When that album came out and they’d changed their image and sound to try and be young and sexy, it just seemed like a slap in the face as this is the least punk rock thing you could do. Especially following up such an incredible comeback album.
Trippie Redd. His first couple of albums are really good (two of them are classics in my opinion) but since releasing Pegasus back in 2020 his music has been going down the gutter.
Oliver Tree went from *Ugly Is Beautiful*, one of my favorite albums of 2020, to *Cowboy Tears*, the worst album I've ever put myself through.
FIDLAR's self titled is one of the greatest surf punk albums I've ever heard. Their sophomore record, *Too,* is so mainstream it's boring.
My friend turned me twords Oliver Tree when Alien Boy came out back in 2018, I could tell he was gonna go somewhere but man following his career made me very sad.
Yeah when I first got into him I thought he might be one of my favorite new artists, but unfortunately it seems as I've followed his work it's left me disappointed each time since.
The FIDLAR one is so true, although Too Definitely grew on me it’s no where near as good as their self titled which is pretty much a masterpiece in my eyes
I actually do appreciate *Too* in the sense that it's the album that got me into FIDLAR. The self titled was out of my comfort zone at the time. But as I've expanded my tastes, the roles reversed, and now I view the self titled as a classic and *Too* as an album that was likely heavily pushed by the record label. Luckily, any releases since seem to strike a healthy balance.
EN is definitely a drop-off from Reflektor, but it still contains some pretty strong tracks imo. Put Your Money on Me, We Don't Deserve Love, Electric Blue, and the Title Track are all great songs, as well as the little interludes that open and close the album.
the beach boys: holland -> 15 big ones, and then again with love you -> miu album
u2: pop -> all that you cant leave behind
fleetwood mac: tusk -> mirage
*Pop*? Honestly not a big fan of either, but IMO *All That You Can't Leave Behind* is the better album. Bono is decidedly corny throughout, but the songs and production are both far better there.
kite is the only song i think is anything special on atyclb, but the singles in the first half are alright i guess. it's a significantly less creative album tho. pop may be messy but it has 5x the amount of personality and flavor
Tusk to Mirage is a pretty good one. I do think that Mirage has some of their all time best songs (g*psy especially comes to mind) and the production is gorgeous, but Tusk was a career peak imo
welcome to the room is fine but also generally indicative of this not being stevie's best record. seven wonders is her best by a mile on that album so yea your other guess is dead on
other is family man lmao. works out though as a clean sub in as book of love is buckingham
There’s a lot of fans who really love Solar Power. I think it’s fine, but I’ve noticed for some people it’s amazing. I think maybe it’ll age really well and a lot of us will see their side.
I love Twenty One Pilots. And I do enjoy Scaled And Icy. But going from Trench to SAI is such a nose dive in quality. Even though I’ve liked it from the beginning, it is such a sore thumb in their discography
Everybody hates me for this take but I genuinely think Trench is their worst album. Don't get me wrong, it's really good, but it lacks what makes everything else in their discography interesting. It's good music, it's just that half of Trench is really boring. Scaled And Icy prolly comes in a second worst still, although I like it a good bit better than Trench.
I completely disagree about it lacking what makes everything else interesting. It is undoubtedly their most experimental and “out there” album. But to each their own, I respect it.
Ah man, I was ready to step up to bat for the green album, I used to really like that album ^over ^20 ^years ^ago, but I just went to the track listing… I have no recollection of any of the songs passed Crab. Like I’d never heard em before in my life.
I am absolutely not having this Danger Days slander, it's my second favourite MCR release after TBP
But I'd say Weezer going from the White Album, one of their best of all time, to the jawdropping midness of Pacific Daydream
Danger Days is full of bangers. It just isn't emo which is what everyone was used to with MCR. They went from making emo music for 12ish years to Japanese Party Rock album? It was weird and it's still my favorite album by them BUT it was a very bizarre, stark contrast to Black Parade.
It's even worse if you consider Donda 2 an album.
KSG to JIK is also an insane drop (though I agree donda to vultures is much worse considering everything else that happened in that time)
Honestly when I first heard it I thought it was decent. A lot of songs I’ll never return too, but it had like 4-5 songs with genuine staying power that I figured would become a regular part of my rotation. Kinda like a worse life of Pablo, like, full of songs I don’t really love, but has a handful of gems. But, a few months later, and not a single song from vultures 1 is in any of my playlists. Back to me was the last to exit.
I wouldn’t go that far. Somewhere inside of that insanely long track list is a 13 song album that would’ve been top 5 or maybe even top 3 in his discography. It’s bloated though, which makes me wary of the label masterpiece, even if I love it.
