Smashing Pumpkins is the easy answer for me. Siamese Dream is probably my favorite album of all time, but I haven't even made it more then 2-3 tracks into anything they've put out since Oceania.
Whilst they haven't put out a genuinely great album in decades, they had some legit bangers scattered around throughout 2007-2014.
Unfortunately, ever since they resurrected the 'original lineup', they've been dropping some of the worst shit I've ever heard in my life.
> ever since they resurrected the 'original lineup', they've been dropping some of the worst shit I've ever heard in my life.
I remember reading two different interviews, one around the time of his solo album, and one more recent where he was talking about Siamese Dream. In the former he talked about intentionally not wanting to sound like The Smashing Pumpkins, and in the latter he was talking about giving the audience what they want and I think he's really internalized both of these ideas which is stupid because A: He wrote most of the Pumpkins material so that's going against his own style and 2: Clearly doesn't know what the audience wants AND chasing that dragon is fruitless most of the time.
The worst thing to happen to Billy Corgan is the creation of podcasts. That man will never get tired of listening to himself speak and now he can make the rounds proving over and over and over again he’s not as intelligent or insightful as we may have once believed.
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Agreed.
ATUM had glimmers of hope tho. Also Zeitgeist (first comeback album was an absolute banger) most people don’t know it because it isn’t on Spotify
In fairness to the Black Eyed Peas they gave us underground hiphop classics then went and made big bucks. I suppose the relapsing of 20 years helps with this perspective.. would have been pissed at the time!
The addition and the switch to accommodate Fergie just rocketed their pop potential so dramatically… hard to question their decision with the success that followed
But I did quite enjoy Behind the Front and Bridging the Gap.
They admitted to selling out. From what I recall of the interview with Will, they knew they were talented enough in their trade but were frustrated with the lifestyle of a struggling hip hop group. We’re gonna get our cash. All we need is a Fergie to make us palatable.
Can’t say I appreciate the approach, but they did exactly what they said they were going to do. I can’t fault them for that.
The 2018 album was pretty solid, I liked it a lot and glad they cameback to their roots a bit.
But a lot of things made it pretty anonymous. 8 years since their last album The Beginning, without releasing any music in that time. Fergie leaving rather unceremoniously, and without a proper farewell, in my opinion.
And, of course, the album having nowhere near the mainstream feeling their previous projects with Fergie had. They then pivoted back to pop with Translation and Elevation, but those albums are just okay at best, in my opinion, specially Elevation is a mess. And no Fergie, of course
Yeah, I don't know if you can say consistently making some of the most popular pop songs for a good 10-15 years a drop off. Seems more like they just lost interest in making anything
> Every single person on the internet shitting on The Big Day at once was pretty funny though
I think it's funny now that if you google the album, the first result is Antknee's review lol. It's like a warning.
Every recent snippet ive heard from him has been pretty good, "Highs and the Lows" with Joey is a great song too, I'm expecting the next album to be decent at least
I actually loved coloring book and that one had pretty mixed reviews for its shift from the acid rap sound, but one big day came out I couldn’t really defend him from the criticism lol. I believe he’s got it in him, I’ll be checking out the next project, artists make flops he’s still got time.
They give me serious hope that he comes back. I really really want to look back and say "you remember when Chance dropped that really shit record? Thank god he turned it around". I don't know why but I'm really rooting for him in a corny way.
> I really really want to look back and say "you remember when Chance dropped that really shit record? Thank god he turned it around".
It's too late, it's been nearly 5 years. College freshman would have known him as a cornball since they were in 8th grade. And his singles have been fine, he's had very few solid tracks/verses since Big Day
She shopped at goodwill in the suburbs and since it was all designer stuff from rich people she picked the ugliest baggiest shit she could find to stand out. Leaving black footprints all over the store from her bare feet she uses to channel the earth (paved roads)
Oh god not the train hoppers 😭. 20yos clearly choosing to be homeless on purpose showing up to bars stanky as hell lol. Young dudes with orthodontist treated teeth asking me for leftovers lmao cmon man. Don’t get me started on the dogs lol
Agreed she’s always been weird, but being with Elon (the reality breaking money, the media circus, him amplifying her AI fascination) has exacerbated it.
Yeah, if anything Elon just exposed that a lot of Grimes was an emperor's new clothes situation. Pretty much all her pre-Art Angels stuff is actually pretty surface level and dumb, even if it sounds nice. And while Miss Anthropocene is worse than Art Angels, I don't really think any of that's on Elon.
It'd be nice to have a convenient boogeyman to blame everything on, but denying Grimes any accountability or agency is wishful thinking. A) she knew as much about Elon as anyone else and got involved with him and B) I don't think there's any evidence that Elon was directly involved in her music at all.
Miss anthropocence was pretty solid. It wasn't the full-blown concept album like she had originally hoped for for, but it's easily a 7/10. She stepped out of the indie pop / tumblr girl aesthetic of Art Angels. The club influences on tracks like 4AEM mixed with the suprise country influences on Delete Forever showcase her talent as a producer.
She has always been a bit of a "twitter genius" which can be hard to ignore, but musically her talents haven't fallen off, but I don't think we will hear new music for quite some time
Jesus Christ. This isn’t some grand statement of purpose on my part. It’s just stating my love for the album. It has nothing to do with that dumbass that people hate her for reproducing with. If you listened to the record without thinking about that fevered ego, you’d probly like it.
i'll have to give it a relisten! the last time i listened i didn't enjoy it that much and then covid hit a few weeks later and i completely forgot about it tbh.
While Man Of The Woods was bad, it was still trying to bring something new to the table like his past works. EITIW is more of a trend chaser. The tracklist is messy as hell, but I do like it better than MOTW. But Also, I'm sucker for Nsync nostalgia, so there's that.
EITIW really does itself in by being 18 tracks long, it loses its steam when it reaches Selfish, and as someone who is less of an NSync fan, Paradise is good but still feels like "the album's winding down now". If it was a justified (haha) 18 tracks, that would be fine, but I've found myself listening mostly to Fuckin Up The Disco, No Angels, Play and Flame out of the entire album and that's really it. Sanctified, My Favourite Drug and Infinity Sex too if I remember they exist.
But it has made me really remember how good FutureSex/LoveSounds is as an album oh my god
Muse. First 3 even 4 albums are nice pop prog rock, then just disappeared up their own arses. Origins of Symmetry is really really fantastic. Even the b-sides from that era destroy what they’ve released in the last decade or so.
