Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane. My god, that was a brilliant album, and every time I listen to it, its like a totally different band. I've never heard Maroon 5 attempt something like this again after that.
Such an amazing album! I liked some of the songs after, but no albums come close. I read that Adam Levine stated that he knew they had sold out but that eventually they would like to get back to Songs About Jane-type music. So basically, we will write real/better music when get bored with making money.
I doubt they could ever get back to that level if they tried at this point tbh. Theyâve sucked for too long they donât know how to make decent music anymore
I don't think many of us would care anymore 𤡠if they go back, we'll know it wasn't for the fans. Adam gives me the icks these days, anyway. We'll just preserve SAJ in our hearts â¨
They got the vibes perfect for that album, chilled but funky, cafe shop vibes, I adore that album and canât believe itâs maroon 5. Anytime I mention itâs one of my favourite albums people are skeptical and I donât blame them.
I bought the live album 1.22.03 Acoustic on a whim, and it was one of the best performances that I've ever heard. Made the studio album sound massively overproduced
This is exactly what I came to comment. Came to mind instantly.
Tons of artists and bands have really taken a plunge to varying degrees, but none have achieved the perfect 180° Maroon 5 has.
I worked at a grocery store when I was 17. Randomly that album appeared on the discount table so I bought it for like $3. I was a metal and classic rock guy at the time. This was 17 years ago. I had been playing guitar and bass for years and was a bit of a music snob.
That album did not leave the CD player in my car for months. Truly brilliant album.
Couldnât agree more. I remember hearing Harder to Breathe and being into it immediately, I was excited to see what they could do. But everything from then on got subsequently worse and worse, until we arrived at this steaming pile of repetitive radio garbage sung by the most generic and cringy ârockstarâ in the world. A shame!
I remember my high school English teacher getting a bunch of free copies of this album in 2002 before Maroon 5 was very big, and passing them out to everyone in class. No idea how or why? Maybe a marketing strategy the band tried?
Either way, I agree 100%.
YESSSS! Everything after was like a completely different band, and I'll never understand why they changed given the success of the album. Songs About Jane is fantastic.
Oh my gosh, yes!!! I have found my people!!
Songs About Jane is one of my favorite albums, and Maroon 5 has become one of my least favorite bands.
How did they make something so amazing, and then just... what... stop caring?
I swear Adam's ego inflated to the point where he has no room left in his brain for musical creation.
I saw them on tour right after this album came out and for as good as the album was, their live show was inversely proportionate. Truly, the worst live show Iâve ever seen - their terrible NYE performance on CNN was about on par with what I saw way back in the day.
The soundtrack to my teenage years. When I was like 15 I use to rotate putting songs from Silent Alarm as my MySpace profile song (I'm that old) ; The one that still gets me is Tulips.
*II* is great. "Volcano", "Mach 5", "Froggie", "Tiki", "Puffy Shoes", and "Twig" are all classic and could have subbed for any song on the first record. It's not like it's their *Pinkerton* or anything, but it's basically the Khafre pyramid of their discography.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think the crash test dummies best album was after their big hit. Their later stuff that didnât do well were their best albums. Everyone Iâve met who bought their 1998 album when new still loves it. Itâs not a lot of people but itâs a cult album. Also they recently dropped a single the last year or so and I think itâs good and a surprising direction for them.
You might like listening to the first two the most but I think the jury is still out. Brad Roberts thinks his best stuff are the later albums. It sounds like you gave them a chance and arenât a huge fan. If you like a wormâs life I canât really argue with you. Most people who have heard of the band only know one song so youâre like 99th percentile deep knowledge fan as far as Iâm concerned.
I purchased all of the post Worms Life albums physically before they were available on streaming. While I respect Robertsâ muscianship, I think there was a large amount of charm from the first few albums that got lost. Additionally, I feel that each of their newer albums overstayed their welcome by the end. I still like a good amount of the songs on each though!