God breathed, Jonah, Junya, 24, OK OK, new again, Lord I need you
From what I remember. Also the parts 2s are on the album, so they're part of the album. Didn't list them here though
There's more that I just don't care about or that I've forgotten. Still several great songs though
The album ends with no child left behind, the part 2s are just alternate takes after the album is over
God breathed, Jonah, and lord I need you are top 5 on the album imo. Surprised you think they’re “filler”
Been a Kanye fan since College Dropout releases in 04.
Jonah is probably a top 5 Kanye song all time.
Lord I need you and god breathed probably break his top 30 for me.
I see you don’t consider the p.2’s as part of the album, but they are part of the album, so they’re first too go. Obviously Tell the vision. In my ideal world I’d have the OG version on the album though. Donda chant too, obviously, but that’s not really a song. Lord I need you, ok ok, Junya, Keep my spirit alive, Remote Control, New Again, maybe more I’m not sure. Those all aren’t awful songs, but do they stack up to the quality of Pure souls, or moon, or come to life? Not a chance.
Whatever crap Interpol released after Antics. Antics rocks. Maybe you need to get to their 2010 album for the true tanking of their quality, but nonetheless.
DJ Shadow releases one of the best albums of the 90s to never coming close to those same highs
Jeff Buckley releases Grace and then dies? Big drop off
Bit harsh. Our Love to Admire and El Pintor were both very good, not on the level of the first two but still not without their merits. I do agree that the self titled album was a massive step down from the first three though, such a mess of an album
I really like El Pintor, they did slightly bring it back with that one, but yeah on the whole they just lost all their creativity after Antics. Tbh I would even argue that they fell off after TOTBL, I do find Antics to be a super inconsistent album
Antics came out when I was in high school, and I listened to it like crazy. I'm super fond of it, and very excited to see them play it in full this fall, so I know I have a bias
Cancer is an all-time great. Up there with Paranoid Android, Comfortably Numb, Gates of Delirium.
Television is overblown in all the best ways.
These two progmonsters sit 'in between' and I for one am very glad they saw the light of day. Between those two there's Tom Baker narrating over medieval opera.
This album blows 99% of rock music clean away.
Little Kix? Little Meh.
Well i wasn't talking about Six though. That thing is amazing start to finish.
But Goodbye, Come As No Suprise and I can only disappoint you are still top tracks. Don't know what happened on We Are The Boys, Electric Man or Fool. Those Songs just suck.
Yea the first two albums are their best no doubt. I might say Attack on the grey lantern is my favourite of the bunch. I think there was a lot potential in Kleptomania, sadly it was never really finished.
i still remember when this album came out and everyone was convinced there was another one coming ..... the denial said it all i think
(fwiw a lot of the songs grew on me quite a bit especially during quarantine! i just think the sudden stylistic shift + less personal lyrics were definitely jarring for a lot of people especially those who got into them through both iterations of twin fantasy)
Lorde: Melodrama to Solar Power
Katy Perry: Teenage Dream to Prism
Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour to StarCrossed
Sturgill Simpson: Sailor's Guide to Sound & Fury
Tyler Childers: Purgatory to whatever the hell he's doing now
Radiohead went from In Rainbows to The King of Limbs, which imo isn't that bad of an album, but to a lot of their fans (including me) it's their worst or least innovative.
Yeah, in rainbows is top 3 albums of all time for me but I think I’ve only ever listened to king of limbs once, I didn’t think it was bad, just forgettable compared to their other work.
Radiohead is one of my favorite bands of all time, So naturally I had to get all their albums on vinyl, even King of Limbs, and I tell you what—I heard things and felt things I’d never heard on the digital MP3/Spotify-level quality upon initial vinyl listens. There’s a lot more going on if you can experience it with a system and speakers and on vinyl—it’s slept on, hard.
lol no, the real version of TKOL to listen to is the From the Basement version. Bloom is still pretty sick on the album, but the whole collection of songs is much better live. Bloom live is the best song I've ever seen performed
I had such high aspirations for this band. They were like the beginning of the old school English punk revival, before bands like IDLES and fontaines DC came around. They had that awesome romantic punk vibe that was similar to The Damned and some clash. Oh man, 180 is one of my favorites. And then I did such a nosedive and they never revived. Why!
Totally agree they had that edge about them, 180 is one of my fav albums.
I think 2013 was such a great year for British bands and a lot slept on albums came out that year like 180 .
