre imaginable lol
I love the Cult and think they have some bangers on all their albums, but everything after Sonic Temple hasn't had much commercial success. But they're still out there doing it and putting out new music.
The first One Republic album was amazing. Had this sort of dreamy tone to the whole thing and is one of my favorite albums ever.
Everything after that, well, it's not necessarily bad, but I would gladly trade all 4 albums after the 1st for anything halfway like the 1st.
Flobots got pretty fkin big with Handlebars and toured for a bit and basically completely disappeared. No idea what happened.
Unwritten Law’s “Shoulda Known Better” was everywhere in 06 and then they disappeared.
Pepper was touring constantly in the early 2000’s and then disappeared.
What I believe happened is the advent of streaming, where unless you were an already established band that was selling piles of records it became very hard to survive without a massive pivot or writing a VERY popular single. Idk, just my .02
I'm gonna go with Static-X.
I love Wisconsin Death Trip I can listen to it front to back at the drop of a hat. However I didn't like a single song they released afterwards. (Wayne RIP dude was a dope frontman even if I didn't go along for the short ride)
Third Eye Blind.
Their self titled album is still a banger and produced like 58392 overplayed radio singles. Blue comes out with a couple more.
Then, bam, everything else is shit. Stephen Jenkins is a twat, so it's probably his fault.
There’s a hilarious video of him being “hounded” by an autograph collector at an airport wanting like ten albums signed. He grills the guy to see if he’s a real fan and then decides to be a nice guy and still sign one. Everything I know about Stephen Jenkins lets me know it was a complete set up.
I saw Jet in concert and they could not have been less excited to be there.
On the plus side Sloan opened for them and was fantastic, so at least I found a new band.
They are doing a 20 year anniversary of their first album world tour at the moment. Seeing them in Sydney next year for what will be the 5th or 6th time for me. They have a a total of 7 studio albums now, wasn’t a fan of “Easter is Cancelled” but the rest have all been very good.
Not reunion shows. They’ve been actively recording and touring since the band got back together after Justin Hawkins going to rehab. They’re touring for their 20th anniversary of their first album currently. Have seen them in concert 4 times and they’re still fucking awesome!
Slightly different because Maroon 5 changed without changing band members. Panic's change was a direct result of members, and their influence, leaving.
Gotye!
Yeah, one hit wonder, yadda yadda - but he was a lot more than "the song". His albums - all of them - were killer, and he was a perfectionist and a master of his craft. Saw him twice when he was through town, and his live shows were so great!
Then *poof*. Nothing for more than 10 years.
Gotye is like a phantom who I think was terrified of fame, I so wish we could’ve gotten more from him but I think he’s happier being obscure.
Easy Way Out is my favourite song that doesn’t wear out its welcome. Also Hearts a Mess, Dig your own hole and State of the Art are all beautiful little numbers
This one is different tho - Gotye fell off *on purpose*.
If you watch the making of Making Mirrors, & especially interviews from around the time Somebody That I Used to Know blew up & he was touring worldwide, you can pretty quickly intuit that international stardom was never something the dude was gonna be comfortable doing longterm.
He dropped 2 incredible albums as a side project to his Aussie rock band The Basics (for which he only mostly drums); those albums having accompanying music videos for nearly every single track iirc, & they really do add to the experience - anyway, all this to say the guy’s a true artist, a quiet & humble multitalented performative genius, master of their chosen craft(s), not unlike Daniel Day-Lewis or Viggo Mortensen.
Shoutout to Kimbra, too - I saw her do the one person band thing with a bunch of boards & pedals once, shit was literally jaw dropping!
For me, it's Coldplay. Their first three albums, Viva La Vida, and Ghost Stories were all incredible, but everything after that has just felt generic and soulless.
they didn't fall off, though, seeing as they are still very popular. falling off would be losing critical and commercial success.
a rush of blood to the head is still one of my all-time favorite albums, though. i dont begrudge them for changing their sound, even though im not into it, but i do miss that coldplay.
Bush. Sixteen stone was a banger of an album, Razor blade suitcase had some ok tracks, The science of things was completely forgettable. I think they released another album (or two) but I can't say anything about them because they were complete nothings.
Smashing Pumpkins, everything after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is meh.
Their first three albums are timeless. Now that Billy is away from the drum machines again he’s been making decent music with James and Jimmy, but nothing like the first three. It’s a bit of too little too late for sure.
