Bands whose 1st album was brilliant.....who now are crap

[BHseagull]

Kasabian

You're having a laugh right? West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is a fantastic album. There are also some great songs on Velocoraptor and Empire.

Snow Patrol could qualify... Final Straw is a very strong album yet all else is average to poor.

 

[Bean]

Muse definately not. Bar their most recent one they have all been fantastic.

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

Maybe would have agreed with Bluetones a while back. But having seen them recently at the Concorde 2 and having since listened to their more recent stuffs, Luxembourg and New Athens sound fine to me.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Eels (harsh on 2nd album)

harsh on a number of albums

 

[Pevenseagull]

Interpol. Amazing first album, then average second and piss poor third...

you're good, but a touch harsh

 

[Pevenseagull]

A band's first album is sometimes like a 'best of' of their last three years of songwriting. The much shorter time to write and put together the second album can sometimes have a very negative impact on its quality.

FACT (not 'THIS') such a shame though, Bowie was indulged for 5 or 6 years and then became Bowie - what chance do we have of an El Whooreo Cracky Party-Con ft. Sylv Plastico Canute Wobbleathon long player to match his nascent quality?

 

[Pevenseagull]

personally I'm championing the works of "Spazzdammer Wizzel and the Shabizzle All Starr Fliperty Jibberrty Dick Wadathon Army of Jews" -



challenging ART

 

[Albion Edd]

Kings of Leon
Ordinary Boys
Maximo Park

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Menswear.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Franz Ferdinand.
The Coral.

As much as I'd love to eat custard out of Kate Jackson's arse, The Long Blondes. First album a corker, second a crimescene.

 

[Mellotron]

Bloc party
Razorlight
Muse (after absolution)
Killers (after sams town)

 

[Mellotron]

Interpol. Amazing first album, then average second and piss poor third...

4th is definitely better than third, check it out if you haven't. Agreed that ToTBL is by a MASSIVE way their best, and for one of the very best albums of the last 10 years or so.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Bloc party
Razorlight

Bloc Party's an interesting one. First album is amazing. From there they evolved to make music not that popular and I found it hard to like. However, I don't think they went crap necessarily.

Razorlight, TOP shout. Surprised it took that long to think of them!

 

[Pevenseagull]

Glasvegas 1st album had a certain charm but bloody hell did that not last

 

[The aloof gatekeeper]

U2 never topped 'Boy'. 'Twas their finest hour.

 

[NMH]

Keane

 

[Hotchilidog]

Can't believe The Stereophonics haven't made it on to the list. Fabulous first album, self indulgent whiney dirges thereafter. FWIW I think Second Coming by the Stone Roses is a cruelly underrated album, it seems to be punished for sounding nothing like it's sumptuous forebear rather than on it's own merit's.

Also have to disagree with PMB re Metallica, as much as I love Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and the Black Album were all superior and on Death Magnetic they finally had a return to form.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Thought of this on the bus listening to Signing off so my two are...

UB40 (Singing off)

Coldplay (Parachutes)

How can you mis-spell your own choice, anyway you're also wrong in that the follow up was also great, Present Arms, THEN they sold out to old covers etc etc

 

[Wilka]

Manic Street Preachers.

definitely REM. Most definitely REM.

The Holy Bible? Everything Must Go? The manics clearly don't fall into this category.

 

[El Presidente]

The Enemy