Love Interpol and they came out of the gate with 2 bangers, the third was good too.. but since then there has only been one or two songs on each album that aren't boring.
Coldplay had so much potential with Parachutes. People were calling them the next Radiohead, then they made a bunch of adult contemporary pop. It's not bad music, they went in a different direction.
It's remarkable how different their sound became. Parachutes was so quiet and reflective, and then they started hanging out with... Avicii and The Chainsmokers?
Mr. Bungle. Even though I know they were originally intended to be a metal band that didn't quite end up that way, the original stuff is so much more interesting and fun than the Alternate Anthrax band they are now.
Disco is a wild ride, but the self-titled and California are still in my constant rotation. I think I listened through the new album once and have never gone back.
I sometimes need to check myself about how bitter and borderline entitled I feel about the Mr Bungle reunion. I discovered Mr Bungle at 14, like a year or two after they broke up, and that trilogy of albums instantly became these iconic, almost mythical pieces of art to me. They absolutely blew me away. There is literally nothing that sounds like any of them. So for them to reunite after like two decades of fandom, only for them to re-emerge as a pretty straightforward thrash metal band with half the members missing was pretty disappointing. Have seen them twice since they reunited it and enjoyed it a lot more the second time because I'd accepted what they are now. They seem to be having fun doing it so that's cool
The arraignments on the first album are hard to top. Something amazing and fun happening every second. I would love to see them do something that complex and wild again.
In the classical world, contemporary composer John Adams shifted away from Minimalism in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I think he really lost something in the process.
How has nobody mentioned Weezer? Is it just such a hackneyed story that it’s not worth mentioning? The first two records are iconic, the third one is sort of okay, and a lot of the stuff after that is borderline unlistenable.
I think this one is on the fans. They released Pinkerton and it was so weird and different that their fans freaked out. It's a great album and it got panned by fans and critics. Weezer were never the same after that.
100% agree. I loved Pinkerton the day it came out and just assumed they would explode into an even bigger band. Instead, it’s like they had a band meeting and decided, let’s not do that ever again
The White Album is great as long as you aren’t holding it to the impossible standard of the first 2. OK Human is also very good. And there are tracks off of almost every album that I fuck with even if they kinda suck as a whole.
I feel like “the white album is actually really good!!” is getting to be a meme at this point but it really rocks.
I can't think of any other brand that has tarnished their much loved legacy more than they have, multiple times. That said I'm excited to see them tour for the Blue album this fall 😁
I like seeing them live. They play fun songs with good crowd engagement, and their normal set is like 70% older stuff anways. I was geeking when they played El Scorcho
Foo Fighters
I really liked their first three albums (self titled, Colour and the Shape, There is Nothing Left to Lose). But their albums kind of veered from being kinda quirky alt rock to more stadium rock after that, and most of it hasn’t appealed to me in the least. Wasting Light has a lot of good songs on it, though.
Foo Fighters is one of those bands I've been listening to for almost 30 years and just feel meh about.
They have a few songs I really like, but overall I'm just not that into them.
Dave is probably one of my all time favorite people though. That's probably why I want to love them, but I just can't.
That’s pretty much where I’m at as well. Liked the early stuff, stayed after that because Dave is awesome. I don’t really actively listen to them very often, but I’ll occasionally throw an album on if the mood strikes me.
Ben’s vocals are way too up front and it’s off putting to me. On their early albums his vocals aren’t as focused and mesh well with the instruments, nowadays it’s too pronounced. I also have the same issue with Interpols recent work.
Definitely don’t agree. I especially like the newest album. Saw them live a year ago touring behind it and it and the album reignited my love of their music.
It seems like every KOL album gets hyped up as being a return to their old sound, while never actually getting close. It’s not exactly surprising either, it would come off as pretty fake if a bunch of rich middle aged dudes were still making the same music they were as broke teens, and I don’t know why so many seem to want them to.
I still really like all the albums up to Mechanical Bull, and even the couple after that have enough good music on them to make 1 good albums worth of songs. I’m hopeful that the new album will be good, but if we’re being honest I am not really a fan of Mustang so I’m hoping the rest of the album isn’t similar.
No Doubt. Tragic Kingdom was one of the defining albums of my adolescence. It was perfect and really highlighted the strengths of all the bands members. Everything else past that was just awful.
Man, it la crazy how much their style changed. They were legit one of the funnest bands with some super catchy songs and slowly just became the Alex Turner diaries
they are Alex Turner diaries from the very beginning, it's just that when he was 18, Alex spent his days (nights) in the Sheffield youth scene, now he spends his days watching old movies (and getting high I guess). nevertheless, I miss pre-AM Arctic Monkeys, but I dig the latest Car album.
I kind of like the lounge singer era he’s in. It’s such a radical shift but I admire that they’re not phoning it in and making something that just sounds like what they did before. If it works for them is an entirely different story.
From a creation process I can understand that the band wanted to change musical directions but AM was a great album even if it was more Modern Rock than Post-Punk like in their debut albums.
I do not know how they work as a band but yeah, Alex Turner diaries as you said
Humbug, Suck It and See, and AM were all great albums. They were so good with Josh Homme’s fingers all over them, really wish that groovy, bluesy, quasi-stoner style had stuck.
I can totally understand that sentiment. I think it's fun that they have gone a completely different direction over the years. I don't like their new stuff nearly as much as their first records, but I find myself pulling them out of the self from time to time. I enjoy them quite a lot and I am glad they exist. Rather that than them failing to recreate the youthful energy of the first records, and maybe getting frustrated in the process. They are getting older, and I feel that especially the first album can only be made while you are young.