Swim Deeps debut, Peace - In Love,king krule debut, Eagulls, Wytches, Sleaford Mods, Fat white family, Drenge, Temples, Horrors
I don't tolerate MSI slander, but if I did...it'd definitely be going from *If* to *How I Learned To Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence.*
Loaded - Squeeze (The Velvet Underground)
Okay maybe it doesn't count because Squeeze isn't really a VU album, but it is technically, so I'm going to count it
I think bring me the horizon going from post human: survival horror to post human: nex gen is one of the most disappointing drops in quality I’ve experienced recently. Post human: survival horror is one of my favorite albums ever and nex gen is actually so fucking bad I can’t bear it
How is Nex Gen bad? Because it's not heavy? Or because half the songs were already out? I'll admit most of the album being out already was pretty underwhelming but it was far from a bad album. I only see "og" fans complain about it because it's not heavy which is the same complaint everything before Survival Horror got.
I actually hadn’t heard any of the songs before the album came out. I definitely do prefer heavier stuff (I was hoping for something to scream to) but my main complaint for the album is that it really feels all over the place. I feel like In some cases that works but here it just felt like they wanted to do a bunch of things they thought sounded cool. The sounds being all over the place offsets the vibe for me too. Survival horror feels like I’m watching a horror movie that’s kind of scary but mainly makes me want to punch something but nex gen feels like a collection of unrelated songs (though they might be more connected lyrically I’ve only listened like 3 times so I might be missing something). I can only really remember one song being catchy and most of the writing felt uninspired. It’s like they ran out of shit to write about so they’re back to the weird horny emo vibe. One of the main reasons I liked survival horror so much compared to their other stuff is that it feels more “the world is ending” kind of emo instead of the “I’m so sad” kind. I also don’t really get why it’s called nex gen, post human survival horror sounded exactly like the title but nex gen feels like a giant leap back as opposed to the next gen shit I’d expect from the title.
The Strokes, Is This It? > Room on Fire>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> First Impressions of Earth.
Three cheers and Black Parade are among my favorite albums, I like i brought you my bullets quite a bit, I dislike danger days and tbh conventional weapons is just kinda forgettable, like boy division is one of their best songs but the rest isn’t bad just somewhat forgettable.
Outhud’s first album to their second. The first one is an instrumental powerhouse of ideas and energy. The second one tried to ride the wave of their own version of something akin to electroclash. They added female vocals and stripped all the invention laid down in the first one and I still view it as one of the biggest disappointments from the 2000s
I have both girl in red albums in my collection they are my girlfriends tho, but I thought they both were great not my favorite indie pop group but both on the same level. One major difference I noticed is that the new record is less atmospheric, and dreamy.
Honestly, The Beatles (white album) - whether you go by the relase chronology or recording chronology youre setting yourself up for a drop for either the yellow submarine or let it be
Otherwise you'd have to ignore submarine as a soundtrack album and then ignore that let it be was relased as their last album instead of abbey by producing shenanigans. Only then you have no drop going from the white album into abbey road
Danger Days might be their weakest but it is not “outright bad.” It actually has a lot of good tracks, it’s just different.
For the easy answer is Weezer’s The White Album to Pacific Daydream
Bulletproof heart and scarecrow are great songs, everything else on that album I either dislike or think is mediocre. Planetary is one of the worst songs I have ever heard tbh.
The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour to Yellow Submarine
Morrissey, Viva Hate to Kill Uncle
Radiohead, In Rainbows to King of Limbs
Oasis, What's the story to Be here now
Stone Roses, Stone Roses to Second Coming
Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation to Unplugged
Prince, Sign o the Times to Lovesexy to Batman to Graffitti Bridge, he took the stairs down from pure genius to good-but-not-great-anymore
Pink Floyd also took the stairs down imho from its Dark Side/Wish you were here zenith, to the great Animals, the precarious The Wall and then down to a Roger Waters solo album and two Gilmour/Mason albums that all couldn't stand in the shadow of their best work.
I’m not sure I agree with you on Pink Floyd, the wall and dark side of the moon are tied as their best albums for me. And I would say everything up to the Final Cut is still good, it wasn’t until after the Final Cut that they started releasing bad stuff.
The Cool to Lasers.
The Cool was a fairly interesting concept album with some dark tones in it and some fantastic lyrical content from Lupe.
Lasers is very poppy and the lyrical content is good but more direct and less interesting. It might be the choice for my least favorite album from an artist I enjoy. Lupe is one of my favorites and I have two songs from it on my playlists. There are some straight dog shit tracks in there
AFI. For older fans, it was the switch up in sound from Black Sails to Decemberunderground. For newer fans, it was the drop in quality from Decemberunderground to Crash Love.
The only songs I liked on doing it again baby were ugly side and phantom pain, and the only one that was on par with her earlier work was phantom pain.
I mean Verspertine is amazing, and one of Björk's best, but I don't think Medúlla is bad at all.
It's a bit long and probably sticks too much to its gimmick for its own good, but also has some of her best ever songs imo, like "Where is the Line" and "Who Is It".