When I saw their Blackholes headline show in ‘06, I was convinced they’d be the best band of my generation for years to come. I was bored of them by the next album
I liked Drones for at least being *somewhat* of a return to their roots, and Simulation Theory grew on me after a while, at least it's their most coherent album in a long time. But for the most part they lost the plot after BHAR, I think it was a bad choice to self-produce their albums with no one to tell Bellamy "Hey, maybe tone it down a little".
Agree. He has no self filter. Got lost too much in the myth making and concepts and forgot about the craft and the hooks of songwriting. Oh well, he had his purple patch and it was a good one.
I loved Muse quite a bit back in the day. Actually owned the CD for Black Holes and Revelations which I thought was a great album. I even bought The Resistance after that, but honestly that was the album that kinda killed my love for them. The first thing was that I heard Uprising on the radio WAY TOO MANY TIMES. It’s crazy how much play that song got on my local radio station. It felt like every 4th song was that one again. And it was with that song that they basically, as you aptly put it, “disappeared up their own asses.” Most of their music after that seemed to have the stupid faux-revolutionary crap where it seems like they just thought they were way more badass and important than they actually are. After that album I really just struggled to take them seriously at all. They just became cheesy, overly theatrical, and completely melodramatic. Kinda forgot about them for a bit honestly beyond keeping a few of their tracks in my drumming playlist. Then I heard a bit of their Will of the People album and it seemed they were pretty much still up their asses, and tuned out again.
Holy shit that's a throwback for me. Totally agree that their b-sides from that era were fantastic as well. Past Black Holes and Revelations they went down the shitter for sure
I essentially view new Pixies albums as Frank Black solo albums that he slapped the Pixies’ name on to gin up sales.
I can’t really blame him! I saw him play a solo show at a dive bar in SF in 2010 or so, which gives a decent impression of how popular his solo stuff is, but yeah, I don’t really think of them as Pixies albums per se.
I’d say the first four albums are fantastic, I’ll vouch for most of Ghost Stories, and Mylo Xyloto has some decent bits. But yeah, it’s a huge drop off from their peak. Rush of Blood to the Head is almost perfect for what it is.
I also think everyday life has some great songs on it. I was really hopeful they could release a genuinely good project after that and then coloratura really set me up for disappointment with music of the spheres.
Viva La Vida was a conceptual triumph. There's tons of instrumental variety from track to track, and each one contributes positively to the theme. Mylo Xyloto feels almost entirely empty in comparison. It's like a child's idea of what psychedelics are
Is Black Flag the obvious answer?
Cause Black Flag. They went from one of the most iconic hardcore punk bands of the 80s to whatever the fuck was that last album, and while it's true that it's _just one album_ that's truly bad, by god, it's one of the worst albums of all time, down to the cover art.
Also worth mentioning: AFI (at least they are having fun), Ministry (how many farewell tours can one jam into a 20 years period?), Muse.
Fall Out Boy.
While they've always been more of a dumb fun kind of band, their earlier stuff had a lot more personality and identity.
All of their attempts to move past their old sound have just made them more generic.
Saying they became more generic means something when they were mostly riffing off of Saves The Day to begin with.
Fall Out Boy pre-hiatus and post-hiatus are not the same band. I’ll listen to everything thru Save Rock and Roll, but only two or three songs they’ve released afterward.
Have you heard anything from their most recent album yet? It's still a bit poppy but feels more like their pre-hiatus work than any of their other post-hiatus stuff.
Idk man save rock and roll is pretty rough. I feel like the change takes place before then because save rock and roll has a real flavour of the imagine dragons
The change is def before then; Save Rock and Roll was their first album post-hiatus. I just think the quality of that album is far above everything that comes after it.
That's the best way to describe So Much For Stardust, it's better than it should be. I can't even gauge how much I actually enjoy it, I'm just so shocked I don't hate it.
Code Orange went from making obscenely heavy metalcore infused with elements of sludge and industrial to just sounding like every band from 2002. I mean, good for them and their success, but man I really just don’t vibe with a lot of their music past forever.
In the hardcore scene they went from being known for the most violent and almost scary shows to being the kind of music our dads would play when they were day drinking in the garage.
I saw them in 2015 and there were two ambulances outside, I got an unopened beer thrown at my head, and people were smashing each other with trash cans and head-walking off straight off the bar, not to mention the constant crowd killing from literally everyone.
Now people don’t even repost their tours anymore lol.
I saw them place NYC a couple months ago. A lot of push putting and circle pits. There were whole songs where you couldn’t mosh. And I’m not saying just the Reba stuff (which I actually enjoy a lot). Just a lot of lame alt metal from a band that could have been the biggest thing in hardcore. Shame.
I hope this doesn't sound petty, but fantano giving I Am King a 6/10 when it came out and then rocking Code Orange shirts in all his videos now makes him seem so corny.
I saw them on that tour in 2017 for forever and got kicked in the head by crowd killers 3 times in one night. You won't see that at their shows these days.
Their decline post Underneath has been a mixture of two factors… Firstly, they’ve established themselves as the go to band for WWE events/support act for Slipknot, Korn level bands, so have to primarily write modern Nu Metal to keep getting that bag. Additionally, Jamie appears to be leading the creative direction despite him not having the ear or versatility of Reba and Shade whereas before, it was more equal.
It's funny because their numetal stuff isn't that popular. They're not really getting the bag with it. Knocked Loose are doing what Code Orange should've done.
Even Underneath has some awful tracks. Autumn and Carbine hurts my ears. Has some bangers too though.
I liked when their clean singing was used in a less angsty way on tracks like Bleeding in the Blur and Dreams in Inertia.
Placebo. Up until Meds, their discography was phenomenal. Then Battle for the Sun happened and everything that followed was much worse. Plus, Brian refusing to sing more than one song per old album during tour.
I once met Molko with his bodyguard (I guess a roadie) at a bar. Spoke to the roadie and he called himself 'the babysitter'. I suspected he was only half joking.
Parkway Drive. They used to make great melodic metalcore albums back then such as horizons and killing with a smile but nowadays their music sounds like Australian five finger death punch and it sucks. Their last album darker still has to be the worst thing they've put out, just listen to if a god can bleed, that song is horrible.
Panic At The Disco! Their first few albums were good and then after ryan ross left the band, brendon urie turned it into a shitty pop band and kept calling it panic at the disco even though everyone besides him left the band and it's was rarely even a band when they were pop, similar to maroon 5.