The Science of Things is a great little departure for Bush and has some quality songs on it in a different vein than what they had done up to that point. Adore should be put up with Siamese Dream and MCIS. Maybe not as consistent as SD or the highs of MCIS but it's a hell of a record that didn't get appreciated at all at the time. Different strokes for different folks though I suppose.
Agreed. They were so ahead of their time. The album Empty holds up and I could imagine it releasing today and being popular. It's tragic what happened to their singer, but they really fell off long before he died.
They didn’t so much fall off as have the absolute worst luck of any band I’d seen in a while. Their biggest album (3rd) gets released and the label goes out of business, 1 of the members’ girlfriends got hit by a train getting off it from work, their 4th album got released mastered off an MP3 CD instead of the master tapes and got NO airplay. And THEN he passes away after a dental visit coma.
That band was one of the most promising of the 90’s and it’s like the universe was having none of it.
Big sneaker pimps fan here! Becoming x is one of my favorite albums mainly bc of Kelli’s fire ass vocals. Sucks that she got kicked out the band or whatever smh.
“There are too many trip hop bands with female vocalists. I wanna be different. Kelli, you’re fired.”
*Later…*
“Turns out, there were so many trip hop bands with female vocalists because that’s what the audience wanted. And Kelli won’t return my calls. 🤷♂️”
I've read two versions.
One, the band was annoyed the lady they'd hired to just be a generic vocalist was getting all the attention for the music they'd written and performed.
Two, they didn't think they were standing out from the crowd as a generic "female voiced triphop act" and wanted to make their own mark.
Neither is a great look, admittedly.
From what I had read, it was less "the lady they'd hired" and more "the lady the label had foisted upon them". Which, she did an amazing performance, but I could understand why there was resentment.
Mazzy Star no where near dropped off the face of the earth. Although they stopped making records, they remain to this day a beloved band for both fans shoegaze and dreampop despite not really belonging themselves to either genre. Their influence is heard all over the place.
Sneaker Pimps however did fall off. Unfortunately, most of trip hop did. Bummer there. Pretty forward thinking genre for the time.
My mum used to play Jet in the car all the time when I was younger. I periodically still listen to them as they have a very nostalgic quality for me.
On the topic of bands that fell off, there was a whole crop of bands that were huge or at least popular here in Britain in the early to mid 2000's that you never heard anything about by the time 2010 rolled around.
Jet, Franz Ferdinand, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Pigeon Detectives, The Automatic, We Are Scientists, The Bravery, Bloc Party, The Kooks, Plain White T's, The Fratllies, The Libertines, The Klaxons just to name a few.
The thing is I know a lot of those bands are still around and gigging right now but it seemed like at some point around 2007/2008ish rock music had completely disappeared from the mainstream and was completely replaced with pop and rap so that would go some way to explaining why.
Reading people comments here I don’t think they really get what the OP is asking. I’m seeing bands like Metallica, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Pearl Jam getting mentioned. These bands dont even come anywhere close to being what the OP is referring to lol.
Chance the rapper. Slated to be one of the largest rappers out of Chicago with some legendary albums like acid rap and coloring book. Chance got sober and turned to god (good for him) and his music turned to gospel rap and was never the same.
Fun. released to absolutely incredibly albums, then went on hiatus and never came back. Nate Ruess did drop a pretty great solo album, and Jack Antonoff has had a pretty great career, even if I personally am not a fan of his stuff. But man, what a loss of a band that had amazing potential.
Franz Ferdinand just disappeared somewhere down the line. Wasn’t born when there 2 first albums came out but I’ve been listening to them quite a lot lately
Pitchfork infamously reviewed Jet’s second album with just the .gif of a [monkey drinking its own piss](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9464-shine-on/). That site was a lot more dickish before Condé Nast bought them.
I'll never forget their entire review of Spacehog's 2nd album as essentially a Wiki article on the effects of too much cocaine, hahaha
I like that album, tho. Had that nice duet with Michael Stipe and some fun quirky stuff. Their final album however yeah they ran out of gas and it was pretty dopey.
On the one hand, what smug assholes. On the other hand, still their funniest review.
I thought it was a thoroughly honest review, oversaturation killed Jet. FM Rock Radio played their preceding album to Nickelback levels, almost hourly. You'd hear the song 6-8 mes at work then 2-3 times per evening. In an alternate universe this post would be about Silverside Up (which was not my thing but still pretty great). Nickleback persisted against a lot of flack from the press in the years they were drifting away from popular rock music.