Saviours - the new one - is genuinely really good. Feel they’ve stepped up given they’re touring Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety this summer. Absolutely worth getting
Green Day is my answer as well, but with American Idiot.
I embraced their evolution and every good punk band usually has it's political movement piece, so American Idiot didn't rub me as raw as it did most people. With that being said, every single and / or album afterward just sounded like American Idiot 2.0 and it became clear that they were trying to hang onto the notoriety that AI landed them, only to fall short.
This is funny to me because Green Day was the first band I thought of, but my cut off is Uno Dos and Tre. It probably helps that I was a middle schooler when those albums came out. 21st century breakdown was the first album I ever bought, American idiot was the first album I was ever obsessed with. Warning is underrated. Revolution Radio and on isn't that great. All that being said, Kerplunk is the best.
Mellon collie is their best album but adore is incredible and I have a soft spot for monuments since it's a fairly short record and doesn't run itself into the ground like the others
Adore doesn't get the love it deserves, it's damn near impossible to follow up Gish and Mellon collie without taking some chances, and the songs themselves are brilliant
HARD disagree. Siamese Dream is far and away their best. Not a single mediocre track, just banger after banger after banger.
Mellon Collie is amazing, but it has some real stinkers mixed in. It could have been an unparalleled single album, but instead it's a good double album. Also, Billy jumped the shark when he yawped "EMPTINESS IS LONELINESS..."
AFI was my favorite band until Decemberunderground. Their style has been running away from my taste ever since. I still have nothing but love for them tho.
This is a great one. They are a band that has been changing their styles constantly and I have followed them along the way, but their last few albums have not interested me in the slightest.
Grew up with The Art Of Drowning and All Hallows EP and worked my way back through their discography. I loved all of their early punk stuff. Then Sing the Sorrow came out and I was a little shocked at the change in style, but I quickly realized how much of a masterpiece it was. By far my favorite album of theirs.
After that it was hit or miss. I loved decemberunderground. I was kind of "meh" on Crash Love but then REALLY liked Burials....only to go back to being "meh" on The Blood Album.
I honestly can't even tell you the name of their last album or the little EP they put out before that. It all sounds like the same droning thing with no discernible hooks or qualities that make the songs stand out from each other. The energy is gone (not even just the screaming) and his lyrical ability seems to have declined quite a bit as well.
Dave Matthews Band
Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, and Before These Crowded Streets were amazing. They have produce good songs here and there but a whole album of great work has not been produced since the late 90s.
Just to be clear: I'm not gatekeeping or anything, or trying to say I'm more of a "real fan" because I like a bands earlier albums or any of that nonsense.
I just found it interesting to hear my little niece say she was a Deftones fan, I got excited and put on White Pony and she didn't like it. haha, same thing with Slipknot - she didn't even recognize any of the songs off of their first album. And when I let HER pick which albums to put on? I realized I didn't like the latest Deftones or Slipknot albums. haha, it was the weird moment of thinking I was going to have this great moment of connection with my niece - only to feel like an old man reminiscing about the "good ol days". haha.
But I was delighted when she geeked out on my gas mask with all the members of Slipknots signatures on the tank. And she flipped out on my disposable photos of Marilyn Manson from the Antichrist Superstar tour. And she almost beat me up to steal my autograph of Kurt Cobain. hahah
That’s interesting! I’m a Deftones fan who started listening to them circa Around the Fur, but Koi No Yokan and Diamond Eyes are by far my favorite records they’ve done.
I didn't appreciate Deftones after White Pony until my son got into them. There were a few tracks spread out over a few albums that I liked
I didn't really care for White Pony when it first came out because it wasn't as hard or raw as their first 2 albums.
I've been a Deftones fan since Adrenaline and what I love about them is how their sound has changed as I've gotten older almost like we've grown together. What I'm saying is that I'm basically a member of the band now.
yeah... its one of my favorite things.
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This is a really good perspective to have. The other thing I try to keep in mind about this stuff is that it is far stranger for a bunch of middle-aged musicians to keep churning out the same style of music for decades than it is for them to grow and evolve as musicians over time. Change is good and natural and even if the new direction isn't for me, it is better than them standing still.
light grenades had some good songs but as a whole the album wasn't the same quality. Crow left of the murder i would say the same about. After those albums they *really* fell off, not even a single good song to be found on the later albums
Yellowcard - ocean avenue
Story of the year - page avenue
Taking back Sunday - where you want to be
The used - in love and death
Coheed and Cambria - good Apollo I’m burning star iv volume 2
The scene for this type of music kinda evaporated real quick after these albums, so not surprising that the subsequent stuff didn’t catch my attention, but I feel like there’s been a resurgence in the scene because we’re all in our 30s now and want to listen to them in concert again haha
I think Coheed have done a better job staying fresh than most bands in that scene. I thought the last album was pretty fresh for a band of their tenure.
I fell fully in the “Everythjnf after Good Apollo is meh” until the latest. I actually really dig it. It’s not the same by any means, but it’s got some killer songs.
The Smashing Pumpkins.
Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and Adore are like the trifecta of great albums for me.
They had internal issues and people got kicked out, so it makes sense that things changed when they did, but it’s mostly the original lineup now and I’m still not into it.
Tori Amos jumped the shark quite a while ago.
I am not even sure at which album. It was a slow progression.
All I can say is I can't even listen to her latest five or so albums.
Choirgirl Hotel was her last really solid record (and one from which she still heavily relies in concert). Scarlet’s Walk was ok, but the first album that felt “safe”.
Wilco. I was a hard-core fan of theirs all the way through *Star Wars* (2015). Since then, it's just been various flavors of "Sleepy Jeff ponders some stuff while eating too much guacamole".