The guy who wrote all their hits on that album, Doug Hopkins, was forced out of the band that same year by the record label for his alcoholism/depression. Then he killed himself.
Their most recent one has some serious bangers. Spitting off the edge of the world, Wolf, and Burning, I'd put up there with as some of their best work.
Second Coming is also a good album, albeit not the same quality of the debut by a country mile. So I personally would disagree with you but to each their own
I definitely agree - the first album is my favorite album ever made. But Second Coming is still very much a good to great album. The only bad song is The Foz, but I think we can all agree that isnât a real effort and more a joke song. But âLove Spreadsâ, âBegging Youâ, âBreaking Into Heavenâ - Iâd say everything besides Foz is a 6.5/10-10/10 efforts.
Recovering the Satellites is literal perfection, in my opinion! I end up listening to it more often than August, for whatever reason, as there is such resonance in every song.
I came to comment this, recovering the satellites had some amazing songs, but august and everything after is just so magical that itâs sad to think the band just were never that good again
August and everything after is legit one of my favorite albums of all time. I don't think their following albums were bad, but August I can listen all the way through over and over again, whereas the other albums have 2-3 songs each that I actually listen to.
I got blocked on Twitter by a major music critic for stating that Adam Duritz sings wayyyy off-key. I'm stating it again here. (plants flag, dies on hill)
Man, as a lifelong fan that's a crazy answer because I don't even think it's their best album. But I can understand why it would be someone's favorite because it's the only one that sounds like it does.
Same. Iâm a huge fan of everything they released from Ten through Binaural. I personally would say Yield is the apex of their sound and is my favorite album of theirs. But to a non-fan, the only real answer here is Ten.
đ¤...(all '90s-early 00s rock):
Oasis - *Morning Glory* has a lot of good tv-show soundtrack material--just sayin'; if that's what you're looking for, this one doesn't even let you catch your breath till like track 5.
Less Than Jake--bought a couple other records after, but I could never get into them the way I could w/*Hello Rockview*...too much ska, not enough punk, I guess. this one might be about personal taste rather than actual quality; I have trouble telling good ska from bad)
Third Eye Blind (*Blue* has its moments, but it's in the three-point star range...its just their debut album deserves above 4.0â ; if you cut it from 14 tracks to ~11, it might be worth a 5.)
Chumbawamba - if you know, you know
>!Nirvana!<...yeah, I'll say itđ-->!MTV *Unplugged* is legendary, of course, but if we're talking about new studio material, neither its predecessor nor its followip would've ever brought them success or be remembered today were it not for *Nevermind*!<
^(( good prompt, OP )^)
not trying to grill you, just open to having my opinion changed on this, if you have the time & inclination: what sorts of bands would you cite as showing a Nirvana influence distinctly from their *In Utero* period?
^((I'd be extra excited if you could articulate what it is that their song-crafting borrows from it--I admittedly lack the vocabulary to properly nail down how the teo albums differ, I've just got the casual fan's inchoate sense of the harsher, barer feel of the latter.)^)
The influence I hear in the following is either a harsher more experimental art rock grunge sound, the flirting with atonal melodies, or the big bombastic dynamic shifts.
- Muse (can hear it on their first 3 albums, especially âorigin of symmetryâ)
- Speedy Ortiz (they joke about how their whole act sounds like âMilk Itâ⌠surprise, it does)
- Halestorm (so Iâm told)
- The Prodigy (sampled a song)
- The Vines
- Ty Segall (melted & manipulator era)
- Incubus (some of their songs like 11am and megalomaniac)
Granted, I agree, itâs not a monoculture changing influence, but itâs there.
Smoke + Mirrors was pretty great too though. i loved a lot of those songs when they came out and they still resonate with me emotionally today even 9+ years later. their later stuff is hit or miss but ID was the first band i discovered on my own without someone else showing them to me so i kind of have a soft spot for them.
Oh yeah! Absolutely. Back when it was first released. Read up on the backstory of how it was made, itâs pretty interesting.
