Good to Bad?
 

What's the deal with bands making certain albums that are near perfect, and then just...mehhh the rest of the way? Killers for example, and in my opinion Skillet-

some bands lose momentum or just can't live up to the hype. :/

Most bands do this along the way.

Snoop Dogg will never make anything nearly as good as Doggystyle. :(

Nuthin' But a G Thang...

Truthfully, we can't expect people to stay the same throughout their entire lives.

People grow up, think different things, write different music.
As much as the fans are disppointed, it makes sense.

And fans should be paying attention to things like this.

A Dre song, but close enough.

That's for damn sure.

some bands are just shit:

That's not even relevant.

it's called the 'sophmore slump'. the bulk of bands that come out with a fantastic debut album have a hard time living up to their initial success. it's a combination of multiple factors usually ego, and social pressure.

I would relate Bloc Party to this. Silent Alarm was great but like the Killers their last albums have slowly gotten worse.

I had a feeling that someone would mention Bloc Party...

inb4 Guns 'N' Roses

aside from the fact that "lies" came out after "appetite for destruction", and was hugely successful (you might have heard a little ditty called 'patience')

on top of that it could easily be argued that combining "use your illusions" (which is way easier in the age of digital music) into one album's worth of material would result in another great album.

after all that (and the millions of sales those 4 albums collected) yeah they went to sh!t with "the spaghetti incident", although i'm pretty sure "chinese democracy" would have been successful and received positively had it been released 10 years ago.

i'm just razzing you :p:



or maybe i'm missing the point of the thread, every band goes to crap eventually. i thought this was about bands that released 1 great debut album then never came close again.

yeah, i knew that, but i didn't mean their first album was followed by abject failiure. just that, like you said, they had many good releases, but they went to crap eventually.


as for the point of this thread, i see it as bands who do have multiple good releases, (i.e. Gun's N Roses), but then fail to live up to that again

No...but it was funny. :D

Anyway, I think in many cases bands grow and their albums get progressivley...not better per say...but more mature.
Ex. Brand New

There is also the possibility that not all musicians are cut out for a lifetime of creative output. Some bands/artists really only have one good album inside of em'. We're conditioned to believe that if you are lucky enough to "make it big", then its necessary to try to prolong that trajectory by being prolific (record contracts kinda' ensure it), but come on, would you rather have one spectacular album that shines on its own, or one spectacular album that recants its own greatness because of the subsequent obligatory rubbish that came after it?

I thought the Use Your Illusion albums were great personally.

Spaghetti Incident was pretty sh*tacular though.

The Strokes, anyone?

Never heard of them.

i'm still trying to figure out if this is a serious thread or not. since when do bands break up because they're tired of producing good music?

Well some members might not classify the music they are making as good music, most of the time they'll just break up due to creative differences.
But anyway but yea, this usually happens with not only music but with movies and T.V. show seasons
Like Rocky, what the hell have they done to him...
But yeah, Weezer and Greenday really went down the wrong road.

Probably yeah. Is This It? still kicks ass, although Room On Fire was a good album it couldn't match their debut. Their 3rd album was meh.

The best example from this decade is Hundred Reasons. Their debut album Ideas Above Our Station is a classic, but everything they've released after that is enough to send you to sleep...

Blue Cheer released vincebus eruptum and inside/outside, then turned into a more mediocre steppenwolf.

I thought Room On Fire was their best to be honest. The third one was rubbish though.

Another good example is the Coral - brilliant debut, the followup was a mixed bag and for some reason they decided to get more and more boring from there.

Death From Above 1979 suffered from this to the extreme.

Yeah, Blue Cheer were one of those bands that had one fantastic album and just disappeared completely.

they still tour constantly, and ****ie peterson is still pretty badass. As far as studio albums they only got those two though.

...while I'm here, I'll throw cheap tricks first three records into the mix.