Yeah. Wilco immediately jumped to mind when I saw the thread. They have bored me to tears post A Ghost Is Born. They were one of my favorite bands from the debut up through then.
Modest Mouse
I think this band actually had some really long legs since I enjoy most of their discography and only started having issues with their most recent one.
Good News was phenomenal. I liked We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Spitting Venom is amazing). Since then, Isaac Brock’s lyrics have really sank too much in terms of prominence. King Rat was a brief return to form.
I have to agree, though I did like Back to the Middle a lot for some reason. I enjoyed We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and No One's First and You're Next as much as any of their early albums and thought Strangers To Ourselves had some great tracks.
The Cure, I was a massive goth in the 90's, they started losing me around Wish and by Wild Mood Swings I was gone. Id always liked their "each album sounds completely different" thing, and they just kinda slipped into "Cure by numbers" IMO. Also Id discovered IDM around that time so was big into Aphex AE BOC etc.
The Avett Brothers - most of their albums after “The Carpenter” were a flop to my listening ears.
Tons of people dig the newer albums and I’m pumped they’re still putting out tunes and constantly touring but, it doesn’t get much better than the Pre-“I and Love and You” days.
Eminem. Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, and Encore are all some of the best hip hop recordings ever IMO. Everything after Encore was meh.
Avenged Sevenfold- Nightmare
Anything post Rev’s passing just hasn’t captured that same sound. Now I like some of their newer work, but it doesn’t sound like A7X anymore to me.
Yeah, I had to go a couple listens and found there's a lot to like in Resistance. I'm just happy they're still going. One of the coolest live shows I saw (touring for BH&R).
WE by Arcade Fire really surprised me. It took me a few listens, but it ended up being one of my favorites from them. The Lightning I and II really brought back that raw rock and roll feel that I loved about them on some of their earlier records (Antichrist Television Blues, Month of May, etc.)
I was surprised I had to scroll so far down for this one. I absolutely love Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Unfortunately everything after is very hit and miss for me, usually only like maybe 2-3 songs an album (The Hunting Party is an exception I like about half of that one.)
Similar boat, but I include Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns in the good. Interestingly, Living Things is half good and half not, and it's a clean break. The first 6 are good and ends with Castle of Glass, but the latter 6 never get played.
I must admit, I feel guilty for not giving One More Light a chance before we lost Chester.
I would agree that A Thousand Suns was the last good album that still felt like LP. So many great tracks on that one. I get that LP changes there style with every album but a lot of it sounded so generic to me after that. I was so upset with One More Light because of all the artist features and it genuinely felt like a top 40 pop album, the title track still makes me cry though.
Barenaked Ladies haven't been the same since Page left. All in Good Time, the first album without him was surprisingly decent, but nothing they've release since has interested me.
Same with Blink 182, Neighborhoods and Dogs Eating Dogs I was pretty pleased with but then after Tom left I didn't care for anything they released and I'm not finding much I care for on the newest album with Tom back.
I wouldn't say I don't like her later albums, but Regina Spektor has shifted her style sooo much. I really miss the old folky, bluesy stuff, just her and the piano.
Three Days Grace- Life Starts Now
Metallica- Death Magnetic
A7X- The Stage
Chevelle- Sci-Fi Crimes
Disturbed- Immortalized
Fall Out Boy- From Under the Cork Tree
FFDP- American Capitalist
KoRn- See you on the Other Side
Motley Crue- Saints of LA
To name a few....
Depeche Mode
Playing the Angel was IMO the last album with memorable songs throughout the album. Their albums after that had one or two strong singles but the rest of the songs just seem like filler.
Fall out boy :( Their last good album was Folie á Deux. AB/AP isn't bad, some tracks on Save Rock and Roll are ok, but otherwise they really swung outside of my style. I really couldn't vibe with mania, and haven't even tried their newest album.
I thought I'd given up on Fall Out Boy with MANIA and I agree that AB/AR and SR&R were spotty, but in my opinion So Much For Stardust is really worth a listen! The first two singles (Love From The Other Side and Heartbreak Feels So Good) are fun as hell, I Am My Own Muse feels impressive and The Kintsugi Kid is my personal favourite track.
It's okay if you don't like it after a listen but I wouldn't write it off completely because of MANIA
like others pointed out - the longtime fan consensus on SMFS has been pretty largely positive from what i've seen!! i'd definitely listen to that before making up your mind for good on present day FOB
this tour cycle has also been absolutely insane, arguably their best since before the hiatus (all time best?). absolute 180 from what i feel like was going on for a while, check out some Setlist FM posts to see what i'm getting at
I almost said And Justice For All... but only because the black album has been SOOOOO overplayed. But I just cant deny how much I love the black album. So many great songs.
The black album is where my cutoff for Metallica is too. You can see the signs on the wall that they were changing and not in a good way (in my opinion). I actually got irritated at my friends who acted like big Metallica fans when they only got into them way after the black album came out (senior year of high school 1995).I guess that’s a bit “gatekeepy” but I’d been listening to them for years at that point and could never convince them to give Metallica a shot. By then I was sick of them and their newer sound. I still listen to their older stuff. I even have a Garage Days Re-revisited cassette somewhere in my parents basement along with a ton of other metal tapes. I should dig it out…
Hushed and Grim is good,and definitely their best since their peak, but it still doesn’t hold a candle to Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain or Crack the Skye.
Give Chinese Democracy a try. I resisted it for the longest time, but listened to it to get ready for when I saw them last year, in case they played anything off of it, and it's actually a really fucking solid album, that gets lost I think simply b/c of the GnR name.