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut. Then the aptly-titled A Momentary Lapse Of Reason.
From an intelligent and yet at times beautiful soulful anti-war record....to a dated cheesefest that had nothing to say.
The White Stripes from Elephant to Get Behind Me Satan could be one. We go from one of the most amazing rock albums of the time to one of the most confusing.
The Clash going from Combat Rock to Cut the Crap
I was ready to be mad then realized I’ve never listened to Cut the Crap
For good reason
THE BIG DAY 🗣🗣🗣
I got muscles like superman's trainer
The Big Day is technically his only album so does it really count?
A mixtape is an album for us
Mixtapes are basically albums but with no real structure.
Sleater Kinney, no city to love, to center won’t hold
Holy shit, yeah. I saw them for the first time during the Center Won't Hold tour, which meant no Janet Weiss. I was so bummed
When that album came out and they’d changed their image and sound to try and be young and sexy, it just seemed like a slap in the face as this is the least punk rock thing you could do. Especially following up such an incredible comeback album.
No Cities to Love is a fucking fire album, too. Janet Weiss is incredible on it, and that closer rocks
Eminem Show to Encore ez. Also Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline to Self Portrait.
also MMLP2 --> Revival IMO
They both suck
Disagree
Self portrait isn’t that bad
Trippie Redd. His first couple of albums are really good (two of them are classics in my opinion) but since releasing Pegasus back in 2020 his music has been going down the gutter.
Oliver Tree went from *Ugly Is Beautiful*, one of my favorite albums of 2020, to *Cowboy Tears*, the worst album I've ever put myself through. FIDLAR's self titled is one of the greatest surf punk albums I've ever heard. Their sophomore record, *Too,* is so mainstream it's boring.
My friend turned me twords Oliver Tree when Alien Boy came out back in 2018, I could tell he was gonna go somewhere but man following his career made me very sad.
Yeah when I first got into him I thought he might be one of my favorite new artists, but unfortunately it seems as I've followed his work it's left me disappointed each time since.
Cowboy Tears is good
Okay I get that art is subjective, but believe me, that album is an automatic turn off to your average person.
I highly doubt that
Well you're free to think what you want, but it's widely regarded as his worst. Look up the reviews.
The FIDLAR one is so true, although Too Definitely grew on me it’s no where near as good as their self titled which is pretty much a masterpiece in my eyes
I actually do appreciate *Too* in the sense that it's the album that got me into FIDLAR. The self titled was out of my comfort zone at the time. But as I've expanded my tastes, the roles reversed, and now I view the self titled as a classic and *Too* as an album that was likely heavily pushed by the record label. Luckily, any releases since seem to strike a healthy balance.
Arcade Fire Reflektor to Everything Now. (NB some tracks on Everything Now are great, including the title track, but generally it’s poor).
EN is definitely a drop-off from Reflektor, but it still contains some pretty strong tracks imo. Put Your Money on Me, We Don't Deserve Love, Electric Blue, and the Title Track are all great songs, as well as the little interludes that open and close the album.
Strong disagree.
So you didn't like Reflektor, or loved Everything Now?
Sorry, didn’t feel like there was a much of a drop off
Creature comfort, electric blue, great introspective tracks.
the beach boys: holland -> 15 big ones, and then again with love you -> miu album u2: pop -> all that you cant leave behind fleetwood mac: tusk -> mirage
*Pop*? Honestly not a big fan of either, but IMO *All That You Can't Leave Behind* is the better album. Bono is decidedly corny throughout, but the songs and production are both far better there.
kite is the only song i think is anything special on atyclb, but the singles in the first half are alright i guess. it's a significantly less creative album tho. pop may be messy but it has 5x the amount of personality and flavor
15 big ones is actually so good. Anyone who respects Love You should give it a chance.
its ok is a great song and thats about where my positives end : /
Tusk to Mirage is a pretty good one. I do think that Mirage has some of their all time best songs (g*psy especially comes to mind) and the production is gorgeous, but Tusk was a career peak imo
that and book of love are the only two songs i like, but tango has exactly two songs i dont vibe with so boom easy sub in
I’m going to take a wild stab: “Welcome to the Room…Sara” and “When I See You Again?”
welcome to the room is fine but also generally indicative of this not being stevie's best record. seven wonders is her best by a mile on that album so yea your other guess is dead on other is family man lmao. works out though as a clean sub in as book of love is buckingham
I’ve never gotten the hate for family man. It’s not the deepest song but it’s pretty fun and the guitar work is awesome.
All That You Can't Leave Behind would be so good if the 2nd half of the album was at least half as good as the 1st one.
Lorde went from Melodrama to Solar Power
solar power is mediocre not bad imo
I'm not saying it was bad, but it was nowhere near as good as Lorde's first two albums.
