Bands that were dynamite but now stink.
 

For example I consider earlier Greenday stuff, stuff from when I was growing up like Insomniac are cool albums, but now suck big time.

Many bands are like this, I just heard a recent Greenday song on the radio today and thought how shit it was, hence the mention of them.

Sometimes it's unbarable to listen to a band if they stink so bad later in their careers.

Never could stand Green Day. Even when they were all the rage back in the mid-90's. But that's just me.

The Flaming Lips used to do some cool shit and now blow. Tool.

I wonder whose going to be "punk" enough to say Sonic Youth first. :rolleyes:

smashing pumpkins

I believe Norma J's last sentence well describes my opinion of the Smashing Pumpkins.

Hit the nail on the head with the Pumpkins.

Same thing with the Mars Volta. I barely listen to thenm now because of how ungood Amputechture is (it's like.. the worst album ever made... but it's pretty shit, especially coming off of two fantastic albums and before then, one of the best bands of all time (ATDI).

Honestly, this thread is going to be a bit too easy to fill. I'd be much more itnterested in a thread of bands that are still great. A bit more to think about to fill that one.

Yet you gave no 'answers'.

Kracker, I enjoy Amputechure more so than Frances the Mute. But then to be honest, I haven't given either of them the time of day they really deserve - especially the latter. I dug Deloused alot though at the time, have the double silver vinyl of it too. And for honary mention, Omars recent solo album is fantastic - check it out if you haven't already. I picked it up for $20 on vinyl and sure am glad I did.

Metallica.

Stiff Little Fingers
Dinosaur Jr
Mudhoney

Chili Peppers

the mars travolta have always been shit. tremulant had half a good song on it.

uh... i guess for this thread i gotta vote for whirlwind heat.. they were never dynamite, but do rabbits wonder? is a great record!.. .and everything after that has been GOD FUCKING AWFUL.

I agree with The Mars Volta, De-loused was great but the overly noisy-for-novelty Frances the Mute and the overly progy-for-novelty Amputechture left me ill. Seriously, who the fuck would seriously name an album Amputechture?

That's not "indie" but I don't care: U2
Beth Orton
The Stooges (in the studio at least)
Laura Veirs (Saltbreakers is a huge letdown compared to her previous works)
The Cure (after Wish)
Placebo (not really sure about this one LOL, maybe they always sucked)
Leonard Cohen (the muzak production of his latest works)
REM
Obvious ones: The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison since the mid-70s

I've been replacing "beating a dead horse" with "Rolling Stones touring" for a couple years now.

The Foo Fighters (yes now they suck, but their first album was fantastic)
Hole (i liked everything up until Celebrity Skin, and everything Court's done since has been shit)
Smashing Pumpkins

Every time you bring up the Mars Volta you remind of that show... damn. "I want his fucking head!". :D

Pixies! They were great before they reunited - pretty obvious though.

modest mouse the new shit with marr sucks

What he said.

Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightening and And Justice For All are all killer records. The first record is ok and the rest is mostly shit.

hm, I actually dig it.

"Parting of the Sensory," "Education," and "We've Got Everything" where highlights in my book

Fortunately there'll be no post-reunion album.

all I can think of right now is

Sinéad O'Connor. First album is quite awesome, so was the second, but after that she got lost
Soundgarden after Badmotherfinger
Crosby Stills Nash (including their solo work). Everything they made in the seventies is solid gold, but after that?

and I agree with REM. Green was their last good album.
I don't agree with Dinosaur Jr.

I third REM

Liz Phair. Imean, what the fuck happened?

[quote=pbradley]hm, I actually dig it.

"Parting of the Sensory," "Education," and "We've Got Everything" where highlights in my book[quote]

those songs are good but they suck compared to the stuff on This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. Do your self a favor and buy that album, but make sure you get the orginal vinyl version.

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change and you're there

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True. I asked questions instead. Some people are like that.

Answer for your thread: AC/DC (the ultimate example)

Answer for thread to be: Mission of Burma

Modest Mouse are pretty terrible now.

Sonic Youth has been thoroughly disappointing me for the last 2 records. Disagree with me on this, but you're completely wrong in doing so.

Post-Mutations Beck doesn't get me going anymore, apart from a few select tunes. It makes me sad because he was a hero of mine at one point.

exactly.

although i do get some nostalgia for the Black Album every now and then. "Sad But True" is pretty awesome.

Of course it'd be wrong to disagree that they have been thoroughly disappointing you. You would be the only person who could be sure about that.

You'll find a lot more people who'll share your feelings of disappointment over Rather Ripped than over Nurse though. For me Rather Ripped is one of a handful of records that I find good rather than great, but Nurse is easily up there with Washing Machine and the early classics. Everybody is different though.

The thing that pisses me off the most about Metallica is their fans. I think the Black album is class, even though I don't really listen to it these days. I borrowed the Black Classic Albums dvd the other month and it's fun to watch - I've always enjoyed their documentaries.

I think Kill 'Em All is significantly better than Master of Puppets, and And Justice For All is the "ok" one of your list. But yeah, once they consciously started trying to sell records and have mass appeal they went to shit, which is too bad because they had already made it on their own terms.

Misfits
Dead Kennedys

Absolutely agree here.

Here first album is a family favourite here. But it's been a rapid decline from there.

Ditto.

when did dead kennedys stink?

they haven't even made any new music since getting a new singer, so i assume you meant that their later record material stank, even though frankenchrist is their best album?...

weird..

Bizarre post of the day...!

i don't see how someone could not think it was their best album.....

Have you not heard Plastic Surgery Disasters?

Frankenchrist was the sound of a band in decline. Not a single track on it comes close to their previous stuff.

Although it's not as bad as Bedtime for Democracy, which was dire.

So thinking about it, DKs fit perfectly into this thread.

Incidentally, if it wasn't for them being taken to court over Frankenchrist, it probably would've sunk without trace at the time.

of course, i'm very familiar with all of dk's work.

plastic surgery has good songs, but many of the songs blend together. the production is terrible on it. fresh fruit is great, but many of the songs blend in together a bit (stealing people's mail, i kill children, and funland at the beach -- great songs mind you -- sound a bit too similiar and all follow each other!). give me conveniance is just a b-side/rarity thing, and ith as some of their best and worst songs.. bedtime for democracy.. heh..

frankenchrist, though, isn't even punk.. it's.. i dunno.. crazy surf rock with some punk thrown in.. the guitar on it is amazing, their songwriting is the best, etc. i love frankenchrist.

the only thing i might love more is live at the deaf club, which has 6025 on second guitar for the whole thing. great.

<3 dk.

I was thinking the same thing. DPG, Snoop Dogg, and Green Day are where it was at.