I'd argue that Morrissey, Fripp and, err, David Lee Roth are the opposite of this - to me, their solo work is at least as good as that of their previous bands.
Westerberg otm, unfortunately
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Watt (including fIREHOSE)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
steve shasta
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't listened to enough of his solo stuff to make an informed slam here, but whatever:
bryan ferry
― Z S, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah solo westerberg sucks. I don't even like late Replacements if I'm honest.
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
In the realm of unpopular opinions: Bob Mould (including Sugar)
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
otm. I love Husker Du, but actively dislike all Mould solo/Sugar I've heard.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
John Cale solo >>>> Lou Reed solo
john cale solo >>> lou reed solo, the velvet underground
― iatee, Monday, February 4, 2013 1:34 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
Does Bob Mould get a pass?
xp I guess not (but I do like Sugar)
― berner herzog (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Monday, February 4, 2013 1:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, February 4, 2013 1:53 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
+1
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Tarfumes, you're now my pal. I get the dirtiest looks when I say Sugar is Mould watered down into pap. Heck, I think it's Bob's favorite stuff.
Jon, we're already bronies.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I liked some solo Bob, but it's got that same super dull three-note quality of his late Du songs and Black Sheets of rain is so depressing that it's kind of funny (although I like a couple of songs on it, even still)
Sugar is fine, but not thrilling. At least not to me.
Westerberg really gets the stink eye for just giving people way too much of what he thought they wanted -- clever wordplay in particular.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
in the UK I have the impression that Sugar were popular in a way that functioned at least somewhat independently of Husker Du. these days w/ Mould it's a different story, sure
― ima go (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Oh and if anyone says Grant Hart, instant stink eye.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Suicaine Gratifaction indeed.
xpost
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
that!! ^^^ that's what i'm talking aboutthat's fucking AWFUL
Iggy's great up through Party imo though Soldier is horrible
I played the Copper Blue reissue twice yesterday, it's great, you guys are nuts
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
― ima go (DJ Mencap), Monday, February 4, 2013 1:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think they were in the US too. I once played Zen Arcade for coworkers who were huge Sugar fans (this was 1993-94). They hadn't heard of Husker Du, and had to be convinced that it was in fact Mould singing. They also hated it.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, February 4, 2013 1:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
On a similar note, I have my trigger finger over the FP button for the first savage who says Tom Verlaine
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Copper Blew, now and then.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
God, the post-Britpop landscape is littered with twats like this. Ian Brown, Richard Ashcroft, Noel Gallagher, Tim Burgess, endless Damon Albarn side-projects. Even when they're really bad they seldom get slated and get more attention that however many hundreds of more deserving acts.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, Copper Blue is kinda frozen in time for me. I like it, I guess. I challenge anyone to listen to Black Sheets of Rain twice in the same day.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
ha. his voice on something like 'Never Talking To You Again' and x Sugar song from 8-10 years later doesn't seem *that* different to me xp to Tarfumes
― ima go (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
God, the post-Britpop landscape is littered with twats like this. Ian Brown, Richard Ashcroft, Noel Gallagher, Tim Burgess, endless Damon Albarn side-projects.
in fairness, none of these dudes' main bands were any good either
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
xp Yeah, it wasn't until a few songs in that they realized it *could* be Mould. But "Something I Learned Today" and "Broken Home, Broken Heart," forget it.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
With a couple exceptions (i.e. the Eno collabs), David Byrne.
― berner herzog (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Plant
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Steve Malkmus was the first name I thought off actually, I mean I don't think he's 'abysmal' fwiw but I can't think of a single person I know who actively reps for any of his solo music
― ima go (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Phil Collins
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Ringo
― Mark G, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
Jarvis
that's sad.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'll rep for Plant. His solo career has a surprisingly high ratio of hits to misses. But the covers of the albums? Exact opposite ratio.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
There are some rly interesting deep cuts on the first P Collins joint, I dunno if that's true of the later ones
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
shorter list would be people whose solo careers eclipse their band careers, methinks
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
kidding?
― Mark G, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Plenty of people seem to enjoy his solo music, but I'm not sure I've ever heard someone say they prefer it to Pavement.
― o. nate, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Rod Stewart
― EZ Snappin, Monday, February 4, 2013 11:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
??? rod's early output is fucking classic as hell
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
PW is the definition of not getting a pass (also see Sting). I've never heard anyone praise his solo stuff.
Maybe he doesn't get a pass around here but Elvis Costello fits, in the sense that people wildly overrate almost any new album and then forget it entirely.
― President Keyes, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, February 4, 2013 1:08 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
disagree on the whole, but also raising sand didn't become a mini-phenomenon because he was the guy "from led zeppelin" & his early 80s output might have been underrated because he was the guy from led zeppelin
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
Malkmus absolutely
Has Rod done anything worthwhile post-1976? Genuine q.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
ilm loves young turks
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
E-Cost is kinda pushing it
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
neil youngvan morrisonmichael jacksonbrian enopaul simon
― iatee, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
there are a lot of cases of that!! but in many of those cases the bands aren't ones you would really hear much of
― frogbs, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
Buyers of No Jacket Required in '85 likely newbies; it's quite likely he became a Genesis fan as a result of NJR.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Rod Stewart― EZ Snappin, Monday, February 4, 2013 11:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink??? rod's early output is fucking classic as hell
Yes it is. But he's been mostly horrible for nearly 40 years.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Bryan Ferry 's solo career at worst redundant, not abysmal
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
PW is the definition of not getting a pass (also see Sting). I've never heard anyone praise his solo stuff
Apparently someone gave him a pass because he was allowed/encouraged by SOMEONE to release some incredibly shitty stuff. I like a few songs on the first solo album, even the RIDICULOUSLY corny "Runaway Wind", but someone must have been out there encouraging him to "do what he does best" and that didn't turn out so well on the whole imo.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
prefer Malkmus solo to Pavement tbh. I didn't follow Pavement at all when they were a thing though
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Never heard anything I liked by solo David Byrne. Didn't enven try Love the Giant.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 February 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link