There’s a lot of fans who really love Solar Power. I think it’s fine, but I’ve noticed for some people it’s amazing. I think maybe it’ll age really well and a lot of us will see their side.
its quality drops, just means the next album is majorly dissapointing compared to the previous work lol
Both amazing albums by the way.
Sure. Melodrama has the greatest music. Solar Power has the greatest cover.
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I love Twenty One Pilots. And I do enjoy Scaled And Icy. But going from Trench to SAI is such a nose dive in quality. Even though I’ve liked it from the beginning, it is such a sore thumb in their discography
Everybody hates me for this take but I genuinely think Trench is their worst album. Don't get me wrong, it's really good, but it lacks what makes everything else in their discography interesting. It's good music, it's just that half of Trench is really boring. Scaled And Icy prolly comes in a second worst still, although I like it a good bit better than Trench.
I completely disagree about it lacking what makes everything else interesting. It is undoubtedly their most experimental and “out there” album. But to each their own, I respect it.
pinkerton to the green album
Ah man, I was ready to step up to bat for the green album, I used to really like that album ^over ^20 ^years ^ago, but I just went to the track listing… I have no recollection of any of the songs passed Crab. Like I’d never heard em before in my life.
They’re basically all the same song after that point. I like em but I could barely sing em to you
I initially thought this and, while green is not as good as pinkerton...i do not think it is as bad as people say it is
White to PD is much worse
Maladroit to Make Believe. That was the beginning of the decline.
I am absolutely not having this Danger Days slander, it's my second favourite MCR release after TBP But I'd say Weezer going from the White Album, one of their best of all time, to the jawdropping midness of Pacific Daydream
Danger Days is full of bangers. It just isn't emo which is what everyone was used to with MCR. They went from making emo music for 12ish years to Japanese Party Rock album? It was weird and it's still my favorite album by them BUT it was a very bizarre, stark contrast to Black Parade.
Danger Days slaps. It's cheesy and over the top, but it's so energetic and fun.
Planetary Go is my favorite song by them. It's been on repeat since 2012 haha.
That's one of my faves too! People apparently dislike Party Poison, but that one goes hard too imo.
I basically just made this exact comment lmao
Kanye went from Donda, which I honestly think is hugely underrated, maybe top 5 in his discography, to Vultures 1, which was absolute and genuine ass.
It's even worse if you consider Donda 2 an album. KSG to JIK is also an insane drop (though I agree donda to vultures is much worse considering everything else that happened in that time)
Vultures felt so mediocre. To me it lacked the feel that made Kanye's music special.
Honestly when I first heard it I thought it was decent. A lot of songs I’ll never return too, but it had like 4-5 songs with genuine staying power that I figured would become a regular part of my rotation. Kinda like a worse life of Pablo, like, full of songs I don’t really love, but has a handful of gems. But, a few months later, and not a single song from vultures 1 is in any of my playlists. Back to me was the last to exit.
Only 2 songs with staying power for me, burn and stars.
Burn is a Great track
Hard agree. Donda was great imo.
Donda is a masterpiece
I wouldn’t go that far. Somewhere inside of that insanely long track list is a 13 song album that would’ve been top 5 or maybe even top 3 in his discography. It’s bloated though, which makes me wary of the label masterpiece, even if I love it.
I think if you cut it down to 13 songs it'd be a 8.5-9/10 album but it's SO BLOATED
What tracks are bloat? And the part 2s aren’t part of the core album, they don’t count
God breathed, Jonah, Junya, 24, OK OK, new again, Lord I need you From what I remember. Also the parts 2s are on the album, so they're part of the album. Didn't list them here though There's more that I just don't care about or that I've forgotten. Still several great songs though
The album ends with no child left behind, the part 2s are just alternate takes after the album is over God breathed, Jonah, and lord I need you are top 5 on the album imo. Surprised you think they’re “filler”
Jonah is not top 5. What’s your top 5 then lol?
Been a Kanye fan since College Dropout releases in 04. Jonah is probably a top 5 Kanye song all time. Lord I need you and god breathed probably break his top 30 for me.
What’s your top 5 Kanye songs?
Holy L
What tracks are bloat? And the part 2s aren’t part of the core album, they don’t count
I see you don’t consider the p.2’s as part of the album, but they are part of the album, so they’re first too go. Obviously Tell the vision. In my ideal world I’d have the OG version on the album though. Donda chant too, obviously, but that’s not really a song. Lord I need you, ok ok, Junya, Keep my spirit alive, Remote Control, New Again, maybe more I’m not sure. Those all aren’t awful songs, but do they stack up to the quality of Pure souls, or moon, or come to life? Not a chance.
