any examples?
neil young
― nostormo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 22:46 (thirteen years ago)
Scott Walker
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 8 April 2012 22:53 (thirteen years ago)
Dylan.
― dow, Sunday, 8 April 2012 22:55 (thirteen years ago)
Dylan may have been through that cycle more times than any other major (or even minor?) artist still recording. But he's been around so long (no fair!)
― dow, Sunday, 8 April 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)
What about bands?
― nostormo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:00 (thirteen years ago)
stones
― balls, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:04 (thirteen years ago)
I׳d say Fleetwood Mac but it's not fair due to changes of band members
― nostormo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:05 (thirteen years ago)
elvis costello & the attractions
― balls, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:08 (thirteen years ago)
Stones started mediocre ,went to greatness ,returned toMediocre again,made Some Girls and went downhill again
― nostormo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:09 (thirteen years ago)
Mariah Carey
― prolego, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:10 (thirteen years ago)
Which record is the Costello comeback, balls?
― nostormo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:13 (thirteen years ago)
all of 'em since Trust iirc
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:18 (thirteen years ago)
MetallicaNas
― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:44 (thirteen years ago)
Dinosaur Jr
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:57 (thirteen years ago)
Judas Priest
― President Keyes, Sunday, 8 April 2012 23:59 (thirteen years ago)
Metallica?!
― nostormo, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)
Killing Joke
― warren harding (Zachary Taylor), Monday, 9 April 2012 00:36 (thirteen years ago)
Motörhead
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:19 (thirteen years ago)
the Bee Gees!
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:38 (thirteen years ago)
Beach Boys too, several times
― nostormo, Sunday, April 8, 2012 8:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:45 (thirteen years ago)
The Church
― Evan R, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:46 (thirteen years ago)
Eh, I thought about saying the Beach Boys, but theirs was kind of a slow, steady decline with the occasional mild and barely-perceptible rise in the road.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:46 (thirteen years ago)
Wire
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:48 (thirteen years ago)
If you make enough albums, this seems an inevitable outcome.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:06 (thirteen years ago)
Bee Gees good answer.
Never bought into any Elvis Costello comeback.
― MIke Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 April 2012 02:21 (thirteen years ago)
Metallica??
― dow, Monday, 9 April 2012 04:09 (thirteen years ago)
I think the confused ^^ poster means Slayer. Gary Numan (ish). Johnny Cash. The Fall (I'm counting most of their mid to late 90s material as merely good not outstanding like the rest of it). Fela Kuti (Beasts Of No Nation was a very late in the day rally back towards form).
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Monday, 9 April 2012 09:00 (thirteen years ago)
i know ilm has been on a bowie od session of late, but i'd like to suggest that he totally fits this criteria.the last 2 albums (heathen and reality) were definitely back on form after several duds. comparitively speaking of course.
― mark e, Monday, 9 April 2012 09:16 (thirteen years ago)
i know ilm has been on a bowie od session of late, but i'd like to suggest that he totally fits this criteria.the last 2 albums (heathen and reality) were definitely back on form after several duds Tin Machine's Oy Vey Baby, the only bad album he did.
Fixed for you Mark, no need to thank me.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:10 (thirteen years ago)
actually, i really like both tin machine albums (oy vey was the live one yes ? never picked that one up).
i was actually referring to tonight/never let me down.
― mark e, Monday, 9 April 2012 12:58 (thirteen years ago)
this reminds me of when i tried to parody these types of threads but everyone just took it seriously and went about their business: Artists whose first album was pretty good, but then the second one was awesome, and then the third was just OK but really more of the same, and by the fourth one you weren't even paying attention
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 13:49 (thirteen years ago)
tht's exacrly what i tried to do here!
p.s. not really...
― nostormo, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)
celtic frost?
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:04 (thirteen years ago)
well, i love cold lake but still
I only recently listened to the bad Bee Gees albums, and man are they bad... Kind of happy that I missed them initially or would probably have never bothered to check out This Is Where I Came In...
― dlp9001, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:04 (thirteen years ago)
David Bowie
― silverfish, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:17 (thirteen years ago)
four CLASSIC albums where you feel like you are the guy who does that thing that other people hate when they make a list of the ones where it's all about what they read about in blogs but you don't c
― scott seward, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:25 (thirteen years ago)
Raekwon The Chef
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:52 (thirteen years ago)
Jacksons/J5/Michael Jackson. Great in the beginning, slumped for several years in the mid-'70s, great again by the end of the decade with Destiny and Off The Wall.(then started to get sucky again, but at least we had Janet to take up the slack).
Also, Elvis Friggin' Presley. Revolutionary from the early Sun sessions to when he was inducted into the Army, descended into lame movie soundtracks for almost a decade, then snubbed Colonel Tom to make his '68 comeback
YMMV, but Pink Floyd post-Syd to Meddle
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:24 (thirteen years ago)
I'm hoping Orbital qualifies if they can follow up Wonky.
― Turkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:44 (thirteen years ago)
Sparks have got to be like the ultimate example of this
― Xerox of Fate, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:15 (thirteen years ago)
Spiritualized now.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:22 (thirteen years ago)
No mention of Iron Maiden and Coil yet?
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Thursday, 12 April 2012 23:07 (thirteen years ago)
Divine Styler: one great album, then one shitty album, then one great album again. After that he seems to have disappeared though.
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 April 2012 07:27 (thirteen years ago)
Seconding the vote for The Church.
I'm sure I'll get some arguments, but Stereolab fits this.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 13 April 2012 08:14 (thirteen years ago)
yeah I would say Stereolab are the exact opposite of this
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 13 April 2012 08:20 (thirteen years ago)
Asphyx
― Siegbran, Friday, 13 April 2012 11:04 (thirteen years ago)
Loads of metal bands fit this description – Paradise Lost, Machine Head, could probably make an argument for Cannibal Corpse and Napalm Death.
― NWOBHamster (J3ff T.), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:49 (thirteen years ago)
destroy tuomas...
― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:01 (thirteen years ago)
Machine Head
― SeanWayne, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:03 (thirteen years ago)
Apart from a strange debut album, Squeeze.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:09 (thirteen years ago)