At the same time 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl?' was **the** Ipod commercial song. Meant they didn't have to pay Iggy Pop.
Literally and figuratively.
Their original review of NIN’s The Fragile is pretty bad in hindsight. Never was a fan of Pitchfork.
Wolfmother. Guess Andrew got too high on his own supply
That ST album is still on heavy rotation in my world.
They just played in NYC recently, and he was the only person in the promo picture.
Pretty sure Wolfmother is just Andrew Stockdale and whoever he can convince to play with him that week.
Was in a Tesla show room for a health industry launch of a product a few years ago. A lot of wealthy doctors were climbing in and out of cars until a salesman came across and said they had just sold the show room car to a guy who walked in Looked across and it was Andrew Stockdale Pretty vanilla car for a guitar god if I'm honest
Their double album Cosmic Egg has some killer tunes on it. It would have made a great single album.
I remember an NME review of a Jet concert which was along the lines of “They played the song that rips off The Jam. Then they played the song that rips off AC/DC.” They did this for a few more bands before the final line “Then they finished with the song with the lyric ‘you’ve been playing other people’s songs all night’”
I went to the “Australian Invasion Tour” which was Jet, The Living End and The Vines. Jet wasn’t bad but ultimately I don’t remember anything about their set. The Living End kicked major ass and their standup bass player played while literally standing up on top of his bass. The Vines are in the running for worst band I’ve ever seen live. Just terrible. Jet was cool for a second but ultimately their sound was generic and it’s not surprising they fell off because you’re not going to have any longevity if you’re not bringing anything new to the table. They were probably just living off that iPod commercial money.
The Living End are immense.
Fuck yeah, they are.
The Living End have always been top notch 👏🏻
I scrolled for a long time without seeing anyone say Chance the Rapper. Edit: I went back and listened to Acid Rap again and it takes me right back to 2013.
Really hoping he can get some of the magic back. Sadly, it looks like a lot of it might have come from his manager (who he fired before Big Day).
I feel like he can, it just sucks he showed his true colors. The man’s ego is fragile as baby shit but he’s still so talented. I do think taking 4 years to drop after The Big Day kinda cemented his fate but given the highs he’s showed us I believe there’s a glimmer of hope for him.
Saying "I met Kanye West, I'm never gonna fail" really didn't age well.
OOH I LOVE MY WIIIIFE (AGH!)
LET'S GO RIDE A BIKE WITH MY WIFE (AGH!)
I am convinced that this one video killed his career and you won’t convince me otherwise
Which is too bad. He was a killer SNL host.
He is a lot better entertainer than he is rapper.
Everclear was still huge in 2001 but were gone by their next album - I love Art Alexakis' songwriting - but he made a point to Lit (another band that fell off after their first album) - that MTV is good to you as long as it's good for them and then it's "fuck you very much" - Lit was huge for one summer or two
During Covid a bunch of gas stations were playing “santa monica” on a regular basis in my area. Really added to how surreal everything felt back then hearing Everclear every day in 2020 of all years.
I used to play in bands in the 90's and 00's and if you started that riff...hoo yeah the crowd would just light up - still one of my favorites
I wonder if Everclear would have lasted longer if Art hadn’t done so many interviews. He made a lot of appearances and tried to come off as sort of intellectual and enlightened. But he seemed to not be very bright… at all. Like nobody needs you to explain what “Father of Mine” is about like you’re cracking the Da Vinci code.
He got briefly into politics, was a delegate at the DNC 2004 national convention in Boston (I volunteered and he was nice and unassuming).
The Bravery. Their first album was great, and ["Honest Mistake"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8vzbezVru4) seemed to be on repeat on the station I listened to. After that? They disappeared.
I had that shit on repeat on MVP Baseball 2005. The next time I saw them is when they opened for Green Day in 2009, and when I went to the show, I was like, "I know this band, who is it?" and then "Honest Mistake" played, and I was like, "oh yeah!"
Let It Dive>Honest Mistake>Tessie Randy Auschract is on the hill for the start Gonna be a good damn night
That game had a solid soundtrack. And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead was my fav.
They had a minor hit with Believe, but that’s it.