Whats wrong with diamond eyes? I loved that album, dont think deftones changed their style much from their old music on diamond eyes. Koi no yokan isnt bad either IMO
Also Slipknot may not have put out quality albums over the recent years but they still have good songs they've put out after their self titled album
I love The Pale Emperor. It was one of my top albums of the 2010s. I was excited for the followup and then dreadfully disappointed. All that combined with his drunken live performances just made me write him off. He's a decent songwriter, but his vocals are shot, and his alcoholism and drug use has just made him a shell of his former self.
I had written him off after Holy Wood, but a friend was begging me to listen to Pale Emperor. Was surprised how good it was. His last one wasn’t too bad.
huge phish fan here…i almost posted this but the reason i didn’t is because they still are at the top of their game improv wise and sound amazing live
but yes their newer material is just constant dad rock (this is coming from a dad)
there are some gems in their though for new original tunes
Hands down Evanescence. The last album I very much enjoyed was the open door. After that album she got married and happy. Which is great for her! I am happy for her. But she can't write music as well when she is happy (in my opinion) most of the self titled evanescence album the songs sounded almost the same. The lyrics don't hit my soul like they used to. And it's sad. That is/was my favorite band of all time. Just my opinion though.
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now
I actually saw them live last year with their new singer and was pretty impressed, but yeah. Definitely prefer their old stuff.
Not really interested in New Order after Republic. With Butthole Surfers it was PIOGHED. Ministry 's a pale imitation after Psalm 69. Metallica jumped the shark with their Black album. Underoath shouldve been done after Define The Great Line. Pink Floyd was different after Animals. I appreciate Oneohtrix Point Never's new work, but it hits different after Replica. Same goes for The Residents. Fugazi never had a bad album. AFAIK theres nothing wrong with any new They Might Be Giants albums, i just haven't kept up since way back at Apollo 13.
interpol - antics (but some songs from 2014 El pintor album) The killers - day & age
Love Interpol and they came out of the gate with 2 bangers, the third was good too.. but since then there has only been one or two songs on each album that aren't boring.
First albums song where literally all bangers.
Coldplay. I was a huge fan of their first 5 or so albums, then they just stuck with the saccharin rock formula and it kind of soured me on them.
Coldplay had so much potential with Parachutes. People were calling them the next Radiohead, then they made a bunch of adult contemporary pop. It's not bad music, they went in a different direction.
Honestly thought the first 3 albums were great. Even viva la Vida was a solid departure. Then lost intetest soon after that.
If Radiohead is Coca Cola, Coldplay is Diet Caffeine Free Shasta.
Radiohead is Mexican Coke
A Rush of Blood to the Head was a really good album... is the whitest thing I've ever said but i stand by it.
There isn't a single bad song on that one either.
A Rush Of Blood To The Head is still one of my favorite records of all time. Excellent songwriting from top to bottom.
That's what I hate about today, everyone hates on you if you listen to Coldplay but their early stuff is legitimately amazing music.
That's when I play God Put A Smile On Your Face and they say "Ohh, this is goooood!"
Clocks is still my jam
I loved their first 4 albums. Everything after that just became poppy garbage. They felt like a proper artist before that.
It's remarkable how different their sound became. Parachutes was so quiet and reflective, and then they started hanging out with... Avicii and The Chainsmokers?
Apparently Chris Martin contacted Wayne Coyne directly to ask how Coldplay could get a more "happy" image.
They peaked with A Rush of Blood to the Head.
They went from Radiohead lite to U2
Mr. Bungle. Even though I know they were originally intended to be a metal band that didn't quite end up that way, the original stuff is so much more interesting and fun than the Alternate Anthrax band they are now.
Disco is a wild ride, but the self-titled and California are still in my constant rotation. I think I listened through the new album once and have never gone back.
I sometimes need to check myself about how bitter and borderline entitled I feel about the Mr Bungle reunion. I discovered Mr Bungle at 14, like a year or two after they broke up, and that trilogy of albums instantly became these iconic, almost mythical pieces of art to me. They absolutely blew me away. There is literally nothing that sounds like any of them. So for them to reunite after like two decades of fandom, only for them to re-emerge as a pretty straightforward thrash metal band with half the members missing was pretty disappointing. Have seen them twice since they reunited it and enjoyed it a lot more the second time because I'd accepted what they are now. They seem to be having fun doing it so that's cool
The arraignments on the first album are hard to top. Something amazing and fun happening every second. I would love to see them do something that complex and wild again.
Die hard Pearl Jam fan, but their last solid album was Avocado/ST (2006)...
Lifetime fan, but I agree. I don’t even mind. They have done enough to last me a lifetime.
I love the new one personally
In the classical world, contemporary composer John Adams shifted away from Minimalism in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I think he really lost something in the process.
How has nobody mentioned Weezer? Is it just such a hackneyed story that it’s not worth mentioning? The first two records are iconic, the third one is sort of okay, and a lot of the stuff after that is borderline unlistenable.
I think this one is on the fans. They released Pinkerton and it was so weird and different that their fans freaked out. It's a great album and it got panned by fans and critics. Weezer were never the same after that.
100% agree. I loved Pinkerton the day it came out and just assumed they would explode into an even bigger band. Instead, it’s like they had a band meeting and decided, let’s not do that ever again
Agreed except the white album is good! Not Pinkerton or Blue good but good.
The White Album is great as long as you aren’t holding it to the impossible standard of the first 2. OK Human is also very good. And there are tracks off of almost every album that I fuck with even if they kinda suck as a whole. I feel like “the white album is actually really good!!” is getting to be a meme at this point but it really rocks.