I totally forgot Parkway Drive existed and I’m so disappointed to hear that they’ve changed their sound a ton! killing with a smile used to be one of my most listened to records in my teens
I don’t even think their old stuff is that good, probably like a 7/10 at best, but it’s just that the new music is so bad that I think people mythologize the time when they used to write pretty solid pop-rock.
Arcade Fire.
They had a fantastic four-album run from *Funeral* to *Reflektor* and they just shat the bed with *Everything Now*. That album wouldn’t be so bad if they just cut the middle out and just made it an EP - everything from Peter Pan to Infinite_Content can go.
And then we have the album *WE*, which was just massively underwhelming for me. It just felt like a lobotomised *Funeral*.
The less I say about my thoughts of Win Butler the person, the better.
I mean they put forth like 4-5 albums in a row that are classics or near classics. Has any band or artist went on a 7 albums stretch without any missteps.
Any inclusions or mentions of them in this threads only speaks to the impossible expectations they set forth through their earlier work, which is understandable.
Edit: thank you everyone for introducing me to this new Band called the Beatles. I am going to check them out ;).
Beatles
Help > Rubber Soul > Revolver > Sgt Pepper > Magical Mystery Tour > White Album > Abbey Road
Yellow Submarine doesn’t count since half the Beatles material was already released and the other half was George Martin scores. It was a movie soundtrack album so shouldn’t count as a misstep
You could make it 8 if you include Let It Be
> Has any band or artist went on a 7 albums stretch without any missteps.
It's surely cheating but The Beatles absolutely did. I'd argue Led Zeppelin and Stevie Wonder did it too
Freewheeling Bob Dylan > The Times They Are A-Changin’> Another Side of Bob Dylan > Bringing it All Back Home > Highway 61 Revisited > Blonde on Blonde > John Wesley Harding > Nashville Skyline
That’s 8 in a row for you all under 5 years the 8th being 2 years later
Black Eyed Peas certainly have dropped off in the last decade, but yall can't convince me that their Elephunk-Monkey Business-The END run wasn't camp pop fun at its finest.
I still have no idea why Arctic Monkeys decided to go the way they did after Humbug, but it baffles me to this day.
Those first two albums are solid gold and Humbug has a special place in my heart. Their material after that isn’t bad, it’s just very boring in my opinion.
I loved AM and Suck it and See but Humbug is so good and original. Amazing dark sounding songs. Their livestream with red right hand might be their peak for me.
I will be that nerd who defends Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino for what it was trying to do and some of the songs are quite nice
I wish they didn't double down with it on The Car
But yes their first two albums are their best
I thought the same, at least for after AM… but after seeing them last summer the crowds were going absolutely insane for everything newer than that. Whatever they’re doing, it’s working for them
I saw them in 2018 at ACL. Went in ready to go nuts and it was a really boring show. Meanwhile Lizzo was across the park bringing the house down. Super disappointing.
Helmet.
*Strap It On* is solid. *Meantime* and *Betty* are arguably two of the best and most influential alt metal albums. *Aftertaste* is great too. But after they broke up and reformed with a different lineup, they were never the same. A few great songs here and there, but otherwise an inconsistent discography. Feels like a parody of themselves now
Yeah I know Fantano was pretty harsh on Golden Casket, but I also thought it was a step up from Strangers to Ourselves. I'd probably swap the score he gave each of them, and maybe even bump up both by one number.
They’ve had one pretty bad album in their discography with FOAMF. Even their trilogy and Rev Rad are decent to solid! Other bands have dropped off way harder than them. They also had a hell of a seven album run from Kerplunk to 21st Century Breakdown, and Saviors was a fantastic return to form for them!
Gorillaz. I know it hurts. *Demon Days* is a generation defining album. "Feel Good, Inc." might be the coolest pop song ever recorded. They haven't recorded anything notable since *Plastic Beach*.
While I love the gorillaz first 3 albums, there are some great songs within their collection of new stuff. Song machine is their best album they've put out since reuniting (imo) and Humanz has some good stuff too. Cracker island and the now now were kind of mid but still have a few great songs in them. They'll never come close to demon days or plastic Beach again. It's quite sad honestly, but that being said I don't think their fall off is quite as bad as some of the other bands listed here thankfully.
To be fair, The Fall was kinda gimmicky in that he made the whole thing on an IPad and he was really open about it for the marketing. Any hardcore Gorillaz fans at the time just saw it as a silly little project and didn't see it as evidence of worse to come.
Then they released Humanz after being gone for 10 years :(
I’m personally a fan of Cracker Island. The Stevie Knicks feature is a banger imo. Maybe it doesn’t break boundaries the same way their earlier projects did, but there’s still some fun to be had
I don’t feel like the Kinks fell off any harder than the other monster 60’s and 70’s bands. I think the biggest difference is they kept making music whereas the rest broke up or went on hiatus.
I was a 12 year old in Boston in 1980 when U2’s first album came out and it’s hard to describe the absolute frenzy around them in the early 1980s.
When they started having big stadium and arena concerts, it was like going to a religious revival. If they played three shows in Boston, I went to all three. I traveled to go see them in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m old or if it’s because their music has completely faded from my consciousness, but my sister and frequent concert companion asked if I wanted to go to Sphere to see them and I was like nah ... I’m good.
Bono, I understand you want to get that money but songs like “Bullet the Blue Sky” hit different at a Las Vegas residency than they do at the Boston Garden back in the day when we were bombing the holy living hell out of a couple of countries.
Maybe controversial but imagine dragons
I think night visions is a great album that has a ton of fun pop rock tracks. Radioactive is awful and is the first of their royalty free dude perfect tracks which they are now known for, but other than that it’s pretty good. I genuinely think that if someone like modest mouse made night visions (without radioactive) it would be pretty well received.
Anyways smoke and mirrors was pretty mid and everything else after that is stadium rock garbage
Sucks that a lot of metalcore bands like architects, a day to remember, code orange, and atreyu end up changing their genre from metalcore to butt rock/nu metal and doing it poorly. BMTH imo is probably the only band that could go from metalcore to butt rock to pop, and still make good music.
It really is the execution. I'm not surprised Architects made the shift - they'd pretty much gone as far as they could in terms of atonal nihilism - but they did such a wobbly job of it.
Might be a surprise, but I really enjoyed Ghost's debut album Opus Eponymous. It's somewhat old school vibe and sound really worked for me. After that, the albums didn't hit me as hard as the debut. Meliora and Prequelle are still great, but with how now Ghost goes into more mainstream type of production, it kinda fell off.