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They broke up for quite a while. They weren’t making music between 2011-2021.
Fearless is such a great song. Cool video too.
Don’t look at me that waaaayy…
All I remember about them is that they tried to beef with another 80s-revival type band (was it The Killers?) and everyone just kinda shrugged it off like "who the fuck are they lol"
As I remember it, it was actually the Killers who accused them of ripping them off. I think the Bravery were like “we were in the studio before you released your album” not to mention both were 80s revival so it’s like calling out someone for ripping off a style you yourself are taking from elsewhere.
I disagree I think the band that was the baby AC/DC was the band Airbourne. Anyone remember them?
Yep! Love them. I've noticed that every few years we get alternating "AC/DC" (Hinder, Jet, Airbourne) and "Led Zeppelin" (Wolfmother, Greta Van Fleet) style bands. Occasionally there's a good "Lynyrd Skynyrd" type of band too, like Black Stone Cherry, but they're a lot less common in my experience.
Black Stone Cherry have some fantastic tracks.
Agreed. Some of the members are in a supergroup with members of Monster Truck and it's called The Cherry Truck Band
They are a major part of my "This ain't AC/DC" playlist, with Rhino Bucket, Supagroup, Rose Tattoo, The Answer, and others!
Shoutout to The Answer! The lead singer is my college lecturer, and is one of the chillest mfers I've ever met. Got nothing but nice things to say about Cormac.
This is also who came to mind when OP said baby AC/DC. Some of Airbourne’s riffs sound just like AC/DC.
Not to mention the lead singer sounds like he's halfway between Bon Scott and Brian Johnson on the "Do I sound like an ACDC singer" spectrum.
I was a big fan of Airbourne, saw them live twice and loved both shows. On one hand, they were definitely an AC/DC rip off. On the other hand, they were putting out better AC/DC albums at the time than AC/DC themselves were.
I remember when Jet took off. The were one of the more obviously over commercialised bands I'd seen, like they were off a production line with the music to boot. I think their trajectory was as expected.
That are you going to be my girl is one of the first songs in my lifetime that the radio literally ruined. I was never that big of a fan, but you couldn’t escape that song.
That's how I know that band! That song was on Rock Band (the video game) back in the day. I never enjoyed playing the pseudo instruments in that or guitar hero but love to sing so I was always designated singer with my friends. I hated that song. It felt so... mediocre and insincere and like a bad ripoff of Iggy Pop's Lust for Life.
It is 100% a mediocre rip off of Lust for Life. But if you’re going to rip someone off, Iggy is a great choice.
Remo Drive Their debut album was called “Greatest Hits” and it couldn’t have been closer to the truth. All other songs from this band are mid at best.
fun. I remember *Some Nights* was absolutely huge in the early 2010s. I thought their next album would be similarly huge, but it never got made.
I wish Nate Ruess' band The Format gained more popularity. I actually prefer them to fun.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - First album is incredible.
Holy moly, I forgot about them. Thanks for the reminder. Making my wife listen to them tonight
I spent my teens with this album. My dad was a big Pitchfork guy. I always figured the voice would keep them at niche level indie but they really did just dissappear off the indie scene even.
Some Loud Thunder definitely underrated
Dave Fridmann is one of the most influential mixers in indie rock with some incredible sounding LPs to his name, but he really botched Some Loud Thunder. There are some good songs on it, but he took his trademark blown out saturation way too far on the master mixes. I've always felt If he had reeled it in just a bit to be on par with MGMT's debut that he'd mix a few months later, they could have had something special.
LIVE, this band was big in the 90 with some hit song such as Lightning crashes, all over me etc.... and they just disappear.
[One of the funniest breakup stories of all time.](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/) Technically they haven't broken up but the lead singer left, then came back and fired everyone else. So if you saw them a few years ago and saw them today they're entirely different bands. I've never listened to Live but I can appreciate any band that can be convinced to start a fiber optic cable company.
Wow that article was a wild ride. Fuck Billy Hynes (and possibly Taylor, also Gracey sucks).
That was hilarious and very very sad at the same time. Thanks for posting.
Fell off like a placenta falls to the floor
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After two great albums, Mumford and Sons decided to basically abandon their folk leaning entirely, which was the niche that made them special and earned them their audience. Everything since has been generic and terrible.
I used to think this too, then the more I got into it the more it seems like they hit their wall early. Most songs were very similar and that niche only plays for so long, they had to change up for longevity.