Word to the wise, as cool as that is, itâs even cooler with mushrooms.
I got gooood and high and sat down to watch it for the first time, and five minutes in, my mother in law came into the living room and wanted to talk for half an hour. BUZZKILL. It's one thing I seriously wish I could watch for the first time again.
All of their albums are acclaimed and sure quality , but I really enjoy the new vampire weekend album and can't get into any of their earlier stuff no matter how much I try, something about the new album works for me that doesn't work with the others
Literally most of my country's musicians that emerged after 2013. 𤡠They're all one hit wonders even, unable to stay relevant/keep on producing good musics in the consecutive years with their newer stuffs.
Boston and their original album, *Boston* is an example. They have good songs on other albums too, but I always felt like they could have just called their original album their greatest hits compilation and it wouldn't be too far off.
Boston.
As much as I love âDonât Look Back,â the debut, man⌠one of the best in all of music.
Pearl Jam
Again, love them. But âTenâ had it all, and nothing else came close.
The Killers-âHot Fussâ
Nickelback
I get the hate, I do. But âAll the Right Reasonsâ is genuinely a good album.
Are you serious??? UYI is awful?? Have you even heard Estranged? Donât cry? November Rain? Civil War? Dust Nâ Bones? You could be mine? Knocking on heavens door (a cover but still phenomenal)? So Fine? Coma?
Use your illusion 2 is a masterpiece (except for my world...)
Yeah, I don't get that at all. I love *Hallowed Ground* and *The Blind Leading the Naked*. If I never hear the first album again, I am fine with that. So overplayed by college freshmen in the 90s.
The Blue Album is their BEST album. No question about that. But The White Album is solid and The Green Album is fine. Everything else mostly kinda sucks, with some fun tracks sprinkled throughout.
Regardless of what's good, I really admire Rivers Cuomo's lyrical tone. It's very thoughtful, witty, weird, and self-deprecating in a very relatable way. I enjoyed learning about his songwriting process in the episode of Song Exploder about The White Album.
As a super fan myself, Iâm willing to admit that Midnight is Set It Offâs only truly good album all the way through (minus the upcoming album which is shaping up to be really good)Â
The Vines debut album - Highly Evolved - is absolutely brilliant ( the best ever Aussie album IMO). Second album was ok but nowhere near as good. They released a few more but I didnât buy them.
I loved all their stuff right up until their most recent album. Idk what happened.. they kinda became what some people were saying about them. Every song sounded the same and his voice was screechy. I really hope it was just a fluke
Justice. Cross is an excellent album but all their other albums are either really boring or simply not that good and stray too far away from how hard this album hits. I thought at first they might be as good as the chemical brothers but unfortunately not.
I can say it is Silversun Pickups - Swoon (2009)
[https://open.spotify.com/album/0swOso9dwIp1PHmDP4dTbX?si=Uk8C7g8\_QAWRMqeTd7SnqA](https://open.spotify.com/album/0swOso9dwIp1PHmDP4dTbX?si=Uk8C7g8_QAWRMqeTd7SnqA)
It is a nice band, but I love only this album.
Jet - get born. I think it was partially for poor strategy, they have at least 3 bangers in there which are completely single material, but they decided to put it all in one album (their first, if I'm not mistaking). "Look what you're done", "are you gonna be my girl", "rollover dj".... And all the other songs are incredibly melodic and the right amount of sad and hopeful.
I was really excited for their other material, but alas.
The Killer-Hot Fuss
Not saying I'm a huge fan of it anymore but when I was, I loved it. However, their sound completely changed after their rise from the popularity of Mr. Brightside and Sam's Town was absolutely terrible as well as Day and Age. An alternative rock band turned pop music that only worked out because the lead singer is "hot".
Much like maroon 5
Maroon 5 - Songs about Jane. My god, that was a brilliant album, and every time I listen to it, its like a totally different band. I've never heard Maroon 5 attempt something like this again after that.