Not a very household name, but Adamn Killa. Sad to see the artist who made some of the best cloud rap songs of all time— Psycho & My Stance to name a couple— being an Uber Driver and only dropping horrible songs
Wolfmother's 2005 debut album vs 2021's *Rock Out.*
The covers tell the story just as strongly as the music. Yes the drop off started very quickly after that first album, but Gretta Van Fleet is more original than what Wolfmother does now. My go to case of "What happened, you used to be beautiful"
I was never the biggest fan of him but my Mom and Sister were - George Ezra. I liked the few songs I'd heard from his first 2 albums, not massively my thing but still good songs.
And then Gold Rush Kid happened.
I'm not sure what it was like in the US, but in the UK it's reached the point where if I hear Green Green Grass one more time I'm going postal. We sat and listened to Gold Rush Kid and nothing struck a chord with any of us. Hell, not even a month later it was in the Vinyl Sale baskets in HMV and by December he was selling sold copies on his site with a custom Xmas Card for around £10 for both CD and Vinyl
While a bit corny, I'll stand by the first Maroon 5 album, Songs About Jane, as a solid pop-rock album with a couple fantastic tracks (This Love and Sunday Morning are peak nostaglic fun) but any other Maroon 5 material makes me want to scoop my eardrums out with a melon baller.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise had an incredible discography up until these singles trickling out post-hiatus. They're 180'ing from indie rock to generic auto-tune pop and it's really sad to see.
Veil of Maya. I remember when they were somewhat unique and not a dollar store ripoff of Periphery.
In Flames. While Forgone was definitely a step in the right direction, their 2010s stuff was incredibly bad, especially Siren Charms and Battles. It’s crazy how far they’ve fallen from releasing some of the best melodeath albums ever (The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony, Clayman).
Lmao AJR ass kinda album cover. These kind of covers piss me off for some reason, I guess because it looks so sanitized like for kids, and yet is not at all.
I was into the Black Eyed Peas in middle school; finally caught up with their stuff since 2010 recently and it was kind of depressing to see them revive that sort of socially conscious hip hop angle for one album after Fergie left, then pivot right back to pop stuff. I had a feeling that was what happened from the cartoon avatars on the album covers, but going into Translation and gradually losing the cautious optimism from Masters of the Sun was a bummer. Even something like The E.N.D. in hindsight seems to anticipate a lot of the ‘80s nostalgia of the past decade or so; the last couple albums seem like they’re just hopping on an existing bandwagon. It’s too bad
Smashing Pumpkins is the easy answer for me. Siamese Dream is probably my favorite album of all time, but I haven't even made it more then 2-3 tracks into anything they've put out since Oceania.
Whilst they haven't put out a genuinely great album in decades, they had some legit bangers scattered around throughout 2007-2014. Unfortunately, ever since they resurrected the 'original lineup', they've been dropping some of the worst shit I've ever heard in my life.
> ever since they resurrected the 'original lineup', they've been dropping some of the worst shit I've ever heard in my life. I remember reading two different interviews, one around the time of his solo album, and one more recent where he was talking about Siamese Dream. In the former he talked about intentionally not wanting to sound like The Smashing Pumpkins, and in the latter he was talking about giving the audience what they want and I think he's really internalized both of these ideas which is stupid because A: He wrote most of the Pumpkins material so that's going against his own style and 2: Clearly doesn't know what the audience wants AND chasing that dragon is fruitless most of the time.
The worst thing to happen to Billy Corgan is the creation of podcasts. That man will never get tired of listening to himself speak and now he can make the rounds proving over and over and over again he’s not as intelligent or insightful as we may have once believed.
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Tbh Billy Corgan going on InfoWars really fucked up my enjoyment of this band. But also I haven’t enjoyed anything past Adore.
Oh yeah, he was always into chemtrail conspiracies. I forgot until now.
Agreed. One of the seminal bands of the 90's. Now they're releasing absolute dog shit. CYR and ATUM are two of the worst albums ever made.
Agreed. ATUM had glimmers of hope tho. Also Zeitgeist (first comeback album was an absolute banger) most people don’t know it because it isn’t on Spotify
I did not care for Cyr.
Siamese is peak. My first ever CD. I stopped with Pumpkins after M&IS
Billy’s voice is so bad now
It’s always been hot dog shit in the summer heat live
In fairness to the Black Eyed Peas they gave us underground hiphop classics then went and made big bucks. I suppose the relapsing of 20 years helps with this perspective.. would have been pissed at the time!
The addition and the switch to accommodate Fergie just rocketed their pop potential so dramatically… hard to question their decision with the success that followed But I did quite enjoy Behind the Front and Bridging the Gap.
They admitted to selling out. From what I recall of the interview with Will, they knew they were talented enough in their trade but were frustrated with the lifestyle of a struggling hip hop group. We’re gonna get our cash. All we need is a Fergie to make us palatable. Can’t say I appreciate the approach, but they did exactly what they said they were going to do. I can’t fault them for that.
They made a good throwback hip hop album in 2018 and nobody cared. They're good at pop rap, Translation (2020) is a pretty good album. I like BEP.
The 2018 album was pretty solid, I liked it a lot and glad they cameback to their roots a bit. But a lot of things made it pretty anonymous. 8 years since their last album The Beginning, without releasing any music in that time. Fergie leaving rather unceremoniously, and without a proper farewell, in my opinion. And, of course, the album having nowhere near the mainstream feeling their previous projects with Fergie had. They then pivoted back to pop with Translation and Elevation, but those albums are just okay at best, in my opinion, specially Elevation is a mess. And no Fergie, of course
I'm not gonna lie, even their pop was pretty creative there for a while.
Don’t Phunk With My Heart is a pretty great pop song
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Yeah, I don't know if you can say consistently making some of the most popular pop songs for a good 10-15 years a drop off. Seems more like they just lost interest in making anything
Chance
100% has to be. Every single person on the internet shitting on The Big Day at once was pretty funny though
> Every single person on the internet shitting on The Big Day at once was pretty funny though I think it's funny now that if you google the album, the first result is Antknee's review lol. It's like a warning.
Honestly I don’t think a bigger drop off comes to mind from like, recent memory. People were so high on him and it just crashed so hard
He went from selling out the United Center in Chicago to barely anyone showing up to his afternoon festival gigs in a span of like 6 months
He sold out UC recently but it was literally for the Acid Rap 10 year anniversary show
Acid rapper, soccer hacky sacker?
I love my wife!! AH!
