Stepping Stone records

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In this thread, I wondered about "stepping stone" records, i.e., records that only seem to have more value as transitions for the artist to go onto better things than they do as self-contained documents.

I talked about Miles in the Sky in that thread, but what about others?

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 29 August 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Recent example, maybe, is Cornershop's "Clinton" project--that album was largely pants, but I'm glad they did it because Handcream is a good album, and otherwise they would have just broken up.

― Matt C., Thursday, 29 August 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

This question reminds me of a line in the Penguin Jazz Guide where they say that a particular '60s Coltrane album was transitional, but then, so was all of Coltrane's output. That seems so true of his '60s stuff, at any rate, it always looked like a snapshot of somebody who had already moved on somewhere else. He didn't bother taking the time to perfect something.

I like Kraftwerk's Ralf & Florian a lot, but part of the appeal for me is in placing it in the context of what came just before (1 & 2) and what was to come (Autobahn.) It keeps a foot in each of those worlds.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 29 August 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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