bands where you really do prefer their middle stuff

Music
1

The National.

17 Likes
2

Jimmy Eat World

9 Likes
3

Yo La Tengo - albums 6 to 9

2 Likes
4

Just beat me to it.

5

Guided By Voices would have been an ideal pick here before they released 20 decent reunion albums

2 Likes
6

Cave In

4 Likes
7

Pink Floyd - started to hit their stride with Meddle, peaked with DSOTM through Animals, then dropped off a bit with The Wall. Don’t have much interest in the records that came after that.

11 Likes
8

Kate Bush

4 Likes
9

Prince: albums 5-10 as near perfect as you could possibly expect

Talking Heads: albums 3-5 of 8 as near perfect as you could possibly expect

9 Likes
10

Green Day

4 Likes
11

Primal Scream

Siouxsie & The Banshees. All about the McGeoch era for me.

3 Likes
12

Trail of Dead

1 Like
13

lil wayne

2 Likes
14

Opeth

2 Likes
15

The Hidden Cameras

16

Alligator is my favourite of the four National albums I’ve heard (Alligator, Boxer, High Violet and Trouble Will Find Me). Are we counting that as early stuff or middle stuff?

1 Like
17

I’d say early, but I don’t mind really

18

Brian Jonestown Massacre hit their stride with Satanic Majesty’s Second Request and were pretty great up until Don’t Get Lost, but have been pretty dull since then.

19

Radiohead

2 Likes
20

This was my first thought, although only works if you take Kid A and In Rainbows and ignore the two in-between that were pretty boring.