Demon Days by Gorillaz
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Metallica (Black Album)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
They had an incredible decade prior to this releasing 3 other top notch albums, but by far this one sticks out as the most successful and easiest to pickup. They have a lot more after this release as well, but I think Wayne found himself diving into an era of depression and it absolutely showed on those later releases. The last release was good but also nothing special at the same time.
Ahhh they toured this album last year and it was amazing.
It’s not the shows from 20 years ago, but there’s still lots of confetti and smoke and glitter and sparkles.
He got in the ball but stayed on stage with it which was weird cuz it just looked like he was trying to hotbox farts
And Justice For All… By Metallica
Death Magnetic
(…And Justice for All was the second CD that I owned, and I love it)
Too easy
Master of Puppets > …And Justice for All
NIN - The Fragile
This is exactly what I was coming here to comment. This album was fucking astounding, complex, beautiful, intense, musical, destructive… Every single noise in that album was intentional and meant something. Trent was making music at the time that was so far above and beyond what anybody else was doing or has done since.
Then Atticus Ross joined. Now they make background music for movies. It is fucking heartbreaking.
Magnus Opus yes. With Teeth is still an amazing album.
Murray Street – Sonic Youth
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
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.
They Might Be Giants - Flood
A Perfect Circle - 13th Step
Btw, in relation to many bands that appeared on this new century, it is a bit controversial to say they are falling off after their first album.
Since 2000, countless bands have released a great first album and then ““disappeared”” or the hype just stopped. Alt-J are a good example.
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Dunno if they are falling off, but since Lonerism , they (or just Kevin Parker) are more focus producing music aside psych rock. Nowadays, Its visible Kevin is more focus on pop music, and his collaborations explains his focus.
He is now producing the new album of Dua Lipa. And the last song from her, has clearly new Kevin vibes
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Disagree about he falling off. TPAB is probably one of the albuns of the century and gonna be really difficult someone create an album just like TPAB, on hiphop scene.
All media claims TPAB as a masterpiece and they put Kendrick on one level I guess almost nobody can take. And TPAB isnt my favourite album from him. Mr. Morale is a good LP , btw.
Sam’s Town - The Killers
Green Day - American Idiot. It’s not that I dislike what came after, but 21st Century Breakdown feels disjointed, the Trilogy has really low lows, and they stopped being ambitious after that and just put out two “pretty good” albums and one awful one.
Also even if you don’t like their '00s sound, I seriously don’t get why Dookie is more well-liked than Nimrod beyond “it had more hits and I heard it first.”
21st is a mix of B-Sides from American Idiot and Cigarettes and Valentine’s, put together to make it’s own album, I don’t see it as disjointed but I can understand why. For me it comes across as an aged Warning.
Uno-Tre was their way of screwing over their record label because they were contracted to do 3 more albums. So considering they pulled out 38 songs in that timeline. I’d say listening through 21st and the songs through Uno-Tre, it’s pretty clear to hear the difference in production of the songs complexity. 21st has tons of diverse, almost orchestral elements supporting the background of the songs. Uno-Tre are generally a bit more simple in their compositions (as are Rev Radio and FOAMF)
I think Kerplunk is better than all 3 of those…
Honestly I like Kerplunk and 39/Smooth better than Dookie, but I get why a lot of people don’t. Nimrod, I have no clue.
- Last Splash by the Breeders
- White Album - The Beatles
- The Wall - Pink Floyd
Abbey Road was their final album and it was arguably their best. They definitely did not fall off after White Album.
Wait a second, no way you’re slandering Plastic Beach like that. PB is equal to DD, some days it hits better even.
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.
DD = 🐐
Plastic Beach is good, but I like Demon Days more. Gorillaz fallen since PB.
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.
Demon days > anything else gorillaZ
Stadium arcadium - red hot chilly peppers
RAM - Daft Punk
Evenessense - fallen
Lateralus - tool
RAM - Daft Punk
So you think they tailed off after their final album? Well they’ve split up now so technically correct, I guess!
I think people don’t understand the truly massive undertaking of what that album represented. The sheer musicality of what they did probably took a massive toll on their psyche.
There was just nowhere else to go after that album there was nothing else for them to do they have accomplished it.
I think a lot of people didn’t like where Amy Lee took Evanescence after the split with Ben Moody, but I feel like The Open Door is a better album than Fallen overall. It may be less hard rock, but it’s more interesting and really showcases her writing talent, while Ben just wanted to be a pop hard rock group without exploring other musical elements (as showcased with his lackluster project We Are the Fallen, which was just Evanescence Light with a less powerful female vocalist).
Hard disagree on Tool, their sound has definitely evolved over the years but I think that Fear Inoculum is a damn masterpiece. I totally get it though if the more prog rock/experimental style isn’t your thing.