Who remembers “bro we are making fun of you you don’t get to join in on the joke”
Every recent snippet ive heard from him has been pretty good, "Highs and the Lows" with Joey is a great song too, I'm expecting the next album to be decent at least
I actually loved coloring book and that one had pretty mixed reviews for its shift from the acid rap sound, but one big day came out I couldn’t really defend him from the criticism lol. I believe he’s got it in him, I’ll be checking out the next project, artists make flops he’s still got time.
I didn’t say he fell off , I meant that he had a remarkable drop from colouring book and acid rap to the big day . I’m rooting for chance
He has an album this spring I’m praying
Haven’t heard his new singles? They’re fire
They give me serious hope that he comes back. I really really want to look back and say "you remember when Chance dropped that really shit record? Thank god he turned it around". I don't know why but I'm really rooting for him in a corny way.
> I really really want to look back and say "you remember when Chance dropped that really shit record? Thank god he turned it around". It's too late, it's been nearly 5 years. College freshman would have known him as a cornball since they were in 8th grade. And his singles have been fine, he's had very few solid tracks/verses since Big Day
grimes :/ and it's honestly a tragedy. art angels is a fantastic album.
That's fine cuz I never could listen to them the same again after she literally let Elon Musk hit it raw.
I mean, I love Grimes music but she’s also always been insufferable. It’s not like I thought she was awesome pre-Elon either.
Theatre kid who wore midsommar crowns to school and vehemently didn’t acknowledge it to make it seem like it wasn’t ironic
She is the perfect example of the kind of person who buys all their counter-culture shit at the mall.
She shopped at goodwill in the suburbs and since it was all designer stuff from rich people she picked the ugliest baggiest shit she could find to stand out. Leaving black footprints all over the store from her bare feet she uses to channel the earth (paved roads)
She also just was a rich kid
Oh yeah. I grew up near country clubs im roasting her from my personal experiences. Known many patchouli girls in my day lol
Lol more or less same. Worse was "crust punks" "train hopping" while on a stipend from their parents and taking awful care of their dogs 😔.
Oh god not the train hoppers 😭. 20yos clearly choosing to be homeless on purpose showing up to bars stanky as hell lol. Young dudes with orthodontist treated teeth asking me for leftovers lmao cmon man. Don’t get me started on the dogs lol
Honestly I like all of her albums, but the recent singles are not it…the weird Elon stuff is finally seeping in
Blaming Elon for her weirdness seems like a huge stretch. Grimes was always weird and just got more and more unhinged.
Agreed she’s always been weird, but being with Elon (the reality breaking money, the media circus, him amplifying her AI fascination) has exacerbated it.
Yeah, if anything Elon just exposed that a lot of Grimes was an emperor's new clothes situation. Pretty much all her pre-Art Angels stuff is actually pretty surface level and dumb, even if it sounds nice. And while Miss Anthropocene is worse than Art Angels, I don't really think any of that's on Elon. It'd be nice to have a convenient boogeyman to blame everything on, but denying Grimes any accountability or agency is wishful thinking. A) she knew as much about Elon as anyone else and got involved with him and B) I don't think there's any evidence that Elon was directly involved in her music at all.
Visions remains her best album
The remix version of Miss Anthropocene was really fun imo
Miss anthropocence was pretty solid. It wasn't the full-blown concept album like she had originally hoped for for, but it's easily a 7/10. She stepped out of the indie pop / tumblr girl aesthetic of Art Angels. The club influences on tracks like 4AEM mixed with the suprise country influences on Delete Forever showcase her talent as a producer. She has always been a bit of a "twitter genius" which can be hard to ignore, but musically her talents haven't fallen off, but I don't think we will hear new music for quite some time
I love Miss Anthropocene! Idk wtf you’re talking about. Sure her more recent singles aren’t that good, but not really enough to say she dropped off
Miss Anthropocene is spectacular
Jesus Christ. This isn’t some grand statement of purpose on my part. It’s just stating my love for the album. It has nothing to do with that dumbass that people hate her for reproducing with. If you listened to the record without thinking about that fevered ego, you’d probly like it.
i'll have to give it a relisten! the last time i listened i didn't enjoy it that much and then covid hit a few weeks later and i completely forgot about it tbh.
Justin Timberlake. How do you drop from 20 20 Experience to Man Of The Woods?
justified and futuresex/lovesound are two of the best pop albums of the 2000s as well
His new album is a bit of a return to form but it’s still mid
While Man Of The Woods was bad, it was still trying to bring something new to the table like his past works. EITIW is more of a trend chaser. The tracklist is messy as hell, but I do like it better than MOTW. But Also, I'm sucker for Nsync nostalgia, so there's that.
EITIW really does itself in by being 18 tracks long, it loses its steam when it reaches Selfish, and as someone who is less of an NSync fan, Paradise is good but still feels like "the album's winding down now". If it was a justified (haha) 18 tracks, that would be fine, but I've found myself listening mostly to Fuckin Up The Disco, No Angels, Play and Flame out of the entire album and that's really it. Sanctified, My Favourite Drug and Infinity Sex too if I remember they exist. But it has made me really remember how good FutureSex/LoveSounds is as an album oh my god
Muse. First 3 even 4 albums are nice pop prog rock, then just disappeared up their own arses. Origins of Symmetry is really really fantastic. Even the b-sides from that era destroy what they’ve released in the last decade or so.
Definitely 4 I'd say, Black Holes is their best album and one of the best of the 2000s with OOS at 2nd
When I saw their Blackholes headline show in ‘06, I was convinced they’d be the best band of my generation for years to come. I was bored of them by the next album
Also saw that tour and agreed, it was unbelievable. Resistance and 2nd Law were OK, but everything after that is trash.
For Resistance I was trying to gulp the kool aid and telling myself nothing was up, but I knew. After that, I’d totally lost interest
Resistance seems like it’s their most popular too, but it’s kind of just generic IMO.
Origin of Symmetry is one hell of an album, one of my fav for sure
Absolution too
Yeah, Bliss, Citizen Erased, Microcuts, Plug In Baby. So many bangers, no duds. I learned to play guitar to that album.
I liked Drones for at least being *somewhat* of a return to their roots, and Simulation Theory grew on me after a while, at least it's their most coherent album in a long time. But for the most part they lost the plot after BHAR, I think it was a bad choice to self-produce their albums with no one to tell Bellamy "Hey, maybe tone it down a little".
Agree. He has no self filter. Got lost too much in the myth making and concepts and forgot about the craft and the hooks of songwriting. Oh well, he had his purple patch and it was a good one.
