Demon Days by Gorillaz
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Metallica (Black Album)
Claude Debussy - Claire de Lune
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Rush - 2112
Mr. Bungle - California
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Getz/Gilberto/Jobim - The Girl from Ipanema
Mozart’s Requiem (good place to peak!)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cynic - Focus
Death - Human
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Radiohead - Kid A
Deftones - White Pony
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
The Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Yeah Mozart really fell off after he died.
Kid A was genius, I’m curious on your thoughts of In Rainbows?
Meh. Didn’t suck but nothing will have the cohesiveness of that album.
Disagree a lot about Radiohead. They are probably one of the best bands with the best discographys ever. Almost every album are very, very good
I find this to be an accurate representation of Thom nowadays: https://youtu.be/mwR6Se-WzgY?si=psInrHdVvVOe9PzC
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bruhhhhhhhh
White Album? Abbey Road? I mean, even if you aren’t a big fan of Yellow Submarine or Magical Mystery Tour, how can you say freaking Abbey Road is a comedown from Sgt Pepper’s?
Actually, you might be right. I’ll take the Beatles out. They were good all along.
Peaked at Pablo Honey. Radiohead after that was meh. Take it or leave it.
Opinions. This person has em.
Do you like guitars? Yngwie, Vai, Johnson.
Yeah. But I’m just naming ones I can think of where the album was never eclipsed. It just so happens that that is the case for those guitar players…and it’s not like we’re going to hear Yngwie or Johnson somehow suddenly reinvent themselves this late in their careers.
For example, I’m a HUGE fan of Khruangbin and Julian Lage but….what will Julian Lage or Khruangbin give us in the future? We may never know if they have peaked until that time has passed.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Thank you for correcting the original poster on this one.
Once they went from metal to hard rock, it was over for me.
It’s bizarre to hear anyone mention anything other than Master of Puppets. As an old school death metal guitar player turned jazz geezer, Master of Puppets is, by a wide margin, unanimously considered the best metal album of all time by most metal musicians who know their shit.
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Gorillaz fell off? Since when?
Yeah wtf is OP smoking their last album was one of my favs of the year
Metallica (Black Album)
Is this a joke? This is where they’re newfound mediocrity was cemented. They peaked at Ride the Lightning, everything after that was more and more watered down garbage.Sorry, I meant I strongly disagree.
NIN - The Fragile
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
This is really the only band I have that hipster thought that they were better before they got big. This was the last album they made that I love every song on. Then they dropped Good News for People Who Like Bad News and their style was almost completely different, but also got many more people listening to the band.
Similarly I liked Kings of Leon before they changed the original vocalist. They had a rather unique sound when I discovered Aha Shake Heartbreak, but by Only By The Night, they had completely lost everything about their sound that I liked.
I’m in agreement that The Moon and Antarctica is the peak album, but I feel Good News is a great representation of the band transcending into something brand new rather than just fizzling. It’s Iike going out with a bang. Then after that it feels like fizzle haha.
I would probably have hated Good News if I had followed them before it came out, but it has a great representation of rebirth and becoming an unapologetically new person. I return to it usually when I go through loss.
They Might Be Giants - Flood
A Perfect Circle - 13th Step
Green Day - American Idiot. It’s not that I dislike what came after, but 21st Century Breakdown feels disjointed, the Trilogy has really low lows, and they stopped being ambitious after that and just put out two “pretty good” albums and one awful one.
Also even if you don’t like their '00s sound, I seriously don’t get why Dookie is more well-liked than Nimrod beyond “it had more hits and I heard it first.”
Endtroducing
Sadly, Guns n Roses, Appetite for Destruction.
Nothing any of them have done since has matched the quality of creativity that they did on aod.
I’m not saying I didn’t like the use your illusion pair, and Slash has done some damn good work on specific songs in his various projects. But the band as a whole fell off hard after their very first. Axl in particular kinda lost his songwriting during use your illusion, which had some great songs, but it wasn’t consistently great as albums
Green Day - Dookie
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac
System of a down - Toxicity
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
The Offspring - Smash
I love that game!
I’d have to disagree with QotSA, but I can definitely see why. I’m a huuuge fan of theirs, but for some reason every new QotSA album seems to take years for me to fully appreciate. I absolutely hated Era Vulgaris when it first came out. It’s by far my favorite album of theirs now. Even …like clockwork is barely starting to really grow on me, but I’m definitely coming around. I haven’t even bothered to listen to their newest one yet.
Songs for the Deaf is incredible, but how could you say they fell off when
Like ClockworkEra Vulgaris exists and is clearly their best album all the way through?100%
Era Vulgaris is by far my favorite album of theirs.
Stadium arcadium - red hot chilly peppers
RAM - Daft Punk
Evenessense - fallen
Lateralus - tool
Hard disagree on Tool, their sound has definitely evolved over the years but I think that Fear Inoculum is a damn masterpiece. I totally get it though if the more prog rock/experimental style isn’t your thing.
I’ve been unhealthy obsessed with tool since 2001. 10000 days was good and fear inoculum was just more of the same no innovation at all. Lateralus was and is their gran opus.
And the older I get the more and more I realize that Maynard can’t sing well.
Wait a second, no way you’re slandering Plastic Beach like that. PB is equal to DD, some days it hits better even.
Plastic Beach is better for the simple fact that it contains Sweepstakes. I’ve come to learn that a lot of people dislike that song a great deal, which blows my mind. Mos Def is aces and the production on that track is brilliant.
I’m more of an Empire Ants man myself, but I get what you’re saying. It’s such a fun album.
Plastic Beach is good, but I like Demon Days more. Gorillaz fallen since PB.
Demon days > anything else gorillaZ
Sure, but I wouldn’t call PB “falling off.” Still, Gorillaz still makes bangers these days, even if the albums themselves aren’t as good. Desolé slaps.
Wait you think the Gorillaz fell off after Demon Days???
Not dramatically but it was the best and none topped it.
Plastic Beach was straight fire IMO
Maybe my notion of falling off is different, I consider falling off “and then they were irrelevant” so to speak. I could just have the wrong idea
That’s arguable, and even then it could only ever be considered marginally better than Plastic Beach. Even if you don’t like the new stuff, PB is fire.
And Justice For All… By Metallica
Master of Puppets > …And Justice for All