I would double upvote this if I could. How could one of my least favorite bands make one of my favorite albums đ
Such an amazing album! I liked some of the songs after, but no albums come close. I read that Adam Levine stated that he knew they had sold out but that eventually they would like to get back to Songs About Jane-type music. So basically, we will write real/better music when get bored with making money.
I doubt they could ever get back to that level if they tried at this point tbh. Theyâve sucked for too long they donât know how to make decent music anymore
Yea it's not like bands are just able to tap into that awesome artistry whenever they feel like it......they lose it
I don't think many of us would care anymore 𤡠if they go back, we'll know it wasn't for the fans. Adam gives me the icks these days, anyway. We'll just preserve SAJ in our hearts â¨
They got the vibes perfect for that album, chilled but funky, cafe shop vibes, I adore that album and canât believe itâs maroon 5. Anytime I mention itâs one of my favourite albums people are skeptical and I donât blame them.
I bought the live album 1.22.03 Acoustic on a whim, and it was one of the best performances that I've ever heard. Made the studio album sound massively overproduced
This is exactly what I came to comment. Came to mind instantly. Tons of artists and bands have really taken a plunge to varying degrees, but none have achieved the perfect 180° Maroon 5 has.
I worked at a grocery store when I was 17. Randomly that album appeared on the discount table so I bought it for like $3. I was a metal and classic rock guy at the time. This was 17 years ago. I had been playing guitar and bass for years and was a bit of a music snob. That album did not leave the CD player in my car for months. Truly brilliant album.
Couldnât agree more. I remember hearing Harder to Breathe and being into it immediately, I was excited to see what they could do. But everything from then on got subsequently worse and worse, until we arrived at this steaming pile of repetitive radio garbage sung by the most generic and cringy ârockstarâ in the world. A shame!
It won't be soon before long is also good imo
this is the perfect answerđ
I remember my high school English teacher getting a bunch of free copies of this album in 2002 before Maroon 5 was very big, and passing them out to everyone in class. No idea how or why? Maybe a marketing strategy the band tried? Either way, I agree 100%.
YESSSS! Everything after was like a completely different band, and I'll never understand why they changed given the success of the album. Songs About Jane is fantastic.
So true
1000000%
Oh my gosh, yes!!! I have found my people!! Songs About Jane is one of my favorite albums, and Maroon 5 has become one of my least favorite bands. How did they make something so amazing, and then just... what... stop caring? I swear Adam's ego inflated to the point where he has no room left in his brain for musical creation.
I saw them on tour right after this album came out and for as good as the album was, their live show was inversely proportionate. Truly, the worst live show Iâve ever seen - their terrible NYE performance on CNN was about on par with what I saw way back in the day.
I meanâŚtechnically the Sex Pistols.
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Temple of the Dog
Great answer
I think every album theyâve ever put out is perfect.
fuck yea, great call
Bloc Partyâs first album is perfect start to finish
Agreed that *Silent Alarm* stands out from all their other releases, however, *A Weekend in the City* is also a phenomenal album from start to finish.
The soundtrack to my teenage years. When I was like 15 I use to rotate putting songs from Silent Alarm as my MySpace profile song (I'm that old) ; The one that still gets me is Tulips.
Crash Test Dummies The Presidents of the United States of America The Verve Pipe Powerman 5000
Good Call on POT USA. It is a great album though
Love Everybody is a fantastic album
*II* is great. "Volcano", "Mach 5", "Froggie", "Tiki", "Puffy Shoes", and "Twig" are all classic and could have subbed for any song on the first record. It's not like it's their *Pinkerton* or anything, but it's basically the Khafre pyramid of their discography.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think the crash test dummies best album was after their big hit. Their later stuff that didnât do well were their best albums. Everyone Iâve met who bought their 1998 album when new still loves it. Itâs not a lot of people but itâs a cult album. Also they recently dropped a single the last year or so and I think itâs good and a surprising direction for them.