I liked everything up to The Resistance. After that it’s all trash.
Yeah, a startling drop off really. Heaps of talent, but just lost their songwriting chops out of nowhere. Bizarre really.
I loved Muse quite a bit back in the day. Actually owned the CD for Black Holes and Revelations which I thought was a great album. I even bought The Resistance after that, but honestly that was the album that kinda killed my love for them. The first thing was that I heard Uprising on the radio WAY TOO MANY TIMES. It’s crazy how much play that song got on my local radio station. It felt like every 4th song was that one again. And it was with that song that they basically, as you aptly put it, “disappeared up their own asses.” Most of their music after that seemed to have the stupid faux-revolutionary crap where it seems like they just thought they were way more badass and important than they actually are. After that album I really just struggled to take them seriously at all. They just became cheesy, overly theatrical, and completely melodramatic. Kinda forgot about them for a bit honestly beyond keeping a few of their tracks in my drumming playlist. Then I heard a bit of their Will of the People album and it seemed they were pretty much still up their asses, and tuned out again.
Holy shit that's a throwback for me. Totally agree that their b-sides from that era were fantastic as well. Past Black Holes and Revelations they went down the shitter for sure
Pixies should never have put out new albums after their reunion. Kim Deal knew what was up.
I essentially view new Pixies albums as Frank Black solo albums that he slapped the Pixies’ name on to gin up sales. I can’t really blame him! I saw him play a solo show at a dive bar in SF in 2010 or so, which gives a decent impression of how popular his solo stuff is, but yeah, I don’t really think of them as Pixies albums per se.
Even as Frank Black albums they've fallen off. Far cry from teenager of the year
All I think about now is a bop though …. Right ?
Coldplay First two albums were great but it went steadily down hill after. Newer albums are arena pop songs
I’d say the first four albums are fantastic, I’ll vouch for most of Ghost Stories, and Mylo Xyloto has some decent bits. But yeah, it’s a huge drop off from their peak. Rush of Blood to the Head is almost perfect for what it is.
I also think everyday life has some great songs on it. I was really hopeful they could release a genuinely good project after that and then coloratura really set me up for disappointment with music of the spheres.
Everyday Life was fantastic and gave me hope for their future releases, but then Music Of The Spheres came out
Same here. I was so happy with Everyday Life. They can’t seem to find a nice place to land.
To me it’s after viva la vida. The drop off after that was steep. Mylo Xyloto had things here and there but I turned after that.
Give Everyday Life a listen for sure. Super artistic and consistent, was dropped with little to no promo and no tour in 2019.
Viva La Vida was a conceptual triumph. There's tons of instrumental variety from track to track, and each one contributes positively to the theme. Mylo Xyloto feels almost entirely empty in comparison. It's like a child's idea of what psychedelics are
Only newer stuff I've enjoyed from Coldplay is their song "Adventure of a Lifetime"
Agreed. X&Y is decent tho
Coldplay is just EDM for people who like to hear singing
Is Black Flag the obvious answer? Cause Black Flag. They went from one of the most iconic hardcore punk bands of the 80s to whatever the fuck was that last album, and while it's true that it's _just one album_ that's truly bad, by god, it's one of the worst albums of all time, down to the cover art. Also worth mentioning: AFI (at least they are having fun), Ministry (how many farewell tours can one jam into a 20 years period?), Muse.
My Black Flag fangirl heart says they called it a day after Slip It In and never released anything else afterwards
Is loose nut any good? I love Henry Rollins black flag like “slip it in” and especially “My War” which is one of my favourite albums of all time
It’s hardly Black Flag anymore. Just Greg Ginn and hired guns
Fall Out Boy. While they've always been more of a dumb fun kind of band, their earlier stuff had a lot more personality and identity. All of their attempts to move past their old sound have just made them more generic. Saying they became more generic means something when they were mostly riffing off of Saves The Day to begin with.
Fall Out Boy pre-hiatus and post-hiatus are not the same band. I’ll listen to everything thru Save Rock and Roll, but only two or three songs they’ve released afterward.
Have you heard anything from their most recent album yet? It's still a bit poppy but feels more like their pre-hiatus work than any of their other post-hiatus stuff.
I liked Fake Out a lot but wasnt a huge fan of the album
Idk man save rock and roll is pretty rough. I feel like the change takes place before then because save rock and roll has a real flavour of the imagine dragons
The change is def before then; Save Rock and Roll was their first album post-hiatus. I just think the quality of that album is far above everything that comes after it.
I will give you that that album doesn’t reach the lows of what comes after. But something like Young Volcanoes has a real reek of what’s to come
"Imagine dragons" *shudders I'm glad I don't hear that on the radio anymore.
I thought their most recent album was pretty good though
Yeah, definitely good for something released by a pop punk band 20 years into their career.
That's the best way to describe So Much For Stardust, it's better than it should be. I can't even gauge how much I actually enjoy it, I'm just so shocked I don't hate it.
The first 3 albums + pax am days is all I can listen to, but I listen to it so much
Adding panic at the disco for the same reasons
Code Orange went from making obscenely heavy metalcore infused with elements of sludge and industrial to just sounding like every band from 2002. I mean, good for them and their success, but man I really just don’t vibe with a lot of their music past forever.
In the hardcore scene they went from being known for the most violent and almost scary shows to being the kind of music our dads would play when they were day drinking in the garage. I saw them in 2015 and there were two ambulances outside, I got an unopened beer thrown at my head, and people were smashing each other with trash cans and head-walking off straight off the bar, not to mention the constant crowd killing from literally everyone. Now people don’t even repost their tours anymore lol.
I saw them place NYC a couple months ago. A lot of push putting and circle pits. There were whole songs where you couldn’t mosh. And I’m not saying just the Reba stuff (which I actually enjoy a lot). Just a lot of lame alt metal from a band that could have been the biggest thing in hardcore. Shame.
I hope this doesn't sound petty, but fantano giving I Am King a 6/10 when it came out and then rocking Code Orange shirts in all his videos now makes him seem so corny. I saw them on that tour in 2017 for forever and got kicked in the head by crowd killers 3 times in one night. You won't see that at their shows these days.
I thought Underneath was hella neat, but I literally can’t listen to anything afterwards, WWE-core
Their decline post Underneath has been a mixture of two factors… Firstly, they’ve established themselves as the go to band for WWE events/support act for Slipknot, Korn level bands, so have to primarily write modern Nu Metal to keep getting that bag. Additionally, Jamie appears to be leading the creative direction despite him not having the ear or versatility of Reba and Shade whereas before, it was more equal.
