SoulSkin Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 For old new wave, rock, whatever guys... David Bowie, Lou Reed, and REM. Some great stuff, and some really horribly bad music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Blueprint 3 great? Now I've heard everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Blueprint 3 great? Now I've heard everything. I liked it. Sorry I'm a "non-true" rap fan lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I've never completely forgiven Rod Stewart for his craptastic disco phase. "Every Picture Tells a Story" is among the greatest albums in rock and roll history. "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" makes be want to puncture my eardrums with an ice pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I liked it. Sorry I'm a "non-true" rap fan lol I really liked Yeezus myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I've never completely forgiven Rod Stewart for his craptastic disco phase. "Every Picture Tells a Story" is among the greatest albums in rock and roll history. "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" makes be want to puncture my eardrums with an ice pick. Actually, I think he was pretty good in both of those phases (given the inherent limitations of the Disco phase). But that one song is pretty bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Early, hungry Rush and Oh Look How Esoteric We Are Rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I liked it. Sorry I'm a "non-true" rap fan lol True is a poor word - I meant not a diehard rap fan. Meaning people who don't wake up thinking about listening to Illmatic or Enter the Wu Tang: 36 Chambers. I mean it's not a terrible album. Just a far far step down from Reasonable Doubt - Black Album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dont Taze Me Bro Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Metallica Everything post-Justice blows donkey. Everything after Metallica (black album) was pretty much garbage, one or two ok songs from Load and Reload. St. Anger sucked. Death Magnetic was ok/good, couple of good songs, rest pretty decent songs. I wouldn't go as far as to say it was so horrible I hated it, had more of an old school feel. But nothing compared to their early stuff. I think this is a good one. Only issue is that I liked their first album, a little bit of their second album and then they just fell off. I didn't like them sporadically, I like LP's early stuff and then hated what they became. Same goes for many musicians. I wonder if a band like Nirvana would have ended up like that if Kurt Cobain hadn't taken his own life. Their first album was legendary, second album was OK, the unplugged was pretty good. This whole post made me think more about the subject. My final answer: FOO FIGHTERS Bleach, Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero and the unplugged live were all excellent imo. But I'm a huge Nirvana fan. Foo Fighters, come on man :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I personally find that there are a good 3-4 songs from the RHCP per album that I can get down with since BSSM. when I saw the title of this thread, I was thinking "Chinese Democracy". But that it just one thing past Use your Illusion and The Spaghetti Incident? that was all covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dont Taze Me Bro Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Metallica- everything that isn't Enter Sandman sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dont Taze Me Bro Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 It's tough to pick.......I'm gonna go with GnR. Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 created so many awesome hits. Then they fell completely off with The Spaghetti Incident and Chinese Democracy, those two were so horrible, I couldn't listen to them. Those last two albums sucked so ****ing bad, I couldn't listen to them more than once. I can listen to the top three mentioned, over and over and not get tired of them. That has to be the biggest gap between Awesome to Complete Suckage right? I'm taking into account that while other bands like Metallica put out some horrible music, at least mixed in those albums were some songs that were pretty good/ok, that one would actually not hate it so much to turn it off. I despise every song on the last two GnR albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Hog Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Everything after Metallica (black album) was pretty much garbage, one or two ok songs from Load and Reload. St. Anger sucked. Death Magnetic was ok/good, couple of good songs, rest pretty decent songs. I wouldn't go as far as to say it was so horrible I hated it, had more of an old school feel. But nothing compared to their early stuff. Re: Metallica, the first four albums are the best, but I actually think I like Load better than the Black album. I'll rank them: Master of Puppets Kill Em All Ride The Lightning Justice for All Load Black Album Death Magnetic Re-Load St. Anger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Load is underrated. 