Acts whose entire album output has always been on the decline, with no exception

not otm tho

Black Eyed Peas

Pink Floyd, arguably. (Actually I don't think this but I figure a case could be made).

Definitely.

Wu-Tang is the super obvious answer

Except that The W was better than Forever, and 8 Diagrams was better than Iron Flag.

lol gtfo

The Feelies is the only one I can think of that really works, though all four of their albums are pretty good. But Crazy Rhythms is an all-time classic and The Good Earth is great, the other two decent but kind of unremarkable, and I think Only Life is the better of those too. So there you go..

Devo nearly works (without the new album); but I do also think Freedom of Choice is better than Duty Now by a bit. Also Smooth Noodle Maps > Total Devo but that's like comparing cow turds and horse turds

Deee-lite works but who cares

Junior Boys certainly seem to be heading that way.

p.s. thinking it's Floyd is ridiculous. Do you really think that Ummagumma and Saucerful and Atom Heart Mother >> Dark Side, WYWH, Animals, and the Wall?

Guns n Roses is the obvious answer.

Time For a Witness >>>>>> The Good Earth

as I've recently learned

I went to look at Wiki to see the sequence of Floyd's albums, and it's blocked at work (sex, supposedly.) ???

people go to Wiki for sex? :P

o-oh, me bad. i see, people might go to Floyd albums for sex...

Except that The W was better than Forever, and 8 Diagrams was better than Iron Flag.

every part of this sentence is wrong

(Shakey Mo Collier: stirred, but not shaken:)

I'll make a case for Galaxie 500 here (especially working in Luna and D&N too)

Guns n Roses is the obvious answer.

the obvious answer to being twiddly dogshit from the outset perhaps, yeah

Michael Jackson

You think Ben, Music & Me, and Forever, Michael are all better than Off the Wall??

GnR might work, if Spaghetti Incident had come before the two Illusion CDs, but it didn't.

And if Chinese Democracy wasn't great.

Also, 8 Diagrams is better than Iron Flag, and I could even argue that it's better than Wu-Tang Forever.

Do you really think that Ummagumma and Saucerful and Atom Heart Mother >> Dark Side, WYWH, Animals, and the Wall?

Frankly, I do!

Interpol is the most obvious one for me.

gtfo with idea that 8 diagrams is better than of the four albums before. don't even want to hear that bullcrap.

Great argument, I'm convinved.

Convinced.

Personally I'd rate them: 36 Chambers = The W > Forever > 8 Diagrams > Iron Flag. Iron Flag has a nice start, 4 of the first 5 tracks (except for "Soul Power") are really good, but the it veers off to autopilot Wu mode with nothing particularly new or interesting.

iron flag is my favorite wu album except for the debut. it's their party record. 8 diagrams isn't worth a bowl of warm piss

really one of the most disappointing albums i've ever heard

Yeah Michael Jackson almost works if you disregard the solo albums he recorded from 1972-1974. They really are not that good and MJ himself didn't write anything (as he was like, 13).

still Michael Jackson albums tho innit

My highly subjective opinion vs. common wisdom, but for me, The Replacements. If you disregard "Stink" as an EP vs. LP, my far and away favorites are the debut and "Hootenanny" >>> the highly overrated "Let It Be" and everything that came after.

Yes to the Junior Boys!!

The Smithereens?

xp Yeah, I'm pretty sure I mentioned the Replacements somewhere upthread, too. Wouldn't have thought this in the '80s, but I really do think they peaked with their punk-rock debut, and got progressively worse from there.

>the replacements came dangerously close to fitting this model. and there's probably 1 or 2 days out of any given week when i could convincingly make the argument<

This morning I am actually thinking they might be one of the best examples of it.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:51 (5 years ago)

Slow enough morning for me to research it, glad some others agree!

The Replacements? Not in this reality! Let It Be, Tim, Pleased To Meet Me all way better than Hootenanny alone. At the very least, Tim is better than Let It Be.

hootenanny >>>>>>>>>>>> tim >> pleased to meet me.

hootenanny is funnier, looser, brattier, catchier, pretty much everythingier. on any given day, hootenanny, sorry ma..., or let it be could be my fave of theirs, and all of them blow away anything they recorded for sire, and on those 1 or 2 days per week noted above, i'd definitely support the replacements argument in this thread.

<<Pavement, though mostly by minor degrees.>>

this is true.

Yep, I love the slapdash Hootenanny WAY more than when they seemed to be straining harder to make a polished recording. I've tried for years with Tim, believe me.

Belle and Sebastian. Peaked with Tigermilk and then downhill all the way.

I could understand how someone might make the argument for the replacements EXCEPT for Hootenanny being better than Let It Be. I don't agree that they fit this thread, but I could understand something thinking it, except Let It Be just seems better in almost every way than Hootenanny.

Speaking of...what about R.E.M.?

10,000 Maniacs is a good example I think.

Lots of people here would agree re R.E.M.

Re: Belle & Seb - wouldn't agree w/ Tigermilk being their best, but could see the argument. No way Fold Yr Hands & Storytelling are better than DCW & TLP tho.

Ah right, forgot to show all before searching for R.E.M.

dEUS, probably.

dEUS

does not exist afaik

What?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU3JrXt_cPk

Aha, I see.

Worst Case Scenario > In a Bar, Under the Sea > The Ideal Crash > The other two

(ignoring My Sister = My Clock on the basis that it's not really an album)

10,000 Maniacs def does not fit, their debut was kind of ropey and their last was one of their best