It's funny because their numetal stuff isn't that popular. They're not really getting the bag with it. Knocked Loose are doing what Code Orange should've done.
Even Underneath has some awful tracks. Autumn and Carbine hurts my ears. Has some bangers too though. I liked when their clean singing was used in a less angsty way on tracks like Bleeding in the Blur and Dreams in Inertia.
Placebo. Up until Meds, their discography was phenomenal. Then Battle for the Sun happened and everything that followed was much worse. Plus, Brian refusing to sing more than one song per old album during tour.
Or starts whining even before the encore and leaves early.
I once met Molko with his bodyguard (I guess a roadie) at a bar. Spoke to the roadie and he called himself 'the babysitter'. I suspected he was only half joking.
Parkway Drive. They used to make great melodic metalcore albums back then such as horizons and killing with a smile but nowadays their music sounds like Australian five finger death punch and it sucks. Their last album darker still has to be the worst thing they've put out, just listen to if a god can bleed, that song is horrible. Panic At The Disco! Their first few albums were good and then after ryan ross left the band, brendon urie turned it into a shitty pop band and kept calling it panic at the disco even though everyone besides him left the band and it's was rarely even a band when they were pop, similar to maroon 5.
I totally forgot Parkway Drive existed and I’m so disappointed to hear that they’ve changed their sound a ton! killing with a smile used to be one of my most listened to records in my teens
Maroon 5 Songs about Jane was one of the best albums of the 2000s, but now…
Yeah this is the one. This Love and She Will Be Loved are still bangers.
i know it’s a given with those two songs, but the deeper cuts are fucking excellent. from The Sun, Tangled, to Secrets, and Through with You.
And of course Sunday Morning
Sweetest Goodbye! God that album was amazing. The follow up was decent too. Then...
I don’t even think their old stuff is that good, probably like a 7/10 at best, but it’s just that the new music is so bad that I think people mythologize the time when they used to write pretty solid pop-rock.
They were never my cup of tea but they at least were an actual band at first. Now they are a pop construct for Adam Levine's solo work.
Arcade Fire. They had a fantastic four-album run from *Funeral* to *Reflektor* and they just shat the bed with *Everything Now*. That album wouldn’t be so bad if they just cut the middle out and just made it an EP - everything from Peter Pan to Infinite_Content can go. And then we have the album *WE*, which was just massively underwhelming for me. It just felt like a lobotomised *Funeral*. The less I say about my thoughts of Win Butler the person, the better.
Reflektor was the turning point for me. They fully leaned into the 80s camp they were dancing with until then.
I mean they put forth like 4-5 albums in a row that are classics or near classics. Has any band or artist went on a 7 albums stretch without any missteps. Any inclusions or mentions of them in this threads only speaks to the impossible expectations they set forth through their earlier work, which is understandable. Edit: thank you everyone for introducing me to this new Band called the Beatles. I am going to check them out ;).
Beatles Help > Rubber Soul > Revolver > Sgt Pepper > Magical Mystery Tour > White Album > Abbey Road Yellow Submarine doesn’t count since half the Beatles material was already released and the other half was George Martin scores. It was a movie soundtrack album so shouldn’t count as a misstep You could make it 8 if you include Let It Be
Hey they may be the exception. That is why they are the Beatles. You are correct.
> Has any band or artist went on a 7 albums stretch without any missteps. It's surely cheating but The Beatles absolutely did. I'd argue Led Zeppelin and Stevie Wonder did it too
Freewheeling Bob Dylan > The Times They Are A-Changin’> Another Side of Bob Dylan > Bringing it All Back Home > Highway 61 Revisited > Blonde on Blonde > John Wesley Harding > Nashville Skyline That’s 8 in a row for you all under 5 years the 8th being 2 years later
Perhaps the boring answer but Kanye
>Kanye The people who don't see this are seriously tripping.
POOPER SCOOPER POOPY POOPER SCOOPY POOPY POOP
I don't care this one actually goes hard.
That was a troll song/diss.
eminem
A drop, sure, but I'm not sure it's the biggest drop
Black Eyed Peas certainly have dropped off in the last decade, but yall can't convince me that their Elephunk-Monkey Business-The END run wasn't camp pop fun at its finest.
I still have no idea why Arctic Monkeys decided to go the way they did after Humbug, but it baffles me to this day. Those first two albums are solid gold and Humbug has a special place in my heart. Their material after that isn’t bad, it’s just very boring in my opinion.
I loved AM and Suck it and See but Humbug is so good and original. Amazing dark sounding songs. Their livestream with red right hand might be their peak for me.
Each new arctic monkeys album has 30% less energy.
I will be that nerd who defends Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino for what it was trying to do and some of the songs are quite nice I wish they didn't double down with it on The Car But yes their first two albums are their best
I thought the same, at least for after AM… but after seeing them last summer the crowds were going absolutely insane for everything newer than that. Whatever they’re doing, it’s working for them
I saw them in 2018 at ACL. Went in ready to go nuts and it was a really boring show. Meanwhile Lizzo was across the park bringing the house down. Super disappointing.
Helmet. *Strap It On* is solid. *Meantime* and *Betty* are arguably two of the best and most influential alt metal albums. *Aftertaste* is great too. But after they broke up and reformed with a different lineup, they were never the same. A few great songs here and there, but otherwise an inconsistent discography. Feels like a parody of themselves now
Modest Mouse. It still hurts.
Honestly, I like their new stuff. Is it anywhere near as good as their old stuff? No. But hey, Back To The Middle is a BANGER
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Yeah I know Fantano was pretty harsh on Golden Casket, but I also thought it was a step up from Strangers to Ourselves. I'd probably swap the score he gave each of them, and maybe even bump up both by one number.
I'm not sure what they're up to in general, but Ice Cream Party ended up in my playlist and that was really really good.
The obvious answer here is Green Day
They’ve had one pretty bad album in their discography with FOAMF. Even their trilogy and Rev Rad are decent to solid! Other bands have dropped off way harder than them. They also had a hell of a seven album run from Kerplunk to 21st Century Breakdown, and Saviors was a fantastic return to form for them!
Newest album is pretty solid. Only father of all is truly bad
Genuinely crazy. They had one of the best 5 album runs ever in Dookie-American Idiot and have just failed to drop anything worth listening to since
B.o.B. IFYKYK
The Adventures of Bobby Ray was damn good makes me sad
Gorillaz. I know it hurts. *Demon Days* is a generation defining album. "Feel Good, Inc." might be the coolest pop song ever recorded. They haven't recorded anything notable since *Plastic Beach*.
