Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt
Blood Sex Sugar Magic by Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt
Blood Sex Sugar Magic by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
R.E.M. - Automatic for the people
These are great. In this vein I add:
Pearl Jam - Yield
(and forgive me but)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Not their last album before Roger Waters left the band (that was The Final Cut, the album which followed), but it was far superior, and arguably their best album-- and inarguably their magnum opus.
The David Gilmour-led era of Pink Floyd was ok, but it would never reach the fevered heights and sick intensity of the Roger Waters days.
It's good album. But I view The Wall as a Waters solo album than a Pink Floyd one.
I agree except that Dark side of the moon is clearly Pink Floyds magnum opus.
I understand that Roger is a divisive character (personally I love him despite his flaws), but god damn he could write an album.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
They still had a few good tracks afterwards but that album really was a masterpiece.
Metallica (Black Album)
~~Is this a joke? This is where they're newfound mediocrity was cemented. They peaked at Ride the Lightning, everything after that was more and more watered down garbage.~~
Sorry, I meant I strongly disagree.
Claude Debussy - Claire de Lune
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Rush - 2112
Mr. Bungle - California
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Getz/Gilberto/Jobim - The Girl from Ipanema
Mozart’s Requiem (good place to peak!)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cynic - Focus
Death - Human
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Radiohead - Kid A
Deftones - White Pony
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
The Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Yeah Mozart really fell off after he died.
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bruhhhhhhhh
White Album? Abbey Road? I mean, even if you aren't a big fan of Yellow Submarine or Magical Mystery Tour, how can you say freaking Abbey Road is a comedown from Sgt Pepper's?
Actually, you might be right. I’ll take the Beatles out. They were good all along.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Thank you for correcting the original poster on this one.
Once they went from metal to hard rock, it was over for me.
It’s bizarre to hear anyone mention anything other than Master of Puppets. As an old school death metal guitar player turned jazz geezer, Master of Puppets is, by a wide margin, unanimously considered the best metal album of all time by most metal musicians who know their shit.
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
This is really the only band I have that hipster thought that they were better before they got big. This was the last album they made that I love every song on. Then they dropped Good News for People Who Like Bad News and their style was almost completely different, but also got many more people listening to the band.
Similarly I liked Kings of Leon before they changed the original vocalist. They had a rather unique sound when I discovered Aha Shake Heartbreak, but by Only By The Night, they had completely lost everything about their sound that I liked.
The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
Sadly, Guns n Roses, Appetite for Destruction.
Nothing any of them have done since has matched the quality of creativity that they did on aod.
I'm not saying I didn't like the use your illusion pair, and Slash has done some damn good work on specific songs in his various projects. But the band as a whole fell off hard after their very first. Axl in particular kinda lost his songwriting during use your illusion, which had some great songs, but it wasn't consistently great as albums
Girl You Know It’s True- Milli Vanilli
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
lmao.
if you don't get it — it's his first album
I find myself listening to year zero a lot, maybe I'm too big a fan of NIN in general. Something I like from every album.
as nin albums became less driven by chunky 80s synthesisers and more driven by guitars, they got worse. however, the quake soundtrack and ghosts I-IV are excellent, in my opinion.
And Justice For All.... By Metallica
Master of Puppets > …And Justice for All
A Rush of Blood to the Head by Cold Play...
Of what came after I like X&Y and Mylo Xyloto too, but this one was their best.
I know bands can change their style over 20 years, and I'm glad the band can be happy touring and making music they like and I don't hate people that like their new stuff, but something about the brilliant, raw feeling their music had (imo anyway) gave way for generic electronic music trend-chasing. When I heard "Higher Power" I was like "wow it's The Weekend just with Chris Martin singing."
Wait you think the Gorillaz fell off after Demon Days???
Not dramatically but it was the best and none topped it.
Plastic Beach was straight fire IMO
Maybe my notion of falling off is different, I consider falling off “and then they were irrelevant” so to speak. I could just have the wrong idea
Wait a second, no way you're slandering Plastic Beach like that. PB is equal to DD, some days it hits better even.
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
I’d agree with this, except they only really recorded a single album. The Rock n Roll Swindle was just a bunch of outtakes and session recordings mostly done after Johnny had left
Green Day - American Idiot. It's not that I dislike what came after, but 21st Century Breakdown feels disjointed, the Trilogy has really low lows, and they stopped being ambitious after that and just put out two "pretty good" albums and one awful one.
Also even if you don't like their '00s sound, I seriously don't get why Dookie is more well-liked than Nimrod beyond "it had more hits and I heard it first."
Wolfmother by… Wolfmother
I can name every song and lyric from that album but don’t ask me about anything else by them. Iirc the band basically split post album
This seems to happen with progressive rock at alarming levels. They just reach a point where they take their pretentious bullshit a little too far, and the fans grow weary of it. You saw that with Jethro Tull, which pushed its luck with A Passion Play after scoring a critical success with Thick as a Brick. Yes took it too far with Topographic Oceans. I'm sure ELP has an album where they pushed the envelope a little too far and pushed away the audience in the process. Unfortunately, that had a pendulum effect, with ELP releasing the wimpy Love Beach in an attempt to reel back in those lapsed fans.
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
They had an incredible decade prior to this releasing 3 other top notch albums, but by far this one sticks out as the most successful and easiest to pickup. They have a lot more after this release as well, but I think Wayne found himself diving into an era of depression and it absolutely showed on those later releases. The last release was good but also nothing special at the same time.
Green Day - Dookie
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac
System of a down - Toxicity
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
The Offspring - Smash
I love that game!
I agree that Songs for the deaf is QOTSA's magnum opus, but majority of their other albums are bangers too and it feels unfair to say they fell off after it
Funny with Metallica … I think there’s an argument that Death Magnetic (2008) is, for the thrash fans, the “Black Album” they wanted.
It seems popular to think that Load, Reload, and St. Anger are the worst Metallica albums. If that's the truth, they fell off after the Black Album. In this case, Death Magnetic is a comeback album, not the creative zenith before their worst albums because it happened after their worst albums. With that said, my vote would be And Justice For All... if we're speaking about their creative zenith. It's the most progressive musically. The Black Album is more representative of their sound at the zenith of their popularity.
The bad thing about Death Magnetic. You have the loudness war thing about the album. To an point you have people saying the Guitar Hero version sounds better then the album version.
At the drive in - Relationship of Command
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Tocotronic - Digital ist besser
Bush: Sixteen Stone
Mathew Sweet: Girlfriend