Demon Days by Gorillaz
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Metallica (Black Album)
Stone Roses - Stone Roses.
Their debut album put them on a very high pedestal that they were never able to match.
Shinedown The Sound of Madness
I love all of their albums, but there’s something truly special about the musicality and emotional impact of the songs and album as a whole for The Sound of Madness
There subsequent albums are fantastic, but have more ups and downs than the consistent high bar of The Sound of Madness
Similarly, I think Disturbed Immortalized was Disturbed’s peak work, with The Light and The Sound of Silence being incredible peaks of their signature style and highly musical storytelling on a fantastic album.
Wow, I entirely forgot that Devour existed until just now. It blew my teenage mind when I first heard it. I also forgot how much I hated that every single store seemed to be playing The Crow and the Butterfly when you walked in.
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I’d agree with this, except they only really recorded a single album. The Rock n Roll Swindle was just a bunch of outtakes and session recordings mostly done after Johnny had left
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D’oh…
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. And in no way do I mean this as a dis for anything that followed. A masterpiece is simply just that.
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Green Day - Dookie
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac
System of a down - Toxicity
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
The Offspring - Smash
I love that game!
I’d have to disagree with QotSA, but I can definitely see why. I’m a huuuge fan of theirs, but for some reason every new QotSA album seems to take years for me to fully appreciate. I absolutely hated Era Vulgaris when it first came out. It’s by far my favorite album of theirs now. Even …like clockwork is barely starting to really grow on me, but I’m definitely coming around. I haven’t even bothered to listen to their newest one yet.
I agree that Songs for the deaf is QOTSA’s magnum opus, but majority of their other albums are bangers too and it feels unfair to say they fell off after it
Oh for sure, I can listen to all their albums and be totally happy no matter which one I chose, SftD just has something special.
Fair enough ‘Steal This Album’ has a few flat tracks but there are so many great songs. Also, every song on Mezmerize is wicked. Granted, not in the same mood as Toxicity but far out… So so good.
No way with Green Day. Insomniac, Nimrod, and American Idiot are all excellent.
The thing that impresses me so much about Green Day is that they peaked, had the usual big falloff in quality a few albums later, then they peaked again about a decade after Dookie. I can’t think of any other band that managed to do this off the top of my head.
Yep. Although I really just think of Warning as one OK album in a run of great first 7 albums, which is a pretty remarkable.
In rainbows?
Also a great album, I just feel the other two were their peak and contrary to Green Day (that I also mentioned), I’ve continued listening to Radiohead, including their new albums and they’re all great!
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“fell off” is interpreted very strongly by some, I just see it as “here’s their peak, after that they never made something quite as good as that”
And to me that’s SftD even if EV is still awesome!
100%
Era Vulgaris is by far my favorite album of theirs.
QoS has a bunch of awesome albums after Songs for the Deaf. Unless we’re talking about popularity, but quality def not.
I never said they don’t, I said that to me it’s the best and nothing else they released was as good, it doesn’t mean the rest isn’t good.
Disagree on Green Day and SoaD, imo American Idiot is green days best album and Mezmerize and Hypnotize are slightly better than Toxicity.
I just really don’t like Daron’s voice 😂
As for Green Day, I feel like American idiot is the album where we could see they were really letting go of their punk roots and wanted to make stuff that would sell… But Dookie was my first cassette ever so I’m biased.
Yeah that’s fair, and dookie is a really good album, though I do like american idiot more. Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming, Holiday, Boulevard and American Idiot are just such bangers and the concept of the album is just really cool.
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Wolfmother by… Wolfmother
I can name every song and lyric from that album but don’t ask me about anything else by them. Iirc the band basically split post album
When I discover that album I knew it was something magical and never again to be achieved.
I’m not saying Minutes to Midnight was Linkin parks zenith. But I thought it was fine, it was different for sure. But not bad at all IMO.
After that however, I don’t think they released a single song i liked.
I know a lot of people didn’t like it because it was a departure from their earlier style but I honestly think A Thousand Suns was their peak. I don’t even like all the songs on it, but each one was so obviously crafted with care and intent, and you could tell they were really all-in on it. I think the exploration of their talents through a post-apocalyptic concept album really challenged and brought out the best in them.
I miss Chester still :(
Wait a second, no way you’re slandering Plastic Beach like that. PB is equal to DD, some days it hits better even.
DD = 🐐
Plastic Beach is good, but I like Demon Days more. Gorillaz fallen since PB.
Demon days > anything else gorillaZ
Sure, but I wouldn’t call PB “falling off.” Still, Gorillaz still makes bangers these days, even if the albums themselves aren’t as good. Desolé slaps.
Plastic Beach is better for the simple fact that it contains Sweepstakes. I’ve come to learn that a lot of people dislike that song a great deal, which blows my mind. Mos Def is aces and the production on that track is brilliant.
I’m more of an Empire Ants man myself, but I get what you’re saying. It’s such a fun album.
And Justice For All… By Metallica
Too easy
Death Magnetic
(…And Justice for All was the second CD that I owned, and I love it)
Master of Puppets > …And Justice for All
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
They still had a few good tracks afterwards but that album really was a masterpiece.
Marilyn Manson - Holywood
I’d put ACS as peak, MA and Holywood were both great, then a very long lull. Pale Emperor was the last one that caught my ear like the older ones did.
Yeah, I really liked ACS, but it didn’t feel right leaving the next 2 out. Pale Emperor was the last half decent one for sure.
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