Artists whose first album was pretty good, but then the second one was awesome, and then the third was just OK but really more of the same, and by the fourth one you weren't even paying attention

i just sat here for 5 minutes trying to think of something that fit this thread and then realized that i'm listening to Dog Man Star

also i feel this way about Big Star but most people seem to like the 3rd one best

Chic

Pygmalion is "more of the same" after Souvlaki? WTF?

Public Image Ltd. is so OTM

The Doors

weezer

Public Image Ltd. is so OTM

― Creeztophair, Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:28 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You jaded noize doods totally missed out on the delectable popness of Happy? and 9

"Disappointed" is their best single IMO

if boards of canada ever release a 4th album it will probably follow this

^^ That would be incorrect, as their first album is quite possibly the best album of all time (for right now at least)

weezer

Sadly, the green album was not more of Pinkerton, otherwise I might have paid attention to Maladroit.

A Tribe Called Quest
Dinosaur Jr.

Suede is a bad example, as their third album was the best ever. (And not really "more of the same" either as "Coming Up" was more pop oriented and had better and catchier tunes)

Slowdive??

A Tribe Called Quest
Dinosaur Jr.

NICE ONES, poifect.

Let me throw in the Comsat Angels

Talib Kweli

PiL

Let me throw in the Comsat Angels
and the Sound
not that I was actually alive at the time, but y'know, looking back and all

was going to say clinic, but beaten to the punch. i'd endorse PiL, too.

Beat Happening

I may have imagined this, but i seem to remember some rumblings from the Super Furry Animals that their next album would be an entirely instrumental affair. Do think the songwriting hasn't been as strong on the last couple, although Gruff has spread himself a bit thin what with solo albums, Neon Neon etc.

no way on BH!! jamboree is classic for sure, but the three after are at least as good as each other, you turn me on possibly the best...

Not fitting with this scheme really, but since hollindagain, each animal collective album has been ever so slightly not as good.

dinosaur jr is perfect

"Pygmalion is "more of the same" after Souvlaki? WTF?"

seriously, pygmalion was quite the departure

Howard Jones

(Except the first was better than the second)

Beastie Boys
Devo
The Tea Party
Soft Boys

Re Pygmalion. I think my brain just stopped reading by "really more of the same"

Joanna Newsom

Boomtown Rats
Squeeze
Sleater-Kinney

Tad otm

X

Sleater-Kinney
Dig Me Out is just ok?

love/hate!

Girls Aloud is maybe the perfect answer.

Also: Neko Case!

(Um wait ignore that - I was sort of forgetting that The Virginian exists)

would say Prodigy but need to swap pretty good and awesome around really

Suzanne Vega.

basement jaxx would also fit this schema if you swapped "awesome" and "just ok"

daft punk

(in as much as i'm not paying attention now)

Belle & Sebastian

daft punk

but need to swap pretty good and awesome around really

i am not really caring now tho yeah. unless the tron legacy soundtrack is gonna be as bizarro as wendy carlos which seems unlikely. call me when you make a bangin house track again.

jaxx for me is more like: awesome, awesome, awesome, just ok...

Psychedelic Furs, or at least I thought so at the time--I'm pretty sure I wouldn't think the second one were so awesome today (and have no intention of pulling it off the shelf to check...)

I few of these I'd agree with if they hadn't come back later with some of their strongest work eg. Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead

Supergrass, maybe?

Whenever an act delivers more of the same, I will continue paying attention.

I am more likely to lose interest if the style is being changed into some genre I like less.

Zen.

Almost all bands ever.

Whenever an act delivers more of the same, I will continue paying attention.

I am more likely to lose interest if the style is being changed into some genre I like less.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:17 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

it must be highly satisfying to have arrived, rather than constantly be travelling.

Supergrass, maybe?

That second album was fine, but they'd get even better on the third one, and then yet even better on the fourth one. The debut, on the other hand, remains their weakest album.

worse than Road to Rouen? really?

Ride
Juliana Hatfield

xpost: Road to Rouen's the one I found used, listened to once, and promptly gave up on the band. They're worth a second shot? What's their best?