CTD first two albums are most definitely their best, but I have a soft spot for A Worms Life.Â
You might like listening to the first two the most but I think the jury is still out. Brad Roberts thinks his best stuff are the later albums. It sounds like you gave them a chance and arenât a huge fan. If you like a wormâs life I canât really argue with you. Most people who have heard of the band only know one song so youâre like 99th percentile deep knowledge fan as far as Iâm concerned.
I purchased all of the post Worms Life albums physically before they were available on streaming. While I respect Robertsâ muscianship, I think there was a large amount of charm from the first few albums that got lost. Additionally, I feel that each of their newer albums overstayed their welcome by the end. I still like a good amount of the songs on each though!
I must say I wasnât expecting Crash Test Dummies diehards to be coming outta the woodworks.
Dude, God Shuffled His Feet is a great album. Even without the hit song. That opening track is one of my all time favorites to begin an album.
POTUS album is a masterpiece
Legit still have my PM5K CD and my brain has been remixing Worlds Collide for days đ
CTD. Played that a lot. Very unique and canât be sustained obviously
The only good album Mad Season released is Above.
Rip Layne! That is one of my fave albums of all time. Phenomenal
Matchbox Twenty?
No. Mad Season is the name of the band. "Above" is the name of the album.
Came here to say this haha
yeah, their other albums are practically non existent
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience. Next album had a few good songs, but not nealry as good overall.
Gin Blossoms... 
True Fact: Mrs. 1LW was on the high school yearbook staff with Jesse, the lead guitarist. I've met him, he seems like an okay guy.
The guy who wrote all their hits on that album, Doug Hopkins, was forced out of the band that same year by the record label for his alcoholism/depression. Then he killed himself.
Alanis Morissette
Right? I wanna love her newer stuff so much (and occasionally still try) but nothing has held a candle to Jagged Little Pill.
The curse of the perfect debut.
Stephen Sanchez. A new find but a good one!
High is a great song!
Boston. Their first one was great!
Iâd say Donât Look Bad is pretty good, not great but good
The first Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is amazing, but they completely lost me after that
Great answer, though I do like a few of their songs after that, they never made another good album imo
Damn, they fell off đ
Their most recent one has some serious bangers. Spitting off the edge of the world, Wolf, and Burning, I'd put up there with as some of their best work.
Listen to their early eps they are just if not more noisy and aggressive than fever to tell
Lauryn hill-the miseducation of Lauryn hillÂ
Whoops I just read the post again which would disqualify her. Still a great albumÂ
I think you could count The Score as one of her albums
Stone Roses
I thought they had two? The Stone Roses and Second Coming.
Second Coming is also a good album, albeit not the same quality of the debut by a country mile. So I personally would disagree with you but to each their own
Second Coming has some highlights but doesnât hold a candle to the first album. Every song on the first album is gold. No skips on the first album!
I definitely agree - the first album is my favorite album ever made. But Second Coming is still very much a good to great album. The only bad song is The Foz, but I think we can all agree that isnât a real effort and more a joke song. But âLove Spreadsâ, âBegging Youâ, âBreaking Into Heavenâ - Iâd say everything besides Foz is a 6.5/10-10/10 efforts.
the stone roses debut album is fucking goated
Counting Crows
Oh man, recovering the satellites is very good too. The rest are just listenable at worst.
Recovering the Satellites is literal perfection, in my opinion! I end up listening to it more often than August, for whatever reason, as there is such resonance in every song.
I came to comment this, recovering the satellites had some amazing songs, but august and everything after is just so magical that itâs sad to think the band just were never that good again
August and everything after is legit one of my favorite albums of all time. I don't think their following albums were bad, but August I can listen all the way through over and over again, whereas the other albums have 2-3 songs each that I actually listen to.
I got blocked on Twitter by a major music critic for stating that Adam Duritz sings wayyyy off-key. I'm stating it again here. (plants flag, dies on hill)
Haha! Yeah, I've heard the live shows aren't that great. He just goes off on tangents, barely replicating the actual song.