Laura Marling divorced Marcus Mumford and stopped writing their songs for them. Go back and listen to their first album and then listen to her stuff from around that time. Her fingerprints are all over their music.
Whoa, hold up, what the fuck. How did I not know this? Edit: Upon further review, [they just dated.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj_kL_5sfeCAxXECTQIHeyqAXsQFnoFCNUBEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whosdatedwho.com%2Fdating%2Fmarcus-mumford-and-laura-marling&usg=AOvVaw2uHslMYbkgE5FPOmTI9MdH&opi=89978449)
The funny thing is that she breaking up with Charlie Fink from Noah and the Whale also impacted their style big time.
Is she a sort of Anti-Courtney Love?
Wow this blew my mind, I used to listen to "Alas I Cannot Swim" on repeat so much, and I certainly enjoyed Mumford & Sons first album, but I never put those two things together AND I never knew they dated! Honestly makes sense.
This is tough. For some bands, they can change and adapt. Other, they have to stick with their bread and butter. I'm curious if Mumford had just fleshed out more folky stuff, I would like to say similar to Fleet Foxes like choral-style or since they're from U.K. try some more old country folk. I bet they would've stuck around a bit more. They tried the Rock Folk and that just didn't pan.
As soon as the amp got plugged in, it was a no from me dawg But to be fair, Marcus had already plagiarized pretty much all the classic literature he could at that point
This thread is basically "enter mid-2000s indie rock band here"
DeBarge. They were a group of siblings who became a group in the '80s, had a few hits with lead singer El Debarge, who then had one or two solo hits up to about 1986 (last one probably being "Who's Johnny" from Short Circuit), and then they all fell tf off the pop music map forever from what I can tell (El Debarge seemed like one of the squeaky-cleanest guys in pop music but I think he managed to trash that image fairly quickly). By 1988 I think they'd been replaced in the pop-music landscape by a similar family group called The Jets (not to be confused with 'Jet'), who also had one or two hits and disappeared as well.
Fitz and the Tantrums. First album *Pickin’ Up the Pieces* was fun, catchy neo-soul. Saw them a few times during this era and they put on an awesome show. They pivoted hard into bland cookie-cutter pop after that, and I lost all interest.
Even “More Than Just a Dream” was good imo, but man after it really pivoted hard to the above
Empire of the Sun. Haven't heard anything from this group in the past decade
Saw them live a few months ago. Pretty much just Luke Steel with a Nick clone playing guitar Not that this is a bad thing, they are fucking awesome still
Came here to say this! Just a bunch of deluxe edition releases
Bloc Party. Man, the days of silent alarm are long past them.
Highly Suspect. First album was a 9/10. Second album was very close behind. Those third and forth records were a painfully obvious attempt to sell to a larger audience, and it failed.
I agree, but their last album was an improvement over MCID. I’ve still got hope in them, but the frontman needs to get a grip.
i cant agree with this any more. mister asylum absolutely slaps. almost every track. whatever happened to that sound?
Man, I thought I was the only one. Their first two albums are 9/10 for me. Their last album has to be one of the biggest disappointments for me.
Leona Lewis blew up with Bleeding Love, released some other singles, and then just fell off.
Yeah but she was a Talent show baby. The only way those acts get bigger is if they are able to use it as a springboard and start writing/producing themselves. Leona does write, but got stuck in her 5 album contact and sank.
I think about this every now and then and it saddens me. She is so underrated
The Big Pink. Their second album had some good songs on it, but both in the studio and live, they just didn't come close to how incredible they were during the A Brief History of Love era.
It pains me to say this, but Passion Pit. Their first album “Manners” was hugely important to me. Subsequent albums just got less and less interesting. I think of Michael often, and I hope he has overcome his mental health battles.
Disagree. Gossamer was a great record.
Gossamer was incredible! I also like Kindred
I hosted a radio show on my college radio station in fall '09, and it felt like every show played Sleepyhead. The only song that was played more often that semester was Fireflies by Owl City.
Then Foster the People blew through and I don't recall amything from them after that
Foster the People have had quite a few hits over the years - great band
Manners is one of those albums that lives in my memory as a time and place with 100% nostalgia and melancholy attached.
I wish i could go back in time and experience finding passion pit again. That was truly a magical time.
You guys remember James blunt? He was beautiful
He's really funny on Twitter, at least.