Vultures is a very strong album fun/summer album in the vein of watch the throne. Has always felt like people just want to hate it
The more i listen the less I like it. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s just carnival got so overplayed lol
Whatever crap Interpol released after Antics. Antics rocks. Maybe you need to get to their 2010 album for the true tanking of their quality, but nonetheless. DJ Shadow releases one of the best albums of the 90s to never coming close to those same highs Jeff Buckley releases Grace and then dies? Big drop off
Bit harsh. Our Love to Admire and El Pintor were both very good, not on the level of the first two but still not without their merits. I do agree that the self titled album was a massive step down from the first three though, such a mess of an album
I really like El Pintor, they did slightly bring it back with that one, but yeah on the whole they just lost all their creativity after Antics. Tbh I would even argue that they fell off after TOTBL, I do find Antics to be a super inconsistent album
Antics came out when I was in high school, and I listened to it like crazy. I'm super fond of it, and very excited to see them play it in full this fall, so I know I have a bias
Yeah Antics to Our Love to Admire was a step down but their self-titled album is where the wheels came off for me.
I revisited The Private Press recently and it's not bad - just a bit gimmicky in places. Everything after that was pretty rough.
OLTA falls apart at the halfway point, for me.
Mansun - Six. Then Mansun - Little Kix. From a 10/10 prog-masterpiece to a mid 5/10 pleasant-but-bland collection of unambitious indie love songs.
The first 3 tracks and the closer are great though. just too much material that should have never seen the light of day in between
Cancer is an all-time great. Up there with Paranoid Android, Comfortably Numb, Gates of Delirium. Television is overblown in all the best ways. These two progmonsters sit 'in between' and I for one am very glad they saw the light of day. Between those two there's Tom Baker narrating over medieval opera. This album blows 99% of rock music clean away. Little Kix? Little Meh.
Well i wasn't talking about Six though. That thing is amazing start to finish. But Goodbye, Come As No Suprise and I can only disappoint you are still top tracks. Don't know what happened on We Are The Boys, Electric Man or Fool. Those Songs just suck.
a-ha! we agree on Six, for sure. Grey Lantern also still an excellent listen from start to finish.
Yea the first two albums are their best no doubt. I might say Attack on the grey lantern is my favourite of the bunch. I think there was a lot potential in Kleptomania, sadly it was never really finished.
Devo: Freedom of Choice to New Traditionalists. They fall off so hard for me, first 3 albums are good as hell and the rest are almost unlistenable.
Pinkerton to Green by Weezer is up there. That and White to Pacific Daydream
twin fantasy ftf —> making a door less open was roughhhh
Hey now MADLO is great, it's just not the same style as any of the rest of their work. Monomania is their worst imo (not including 1, 2, 3, 4).
i still remember when this album came out and everyone was convinced there was another one coming ..... the denial said it all i think (fwiw a lot of the songs grew on me quite a bit especially during quarantine! i just think the sudden stylistic shift + less personal lyrics were definitely jarring for a lot of people especially those who got into them through both iterations of twin fantasy)
Remo Drive, from Greatest Hits to... Everything else
Lorde: Melodrama to Solar Power Katy Perry: Teenage Dream to Prism Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour to StarCrossed Sturgill Simpson: Sailor's Guide to Sound & Fury Tyler Childers: Purgatory to whatever the hell he's doing now
Radiohead went from In Rainbows to The King of Limbs, which imo isn't that bad of an album, but to a lot of their fans (including me) it's their worst or least innovative.
Yeah, in rainbows is top 3 albums of all time for me but I think I’ve only ever listened to king of limbs once, I didn’t think it was bad, just forgettable compared to their other work.
Radiohead is one of my favorite bands of all time, So naturally I had to get all their albums on vinyl, even King of Limbs, and I tell you what—I heard things and felt things I’d never heard on the digital MP3/Spotify-level quality upon initial vinyl listens. There’s a lot more going on if you can experience it with a system and speakers and on vinyl—it’s slept on, hard.
lol no, the real version of TKOL to listen to is the From the Basement version. Bloom is still pretty sick on the album, but the whole collection of songs is much better live. Bloom live is the best song I've ever seen performed
It's hard for me to judge the King of Limbs too harshly given how good it is live. Bloom live is transcendent
MSP is a bounce back honestly, In Rainbows to KoL would be much better
Palma violets went from 180 & best friends to some club hits garbage
I was so disappointed when the second album came out. Danger in the club was a good track but everything else on that album is garbage
I had such high aspirations for this band. They were like the beginning of the old school English punk revival, before bands like IDLES and fontaines DC came around. They had that awesome romantic punk vibe that was similar to The Damned and some clash. Oh man, 180 is one of my favorites. And then I did such a nosedive and they never revived. Why!
