Bands that would have been better loved:

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...if they stopped at a certain album...

for example:

Metallica - Stop after Master of Puppets or maybe AJFA and you've got a nearly perfect collection of metal...

KISS - After Love Gun and you've got 6 great cock-rock albums and a great legacy of entertainment... I'd even stretch it up to Dynasty...

Oasis - Stop after WTSMG and release the singles from masterplan and your carreer is neer perfect

Rolling Stones - End with Tattoo you... etc

Neil Young - End after Freedom/Ragged Glory

I know 20/20 hindsight is easy to have, and Certainly legacies like the Stones/Neil are not much tainted... but KISS... man they coulda used it

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

Neil after Ragged Glory?
But Harvest Moon is lovely and Sleeps With Angels is magnificent!
Mirrorball would have been far better with Crazy Horse and not Pearl Jam - Throw Your Hatred Down kicks ass.
After that though, fair does.

― Stewart Smith (stew s), Sunday, 3 April 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

REM - after New Adventures In Hi-Fi, no doubt.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Stone Roses - after their debut.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I'll give REM Up. It's overlong, but it's a flawed attempt at moving forward. The beginning of the end though - it's quite clear that without Berry, they're not the same band.

― Stewart Smith (stew s), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Huey Lewis & the News after Sports. Fore! was just too strange, too radical.

― merritt ranew (merritt), Sunday, 3 April 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

The Who after Quadrophenia.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

REM's new drummer = better than Bill Berry. Last album = best one in a long time.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Are the new drummer's songs as good as Bill's? Does he have a lot of input in the group songwriting?

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Who cares? The album's great and he's a fricking great drummer.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah. Thing is yr the first person I've come across to give even a suggestion "Around the Sun"'s worth hearing, and I LOVED "Up", I've been looking.

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't seem to be in the majority, but I think it's their best album since Automatic for the People.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I'll give it a go. What'd you think of 'Reveal'? As to the thread subject, I think death'll do this job for most of them and let them put decent/good recs out in the meantime. Also Metallica should be allowed to put the black album out before any cease and desist thing's imposed, I think.

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Here are a couple of positive reviews of Around the Sun:

http://www.flakmag.com/music/remats.html
http://www.indielondon.co.uk/music/cd_REM_around_sun.html

I liked Reveal, but not as much as Around the Sun.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

This is kinda turning into a "when did Band X jump the shark" thread ... so I don't really understand some of these picks. Are the Stone Roses really held in lesser regard because of "The Second Coming"? "Master of Puppets" still tops all sorts of metal polls -- so their reputation would be even better had they broken up in 1990?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 3 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Not that I really listen to them but Cypress Hill should have stopped after their first album if they wanted to maintair a good reputation.

― AbXy6001, Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

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