In how many years Bands record their masterpiece ???
 

so let's begin:

year of first full-length album, artist, masterpiece, year of this one, nb of years:

in order of my favorites bands, masterpiece is personnal choice and is not to be discussed here

1983, SONIC YOUTH, Daydream Nation, 1988, 5 years

1986, LES THUGS, As happy as possible, 1993, 7 years

1963, BEATLES, Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band, 1967, 4 years

1969, LED ZEPPELIN, III, 1970, 1 years

1983, MADONNA, Like a prayer, 1989, 6 years

1964, ROLLING STONES, it's only rock and roll, 1974, 10 years

1979, The CURE, Disintegration, 1989, 10 years

1996, NADA SURF, Lucky, 2008, 12 years

1984, SOUNDGARDEN, superunknown, 1994, 10 years

1989, OFFSPRING, Rise and Fall, rage and grace, 2008, 19 years

1977, ALAIN BASHUNG, Fantaisie Militaire, 1998, 21 years

1981, DURAN DURAN, Astronaut, 2004, 23 years

special mention for those whose first CD was their masterpeice: CAST, LINKIN PARK, Georges-Alain Jones

what would you add ?

1992 Faith No More- AngelDust: don't know how long it took them to make it.

1997 Radiohead- Ok Computer

Is this commercial triumph or artistic triumph?

The Offspring's masterpiece is the newest one? I beg to differ.

sonic youth formed in 1981
the beatles formed in 1960
half of the bands you listed never recorded a masterpiece anyway.

if they have any in your opinion

Maybe I'm alone here, but in my opinion the only people that consider DAYDREAM to be SY's "masterpiece" is Critics. I think it's a good album, with a lot of great songs. But there's a lot of other SY albums I reach for before DAYDREAM myself.

wait, you just said that linkin park recorded a masterpiece?

The Offspring started off as a pretty decent punk band, energetic if nothing else. They managed to get worse each time they released an album.


Haha, I missed that the first time through. I guess over the years I have trained my brain not to process the name Linkin Park as actual words. I just see rainbows and ponies in its place now, and my life is better for it.

Exactly.

The Offspring got SOOO Bad around the turn of the century that it actually made their old decent punk stuff sound bad too.

^it is a genuine masterpiece, though. Yes.

you did delete it! yeah.

I have a plan! Delete your one referring to mine, then I'll do mine again after deleting the other one, then I'll delete this post so you can post one beneath the one I'm about to post and it'll be like nothing ever happened. Genius! It'll be like Watergate.

It seems too obvious to mention in polite company, but The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966) which makes it 4 years for them.

Miles Davis (1950???) - Kind Of Blue (1958)

I like all their albums apart from the newest one.

The Offspring are such talentless hacks now its unbelievable. They might hold the title of 'worst string of singles since 2000 by any band'. And all their new songs are just 'woo-oh-ohh-ohh' pennywise shitpunk.

I would just add: what the fuck?
Seriously man, Georges-Alain Jones? You got to be kidding...

Well maybe it's because I grew up on Conspiracy of One and I haven't really listened to Splinter since I was 11 but I liked those albums, even the singles.

That last album was shockingly bad though but again... I'm not 11 anymore.

...


HAHAHAHAHA!

I dunno, with most bands (that aren't noise bands, who released 300 hundred albums a year and whatever one has the best distribution is called their "masterpiece), it's usually one of the band's first three albums that's considered their "masterpiece".

1963, BEATLES, Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band, 1967, 4 years

1981, DURAN DURAN, Astronaut, 2004, 23 years

just a point..beatles formed in 1960 and sgt pepper isnt their masterpiece....

duran duran formed in 1979 and that pile of shit certainly isnt their masterpiece, that came in 1982 with rio....

also i dont recall the offspring ever making a masterpiece but anyway.....

I think I was kinda fucked up when I wrote this... sorry.

It's kind of true to be honest dude.

Agreed

Oh, no, I don't take back what I said. I just usually attempt to type better than that.

Badmotorfinger is better.

This thread... man...

this thread = worst.

Yeah, this thread is worthless.

Every post that everyone makes is worthless.

...sums this thread up.

Negative repped.

Nah, there are plenty of posts of worth. You have to wade through lots of worthless topics but some of the actual posts have turned me onto Kurt Vile and Skull Defekts.

Well, I guess that was only one post and it was 2 days ago.

Actually there has been a couple. And they all got me into Trout Mask Replica!!

Thank-you to everyone who got me into TMR you guys are GODS!!! :D

but seriously
Georges Alain Jones
what the fuck



what the fuck

It's not possible to put a timing on things like this. Find yourself another hobby, sonny.

and Les Baxter.

You're welcome. It's an amazing record. Not even close to being Beefheart's best though.