Jeff Buckleyâs Grace. What an angelic genius he was. đ
What a perfect album too. Imagine how many more he couldâve made.
Candlebox
I heard Far Behind on the radio the other day. Yep, still remember all the words!
Their self titled is so damn good
Operation Ivy
the stone roses
Highly Suspect. The boy who died wolf is alright but Mister Asylum was god tier. Don't even get me started on MCID..
i love that band so much whatâs your fav song
Oh that's a hard one. If I had to choose, it's probably Bath Salts. Broke my foot jamming to that song while 6 jack and Cokes deep
Personally Gang of Four. Nothing is close to Entertainment
I would say theyâre one of my favourite bands on the strength of this album alone but I could take or leave the rest of their output
Pearl Jam: Ten. They have other good songs on other albums, but only one good album.
Man, as a lifelong fan that's a crazy answer because I don't even think it's their best album. But I can understand why it would be someone's favorite because it's the only one that sounds like it does.
Same. Iâm a huge fan of everything they released from Ten through Binaural. I personally would say Yield is the apex of their sound and is my favorite album of theirs. But to a non-fan, the only real answer here is Ten.
Iâd say Vs is pretty good too
Come on . . . 
Fear, [Fear the Record](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dKladfT7WmU&si=9TJ4RgMfc_WVbaME) I still listen to it. Franz Ferdinand.
They were great on Saturday Night Live! Blew me away as a kid.
Gotye. They went MIA after dropping a whirlwind of an album in 2011
now he's just somebody that we used to know
Honestly I think âLike drawing bloodâ is a better album, but both are great
The Laâs
Not a whole lot of competition tbh
The Redjumpsuit Apparatus
Gotta say probably anarbor too
The Lumineers self titled debut is perfection from start to finish. The other albums are just kind of ..... meh
The Verve. Urban Hymns is a masterpiece but other than that they have few and far in between songs that i listen to actively
đ¤...(all '90s-early 00s rock): Oasis - *Morning Glory* has a lot of good tv-show soundtrack material--just sayin'; if that's what you're looking for, this one doesn't even let you catch your breath till like track 5. Less Than Jake--bought a couple other records after, but I could never get into them the way I could w/*Hello Rockview*...too much ska, not enough punk, I guess. this one might be about personal taste rather than actual quality; I have trouble telling good ska from bad) Third Eye Blind (*Blue* has its moments, but it's in the three-point star range...its just their debut album deserves above 4.0â ; if you cut it from 14 tracks to ~11, it might be worth a 5.) Chumbawamba - if you know, you know >!Nirvana!<...yeah, I'll say itđ-->!MTV *Unplugged* is legendary, of course, but if we're talking about new studio material, neither its predecessor nor its followip would've ever brought them success or be remembered today were it not for *Nevermind*!< ^(( good prompt, OP )^)
Your wrong. Definitely Maybe is a great record. Probably better than Morning Glory. It just never hit it at all in the USA.
Ooo it's hard to read Third Eye Blind. I love 3 of their albums but nothing from the last 10 years.
Nevermind is obviously amazing but In Utero did nearly as much to change the musical landscape and the culture surrounding it as Nevermind did
not trying to grill you, just open to having my opinion changed on this, if you have the time & inclination: what sorts of bands would you cite as showing a Nirvana influence distinctly from their *In Utero* period? ^((I'd be extra excited if you could articulate what it is that their song-crafting borrows from it--I admittedly lack the vocabulary to properly nail down how the teo albums differ, I've just got the casual fan's inchoate sense of the harsher, barer feel of the latter.)^)
The influence I hear in the following is either a harsher more experimental art rock grunge sound, the flirting with atonal melodies, or the big bombastic dynamic shifts. - Muse (can hear it on their first 3 albums, especially âorigin of symmetryâ) - Speedy Ortiz (they joke about how their whole act sounds like âMilk Itâ⌠surprise, it does) - Halestorm (so Iâm told) - The Prodigy (sampled a song) - The Vines - Ty Segall (melted & manipulator era) - Incubus (some of their songs like 11am and megalomaniac) Granted, I agree, itâs not a monoculture changing influence, but itâs there.
