In the case of solo Sting, #2 > #1. Otherwise, OTM about Sting, but certainly not about The Police, who ended their career with their one and only masterpiece.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Their second album did include "Richard III" (which I'll readily admit I thought was pants when I first heard it, but which did eventually grow on me), "In It For The Money" and best of all "Sun Meets The Sky"; their third one at least had "Moving" and "Pumping On Your Stereo" in it's favour; and the fourth one contained absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever at all as far as I can recall.
The more I think about this the more convinced I am that this Supergrass the best example yet.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 21 May 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 21 May 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 21 May 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― late adopter, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), May 20th, 2005 8:25 PM.
There must be at least 15 NWW albums that invalidate that, but at the very least: Shipwreck Radio is one of the best releases in years.
I'll submit A Certain Ratio.
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 07:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
I was going to mention this as a possibility, though I see that Xhuxk got there first. I can't say with certainty though, since I haven't heard their later albums.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
This morning I am actually thinking they might be one of the best examples of it.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
And Prince might work if he started with his third album, as far as I'm concerned.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryansf (ryansf), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Echo & the Bunnymen?Sorry, I prefer Heaven Up Here over Crocodiles.
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― marc(drums) (marcdrums), Saturday, 3 September 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 September 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― PB, Saturday, 3 September 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 September 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, you sure wouldn't, Geir, but I've got no trouble ranking that higher than Momentary Lapse of Reason, say, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
Redd Kross seems wrong to me too, though admittedly I know songs more than albums. But I definitely think the stuff I know from Teen Babes and Neurotica slays what I know from Born Innocent.
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 3 September 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 3 September 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 3 September 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 3 September 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 3 September 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 28 May 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 28 May 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Sunday, 28 May 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, Mayhem, if you leave out demos and live albums: De Mysteriis > Wolfs Lair Abyss > Grand Declaration Of War > ChimeraKatatonia can be taken off the list, as they've just released a better album than Viva Emptiness (although it's still not in the league of the first three).
― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
(Watch dudes who have never heard Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik or ATLiens flip out.)
― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Come off it, no way was Gold Against the Soul better than the Holy Bible.
I dunno. I know conventional knowledge is that Holy Bible is the very best of them, but I find it almost unlistenable. I haven't listened to all of Gold Against The Soul (it may just be THAT bad), so I can't be sure, but I suspect that I at any rate would agree with the Manics.
Don't see what people are getting at with the Pets. Actually is significantly better than Please, Behaviour is significantly better than the terrible Introspective (some great singles, but really uninspired production. except for Left To My Own Devices), and Very is [arguably] better than Behaviour. (I personally am not crazy about either Behaviour or Very; but Actually is amazing.)
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
You mean, they were at their best when they were just a small, local cellar band in my own native Ski, Norway?
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Aquemini is great, but not as good as their first two.
― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Period period period (Period period period), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 28 May 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 29 May 2006 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― sotough, Monday, 29 May 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link