albums that renewed your faith in the artist

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...just when you were beginning to terminally lose interest.

I can think of two from this year:

Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

― mike a, Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Slayer - God Hates Us All

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Boo Radleys - Kingsize

(Guess I was wrong, sort of...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Megadeth - Cryptic Writings (I haven't thought about this record for years, but I remember it being WAY better than it had any right to be)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Tin MAchine. yeah yeah .. everyone hated the album except me. and therefore that made it even more fun. also, Vanishing Point by Primal Scream.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't heard Morrissey yet, but I hope that'll be the one

― daarkbee (daarkbee), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

XTRMNTR.

Sound Of Water.

Prince is due one. Still.

This should be the follow-up to the 'worst albums by your favourite artists' thread. I guess it is.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

down with that Prince wish. top of my wants is for him to do it Good Style again. though even if he did .. would the world be interested ?

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I Second Kingsize.

Mercury Rev: See You On The Other Side - Showed that they hadn't disintegrated with the loss of David Baker.

Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress - I was worried there for a while.

― holojames (holojames), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

REM's "Automatic for the People" (although their subsequent recordings would dissipate that faith pretty thoroughly)

David Bowie's "Outside" (I think that I liked this album more than a lot of other folks)

Wire's "Send" (the "First Letter" and "Manscape" records were rather lame)

Cheap Trick's 1997 self-titled album

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young - "Greendale"

Nom De Plume - don't you think the follow-ups to that '97 Cheap Trick record didn't deliver on the promise of revitalization?

― southern lights (southern lights), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Fishbone - Live at the Temple Bar & More. After their Dreamworks released Familyhood Nextperience fiasco, I was not optimistic. Then this sweaty chunk of superfunky skankin' thrash popera hit my earhole and lo and behold a Fishbone freak was reborn.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

None! - or at least none in "real time". As far as I'm concerned, me losing faith means that the artist has begun a downhill slide from which there's no recovery. But Dylan's Blood On The Tracks certainly woulda done the trick, had I been old enough to appreciate it at the time.

Actually, now that I think about it, I suppose Diamonds & Pearls briefly restored my interest in Prince after a few years of lame LPs.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce Cockburn, 'Charity of Night'
Belle and Sebastian, 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress'
Kristin Hersh, 'The Ghetto'/Throwing Muses, 'Throwing Muses'

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

southern lights: while I haven't really liked the follow-up CT records (although "Music for Hangovers" is pretty good), the '97 album marked a conscious return to their roots, so to speak -- the shows where they performed their first three albums in their entirety, and a noticeably edgier live sound. I saw them live in '99 and '00 and they played as tight and hard as a band half their age, even on some of the oldies that they'd played literally close to a thousand times before.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

this summer's pj harvey album (i hope).

― dan (dan), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

How about Greendale the movie. I was still unsure about the record until I saw the film.

By the way, why Automatic for the People? That doesn't make any sense to me.

― danh, Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

sound dust is better than margerine eclipse though. i like m.e. just not as much.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Bowie - Low

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

pj harvey's "stories from the city, stories from the sea". i regard her fans who underrate this album with contempt

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Tindersticks -- Waiting for the Moon

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 26 March 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

CT S/T '97 OTM. made me feel better about liking this band so much, albeit briefly. embarrassed myself by voting for it in pazz & jop.

― lovebug starski, Friday, 26 March 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide

My Nation Underground was patchy and over-produced, plus I had succumbed to the allure of dance music. I really wasn't expecting much from Julian Cope's new comedy-titled double album. Boy, was I wrong!!!!

Also:
Momus - Philosophy of Momus
Divine Comedy - Regeneration (the critics savaged this but I loved it and it was tons better than Fin de Siecle)
Stephen Jones - Almost Cured of Sadness

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 26 March 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Saint Etiene - Finisterre

― Luke Broster, Sunday, 28 March 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Primal Scream - Varnishing Point. Yeah, too bad they dropped the ball so badly on Evil Heat...

― Psycho Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Slayer - God Hates Us All
-- Siegbran

Siegbran, what happened in between? I went straight from Reign in Blood to this one and missed out the years in the middle.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

vanishing point definitely

playing the angel
hip hop is dead
ghost reveries
hail to the thief
murray street

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Neil Young: Freedom
Mekons: OOOH
Apples In Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Sleater-Kinney - One Beat, coming after the half-assed I-assumed-they-were-b-sides-and-outtakes All Hands On The Bad One.

― Formerly Painful Dentistry, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

vanishing point definitely

playing the angel
hip hop is dead
ghost reveries
hail to the thief
murray street

By "vanishing point definitely," do you mean that was the point you stopped caring about the band? Because yeah, all those except Murray Street made me completely lose interest.

― bassace, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Siouxsie/Creatures - Anima Animus (then lost my faith again with _Hai!_)

REM - _Up_ (then lost it with _Reveal_)

Killing Joke - _Extemetirs, Dirt, etc_ (they're still great)

Hugh Cornwell - _Guilty_ (then squadered my faith slowly over the next couple of albums)

Cinerama - _Torino_ (then was disappointed by the new Wedding Present album)

I guess I find artists that I abandon may have one more great album in them but that's it.

― Mr. Odd, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

i think I lost faith of The Sea and Cake with their new album :(

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

in response to bassace,

no, i'd stopped caring aboutl the new releases of those artists previously (not the artists themselves), and the records i mentioned reassured me they were still capable of putting out worthwhile new material.

for instance, i didn't enjoy 'exciter' at all, and ended up liking 'playing the angel' much more.

likewise, i hadn't enjoyed 'give out...' (obviously), 'nyc ghosts and flowers', 'amnesiac', 'damnation', and most of nas' output since probably his first one

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 2 August 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

One more:

Nick Cave - Lyre Of Orpheus

― Mr. Odd, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

murray street

Seconded. Also, Dylan's Love and Theft.

― o. nate, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

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