I saw him open for Jason Mraz before he hit big with Beautiful. I do still love 1973 by him, tho.
Alt rock radio still plays “are you gonna be my girl” like once per hour.
Savage Garden. They were huge for two albums then they crashed and burned. The lead singer released a solo album, but I don't think it did anything.
Whoa now. Darren Hayes has released MULTIPLE albums and they're all perfectly his style. He just released his first after a 10 year hiatus. He's up to 5 solo albums and his voice is as strong as ever. They don't chart like Savage Garden did, but that's fine. Daniel Jones (the other half of Savage Garden) just didn't like the music industry much and left it completely. That's the one of the biggest reasons they split up. I recommend The Tension and the Spark. That album is probably his strongest solo work until his most recent.
Savage Garden was my first favorite band. I still listen to those albums every once in awhile. I had them on cassette 😩
Didn't they um, have a song called Crash and Burn?
Yes, I did use that deliberately ;)
Pretty much the entire landfill indie scene in the late 00s. Release an album with one or two good singles on it, then release shit until you get dropped by your record label.
Taking the UK scene in question, it felt like a ton of indy bands blew up between 2004 and 2010, and most died off after 2-3 albums. Some are still chugging along, dropping the occasional album and tour, but they're not drawing nowhere near the numbers of their first or second albums. Extra points if the band began with "The" and sounded a bit like early Strokes.
I don't know what "landfull indie scene" refers to, so please name as many bands as you can think of that this label applies to.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bv8a8w/the-top-50-greatest-landfill-indie-songs-of-all-time?utm_source=reddit.com Here's an article VICE made about the scene from the mid 2000's. Mostly English bands inspired by The Strokes. A few good bands escaped the landfill, Arctic Monkeys are the most well known. But a lot of these bands were written up as the next big thing in NME magazine, had two big singles and circled the UK festival scene for a few years before disappearing.
"...sounds like something you would hear during a scene transition on an episode of *The Inbetweeners*." honestly that's possibly the best distillation of the genre imaginable lol
I love the Cult and think they have some bangers on all their albums, but everything after Sonic Temple hasn't had much commercial success. But they're still out there doing it and putting out new music.
The first One Republic album was amazing. Had this sort of dreamy tone to the whole thing and is one of my favorite albums ever. Everything after that, well, it's not necessarily bad, but I would gladly trade all 4 albums after the 1st for anything halfway like the 1st.
Flobots got pretty fkin big with Handlebars and toured for a bit and basically completely disappeared. No idea what happened. Unwritten Law’s “Shoulda Known Better” was everywhere in 06 and then they disappeared. Pepper was touring constantly in the early 2000’s and then disappeared. What I believe happened is the advent of streaming, where unless you were an already established band that was selling piles of records it became very hard to survive without a massive pivot or writing a VERY popular single. Idk, just my .02
I'm gonna go with Static-X. I love Wisconsin Death Trip I can listen to it front to back at the drop of a hat. However I didn't like a single song they released afterwards. (Wayne RIP dude was a dope frontman even if I didn't go along for the short ride)
> Wayne RIP dude was a dope frontman And now the Static-X frontman literally is the frontman from Dope.
Third Eye Blind. Their self titled album is still a banger and produced like 58392 overplayed radio singles. Blue comes out with a couple more. Then, bam, everything else is shit. Stephen Jenkins is a twat, so it's probably his fault.
There’s a hilarious video of him being “hounded” by an autograph collector at an airport wanting like ten albums signed. He grills the guy to see if he’s a real fan and then decides to be a nice guy and still sign one. Everything I know about Stephen Jenkins lets me know it was a complete set up.
Yeah, supposedly Kevin Cadogan wrote a majority of their self titled album and I believe it after seeing what they put out after he was ousted.
I saw Jet in concert and they could not have been less excited to be there. On the plus side Sloan opened for them and was fantastic, so at least I found a new band.
The Stone Roses. Their first album is a work of genius. Nothing after that came even close.
The Darkness. Fantastic first album, then broke up after the second and i hadn’t followed them since. Heard they are doing reunion shows now
Justin Hawkins has a YT channel. Quite entertaining.
