Incredibly good one-off albums from bands that lost the plot quickly..
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Or was it?Is there a better example than Tears for Fears...?
Been listening to this a lot recently - it really is very good... never listened to the follow-up album in its entirety and no-real desire to..
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(okay this was last done in 2008..so worth a reboot..)
Steel Icarus
we move
Songs from the big chair is better than the hurting though and hardly qualifies as losing the plot
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
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Is there a better example than Tears for Fears...?
Been listening to this a lot recently - it really is very good... never listened to the follow-up album in its entirety and no-real desire to..
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(okay this was last done in 2008..so worth a reboot..)
"I have absolutely no intention of leaving my role as originating poster of this thread."
How it ended:
I dunno, cause I ain't listened to it.. but from the singles The Hurting has a nice post-punk feel to it, where the rest of their stuff is mid-80s overproduced whatever ..
It's not a hill I'll die on though.
“It is with huge sadness that, following contact with other posters today, it is clear that the boards no longer have sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue. They have left me no choice but to step aside as OP of this thread."
Hollis
bloody furious
How it ended:
“It is with huge sadness that, following contact with other posters today, it is clear that the boards no longer have sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue. They have left me no choice but to step aside as OP of this thread."
I'm happy to do the beginning, middle and ending.. whatever it takes.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Sex Pistols?I busy trying to think of Example 2.
Steel Icarus
we move
Stone Roses
Steel Icarus
we move
Hunting high and low
Steel Icarus
we move
Original Pirate Material - The Streets
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Would like to submit the bombastic, ott, above album produced during Trevor Horn's magnificent 80s run. There was nothing like it at the time. The hype, the Pink Floyd knockoffs, the Monty Python interludes, the covers of Bacharach/David, Springsteen etc.
After TH left for other production duties, the follow up album was such a drop in quality. But WttP remains a shiny, pulsating product of its time and it's up there with Lexicon of Love... another TH production
Odd pov on both of those.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Controversial, but probably fair.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Loads of the early 00's rock bands fit with this theme. Not least:
Steel Icarus
we move
I did think about this but there's some weak shit on Pleasuredome amidst the mighty singles, and I DO have a place in my heart for the follow up Liverpool, so while I think you have a case I couldn't personally post it myself.
Would like to submit the bombastic, ott, above album produced during Trevor Horn's magnificent 80s run. There was nothing like it at the time. The hype, the Pink Floyd knockoffs, the Monty Python interludes, the covers of Bacharach/David, Springsteen etc.
After TH left for other production duties, the follow up album was such a drop in quality. But WttP remains a shiny, pulsating product of its time and it's up there with Lexicon of Love... another TH production
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
I liked Antics. So I’d argue they managed two decent albums before the decline
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
I think this is a great LP. I saw them at Glastonbury one year and it was a perfect set from start to finish. One of the few instances of seeing an unknown (to me anyway) band and thinking “Wow!”
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Some
If you think that Hear Nothing... is the first Discharge album, then I suppose that certainly qualifies, but as I've argued elsewhere Why? is definitely an album so that doesn't count. I reckon there's a pretty big drop-off between the quality of the Priests EPs and Nothing Feels Natural vs Seduction of Kansas, if anyone else has Priests opinions?
Yeah, on that note I suppose it depends how you're defining "lost the plot" - I don't think either Show Your Bones or Neon Bible are bad albums as such, but they're not Fever to Tell or Funeral? Never really listened to any Arctic Monkeys beyond the first album, dunno whether or not I'm missing out on anything there.
If you think that Hear Nothing... is the first Discharge album, then I suppose that certainly qualifies, but as I've argued elsewhere Why? is definitely an album so that doesn't count. I reckon there's a pretty big drop-off between the quality of the Priests EPs and Nothing Feels Natural vs Seduction of Kansas, if anyone else has Priests opinions?
rekil
to menny cranks
When they were comin up with Obstacle, did none of them ever stop and say 'heeey, this is marquee moon'.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I lent that on vinyl to my cousins . . .who hated it so much that they applied a cigarette lighter to it, turning it into an ashtray.
Would like to submit the bombastic, ott, above album produced during Trevor Horn's magnificent 80s run. There was nothing like it at the time. The hype, the Pink Floyd knockoffs, the Monty Python interludes, the covers of Bacharach/David, Springsteen etc.
After TH left for other production duties, the follow up album was such a drop in quality. But WttP remains a shiny, pulsating product of its time and it's up there with Lexicon of Love... another TH production
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