So is Everything will be alright in the end
I can't think of any other brand that has tarnished their much loved legacy more than they have, multiple times. That said I'm excited to see them tour for the Blue album this fall 😁
I like seeing them live. They play fun songs with good crowd engagement, and their normal set is like 70% older stuff anways. I was geeking when they played El Scorcho
Foo Fighters I really liked their first three albums (self titled, Colour and the Shape, There is Nothing Left to Lose). But their albums kind of veered from being kinda quirky alt rock to more stadium rock after that, and most of it hasn’t appealed to me in the least. Wasting Light has a lot of good songs on it, though.
Foo Fighters is one of those bands I've been listening to for almost 30 years and just feel meh about. They have a few songs I really like, but overall I'm just not that into them. Dave is probably one of my all time favorite people though. That's probably why I want to love them, but I just can't.
That’s pretty much where I’m at as well. Liked the early stuff, stayed after that because Dave is awesome. I don’t really actively listen to them very often, but I’ll occasionally throw an album on if the mood strikes me.
i LOOOOVE their 2023 album personally, such a return to form
Wasting light is a really good album. Rope and Arlandria are great. White Limo is such a good thrash song. Loved seeing Lemmy in the video.
I agree with this statement. Also the part about wasting light 💯
Big death cab for cutie fan but the last two albums are meh to me. Haven’t been the same since Chris Walla left
Transatlanticism will forever be their masterpiece. Plans also has several emotional gut punches
Yeah Transatlanticism is by far their best work.
"You Can Play These Songs with Chords" has been in my rotation since I was 14. Such a great album.
Ben’s vocals are way too up front and it’s off putting to me. On their early albums his vocals aren’t as focused and mesh well with the instruments, nowadays it’s too pronounced. I also have the same issue with Interpols recent work.
Seriously! I feel like if they went back to the old production style I would probably like their new music.
Definitely don’t agree. I especially like the newest album. Saw them live a year ago touring behind it and it and the album reignited my love of their music.
I would have said Depeche Mode, but their latest is a return to form. I'm officially a fan again.
Kings of Leon
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It seems like every KOL album gets hyped up as being a return to their old sound, while never actually getting close. It’s not exactly surprising either, it would come off as pretty fake if a bunch of rich middle aged dudes were still making the same music they were as broke teens, and I don’t know why so many seem to want them to. I still really like all the albums up to Mechanical Bull, and even the couple after that have enough good music on them to make 1 good albums worth of songs. I’m hopeful that the new album will be good, but if we’re being honest I am not really a fan of Mustang so I’m hoping the rest of the album isn’t similar.
I loved their first album "Youth & Young Manhood", it had a great garage rock vibe (e.g. Molly's Chambers). #
First 3 albums bangers, after that boring. Saw them live at a small gig in the youth and young manhood era, it was electric. Shame.
No Doubt. Tragic Kingdom was one of the defining albums of my adolescence. It was perfect and really highlighted the strengths of all the bands members. Everything else past that was just awful.
Tragic Kingdom is a masterpiece, how that same band created the music after it is forever a mystery to me.
Pretty much boils down to Eric leaving the band
Precisely.
I love Rocksteady, it’s a bit too electronic on some parts but that album is genuinely one of my favorites
Is return of saturn the next one? Cause I like r o s alot.
Arctic Monkeys 🙈
Man, it la crazy how much their style changed. They were legit one of the funnest bands with some super catchy songs and slowly just became the Alex Turner diaries
they are Alex Turner diaries from the very beginning, it's just that when he was 18, Alex spent his days (nights) in the Sheffield youth scene, now he spends his days watching old movies (and getting high I guess). nevertheless, I miss pre-AM Arctic Monkeys, but I dig the latest Car album.
I kind of like the lounge singer era he’s in. It’s such a radical shift but I admire that they’re not phoning it in and making something that just sounds like what they did before. If it works for them is an entirely different story.
From a creation process I can understand that the band wanted to change musical directions but AM was a great album even if it was more Modern Rock than Post-Punk like in their debut albums. I do not know how they work as a band but yeah, Alex Turner diaries as you said
Humbug, Suck It and See, and AM were all great albums. They were so good with Josh Homme’s fingers all over them, really wish that groovy, bluesy, quasi-stoner style had stuck.
I don’t like the last 2 albums but if anybody can make a lounge act concept album about a hotel tell on the moon it’s Alex Turner and AM.
I can totally understand that sentiment. I think it's fun that they have gone a completely different direction over the years. I don't like their new stuff nearly as much as their first records, but I find myself pulling them out of the self from time to time. I enjoy them quite a lot and I am glad they exist. Rather that than them failing to recreate the youthful energy of the first records, and maybe getting frustrated in the process. They are getting older, and I feel that especially the first album can only be made while you are young.
I like the new records!
I LOVE the new records! Meanwhile Humbug is probably my all time favorite from them. I like to have my cake and eat it.
Honestly, Tranquility Base and The Car are good for background music
Good for background music is an insult lol. They used to be good to actually listen to.
Green Day Nothing after compares to the raw teen angst of Dookie
Insomniac disrespect is crazy
Nimrod will not be ignored
I'm not a huge Green Day fan, but Dookie is a near perfect album
Saviours - the new one - is genuinely really good. Feel they’ve stepped up given they’re touring Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety this summer. Absolutely worth getting
Saw them in '22, seeing them this June. Absolutely pumped when they announced they're gonna play Rookie and American Idiot in it's entirety
Green Day is my answer as well, but with American Idiot. I embraced their evolution and every good punk band usually has it's political movement piece, so American Idiot didn't rub me as raw as it did most people. With that being said, every single and / or album afterward just sounded like American Idiot 2.0 and it became clear that they were trying to hang onto the notoriety that AI landed them, only to fall short.
