Flatliners: Artists whose last release is pretty much as good or the same as their first

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Thinking of artists who may grow and evolve but always maintain a certain quality level, such as Emmylou Harris, or ones like Chris Isaak who just release the same album over and over and over.

mottdeterre, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:01 (seventeen years ago)

The American Analog Set is my prototype flatliner band.

What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Friday, 17 October 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

Gas

The Cocteau Twins

Mogwai

James Yorkston and The Athletes

Treblekicker, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

I'm in agreement with Prindle: The Fall

bendy, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

OTM

Treblekicker, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:20 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, James Yorkston is always terrible.

Kim Tortoise, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

Countdown to and what posting Flatlinaz cover art .jpg

jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 October 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

AC/DC pretty much defines this phenomenon.

Sara Sara Sara, Friday, 17 October 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

Ramones

henry s, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

Peggy Lee and Nancy Wilson are the queens of the jazz flatliners.

mottdeterre, Friday, 17 October 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

Not sure the flatlining theory applies to the Fall. Live at the witch trials and Imperial wax solvent are pretty much on a level quality wise but to place them in this category is to undervalue an astonishing and, for the most part, superlative body of work in the intervening 28 years. XTC might apply here though.

Sven Hassel Schmuck, Friday, 17 October 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

The Suggest Ban Experience

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 17 October 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)


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