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

I'd also nominate Wild Beasts. I know I'm on my own thinking Limbo Panto is their best. I do think Two Dancers is almost as strong and I have a lot of time for Smother too. They seemed to get slightly more boring with each album though. I can barely remember anything about Present Tense and Boy King was a total misfire.

There's a case for Velvet Underground, if we're just talking about the 4 (or 5 if you include Squeeze) albums released during the band's existence

Six out of 109 voters agreed in this poll:

Ranking the Velvet Underground studio albums

This is a completely subjective and certainly minority opinion, but it is mine and I hold it.

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YYY's 3rd album is the best

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madness.

fever to tell vs it's blitz is at least an argument (i prefer it's blitz), but show your bones?

Yeah, It's Blitz. is the best Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, so they do not count. Bloc Party don't count either, as Four is quite possibly their second or third best album. The Futureheads don't count either, as their worst album is their second one.

I like a bunch of Show Your Bones. the real drop off isn't until Mosquito imo

already mentioned upthread but the two bands that are hard-red matches for this are the Pretenders and Interpol.

tryin to think of the most challop thing I could post in here and the best answer I could come up with is Autechre

Moby Grape?

tryin to think of the most challop thing I could post in here

I like a bunch of Show Your Bones. the real drop off isn't until Mosquito imo

― Οὖτις, Monday, December 3, 2018 6:16 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup. I actually listened to Mosquito a few months back after not listening to it since it came out and yeah, that was a real disappointing record.

Buhloone Mindstate is my favorite De La album.

Buhloone Mindstate is my favorite De La album.

Moby Grape is tough but fair, IMO

LCD

de la soul

Are You In? is possibly better than The Grind Date, which is definitely better than Bionix

good chall though

Ultravox, if you only count the Midge Ure-era albums starting with Vienna.

LCD I could see if you consider the debut album to just be the bonus disc

Ultravox, if you only count the Midge Ure-era albums starting with Vienna.

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, December 3, 2018 7:23 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I definitely agree with this.

Gang of Four.

...except "Shrinkwrapped" is way better than "Hard" and "Mall".

Oasis

Oasis is a bad example, because Don't Believe the Truth and Dig Out Your Soul are stronger/better records than Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and Heathen Chemistry.

Not to mention the equally obvious that What's the Story Morning Glory is far better than Definitely Maybe.

mmmmmnnnnnnn...

Ride is a good example imo

The Field, Vitalic, and Disclosure come to mind.

maybe Sun Kil Moon depending on how well you like the first 3 or 4 releases. IMO they're all very close neck and neck and then some cracks start around Among the Leaves and then it's been a steep decline since.

Moby Grape is tough but fair, IMO

whoa The Field is sadly otm, his a rather gradual decline, his albums are still good but they are slightly less good each time, 11 years after Here We Go Sublime

Nothing they did was as good as the debut, but Moby Grape ‘69 is better than Wow.

Yes, it's why I added the question mark, I think you could be right.

Yeah, Ride is a pretty good one.
I agree with the VU too although I could see why one would disagree.
Also, Guns n Roses surely (I suppose they've been mentioned already) .

Metric. they went from apathetic, melancholy electro-pop w/ witty lyrics - to stadium rock, to dollar store yeah yeah yeahs... emily haines' solo stuff means the world to me, though.

i wish those first two self-released albums didn't exist so i could say mitski

What exactly does everyone dislike about Moby Grape's Wow? Moby Grape '69 was more straightforward and conventional, but also not very memorable IMO. Wow could have benefited from fewer sound effects and gimmicks, but the underlying songs are mostly solid.

Disclosure's stuff from this year has been way better than anything from the second album BTW.

I like "Wow", better than the debut even.

I don’t dislike Wow at all, but too much of it feels/sounds like not particularly clever goofy filler, like the song that can only be played at 78rpm, or “Funky Tunk.” And yes, I think “The Baby Song” on Flip Your Wig is fun and hilarious, but the difference is that the non-goofy songs on Wow are nowhere near solid enough to justify the goofiness.

Moby Grape ‘69, on the other hand, is all killer/no filler (goofy or otherwise), and has “Seeing,” which is probably the best thing they ever did.

(xp) Yes, but you are literally the only person who has ever existed who thinks that.

Underworld, mk. 2 mostly works.

^ Nah, it doesn't.

Their last album was easily their best since Beaucoup Fish

Hence the 'mostly'. I can't say I liked it better than Beaucoup Fish, but Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future was definitely a step up from Barking. Still, I wrote them off a long time ago, alas.

Yes but Barking was better than the one before it

Eh, it's been a while, but I don't recall that being the case. I'll have to give them both another shot.

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Yes but Barking was better than the one before it

― groovypanda, Thursday, December 6, 2018 4:46 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually untrue imo

None of this matters seeing as there's no way in hell that Second Toughest is better than Beaucoup Fish.