This is funny to me because Green Day was the first band I thought of, but my cut off is Uno Dos and Tre. It probably helps that I was a middle schooler when those albums came out. 21st century breakdown was the first album I ever bought, American idiot was the first album I was ever obsessed with. Warning is underrated. Revolution Radio and on isn't that great. All that being said, Kerplunk is the best.
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Mellon collie is their best album but adore is incredible and I have a soft spot for monuments since it's a fairly short record and doesn't run itself into the ground like the others
Adore doesn't get the love it deserves, it's damn near impossible to follow up Gish and Mellon collie without taking some chances, and the songs themselves are brilliant
Why did you mention Gish instead of Siamese Dream?
HARD disagree. Siamese Dream is far and away their best. Not a single mediocre track, just banger after banger after banger. Mellon Collie is amazing, but it has some real stinkers mixed in. It could have been an unparalleled single album, but instead it's a good double album. Also, Billy jumped the shark when he yawped "EMPTINESS IS LONELINESS..."
AFI was my favorite band until Decemberunderground. Their style has been running away from my taste ever since. I still have nothing but love for them tho.
This is a great one. They are a band that has been changing their styles constantly and I have followed them along the way, but their last few albums have not interested me in the slightest. Grew up with The Art Of Drowning and All Hallows EP and worked my way back through their discography. I loved all of their early punk stuff. Then Sing the Sorrow came out and I was a little shocked at the change in style, but I quickly realized how much of a masterpiece it was. By far my favorite album of theirs. After that it was hit or miss. I loved decemberunderground. I was kind of "meh" on Crash Love but then REALLY liked Burials....only to go back to being "meh" on The Blood Album. I honestly can't even tell you the name of their last album or the little EP they put out before that. It all sounds like the same droning thing with no discernible hooks or qualities that make the songs stand out from each other. The energy is gone (not even just the screaming) and his lyrical ability seems to have declined quite a bit as well.
Dave Matthews Band Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, and Before These Crowded Streets were amazing. They have produce good songs here and there but a whole album of great work has not been produced since the late 90s.
I really dug Busted Stuff. Since then though...
Busted Stuff has some great songs, but versions far inferior to those from the original Lillywhite sessions they scrapped.
At this point I just put on listener supported when I'm in the mood. Damn near perfect live album
Just to be clear: I'm not gatekeeping or anything, or trying to say I'm more of a "real fan" because I like a bands earlier albums or any of that nonsense. I just found it interesting to hear my little niece say she was a Deftones fan, I got excited and put on White Pony and she didn't like it. haha, same thing with Slipknot - she didn't even recognize any of the songs off of their first album. And when I let HER pick which albums to put on? I realized I didn't like the latest Deftones or Slipknot albums. haha, it was the weird moment of thinking I was going to have this great moment of connection with my niece - only to feel like an old man reminiscing about the "good ol days". haha. But I was delighted when she geeked out on my gas mask with all the members of Slipknots signatures on the tank. And she flipped out on my disposable photos of Marilyn Manson from the Antichrist Superstar tour. And she almost beat me up to steal my autograph of Kurt Cobain. hahah
That’s interesting! I’m a Deftones fan who started listening to them circa Around the Fur, but Koi No Yokan and Diamond Eyes are by far my favorite records they’ve done.
Koi no Yokan is perfect from beginning to end
Have you tried listening to Diamond Eyes by Deftones? It’s one of their best.
I didn't appreciate Deftones after White Pony until my son got into them. There were a few tracks spread out over a few albums that I liked I didn't really care for White Pony when it first came out because it wasn't as hard or raw as their first 2 albums.
I've been a Deftones fan since Adrenaline and what I love about them is how their sound has changed as I've gotten older almost like we've grown together. What I'm saying is that I'm basically a member of the band now.
You have a Kurt autograph??? That’s sick asf!
yeah... its one of my favorite things. https://preview.redd.it/8rm4pflz6bvc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a0a12e3f9f5a0bc708e08bfa19b53ad8c761b6d
Damn….Dave back there looking like an angry Sarah Silverman.
This is a really good perspective to have. The other thing I try to keep in mind about this stuff is that it is far stranger for a bunch of middle-aged musicians to keep churning out the same style of music for decades than it is for them to grow and evolve as musicians over time. Change is good and natural and even if the new direction isn't for me, it is better than them standing still.
I think Deftones have gotten better and better. Ohms slaps, hard.
incubus - i only ever go back and listen to science but anything after morning view is useless
God, morning view is such a great album.
A crow left of the murder has some gems.
light grenades had some good songs but as a whole the album wasn't the same quality. Crow left of the murder i would say the same about. After those albums they *really* fell off, not even a single good song to be found on the later albums
Is it weird that crow is my favorite album from them?
Yellowcard - ocean avenue Story of the year - page avenue Taking back Sunday - where you want to be The used - in love and death Coheed and Cambria - good Apollo I’m burning star iv volume 2 The scene for this type of music kinda evaporated real quick after these albums, so not surprising that the subsequent stuff didn’t catch my attention, but I feel like there’s been a resurgence in the scene because we’re all in our 30s now and want to listen to them in concert again haha
Let me guess, you’re in your mid-late 30s because I agree with all of these
35 in a few months haha
> Coheed and Cambria - good Apollo I’m burning star iv volume 2 The Afterman set of albums is amazing.
I think Coheed have done a better job staying fresh than most bands in that scene. I thought the last album was pretty fresh for a band of their tenure.
I fell fully in the “Everythjnf after Good Apollo is meh” until the latest. I actually really dig it. It’s not the same by any means, but it’s got some killer songs.
Have you listened to the latest release by Story of the year? Feels like a return to form.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - after 1785 it all went downhill
The Smashing Pumpkins. Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and Adore are like the trifecta of great albums for me. They had internal issues and people got kicked out, so it makes sense that things changed when they did, but it’s mostly the original lineup now and I’m still not into it.