5 or 6 really good hard rock tracks on there. The Outlaw Torn is the jam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Hog Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Pearl Jam Some of their stuff is great, some is un-listenable. I kinda get what you are saying but I think I'm in the minority with these guys. Most people really love the first three albums: Ten, Vs., and Vitalogy. I really like all three, but I like No Code, Yield, and Binaural pretty much equally. That there, for me, puts Pearl Jam with 6 albums I really, really like. The rest of the albums: Riot Act, Pearl Jam, Backspacer, and Lightning Bolt each have songs I like, but I don't like that batch nearly as much as I do the first 6 albums. So with 6 albums, I love, the puts Pearl Jam in a pretty elite class, like winning 6 superbowls or something. Plus with those first 6 albums, they did it with 4 different drummers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveakl Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Poison Sister Hazel Creed Dave Matthews Band Jimmy Buffett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 We need at least two separate lists: 1.) One for bands that once were great and then "jumped the shark" 2.) And one for bands that are sometimes great but also sometimes mail it in. They made good music again after an uninspired period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taco Bell Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 both in my personal tastes... an example of category 1: 1. Depeche mode... great through songs of faith and devotion, great in patches through exciter, terrible in all the albums starting with playing the angel an example of category 2: 2. eric clapton... amazing into the late 70s, weird in the 80s, revitalized even if sappier in the 90s, and.... old but cool since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I agree about Clapton. That's not necessarily a widely held opinion either. I have family members that liked the albums he made in the 80's. But there are stretches of his career that I do not care for. I wouldn't say I hate those albums, I just find them boring. I really enjoy some of his much more recent blues-work. He's such a serious musician that he was bound to bounce back and start making good music again. He's practically a musicologist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 How many musicians do you really have that like everything they do. I can think of a small handful. Everybody puts out head scratchers. We accept the strikeouts because of the home runs they hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I'll pick an obscure one - Atlanta Rhythm Section aka ARS. I love hits like So Into You, Spooky, and Alien, bit most of their LP tracks are abysmal. Incredible musicians, but very erratic songwriting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Two bands from the early to mid 2000's that jumped the shark: the Strokes and the Arctic Monkeys. Is This It and Room on Fire are two of my all-time favorite albums, I still listen to them a lot. But everything that came after has been trash. It's depressing listening to their decline. It shows you how much their brilliance was a product of that late 90's New York Underground scene, and when that scene declined, they lost their way creatively. Drugs were probably an issue too. Whatever People Say I am, I'm Not is also incredible. It's another one of my all time favorite albums. But it's like they became disillusioned by mega-fame and lost all of the piss and vinegar that gave them their edge. They didn't get incompetent, and in a vacuum, their subsequent work wasn't terrible. They just got boring and uninspired and I can't enjoy it because of how much I love the debut album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 This thread has evolved into a discussion of artists that were great and then got less good over time. Which is every musician ever for the most part (Neil Young may be the exception here). I think the original post and Zoony's posts get it. RHCP and The Cure have great songs on albums next to absolutely unlistenable songs. That's a pretty remarkable talent. I would throw Morrissey (as a solo artist) on that list too - though Morrissey is pretty freaking divisive. I actually think the all-time champion of this is The Who. Until Tommy came along, it seemed like Townsend would wrote one incredible song a year and then scrape together stuff to put a full album together. All The Who's early stuff feel like Motown albums. One or two hits and a bunch of junk. We need at least two separate lists:1.) One for bands that once were great and then "jumped the shark"2.) And one for bands that are sometimes great but also sometimes mail it in. They made good music again after an uninspired period. The all-time champion of #2 is Bob Dylan. He seemed to have no earthly idea what he was doing from the Christian period to Time Out of Mind. Which is a 20 year period of crap followed by a period of excellence. The interesting thing with Dylan is that his good albums have no bad songs, and his bad albums have maybe one outstanding song if you are willing to find it and a bunch of unlistenable garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 How many musicians do you really have that like everything they do. I can think of a small handful. Everybody puts out head scratchers. We accept the strikeouts because of the home runs they hit Yeah, that's a good point. I like for bands and artists to experiment. But sometimes that experimentation leads to phases that don't really work. Also, there is a difference for me between an artist going down a creative rabbit hole I don't care for, and an artist pushing out work that is clearly uninspired. I can respect and maybe eventually grow to appreciate work that is strange, risky, and perhaps unsavory, but still coming from a place of inspiration. But uninspired work will probably always bore me and make me sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 It's also kind of amazing that you could have a discussion of transcendent music and garbage music and not discuss Paul McCartney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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