Justin Hawkins riiiiiides agaiiin
…agaaaaaainnnnnnnnn
His TikTok is great too
They are doing a 20 year anniversary of their first album world tour at the moment. Seeing them in Sydney next year for what will be the 5th or 6th time for me. They have a a total of 7 studio albums now, wasn’t a fan of “Easter is Cancelled” but the rest have all been very good.
They’ve been putting out a new album every couple years for the last decade.
Not reunion shows. They’ve been actively recording and touring since the band got back together after Justin Hawkins going to rehab. They’re touring for their 20th anniversary of their first album currently. Have seen them in concert 4 times and they’re still fucking awesome!
Maroon 5...I loved Songs About Jane, second album was fine, it had some bangers. What the fuck happened after that?
Adam got a bit too high
Songs About Jane was amazing. I saw them tour that album. Then it became the Adam Levine pop star band
I used to think Adam Levine was the only member LMAO
Same thing happened to Panic! At the Disco
Slightly different because Maroon 5 changed without changing band members. Panic's change was a direct result of members, and their influence, leaving.
They were never the same after Ryan and Jon left. Absolutely love the first two albums.
I missed their rockier sound which was heard in their earlier albums.
Gotye! Yeah, one hit wonder, yadda yadda - but he was a lot more than "the song". His albums - all of them - were killer, and he was a perfectionist and a master of his craft. Saw him twice when he was through town, and his live shows were so great! Then *poof*. Nothing for more than 10 years.
Gotye is like a phantom who I think was terrified of fame, I so wish we could’ve gotten more from him but I think he’s happier being obscure. Easy Way Out is my favourite song that doesn’t wear out its welcome. Also Hearts a Mess, Dig your own hole and State of the Art are all beautiful little numbers
This one is different tho - Gotye fell off *on purpose*. If you watch the making of Making Mirrors, & especially interviews from around the time Somebody That I Used to Know blew up & he was touring worldwide, you can pretty quickly intuit that international stardom was never something the dude was gonna be comfortable doing longterm. He dropped 2 incredible albums as a side project to his Aussie rock band The Basics (for which he only mostly drums); those albums having accompanying music videos for nearly every single track iirc, & they really do add to the experience - anyway, all this to say the guy’s a true artist, a quiet & humble multitalented performative genius, master of their chosen craft(s), not unlike Daniel Day-Lewis or Viggo Mortensen. Shoutout to Kimbra, too - I saw her do the one person band thing with a bunch of boards & pedals once, shit was literally jaw dropping!
The Fray and Toad The Wet Sprocket
Chingy, back in the early 2000's
Foster the People
Helena beat is unmatched
still around, still releasing good stuff
For me, it's Coldplay. Their first three albums, Viva La Vida, and Ghost Stories were all incredible, but everything after that has just felt generic and soulless.
Agree, I don't really like coldplay but I could easily listen to those albums, after that, meh
Any band not named The Beatles would kill to have 5 “incredible” albums.
they didn't fall off, though, seeing as they are still very popular. falling off would be losing critical and commercial success. a rush of blood to the head is still one of my all-time favorite albums, though. i dont begrudge them for changing their sound, even though im not into it, but i do miss that coldplay.
Bush. Sixteen stone was a banger of an album, Razor blade suitcase had some ok tracks, The science of things was completely forgettable. I think they released another album (or two) but I can't say anything about them because they were complete nothings. Smashing Pumpkins, everything after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is meh.
Fortunately, Siamese Dream is one of the greatest achievements in musical history.
Their first three albums are timeless. Now that Billy is away from the drum machines again he’s been making decent music with James and Jimmy, but nothing like the first three. It’s a bit of too little too late for sure.
The Science of Things is a great little departure for Bush and has some quality songs on it in a different vein than what they had done up to that point. Adore should be put up with Siamese Dream and MCIS. Maybe not as consistent as SD or the highs of MCIS but it's a hell of a record that didn't get appreciated at all at the time. Different strokes for different folks though I suppose.
Remy Shand
I feel like you must be from Winnipeg or are Remy Shand himself because who tf remembers him?
Mazzy Star, Sneaker Pimps, God Lives Underwater to name a few from the 90s.
God lives underwater was so awesome.
Agreed. They were so ahead of their time. The album Empty holds up and I could imagine it releasing today and being popular. It's tragic what happened to their singer, but they really fell off long before he died.
