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Worst second album
Posted by jimmyshoes01 on 5 February 2011 - 12:22am.
My favourite album since the early nineties has been Television's Marquee Moon. Exile On Main Street has gone neck and neck a couple of times but Marqee Moon always comes away rubbing it's gold medal.
Adventure, their follow up, is terrible.
As a stand alone album it may be OK but I can't get past the comparison with MM and so it just seems cheesy, lacking and lazy.
I can't think of a more disappointing second album (I don't mind the Second Coming by the way)
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ABC - Beauty Stab.
When Martin fry rhymed "mustn't grumble" with "apple crumble" on the lead single the alarm bells rang. The album that followed, ie Beauty stab, was a stinker. I'd loved Lexicon Of Love. Still do. ebd of ABC for me.
Ooh gosh..
I'd have to think of belting debuts. OK. Here's a few.
The Fratellis
The Feeling
Sugar
Jellyfish
The Delays
Diesel Park West
Orson
Gomez
More later. Probably.
Each to their own
but I thought the second Jellyfish album was up to the standard of the first.
Spilt Milk
One of the great lost albums of the 90's. Bellybutton's a belter agreed, but the 2nd Jellyfish album is vastly superior.
It's got this on it... one
It's got this on it... one of my favorite songs of all time...
With you re Jellyfish
I think we might be in a minority here Lenny, but I think Spilt Milk is a hugely disappointing follow-up to that superb debut.
We'll form a cabal on that, Mr Bif.
Harsh
On the Delays I would say. It was the 2nd album that got me into them.
I thought the 2nd Feeling album was alright as well. And I don't recall the Gomez album as being an absolute clunker.
The Clash
Give Em Enough Rope, 3rd album pretty good though.
A patchy album, admittedly ...
... but there are fewer better opening tracks than Safe European Home, in my experience.
That album has...
... English Civil War, Tommy Gun, Safe European Home, Stay Free and Drug Stabbing Time on it. I'm not sure I can call it crap no matter what anyone says.
The Jam - This is The Modern World
Following the visceral '77 punk blast of In The City, TITM was a deeply patchy affair that nearly got 'em dropped from Polydor. But All Mod Cons was to follow
The Spin Doctors
Remember them? The Two Princes hitmakers.
Second album that didn't contain that hit was called Turn It Upside Down.
As a callow mug punter, I bought this risible effort. Possibly the worst album ever.
It had cleopatras cat on it.
Which was a minor hit and pretty good but pocket full of kryptonite was a fantastic debut album. Very much uncool and maligned but i'd say one of the most underrated albums ever. In fact, i'm gonna put it on now!
No, no, no, no....
...this thread surely doesn't need to go anywhere as soon as the words Stone Roses are typed!
aren't you forgetting
Terence Trent D'Arby: Neither Fish Nor Flesh
Hmm
I really like it and think it vastly superior to the first one - I realise that this opinion will see me shunned like a leper.
*shuns Pat like a leper*
Dammit you're right!
I'm Listening
to it now with the fella who walks in front of me in the street ringing the bell and we both agree that it's very good.
The second
Tin Machine album was quite disapointing...
The Rutles
Archeology. I think by this time their originality had disappeared.
Deacon Blue...
Raintown was a marvellous debut album and still holds up today, but When The World... was a big let down for me.
But on the other hand...
It did have Real Gone Kid, a storming song, especially as it was apparently about Maria McKee. Choon!
bang on about raintown
Stunning intro. Born in a storm leading into the title track, the piano sounding like rain. Then came the 2nd album which, apart from RGK was awful.
I actually only realised last year, when I discovered the delights of Hejira, that Fergus Sings the Blues was a rather droll Joni pun. Unspeakably shit song though...
I always think
there's a clue somewhere on the cover:
Nooooo...
... great record - carries on from where 3FHAR left off.
I concur Formbyman
but for different reasons. It turned 3FHAR on its head and was sarcastic and self referential. A band maturing with some phat beats and rhymes in tow. A milestone in hip hop.
They blamed the studio monitors
but that second Rose Tattoo album never did it for me.