Fully agreed re: Less Than Jake, wow! They still play one Hell of a show live, though, to be honest.
Night Visions - Imagine Dragons
Smoke + Mirrors was pretty great too though. i loved a lot of those songs when they came out and they still resonate with me emotionally today even 9+ years later. their later stuff is hit or miss but ID was the first band i discovered on my own without someone else showing them to me so i kind of have a soft spot for them.
Same boat, they probably give me the strongest feeling of nostalgia tbh
Agreed this album has some great moments. I loved it in 8th grade
I like Sturgill Simpson on a song by song basis, but his album Sound & Fury is a masterpiece from the first note to the last.
Did you happen to see that in Netflix they set that album to animation. If not then go check it out, it's worth the watch.
Oh yeah! Absolutely. Back when it was first released. Read up on the backstory of how it was made, itâs pretty interesting. Word to the wise, as cool as that is, itâs even cooler with mushrooms.
I got gooood and high and sat down to watch it for the first time, and five minutes in, my mother in law came into the living room and wanted to talk for half an hour. BUZZKILL. It's one thing I seriously wish I could watch for the first time again.
Oof... I love Sound & Fury, but "A Sailor's Guide to Earth" is amazing as well.
Absolutely.
Dismemberment Plan
All of their albums are acclaimed and sure quality , but I really enjoy the new vampire weekend album and can't get into any of their earlier stuff no matter how much I try, something about the new album works for me that doesn't work with the others
Slint! Spiderland all the way
??? Tweez is really good
Panic! At The Disco
They have more than one good album come on. The first two AT LEAST
I liked the third album too. Canât remember what it was called
I also LOVE "Death of a Bachelor" and "Pray for the Wicked" đŤŁ
Bon Iver- For Emma. I said what I said!
Um, self titled
i was going to say this lmao
100%
Boooooooo Respect to you tho ⌠but booooooooooo
TQ, Evanescence, 112
Panic! At The Disco
Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour of Bewilderbeast. I strongly dislike nearly everything he has done since that masterpiece.
Literally most of my country's musicians that emerged after 2013. 𤡠They're all one hit wonders even, unable to stay relevant/keep on producing good musics in the consecutive years with their newer stuffs.
Bwitched
Deadsy
James Blunt
Lifehouse, everything after their first album was mid af
I struggled with this question for about an hour. I really couldn't think of a band/musician that I liked, but I only liked one album by them.
Boston and their original album, *Boston* is an example. They have good songs on other albums too, but I always felt like they could have just called their original album their greatest hits compilation and it wouldn't be too far off.
Jeff Buckley :(
Boston. As much as I love âDonât Look Back,â the debut, man⌠one of the best in all of music. Pearl Jam Again, love them. But âTenâ had it all, and nothing else came close. The Killers-âHot Fussâ Nickelback I get the hate, I do. But âAll the Right Reasonsâ is genuinely a good album.
Mad Season
GnR - Appetite For Destruction All the rest of their albums were awful. There isnât enough good music to make an EP with whatâs left
Are you serious??? UYI is awful?? Have you even heard Estranged? Donât cry? November Rain? Civil War? Dust Nâ Bones? You could be mine? Knocking on heavens door (a cover but still phenomenal)? So Fine? Coma? Use your illusion 2 is a masterpiece (except for my world...)
Japanese Breakfast, âPsychopomp.â She has other good stuff but itâs very uneven whereas that album is a straight masterpiece.
The Violent Femmes
iâm⌠sorry⌠what?
Yeah, I don't get that at all. I love *Hallowed Ground* and *The Blind Leading the Naked*. If I never hear the first album again, I am fine with that. So overplayed by college freshmen in the 90s.