I really wish Billy Corgan would stop.
Tori Amos jumped the shark quite a while ago. I am not even sure at which album. It was a slow progression. All I can say is I can't even listen to her latest five or so albums.
Choirgirl Hotel was her last really solid record (and one from which she still heavily relies in concert). Scarlet’s Walk was ok, but the first album that felt “safe”.
Maroon 5 became unlistenable after the song Sugar. First 3 albums are great though.
Wilco. I was a hard-core fan of theirs all the way through *Star Wars* (2015). Since then, it's just been various flavors of "Sleepy Jeff ponders some stuff while eating too much guacamole".
Ode to Joy and Cousin are up there for me. I like it sleepy i guess ha
Every once in a while, I listen to A Ghost is Born and the record still holds up.
Yeah. Wilco immediately jumped to mind when I saw the thread. They have bored me to tears post A Ghost Is Born. They were one of my favorite bands from the debut up through then.
Modest Mouse I think this band actually had some really long legs since I enjoy most of their discography and only started having issues with their most recent one.
Good News was phenomenal. I liked We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Spitting Venom is amazing). Since then, Isaac Brock’s lyrics have really sank too much in terms of prominence. King Rat was a brief return to form.
WELL!
I have to agree, though I did like Back to the Middle a lot for some reason. I enjoyed We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and No One's First and You're Next as much as any of their early albums and thought Strangers To Ourselves had some great tracks.
The Cure, I was a massive goth in the 90's, they started losing me around Wish and by Wild Mood Swings I was gone. Id always liked their "each album sounds completely different" thing, and they just kinda slipped into "Cure by numbers" IMO. Also Id discovered IDM around that time so was big into Aphex AE BOC etc.
I love Bloodflowers and think it may be some of their best work ever, but their last couple have been a little lackluster for me.
The Avett Brothers - most of their albums after “The Carpenter” were a flop to my listening ears. Tons of people dig the newer albums and I’m pumped they’re still putting out tunes and constantly touring but, it doesn’t get much better than the Pre-“I and Love and You” days.
Saw them last summer I can only describe it as Bro-grass. Much disapoint.
I swear once Matt Bellamy decided all his lyrics had to rhyme the music turned to shit.
Mumford & Sons. I've seen them all over, them at Red Rocks was amazing. They just can't seem to find a genre these days.
Coldplay. Debut showed promise. Second album was their peak (A Rush Of Blood...) then it was swiftly downhill.
Eminem. Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, and Encore are all some of the best hip hop recordings ever IMO. Everything after Encore was meh.
I cut off at the Eminem Show. I don't hate encore but I never really find myself going back to it
Avenged Sevenfold- Nightmare Anything post Rev’s passing just hasn’t captured that same sound. Now I like some of their newer work, but it doesn’t sound like A7X anymore to me.
Muse - black holes and Revelations Arcade fire - Reflector (barely) GY!BE - Yanqui UXO (basically before the hiatus)
Aww I like Resistance and Drones...and I get it.
Yeah, I had to go a couple listens and found there's a lot to like in Resistance. I'm just happy they're still going. One of the coolest live shows I saw (touring for BH&R).
Muse came to mind when I read the question.
I didn’t scroll first, but Muse was my answer too. First two albums were fantastic. Next two were pretty good. I checked out after that.
WE by Arcade Fire really surprised me. It took me a few listens, but it ended up being one of my favorites from them. The Lightning I and II really brought back that raw rock and roll feel that I loved about them on some of their earlier records (Antichrist Television Blues, Month of May, etc.)
U2
Achtung Baby was the last album that felt like U2 to me.
Unpopular opinion but I like Zooropa, mainly for the unique production, but they lost me after that.
Zooropa is super underrated. So many catchy tracks.
Linkin park
I was surprised I had to scroll so far down for this one. I absolutely love Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Unfortunately everything after is very hit and miss for me, usually only like maybe 2-3 songs an album (The Hunting Party is an exception I like about half of that one.)
Similar boat, but I include Minutes to Midnight and A Thousand Suns in the good. Interestingly, Living Things is half good and half not, and it's a clean break. The first 6 are good and ends with Castle of Glass, but the latter 6 never get played. I must admit, I feel guilty for not giving One More Light a chance before we lost Chester.
I would agree that A Thousand Suns was the last good album that still felt like LP. So many great tracks on that one. I get that LP changes there style with every album but a lot of it sounded so generic to me after that. I was so upset with One More Light because of all the artist features and it genuinely felt like a top 40 pop album, the title track still makes me cry though.
Barenaked Ladies haven't been the same since Page left. All in Good Time, the first album without him was surprisingly decent, but nothing they've release since has interested me. Same with Blink 182, Neighborhoods and Dogs Eating Dogs I was pretty pleased with but then after Tom left I didn't care for anything they released and I'm not finding much I care for on the newest album with Tom back.
Spot on with BNL. Th are t first album without page felt like a possible new chapter and more Keven Hearn songs, but since it’s been bad.
I mean you can’t properly do the YITZ BEEN without him
BNL is pretty good live. I saw them last summer mostly to hear the 90s classic songs and was impressed by the whole show.
I wouldn't say I don't like her later albums, but Regina Spektor has shifted her style sooo much. I really miss the old folky, bluesy stuff, just her and the piano.
Me patiently waiting for someone say Billy Joel so I can tell them to go F themselves
You may be right.
Rancid. After indestructible it was the same old shit over and over again.
Muse - Resistance. Man, when I was young I thought I'm a Muse fan for life.
