Entertainment For Lively Minds
One Season in the Sun
Posted by Stephen G on 25 August 2009 - 11:50am.
There are plenty of examples of performers who had an excellent debut then failed to live up to their original promise. A less common career trajectory would be some weak early releases, then one great album, followed by a return to mediocrity. I'm sure there is at least one example of this but I can't think of any at the moment. Any suggestions?
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Badly Drawn Boy
doesn't seem to be doing quite so well these days...
Pulp?
They struggled for years, then made it big with Different Class, after which their career nosedived over the next two albums.
Disagree
His 'N' Hers was a decent album prior to Different Class and This is Hardcore is just as good as Different Class.
We Love Life and Jarvis Cocker's solo records have been very disappointing though.
Well, I was going on…
…the success curve than a qualitative assessment really - I thought Pulp were great (even what i heard of We Love Life. Which wasn't much, admittedly)
I'd be quite happy if...
...Gomez had never made a second album.
Kent
Landfill Swedish indie albums followed by utter genius on Isola (Spotify is your friend), their first English language recording, then swiftly back to shite.
Massive Attack?
Blue Lines brilliant - patchy post.
Live With Me - was powerful and disturbing though
David Gray - A new day at midnight
Way better than anything else he's done. Written as the result of his father dying from cancer unfortunately, if I remember correctly.
Prefered White Ladder
a good album, that suffered from over familiarity in the end
What about Duran Duran?
Some cobblers in the beginning, then late-80s/early 90s some very decent songs, then cobblers again.
The Church
A bit of an obscure choice, unless you're living in Australia maybe (which I'm not).
Patchy early albums despite some fine singles. Then made two beautifully majestic LPs in succession (Heyday in 1985, Starfish in 1988) and they've been on a downward slide ever since. Well worth exploring on Spotify, especially if you've ever enjoyed The House Of Love, The Only Ones and Felt among other fluid guitar luminaries.
New Order
made 'Movement',which was Joy Division by numbers, in all but name. They then found their feet with 'Power,Corruption and Lies', 'Low Life' and 'Brotherhood' before dramatically tailing off.
Umm.........
Yet Technique was their best album...
2 Provocative Choices ??
How about The Floyd with DSOTM and Broooce with Born to Run. Two of my all time favourites, but I feel strongly that that all earlier and following albums by both come nowhere close as complete pieces of work.
I completely disagree with regards Pink Floyd...
Wish You Were Here has always been my favourite record of theirs.
The Corrs
Not my cup of tea, but they were everywhere for a while. And now?