Bands whose legacy would have been much better had they broken up after their first two albums.

Starting out with Oasis and Culture Club then.

suede

Joy Division

Depeche Mode

Radiohead

Black Sabbath

Pixies

LOL Depeche Mode is a mad to claim. :)

Suede at least should have been allowed to release their best album, which was the third. Might have called it quits after that...

is a mad claim, I mean.

Noodle Vague OTM about Radiohead, but the suggestion is almost as controversial as if I would have mentioned Talk Talk. :)

does ne1 even like "pablo honey"?

Black Sabbath

No way

The Misfits

Yes, Depeche Mode never again scaled the dizzy heights of A Broken Frame, did they?

weezer

does ne1 even like "pablo honey"?

Ooops. I have superseded that one...

(I do like "Creep" though)

A Broken Frame totally pisses on the Stadium Goth years. boohoohoo

^^^ fighting the good fight

"A Broken Frame" is actually a great album, but no way it is greater than the best ones that followed. I might have agreed in the late 80s though, as I still hadn't quite forgiven them for "going metallic" then.

As a fan of the Billy Corgan-led Smashing Pumpkins, I see no reason why legacy means a jot to one's enjoyment of music that's already been made.

Weezer's a good call, at any rate. Maybe Verve too.

The Undertones

My Bloody Valentine

Weezer is wrong as dirt! Green album and Maladroit are the best things they've ever done. Open your ears people.

tbh i've never heard a weezer album but felt it needed saying

The Hold Steady

Yes.

Belle & Sebastian

Simple Minds?

I mean, this is most bands, in't it?

Name some that would not have been served as such, that's harder.

Duran Duran

Daft Punk

I mean, this is most bands, in't it?

Name some that would not have been served as such, that's harder.

madness.

while one step beyond and absolutely are cracking albums, i really think they hit their stride with 7 and rise and fall.

while one step beyond and absolutely are cracking albums, i really think they hit their stride with 7 and rise and fall.

― mark e, Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:16 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I completely agree with that. I'm always surprised when I see One Step Beyond in best albums lists.

My nomination for that would be XTC. Drums & Wires is where they became a great band.

I like their later stuff a lot, but NIN.

while one step beyond and absolutely are cracking albums, i really think they hit their stride with 7 and rise and fall.

OTM!

Daft Punk is a good call. Regarding Duran Duran, I actually like "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" a lot, but still not as good as the first two, and they really lost it from the fourth onwards.

Simple Minds?

They peaked with "New Gold Dream", which was three albums later.

Psychic TV

I'm actually a really big fan of Duran Duran but I think there's no doubt that they would have a better legacy if they had split after the first two albums which are perfect. Apart from Notorious I don't think they made another really good album just various great songs spread out over the last 25 years.

I think the problem is everytime they get back in the publics affections they manage to mess it up. After they got back on track with The Wedding Album they put out Thank You. When the original lineup got back together in 2003 they got a great reaction, all they had to do was put out a decent album but instead they released the well below average Astronaut.

That was an xpost to Geir by the way.

Weezer's Green album is better than most début or 2nd albums by others mentioned in this thread

Interpol

people itt need to make up their damn minds whether they mean "their legacy among music fans in general" or "their standing in my esteem"

or "saying some shit to make fans of crappy bands go nuts"

teenage fanclub

Nah, can't agree with you there. This thread seems awfully familiar.

I was alternating between making up shit and actually getting butthurt. I can't decide.

aye, tbh i didn't know TAFC existed pre-"bandwagonesque"

or that they did an album between that and "grand prix"

I was alternating between making up shit and actually getting butthurt. I can't decide.

^^^ NEW ILM BOARD DESCRIPTION, THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT

Come on, the Geir quote is but 2 days old!

The Geir quote is at least 15 years old.

Doing a Geir quote is like harpooning Sild in a bucket.

Good point.

Black Sabbath

― Sub/Doms Whipping Here (Noodle Vague), Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:42 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Suggest fucking ban.

Probably lots of bands on this thread

Acts whose entire album output has always been on the decline, with no exception

Especially Poison.

Interpol and The Strokes both, as much as I hate to admit it.

Belle & Sebastian

Suede at least should have been allowed to release their best album, which was the third. Might have called it quits after that...

Their third album was their best, no question, but the "legend" was never higher after their second album (especially if they had broken up immediately after Bernard Butler left and never toured "Dog Man Star").

GNR
Boston
Gang of Four (maybe)

Black Sabbath

― Sub/Doms Whipping Here (Noodle Vague), Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:42 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Suggest fucking ban.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

<3 u Bill

Suede at least should have been allowed to release their best album, which was the third. Might have called it quits after that...

Their third album was their best, no question

nooooooo it wasn't

xp: I sure hope that Bill didn't SB Noodle Vague, given how consistently NV takes the piss out of ILM list threads.

Dont worry, i didnt.

GNR
Boston
Gang of Four (maybe)

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:07 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think these bands' legacies havent been too tainted by anything they did after their second album. All 3 are thought of highly, a least on these boards.

Their "legacy would have been much better." Which is not to say any has a particularly shitty legacy. I think highly of all three. Well, two of them. If you count the "Illusion" albums as one album, GNR would have been much better off without "Spaghetti" and "Democracy." I like "Songs of the Free" a lot, but it's nowhere near the first two. And no one needs "Third Stage."

Ha, I thought you were talking about Appetite and Lies Lies Lies and I still agreed.

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I read GNR as Appetite and GNR Lies, which would make more sense (especially since Spaghetti Incident was an improvement over the Illusion ones.)

xp obv

The Undertones third album is fantastic.