Bands/acts which went downhill after their FIRST album

[Cian]

Fatboy Slim. Quite horrifically

Better Living Through Chemistry: Astounding
You've Come A Long Way Baby: OK, overly commercial though
Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars: Crap
Palookaville: Please, remove my ears next time is being played in my presence.

 

[33057 Seagull]

Sex Pistols - without a doubt

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

arctic monkeys will be one. once everyone stops creaming themselves over this one

 

[Wozza]

Forgot Asian Dub Foundation.

Rapidly downhill after Rafi's Revenge - their first major release.

 

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

Agree with The Stone Roses, GNR & Travis.

I personally like it, but Portishead's self titled follow up to Dummy has been mentioned as not being on par.

 

[coach03]

Driveshaft.................

 

[Pevenseagull]

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

1st- Brilliant
2nd - Good
3rd - OK

no 4th

 

[RM-Taylor]

50 cent

get rich or die tryin' was a great debut album, but the massacre (his 2nd album) was a load of bollocks, not seen his film yet so I don't know what he would be like as an actor

 

[NMH]

The La's
My Vitriol
Stone Roses were basically hamstrung by their record company after that debut, but still, they had 5 years to write a follow-up.

 

[Grendel]

The La's

Only released one album.

 

[Race]

john denver

buddy holly

sonny from sonny and cher

 

[bhafc99]

Liz Phair.

The only artist to have shot herself in the foot, stabbed herself in the back and hung herself, simultaneously. From one of the most challenging and different female artists ever, to sub-Avril Lavigne teen pap, in five albums:

Exile In Guyville - Astonishingly good, a classic. Justifiably in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Whipsmart - pretty good
Whitchocolatespaceegg - average
Liz Phair - unbelieveably jaw-droppingly shite
Somebody's Miracle - incredibly, even worse

"In recent interviews, Phair has been upfront about her hopes of mainstream chart success, and claims full awareness that 4th album 'Liz Phair' is likely to alienate many of her original fans. What she doesn't seem to realize is that a collection of utterly generic rocked-out pop songs isn't likely to win her many new ones. It's sad that an artist as groundbreaking as Phair would be reduced to cheap publicity stunts and hyper-commercialized teen-pop."

"Now this is a terrible Liz Phair record. Somebody's Miracle is mostly generic pap that any number of next-big-has-beens could have cranked out, a useless piece of plastic poking a pointy heel in the eye of the rotting carcass of the great artist Liz once was."

 

[GUNTER]

Oasis, never bettered first album Definetely Maybe

 

[Grendel]

Oasis, never bettered first album Definetely Maybe

True, but why do they need to? If I could make a fortune by regurgitating the same songs every couple of years, I would, and I'd say bollocks to anyone who doesn't like it.

 

[Strike]

Fatboy Slim. Quite horrifically

Better Living Through Chemistry: Astounding
You've Come A Long Way Baby: OK, overly commercial though
Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars: Crap
Palookaville: Please, remove my ears next time is being played in my presence.

seconded is it OK to add Prodigy,

 

[Grendel]

You've Come A Long Way Baby: OK, overly commercial though

"Overly commercial" is a phrase used by precious twats who can't bear to see their own secret little band/artist achieve a modicum of success. Generally used to refer to music that more than 2 people might like to listen to.