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

Peaches.

Firewater applies well here -- i did a best-of mix once that took 6 songs from their 1st album, 5 songs from their 2nd album, and so on, down to 1 song from their 6th album (sequenced so it was a song each from every album, then a song each from the first five albums, etc.). it worked out pretty well, although i ended up preferring their 6th album to their 4th and 5th. i recommend trying out that structure for some of the other bands mentioned itt.

Until recently, Fountains Of Wayne.

clipse

The Vines

Franz Ferdinand

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.

― Tuomas, Friday, November 19, 2010 2:24 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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Personally, I think Franz Ferdinand have gotten better with every release. :)

Firewater was true until their last release, "The Golden Hour", which is absolutely fantastic.

I tempted to say Garbage, but while IMHO s/t > Version 2.0, Bleed Like Me is more solid than Beautifulgarbage, it's highs aren't as high and vice versa.

Brendan Benson is 5 albums and running now

Brendan Benson is 6 albums and running now

the strokes

good one. Interpol also. are either of them still putting out records?

yeah i think the strokes put one out rather recently. i liked the 4th better than third though

My Morning Jacket. tho i think the first and second are pretty even

Mogwai

captain beyond

pentagram

the-dream

Guns n roses?

Appetite > use your illusions > spaghetti > Chinese democracy

And definitely Interpol and Strokes

Heheh. Guns N Roses was my initial thought before clicking this thread which I never saw before.

xp: I prefer Antics to Turn on the Bright Lights.

Interpol is a good one. Can't agree with The Strokes as Room on Fire is my favourite and the latest album is way better than Angles.

I'm tempted to say The Field. The last three albums are fairly even but If I had to order them, think that's how I'd put them.

Mogwai

― paolo, Sunday, 19 January 2014 10:57 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah, mr beast was the nadir

and arguably rock action/happy songs the zenith

mr. beast had glasgow megasnake!

and toss-all else, sadly. every single album they've done has had at least one stormer

Mr Beast is the album that turned me off Mogwai. Agree that Rock Action/Happy Songs are their best.

well, the orchestral bonus track on the previous album is the actual zenith, but it's just a song, not an album

actually the last interpol record was better than the previous one but they were both not very good and utterly forgettable it seems like it doesn't even matter. they should have done the debut and split up.

Antics and Bright Lights are very close for me. The first 4 tracks on Lights are better than any individual moment on Antics, but Antics flows better overall. Slight edge to Lights (for me).

Our Love to Admire was half decent, half a chore to get through. The last one was almost unlistenable.

Brendan Benson is 6 albums and running now

― Algerian Horsebeater (some dude), Saturday, January 18, 2014 7:55 AM

wait wait wait wait ... are you saing One Mississippi > Lapalco?

love disagreeing with almost all of this thread

Psychic TV, probably.

pretty much agree about Suicide even though on some days i prefer the 2nd album.

agree about butthole surfers if we are taking "Psychic... Powerless..." to be the first album.

God, I adore pretty much everything TG and Coil did but I really struggle finding anything interesting about Psychic TV. I've tried, really I have.

Force The Hand Of Chance is so great. Dreams Less Sweet is great. A Pagan Day, Mouth Of The Night, Themes 2 and Album 10 are good. The rest not so much.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bloc Party

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

A pretty bad case, lol

I mean I love all those albums (Squeeze excepted) but in my mind the first remains the best, Loaded is the least good even if it's still very good, and the two in the middle are more or less the equal of each other...

Love you all but 2 terrible post revives. Wow.

YYY - I can't ever decide if the 2nd or 3rd album is the best.

VU???? I really really think this is a case of not actually possibly being able to rank the albums. It'd changed every day. I guess today I'd go best - 2, 1, 4, 3. Maybe?

best YYYs is pretty easily It's Blitz! yeah

luv u 2

amazed that YYYs is a controversial answer to this q

have not listened to their final album yet but something tells me these dudes count

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the-futureheads

Looks like I argued this on another thread, but not here: Replacements. This is a completely subjective and certainly minority opinion, but it is mine and I hold it.

I love all 4 (not 5) VU albums pretty much equally for differing reasons. I don't hear a drop in quality at all.

Anybody taking odds on whether or not The Arcade Fire will be on this list in a few years?

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, May 20, 2005 3:37 PM (thirteen years ago)

This turned out to be a good prediction.

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