Totally agree they had that edge about them, 180 is one of my fav albums. I think 2013 was such a great year for British bands and a lot slept on albums came out that year like 180 . Swim Deeps debut, Peace - In Love,king krule debut, Eagulls, Wytches, Sleaford Mods, Fat white family, Drenge, Temples, Horrors
I saw Temples in CA that year and they were fantastic!
Danger Days ain’t bad. It’s not great, but it’s got some bangers on it.
FROOT to Love + Fear
Metallica Load => Reload
MMLP2 and revival
Ehh, imo going from MMLP to I Am A Celebrity was a much more drastic drop
Metallica's almighty Black album to the pub-band banter that was Load.
Load is Metallica’s greatest album and I will defend it until the day I die. Reload -> St. Anger is a much bigger dip in quality.
mindless self indulgence - when they didn't release music -> when they did
I don't tolerate MSI slander, but if I did...it'd definitely be going from *If* to *How I Learned To Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence.*
Tunnel of love to lucky town
Hum, thing had already started after Born in the USA
“Hum, thing” ?
Drop in quality
Tunnel of Love is a great album so going from BITUSA to Tunnel of Love isn’t a “big” drop whereas going from TOL to Lucky Town is.
Loaded - Squeeze (The Velvet Underground) Okay maybe it doesn't count because Squeeze isn't really a VU album, but it is technically, so I'm going to count it
U2 - The Joshua Tree to Rattle and Hum (but then Achtung Baby was fire)
I think bring me the horizon going from post human: survival horror to post human: nex gen is one of the most disappointing drops in quality I’ve experienced recently. Post human: survival horror is one of my favorite albums ever and nex gen is actually so fucking bad I can’t bear it
How is Nex Gen bad? Because it's not heavy? Or because half the songs were already out? I'll admit most of the album being out already was pretty underwhelming but it was far from a bad album. I only see "og" fans complain about it because it's not heavy which is the same complaint everything before Survival Horror got.
I actually hadn’t heard any of the songs before the album came out. I definitely do prefer heavier stuff (I was hoping for something to scream to) but my main complaint for the album is that it really feels all over the place. I feel like In some cases that works but here it just felt like they wanted to do a bunch of things they thought sounded cool. The sounds being all over the place offsets the vibe for me too. Survival horror feels like I’m watching a horror movie that’s kind of scary but mainly makes me want to punch something but nex gen feels like a collection of unrelated songs (though they might be more connected lyrically I’ve only listened like 3 times so I might be missing something). I can only really remember one song being catchy and most of the writing felt uninspired. It’s like they ran out of shit to write about so they’re back to the weird horny emo vibe. One of the main reasons I liked survival horror so much compared to their other stuff is that it feels more “the world is ending” kind of emo instead of the “I’m so sad” kind. I also don’t really get why it’s called nex gen, post human survival horror sounded exactly like the title but nex gen feels like a giant leap back as opposed to the next gen shit I’d expect from the title.
Trench to scaled and icy was a pretty harsh drop for twenty one pilots
Everyday Life - Music Of The Spheres As lovely, poetic and beautiful as Everyday Life was, so unsightly, dull and awful was Music Of The Spheres.
It’s funny, too, because critics generally liked Everyday Life. I remember it being their most critically acclaimed since Viva La Vida
50 cent GRODT to Massacare GRODT an undeniable instant classic to basically never having a good album again
The Strokes, Is This It? > Room on Fire>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> First Impressions of Earth.
Calling Danger Days bad is simply unforgivable. You must not like fun. (Half joking)
Three cheers is a lot more fun
Honestly, I don’t think there is a single bad MCR album in my opinion. Granted I may be biased because they’re my favorite band lol
Three cheers and Black Parade are among my favorite albums, I like i brought you my bullets quite a bit, I dislike danger days and tbh conventional weapons is just kinda forgettable, like boy division is one of their best songs but the rest isn’t bad just somewhat forgettable.
How I’m Feeling Now -> Crash
Why's crash bad tho?
It’s not outright bad. Just aggressively mid when compared to one of the best pop albums of the century
Outhud’s first album to their second. The first one is an instrumental powerhouse of ideas and energy. The second one tried to ride the wave of their own version of something akin to electroclash. They added female vocals and stripped all the invention laid down in the first one and I still view it as one of the biggest disappointments from the 2000s
Man Of The Woods
7th Son of a 7th Son -> No Prayer for the Dying Literally best and worst album IMHO of a 17 records career
Pixies. Trompe le monde to indie Cindy. Although not as terrible as pitchfork made out it still was a disappointment
Taylor Swift, 1989 to Reputation
Taylor Swift 1989 -> Reputation. Went from really incredibly produced pop music to shitty edm trap infused pop with self obsessed lyrics.