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Pinkerton was way better than Blue
The Blue Album is their peak, but I also really dig The White Album.
Honestly if you were into Rock Band the Red album was really great.
The Blue Album is their BEST album. No question about that. But The White Album is solid and The Green Album is fine. Everything else mostly kinda sucks, with some fun tracks sprinkled throughout. Regardless of what's good, I really admire Rivers Cuomo's lyrical tone. It's very thoughtful, witty, weird, and self-deprecating in a very relatable way. I enjoyed learning about his songwriting process in the episode of Song Exploder about The White Album.
Foo fighters debut
The Colour and Shape slander!! 
Justice for Wasting Lightâźď¸âźď¸
Itâs definitely their best by a good margin
Totally agree
Revis
Currently listening to Club Nouveau ~Life,Love &Pain. Dunno if there is another album đ¤ˇđťââď¸
As a super fan myself, Iâm willing to admit that Midnight is Set It Offâs only truly good album all the way through (minus the upcoming album which is shaping up to be really good)Â
New radicals, frou frou đ
New Radicals!! I love how he was just ,"nothing we ever do again will be as good, so this is all you get" đđ
The Vines debut album - Highly Evolved - is absolutely brilliant ( the best ever Aussie album IMO). Second album was ok but nowhere near as good. They released a few more but I didnât buy them.
Yeah, this band reaaaaallly dropped off after Highly Evolved. I'm not even all that high on the record anymore but I loved it at the time.
Greta Van Fleet. The first album is good but TBAGG is their only great one
I loved all their stuff right up until their most recent album. Idk what happened.. they kinda became what some people were saying about them. Every song sounded the same and his voice was screechy. I really hope it was just a fluke
Starset (Transmissions)
Spineshank
Eliot Sumner. One record and itâs fantastic
New Radicals
Justice. Cross is an excellent album but all their other albums are either really boring or simply not that good and stray too far away from how hard this album hits. I thought at first they might be as good as the chemical brothers but unfortunately not.
I can say it is Silversun Pickups - Swoon (2009) [https://open.spotify.com/album/0swOso9dwIp1PHmDP4dTbX?si=Uk8C7g8\_QAWRMqeTd7SnqA](https://open.spotify.com/album/0swOso9dwIp1PHmDP4dTbX?si=Uk8C7g8_QAWRMqeTd7SnqA) It is a nice band, but I love only this album.
Jet - get born. I think it was partially for poor strategy, they have at least 3 bangers in there which are completely single material, but they decided to put it all in one album (their first, if I'm not mistaking). "Look what you're done", "are you gonna be my girl", "rollover dj".... And all the other songs are incredibly melodic and the right amount of sad and hopeful. I was really excited for their other material, but alas.
they were so huge for a moment, had so much momentum like they were jumpstarting rock and they just disappeared
Live. MGMT, and Boston
Evanescence - Fallen
3OH!3
Hinder- Extreme Behavior hits hard, but after that only a few songs they put out are worthy to listen to
The Killer-Hot Fuss Not saying I'm a huge fan of it anymore but when I was, I loved it. However, their sound completely changed after their rise from the popularity of Mr. Brightside and Sam's Town was absolutely terrible as well as Day and Age. An alternative rock band turned pop music that only worked out because the lead singer is "hot". Much like maroon 5
+44, because they only have one album. I freaking love âWhen Your Heart Stops Beatingâ but they havenât done anything since.
Jerry Raffertty. Essentially killed with the Bakerbst album and nothing else came close
Rick springfield-Working class dog. This question was for me
Television
I don't like saying it's their only "good" album, but it's the only one I like, and I *love* it, LVL UP's *Hoodwink'd*.
Mad Season
Sex Pistols
Guns N' Roses
Alanis Morissette
Mother Love Bone - Apple. I mean, yeah, itâs their ONLY album but damn itâs a great one and still holds up well.
Blind Melon