Follow up Bands that go close to or exceed their original Bands, etc

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A very obvious one for starters:

Close to, though for me not exceeding Joy Division

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Probably a bit of a stretch as Mustaine was in the proto lineup, but Megadeth are 10x better than Metallica.

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Future of the left.

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The Walkmen and Jonathan Fire*Eater.

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Silver Mt Zion at their best

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Fugazi

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Black Country, New Road

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Underworld

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Wings - the band The Beatles could have been.

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Empty Country are at least equal but possibly exceeding Cymbals Eat Guitars (not in popularity admittedly).

The Tubs and Ex- Void are both better than Joanna Gruesome (not a knock on them though).

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Fightstar

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The Mars Volta > ATDI

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Beady Eye

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Hot Snakes

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I had thought cloud nothings were originally a side project but Google is not backing me up on this fully.

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Crowded House. (A handful of songs aside, I always found Split Enz quite irritating.)

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Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized

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Slint and The For Carnation

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Doves and sub sub

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