dj shadow for sure
yeah, unless you count the albums with Cut Chemist, like xhuck is doing for Johansen
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 17 April 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
How about Portishead?
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 17 April 2008 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
They weren't that good to start with but I guess the Mission UK would fit the bill
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 17 April 2008 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I think mentioning artists who have released only two albums is kinda pointless, because it's like 50-50 chance they're second album is either better or worse than the first.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 17 April 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Like Kula Shaker, who fell out of this category last year as that album was better than "Pigs, Peasants and Astronauts".
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 17 April 2008 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The Walkmen
― peter james, Thursday, 17 April 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Ratt?
I retract this now. (New album is really good.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Hongro
― Oh boy, rap! That's where I'm a mic king! (m bison), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Allan Sherman -- at least judging from the four albums I heard that were reissued this year: My Son the Folksinger (11-'62) >>>> My Son the Celebrity (1-'63) >> My Son The Nut (8-'63) >>>>>>> For Swingin' Livers Only (11-'64). (But I've never heard his two albums that charted between those last two, namely Allan In Wonderland and Peter And The Commissar. Still seems his creativity was on a clear downhill slide since the start, though. But I basically still like the first three albums, at least enough to keep them.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 12 September 2010 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
two posts to get to a major Clash challops.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Sunday, 12 September 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
RushLuther VandrossGoldieKanye WestPram
― henry s, Sunday, 12 September 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
but 'moving frontier' is much better than 'museum of imaginary animals' and really are you saying that 'gash' is pram's high point then?
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 12 September 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
buzzcocks
― Lil Wayans Bros (S-), Sunday, 12 September 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
EPMD fucking mumble over Zapp. I like thier first few singles, but lost interest quick.
sbed pappawheelie for this
― dayo reckoning (The Reverend), Sunday, 12 September 2010 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
b-52s?
cosmic thing tears it up, imo
― hobbes, Sunday, 12 September 2010 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Funplex is the best post-Ricky Wilson album too.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Sunday, 12 September 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Nona Hendryx, as far as I can tell. (Haven't heard much beyond her first four albums, though; maybe she got her groove back later? Kinda doubt it.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ashlee simpson
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Tindersticks
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Rush
This is so so so wrong. I can understand, even if I don't fully agree, that some might say they've been on a gentle downward slope through the 80s and 90s - but to suggest that somehow the ST debut and Caress of Steel are better than 2112 or Permanent Waves or Hemispheres is just plain silly.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Gang of Four
― -stefan, Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:35 PM
Wow, no one refuted this? Absolutely WRONG as "Shrinkwrapped" was INFINITELY better than "Mall". I am cautiously optimistic about the forthcoming "Content" as well.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
metric
― jumpskins, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The Avalanches
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
xhuckx i'm suprised you picked ratt upthread!
or do you like that first thing with the ratts climbing up the sexy ladies stocking better? (isn't that before out of the cellar)?
― a strapping 40-year-old caorni rapper at a party (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that EP was before Out of the Cellar.
Metric is actually a pretty good call.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Art of Noise is probably a good answer. (Though IMO their second album is overrated, even if the initial ZTT releases were somewhat better.)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 18 November 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
By always on decline, doesn't that mean each album is less good than the previous one? In that case, about 95% of these are dead wrong. Though I think cases can be made for Jimi Hendrix.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
If there wasn't so much good stuff cranked out during the Mellon Collie era, I'd say the Smashing Pumpkins would totally fit this.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
If it hadn't been that "Honey's Dead" was better than "Automatic", the J&MC would have a slightly declining line, pretty much.
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
xhuckx i'm suprised you picked ratt upthread!...or do you like that first thing with the ratts climbing up the sexy ladies stocking better? (isn't that before out of the cellar)?
Well, I actually disowned my Ratt vote later on in the thread, when their new album (which I liked more than anything they'd done in decades) came out this year. As for that first indie EP with "Walking The Dog" (on Time Coast Records I think? whatever that was), let's just say I really really wish I still owned it, and I'd absolutely trade Out Of The Cellar for a copy anyday, seeing how I've got "Round And Round" on 45. But that doesn't necessarily technically make it better, I guess. (Or maybe EPs don't count? I'd have to check the rules.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish Martin Popoff was here so he could nominate Def Leppard
Actually, these days I'm increasingly considering nominating them myself. (Though I guess their covers album a couple years ago was better than some things they did in the '90s, so maybe not.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Wu-Tang is the super obvious answer
― Good news, everyone! (kelpolaris), Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
not otm tho
― dark side of the goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Black Eyed Peas
― Evan R, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Pink Floyd, arguably. (Actually I don't think this but I figure a case could be made).
Definitely.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Except that The W was better than Forever, and 8 Diagrams was better than Iron Flag.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol gtfo
― dark side of the goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Guns n Roses is the obvious answer.
― Randy Moss' dog's personal chef (Bill Magill), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Time For a Witness >>>>>> The Good Earth
as I've recently learned
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I went to look at Wiki to see the sequence of Floyd's albums, and it's blocked at work (sex, supposedly.) ???
― Blastfemur (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
people go to Wiki for sex? :P
― t**t, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
o-oh, me bad. i see, people might go to Floyd albums for sex...
― t**t, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
every part of this sentence is wrong
― you can sub out "bipartisan solutions" for "some of my dick" (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
(Shakey Mo Collier: stirred, but not shaken:)
― t**t, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll make a case for Galaxie 500 here (especially working in Luna and D&N too)
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the obvious answer to being twiddly dogshit from the outset perhaps, yeah
― jumpskins, Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Michael Jackson
― you can sub out "bipartisan solutions" for "some of my dick" (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link