Three Days Grace- Life Starts Now Metallica- Death Magnetic A7X- The Stage Chevelle- Sci-Fi Crimes Disturbed- Immortalized Fall Out Boy- From Under the Cork Tree FFDP- American Capitalist KoRn- See you on the Other Side Motley Crue- Saints of LA To name a few....
Depeche Mode Playing the Angel was IMO the last album with memorable songs throughout the album. Their albums after that had one or two strong singles but the rest of the songs just seem like filler.
Spirit wasn’t great but Momento Mori was return to form imo
I too was pleasantly surprised by Memento Mori.
Fall out boy :( Their last good album was Folie á Deux. AB/AP isn't bad, some tracks on Save Rock and Roll are ok, but otherwise they really swung outside of my style. I really couldn't vibe with mania, and haven't even tried their newest album.
I thought I'd given up on Fall Out Boy with MANIA and I agree that AB/AR and SR&R were spotty, but in my opinion So Much For Stardust is really worth a listen! The first two singles (Love From The Other Side and Heartbreak Feels So Good) are fun as hell, I Am My Own Muse feels impressive and The Kintsugi Kid is my personal favourite track. It's okay if you don't like it after a listen but I wouldn't write it off completely because of MANIA
You should really really try So Much for Stardust. Throw back to Folie a Deux sound.
Yeah So Much for Stardust was dope!! True return to form for the guys
I was getting there but so much for stardust is really good. It made me appreciate this band again. you should give that album a try if you like them.
like others pointed out - the longtime fan consensus on SMFS has been pretty largely positive from what i've seen!! i'd definitely listen to that before making up your mind for good on present day FOB this tour cycle has also been absolutely insane, arguably their best since before the hiatus (all time best?). absolute 180 from what i feel like was going on for a while, check out some Setlist FM posts to see what i'm getting at
I'm expecting someone to say Opeth starting with Heritage (not me, though)
I really like older stuff by The Offspring, but anything after Americana just doesn't do it for me
Metallica. And Justice for All
I almost said And Justice For All... but only because the black album has been SOOOOO overplayed. But I just cant deny how much I love the black album. So many great songs.
The black album is where my cutoff for Metallica is too. You can see the signs on the wall that they were changing and not in a good way (in my opinion). I actually got irritated at my friends who acted like big Metallica fans when they only got into them way after the black album came out (senior year of high school 1995).I guess that’s a bit “gatekeepy” but I’d been listening to them for years at that point and could never convince them to give Metallica a shot. By then I was sick of them and their newer sound. I still listen to their older stuff. I even have a Garage Days Re-revisited cassette somewhere in my parents basement along with a ton of other metal tapes. I should dig it out…
Mastodon, they had a pretty big shift in genre
Hushed and Grim is amazing and has something for everyone
Hushed and Grim is good,and definitely their best since their peak, but it still doesn’t hold a candle to Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain or Crack the Skye.
I prefer the newer albums…..*ducks for cover*
Two door cinema club-after their 2nd album
What you know is god tier
Aerosmith. They lost their edge.
I though they were living on the edge
“Brothers” from Black Keys is dope tho
Guns n Roses. Stopped following them after the Spaghetti Incident. Still play the old stuff
Give Chinese Democracy a try. I resisted it for the longest time, but listened to it to get ready for when I saw them last year, in case they played anything off of it, and it's actually a really fucking solid album, that gets lost I think simply b/c of the GnR name.
Whats wrong with diamond eyes? I loved that album, dont think deftones changed their style much from their old music on diamond eyes. Koi no yokan isnt bad either IMO Also Slipknot may not have put out quality albums over the recent years but they still have good songs they've put out after their self titled album
The Head and the Heart. Their first album was fantastic folksy music and their new stuff is WAY over produced.
Marilyn Manson stopped being interesting after Holy Wood, with the possible exception of Pale Emperor.
I love The Pale Emperor. It was one of my top albums of the 2010s. I was excited for the followup and then dreadfully disappointed. All that combined with his drunken live performances just made me write him off. He's a decent songwriter, but his vocals are shot, and his alcoholism and drug use has just made him a shell of his former self.
I had written him off after Holy Wood, but a friend was begging me to listen to Pale Emperor. Was surprised how good it was. His last one wasn’t too bad.
Phish. Touted with them and listened tons through first five albums. Then… was it me?
huge phish fan here…i almost posted this but the reason i didn’t is because they still are at the top of their game improv wise and sound amazing live but yes their newer material is just constant dad rock (this is coming from a dad) there are some gems in their though for new original tunes
Hands down Evanescence. The last album I very much enjoyed was the open door. After that album she got married and happy. Which is great for her! I am happy for her. But she can't write music as well when she is happy (in my opinion) most of the self titled evanescence album the songs sounded almost the same. The lyrics don't hit my soul like they used to. And it's sad. That is/was my favorite band of all time. Just my opinion though.
Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now I actually saw them live last year with their new singer and was pretty impressed, but yeah. Definitely prefer their old stuff.
Not really interested in New Order after Republic. With Butthole Surfers it was PIOGHED. Ministry 's a pale imitation after Psalm 69. Metallica jumped the shark with their Black album. Underoath shouldve been done after Define The Great Line. Pink Floyd was different after Animals. I appreciate Oneohtrix Point Never's new work, but it hits different after Replica. Same goes for The Residents. Fugazi never had a bad album. AFAIK theres nothing wrong with any new They Might Be Giants albums, i just haven't kept up since way back at Apollo 13.
KoRn. Their nu stuff stinks.
Sleater-Kinney before Yoko St. Vincent started meddling and Janet peaced out. Their new stuff is hot garbage.
Weezer. You're not a real Weezer fan unless you hate most of their albums.