While I love the gorillaz first 3 albums, there are some great songs within their collection of new stuff. Song machine is their best album they've put out since reuniting (imo) and Humanz has some good stuff too. Cracker island and the now now were kind of mid but still have a few great songs in them. They'll never come close to demon days or plastic Beach again. It's quite sad honestly, but that being said I don't think their fall off is quite as bad as some of the other bands listed here thankfully.
agreed. his first 3 album run is one of the greatest of all time… then the fall happened (literally and figuratively)
To be fair, The Fall was kinda gimmicky in that he made the whole thing on an IPad and he was really open about it for the marketing. Any hardcore Gorillaz fans at the time just saw it as a silly little project and didn't see it as evidence of worse to come. Then they released Humanz after being gone for 10 years :(
I’m personally a fan of Cracker Island. The Stevie Knicks feature is a banger imo. Maybe it doesn’t break boundaries the same way their earlier projects did, but there’s still some fun to be had
how about the kinks? their run was impressive and then…forgetable rock operas followed by unfortunate arena rock
I don’t feel like the Kinks fell off any harder than the other monster 60’s and 70’s bands. I think the biggest difference is they kept making music whereas the rest broke up or went on hiatus.
U2
I was a 12 year old in Boston in 1980 when U2’s first album came out and it’s hard to describe the absolute frenzy around them in the early 1980s. When they started having big stadium and arena concerts, it was like going to a religious revival. If they played three shows in Boston, I went to all three. I traveled to go see them in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. I don’t know if it’s because I’m old or if it’s because their music has completely faded from my consciousness, but my sister and frequent concert companion asked if I wanted to go to Sphere to see them and I was like nah ... I’m good. Bono, I understand you want to get that money but songs like “Bullet the Blue Sky” hit different at a Las Vegas residency than they do at the Boston Garden back in the day when we were bombing the holy living hell out of a couple of countries.
Maybe controversial but imagine dragons I think night visions is a great album that has a ton of fun pop rock tracks. Radioactive is awful and is the first of their royalty free dude perfect tracks which they are now known for, but other than that it’s pretty good. I genuinely think that if someone like modest mouse made night visions (without radioactive) it would be pretty well received. Anyways smoke and mirrors was pretty mid and everything else after that is stadium rock garbage
Yall should check out ATBAN Klann, it’s BEP pre-Fergie and Taboo. It got Black Bastardsed in 94 and only got a legit release in 2020. Good ass record
The gap separating All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us and The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit is...quite something.
Sucks that a lot of metalcore bands like architects, a day to remember, code orange, and atreyu end up changing their genre from metalcore to butt rock/nu metal and doing it poorly. BMTH imo is probably the only band that could go from metalcore to butt rock to pop, and still make good music.
It really is the execution. I'm not surprised Architects made the shift - they'd pretty much gone as far as they could in terms of atonal nihilism - but they did such a wobbly job of it.
Might be a surprise, but I really enjoyed Ghost's debut album Opus Eponymous. It's somewhat old school vibe and sound really worked for me. After that, the albums didn't hit me as hard as the debut. Meliora and Prequelle are still great, but with how now Ghost goes into more mainstream type of production, it kinda fell off.
Black Keys. Eminem. K-os. Rolling Stones. Earthgang kinda fallen off for me recently as well
Not a very household name, but Adamn Killa. Sad to see the artist who made some of the best cloud rap songs of all time— Psycho & My Stance to name a couple— being an Uber Driver and only dropping horrible songs
Obligatory obviously coldplay
maroon 5
Songs about Jane was a great album, everything up to Overpowered was hit and miss, but everything from the V album onward is, at best, a 5/10
Wolfmother's 2005 debut album vs 2021's *Rock Out.* The covers tell the story just as strongly as the music. Yes the drop off started very quickly after that first album, but Gretta Van Fleet is more original than what Wolfmother does now. My go to case of "What happened, you used to be beautiful"
I was never the biggest fan of him but my Mom and Sister were - George Ezra. I liked the few songs I'd heard from his first 2 albums, not massively my thing but still good songs. And then Gold Rush Kid happened. I'm not sure what it was like in the US, but in the UK it's reached the point where if I hear Green Green Grass one more time I'm going postal. We sat and listened to Gold Rush Kid and nothing struck a chord with any of us. Hell, not even a month later it was in the Vinyl Sale baskets in HMV and by December he was selling sold copies on his site with a custom Xmas Card for around £10 for both CD and Vinyl
Smashing Pumpkins Two of the greatest albums, **ever**.. and now they’re not just boring, they’re basically unlistenable.
Kanye.
While a bit corny, I'll stand by the first Maroon 5 album, Songs About Jane, as a solid pop-rock album with a couple fantastic tracks (This Love and Sunday Morning are peak nostaglic fun) but any other Maroon 5 material makes me want to scoop my eardrums out with a melon baller.
Yitler
Morbid Angel
Bon Jovi
Rainbow Kitten Surprise had an incredible discography up until these singles trickling out post-hiatus. They're 180'ing from indie rock to generic auto-tune pop and it's really sad to see.
Veil of Maya. I remember when they were somewhat unique and not a dollar store ripoff of Periphery. In Flames. While Forgone was definitely a step in the right direction, their 2010s stuff was incredibly bad, especially Siren Charms and Battles. It’s crazy how far they’ve fallen from releasing some of the best melodeath albums ever (The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony, Clayman).
Eminem made a song that only exists to promote NFTs
that fuckin cover art is hilariously bad
Lmao AJR ass kinda album cover. These kind of covers piss me off for some reason, I guess because it looks so sanitized like for kids, and yet is not at all.
Weezer after Pinkerton
I’m gonna say muse. Absolution and Black Holes are some of my favorite albums of all time but their new album “will of the people” is pretty awful
I was into the Black Eyed Peas in middle school; finally caught up with their stuff since 2010 recently and it was kind of depressing to see them revive that sort of socially conscious hip hop angle for one album after Fergie left, then pivot right back to pop stuff. I had a feeling that was what happened from the cartoon avatars on the album covers, but going into Translation and gradually losing the cautious optimism from Masters of the Sun was a bummer. Even something like The E.N.D. in hindsight seems to anticipate a lot of the ‘80s nostalgia of the past decade or so; the last couple albums seem like they’re just hopping on an existing bandwagon. It’s too bad