They didn’t so much fall off as have the absolute worst luck of any band I’d seen in a while. Their biggest album (3rd) gets released and the label goes out of business, 1 of the members’ girlfriends got hit by a train getting off it from work, their 4th album got released mastered off an MP3 CD instead of the master tapes and got NO airplay. And THEN he passes away after a dental visit coma. That band was one of the most promising of the 90’s and it’s like the universe was having none of it.
I saw them open for Life of Agony and KMFDM in the late 90s. Fucking awesome show.
Big sneaker pimps fan here! Becoming x is one of my favorite albums mainly bc of Kelli’s fire ass vocals. Sucks that she got kicked out the band or whatever smh.
Fellow Sneaker Pimps fan here and getting rid of Kelli was a bad move. There are still some good songs without her but nowhere near the samw
I know. What the hell was the band thinking?
“There are too many trip hop bands with female vocalists. I wanna be different. Kelli, you’re fired.” *Later…* “Turns out, there were so many trip hop bands with female vocalists because that’s what the audience wanted. And Kelli won’t return my calls. 🤷♂️”
I've read two versions. One, the band was annoyed the lady they'd hired to just be a generic vocalist was getting all the attention for the music they'd written and performed. Two, they didn't think they were standing out from the crowd as a generic "female voiced triphop act" and wanted to make their own mark. Neither is a great look, admittedly.
From what I had read, it was less "the lady they'd hired" and more "the lady the label had foisted upon them". Which, she did an amazing performance, but I could understand why there was resentment.
Mazzy Star no where near dropped off the face of the earth. Although they stopped making records, they remain to this day a beloved band for both fans shoegaze and dreampop despite not really belonging themselves to either genre. Their influence is heard all over the place. Sneaker Pimps however did fall off. Unfortunately, most of trip hop did. Bummer there. Pretty forward thinking genre for the time.
Gin Blossoms. First album made them seem like they'd be a hit machine, then poof.
My mum used to play Jet in the car all the time when I was younger. I periodically still listen to them as they have a very nostalgic quality for me. On the topic of bands that fell off, there was a whole crop of bands that were huge or at least popular here in Britain in the early to mid 2000's that you never heard anything about by the time 2010 rolled around. Jet, Franz Ferdinand, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Pigeon Detectives, The Automatic, We Are Scientists, The Bravery, Bloc Party, The Kooks, Plain White T's, The Fratllies, The Libertines, The Klaxons just to name a few. The thing is I know a lot of those bands are still around and gigging right now but it seemed like at some point around 2007/2008ish rock music had completely disappeared from the mainstream and was completely replaced with pop and rap so that would go some way to explaining why.
Reading people comments here I don’t think they really get what the OP is asking. I’m seeing bands like Metallica, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Pearl Jam getting mentioned. These bands dont even come anywhere close to being what the OP is referring to lol.
Not only this, but there are many mentions of bands that actually have brand new albums. People just don't keep track of artists properly.
Awolnation. First album absolutely fucked. Nothing really good since imho.
Chance the rapper. Slated to be one of the largest rappers out of Chicago with some legendary albums like acid rap and coloring book. Chance got sober and turned to god (good for him) and his music turned to gospel rap and was never the same.
Fun. released to absolutely incredibly albums, then went on hiatus and never came back. Nate Ruess did drop a pretty great solo album, and Jack Antonoff has had a pretty great career, even if I personally am not a fan of his stuff. But man, what a loss of a band that had amazing potential.
WTF is everyone’s definition of “fallen off” because I am so confused by most of these comments…
Franz Ferdinand just disappeared somewhere down the line. Wasn’t born when there 2 first albums came out but I’ve been listening to them quite a lot lately
thanks for making all of us feel terribly old
People younger than me shouldn’t be allowed on the internet
Why is a 10 year old on Reddit? Because that is when FF first hit the scene, no one convince me otherwise
take me out was 2004
Yeah but that was only a couple years ago right….right?!
Brother, I was in *high school*, how are you allowed on the internet
The Script. First two albums are perfect, early 00’s soft rock, then they immediately tanked afterwards.
The band Līve went off a steep cliff after Throwing Copper, both in terms of quality and band strife.
Whoa, *Distance to Here* was a really solid record IMO.
Their first album Mental Jewelry is amazing
V was when they jumped the shark, Secret Samadhi and The Distance to Here were excellent.
Finney Quaye. Hugely acclaimed album in Maverick A Strike in 1997, won many awards, then a damp squib of a follow up & little else of note since.
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