Bands who legitimately never had a bad album

UrbanSprawl

iomega wrote: »

2 albums actually.

There's no denying they're riff stealing. I do like Wire, but I think connection is a better song than three girl rumba.

Forgot about waking up,that was a decent enough tune as well at the time.never heard anything from the second album.
My own nomination for this thread are band of the moment Protomatyr,playing in a few weeks in the workman's. One of the few modern bands who although only 3 albums continue to improve,diversify and expand upon their soundscapes with each album release.So far they have three critically albums and no doubt the fourth will be equally as good.

eviltimeban

King Crimson (though they never sold massive amounts). I'm not the biggest Lizard fan, though it's a well considered album
The Beatles (obviously)
Beastie Boys
Pink Floyd? Is The Final Cut a "bad" album?
Bjork
Boards Of Canada
Velvet Underground (ditto on the "no sales" aspect though)
D'Angelo (Ok only three albums since 1995 but still, they're all awesome)
My Bloody Valentine
Nick Drake (sold nothing)

Pearl Jam have the avocado one, Riot Act, and the latest one - they aren't really that good. Backspacer is good, Binaural is bearable but they haven't made a really good album since Yield.

Was gonna put in Daft Punk but then remembered "Human After All".

UrbanSprawl

Pink Floyd? Is The Final Cut a "bad" album?
Absolutely not,some cracking tracks on it ,few fillers but as a Roger Waters era pink floyd fan I would say any album after he left is downhill..but that's just me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLRfP0Vw6oM

eviltimeban

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

few fillers but as a Roger Waters era pink floyd fan I would say any album after he left is downhill..but that's just me.

I suppose I was considering "Final Cut" as the last album... don't know why actually, as I like the albums that came after. Division Bell has some really good moments, you couldn't say it was a "bad" album. Endless River divided people but I thought it was nice for what it was.

Cienciano

I really don't like Momentary Lapse. I like the division bell and final cut.

Vinculus

Shame we can't swap Radiohead's Kings of Limbs for Thom Yorke's The Eraser.

iomega

The_Captain wrote: »

The weak list:

Pixies - Trompe le Monde

A bit weak by their standards, but still great.

Looper007

Sex Pistols
The Smiths
Roxy Music
The Go Betweens
Arctic Monkeys (I probably get slaughtered for saying that but they get better with each album)
The Verve
Supergrass
Crowded House
Beastie Boys
Blur (their debut is actually a good effort and Great Escape is a good album)

eviltimeban

Looper007 wrote: »

The Verve
Beastie Boys

Forth?
The Mix Up?

seamus

Based on the criteria in the OP, the Foo Fighters actually qualify here. "One by One" is sometimes panned by people, but it outsold the previous album, went no. 1 in a couple of countries and still contains some iconic songs. It's "weak" but far from bad.

Interestingly looking at the figures, their last few albums have sold way less than their first ones, but went a lot higher in the charts. This is probably down to less people buying albums at all, instead paying for the individual songs they like.

Cosmicfox

Only have three in fairness but Florence and the Machine has yet to disappoint.

Bjork, I don't get all the dislike for Volta, I love it. Biophilia would be the weakest but it's still good.

Arcade Fire

Anesthetize

Cosmicfox wrote: »

Bjork, I don't get all the dislike for Volta, I love it. Biophilia would be the weakest but it's still good.

Are you including the album she recorded as a kid in 1977?

SCOOP 64

The police

Cosmicfox

Anesthetize wrote: »

Are you including the album she recorded as a kid in 1977?

Never listened to that one actually. So nah.

eviltimeban

Cosmicfox wrote: »

Never listened to that one actually. So nah.

The one I don't listen to is Medulla. I sort of pretend it doesn't exist. It never worked with me. But I must give it another go.

Volta isn't great. There's a few good tracks but too much Timbaland production styles which I can't stand.

Biophilia is amazing conceptually (newly created instruments, the app, etc) but song of the songs fail to grab you. I still enjoy having it on though. Crystaline is great - that breakbeat at the end.

Cosmicfox

eviltimeban wrote: »

The one I don't listen to is Medulla. I sort of pretend it doesn't exist. It never worked with me. But I must give it another go.

Volta isn't great. There's a few good tracks but too much Timbaland production styles which I can't stand.

Biophilia is amazing conceptually (newly created instruments, the app, etc) but song of the songs fail to grab you. I still enjoy having it on though. Crystaline is great - that breakbeat at the end.

I wasn't keen on medulla at first but it was interesting idea so I persisted. Still a few songs I'm not fussed on but there are some great ones. Vokuro makes me feel like I'm sitting in an ice church.

I like all the brass in volta. Sounds like ships, which is also why I like quite a lot of the drawing restraint 9 OST.

Biophilia kind of fades into the background for me, gets a bit samey. Kind of felt like I was listening the to soundtrack of Ecco the dolphin at times. Still a few good ones, like mutual core

Corholio

Only had 3 so far but Everything Everything have had 3 individually very good albums, all different in their own way from each other too.

fleet_admiral

Gorillaz. Demon Days would, imo be one of the best albums of all time

Grayditch

The Prodigy are almost on this list but the last album is fairly weak, I think.

Looper007

eviltimeban wrote: »

Forth?
The Mix Up?

I think Fourth is a very solid album not quite of their earlier releases but still a underrated album.

siblers

The Maccabees, love all their stuff.

Tony EH

loyatemu wrote: »

Three Girl Rhumba -> Connection
I am the Fly -> Line Up
No More Heroes (the Stranglers) -> Waking Up

they like a bit of creative borrowing did Elastica...

How in the name of gods balls were they not sued all the way to Sunday and back for that daylight robbery?

Speaking of Gods Balls...every one of Tad's records were great.

Pity the band were screwed over continuously by companies for their entire career.

Sgt Pepper 64

sex pistols
siouxie and the banshees
the strokes
the fall
television
velvet underground
wire
gang of four

loyatemu

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

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can anyone say this for sure? they have about 2000 albums.

eviltimeban

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

sex pistols

velvet underground

Sex Pistols only released one album...

And I don't think anyone is going to say that "Squeeze" by the Velvet Underground is a good album.

Anesthetize

eviltimeban wrote: »

And I don't think anyone is going to say that "Squeeze" by the Velvet Underground is a good album.

That album never happened, okay?

Grayditch

Type O Negative are another.

Tweeter

Fight like apes

jooksavage

eviltimeban wrote: »

And I don't think anyone is going to say that "Squeeze" by the Velvet Underground is a good album.

Wasn't that just Doug Yule writing, singing and playing everything (and presumably taking care of the studio catering) all by his lonesome? That's a VU album in name only.

eviltimeban

jooksavage wrote: »

Wasn't that just Doug Yule writing, singing and playing everything (and presumably taking care of the studio catering) all by his lonesome? That's a VU album in name only.

Still a VU album! :pac:

It's like someone earlier listed the Doors, but they forgot about "Other Voices" and "Full Circle".