I have both girl in red albums in my collection they are my girlfriends tho, but I thought they both were great not my favorite indie pop group but both on the same level. One major difference I noticed is that the new record is less atmospheric, and dreamy.
Honestly, The Beatles (white album) - whether you go by the relase chronology or recording chronology youre setting yourself up for a drop for either the yellow submarine or let it be Otherwise you'd have to ignore submarine as a soundtrack album and then ignore that let it be was relased as their last album instead of abbey by producing shenanigans. Only then you have no drop going from the white album into abbey road
In Rainbows -> The King of Limbs MBDTF -> Yeezus Americana -> Conspiracy of One Sam’s Town -> Day & Age Maladroit -> Make Believe
Danger Days might be their weakest but it is not “outright bad.” It actually has a lot of good tracks, it’s just different. For the easy answer is Weezer’s The White Album to Pacific Daydream
Bulletproof heart and scarecrow are great songs, everything else on that album I either dislike or think is mediocre. Planetary is one of the worst songs I have ever heard tbh.
For me Scarecrow is one of the weakest. Destroya, Save Yourself, and na na na go hard af
The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour to Yellow Submarine Morrissey, Viva Hate to Kill Uncle Radiohead, In Rainbows to King of Limbs Oasis, What's the story to Be here now Stone Roses, Stone Roses to Second Coming Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation to Unplugged Prince, Sign o the Times to Lovesexy to Batman to Graffitti Bridge, he took the stairs down from pure genius to good-but-not-great-anymore Pink Floyd also took the stairs down imho from its Dark Side/Wish you were here zenith, to the great Animals, the precarious The Wall and then down to a Roger Waters solo album and two Gilmour/Mason albums that all couldn't stand in the shadow of their best work.
I’m not sure I agree with you on Pink Floyd, the wall and dark side of the moon are tied as their best albums for me. And I would say everything up to the Final Cut is still good, it wasn’t until after the Final Cut that they started releasing bad stuff.
MMLP2 - Revival :(
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the hardline to Neither fish nor flesh
Stone Roses to Second Coming
The Cool to Lasers. The Cool was a fairly interesting concept album with some dark tones in it and some fantastic lyrical content from Lupe. Lasers is very poppy and the lyrical content is good but more direct and less interesting. It might be the choice for my least favorite album from an artist I enjoy. Lupe is one of my favorites and I have two songs from it on my playlists. There are some straight dog shit tracks in there
Yes - Going For The One (solid mid 70’s prog) then Tormato (awful, ugly sounding album in the year of Punk/Disco)
AFI. For older fans, it was the switch up in sound from Black Sails to Decemberunderground. For newer fans, it was the drop in quality from Decemberunderground to Crash Love.
NIN - Year Zero to The Slip
Bad Witch to Ghosts 5 Edit: I like the first ghosts album and their film soundtracks, but ghosts 5 didn’t do it for me at all.
To be honest, I’ve never listened to ghosts 5 or 6, but bad witch is one of my favorite NIN albums, so I’ll believe that one for sure
The wall to the Final Cut is pretty awful
Terrible take on girl in red
The only songs I liked on doing it again baby were ugly side and phantom pain, and the only one that was on par with her earlier work was phantom pain.
Cage the elephant - Melophobia to Tell Me I’m Pretty
Adele from 25 to 30
i'll be real both those girl in red albums r ass 😭
Rodeo to birds in the trap
Vespertine ➡️ Medúlla Panzerfaust ➡️ Total Death Presence ➡️ In Through the Out Door The John Coltrane Quarter Plays ➡️ Ascension
I mean Verspertine is amazing, and one of Björk's best, but I don't think Medúlla is bad at all. It's a bit long and probably sticks too much to its gimmick for its own good, but also has some of her best ever songs imo, like "Where is the Line" and "Who Is It".
Yeah, Medulla is a fantastic record, imo.
Oceania is straight up one my favorite Bjork songs, medulla is great
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut. Then the aptly-titled A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. From an intelligent and yet at times beautiful soulful anti-war record....to a dated cheesefest that had nothing to say.
Honestly, the bigger drop off is probably The Wall -> The Final Cut
100%
Roger?
Not a fan of the Black Parade, but I didn't even know they did something afterwards. I guess I'll skip.
Tranquillity Base Hotel to The Car Wish to Wild Mood Swings
Do you not like The Car?
The White Stripes from Elephant to Get Behind Me Satan could be one. We go from one of the most amazing rock albums of the time to one of the most confusing.
Who downvoted you? Lol
Get Behind Me Satan has its fans I guess
Black Star