#21

I really like it. Nurse/Murray street just marked the point where I started getting bored of them I think.

#22

+NYC…is just a bit rubbish

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#23

Yeah, you’re not wrong there!

#26

Eels after Blinking Lights.

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#27

Black Sabbath - Sabotage.

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#28

Haven’t they always been AOR?

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#29

Flaming lips - yoshimi

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#30

Oh wait embryonic was deece.

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#31

Megadeth - Youthanasia.

#33

I’ll say the same thing here that I did in that ‘fall from grace’ thread a few weeks back.
Sigur Rós - Takk (and I used to absolutely love that band)
Mogwai - Mr Beast (but really Happy Songs tbh)

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#34

Yeah, I reckon you’ve nailed it.

#35

In case you completely wrote them off and haven’t heard it yet, they came roaring back with Kveikur. Definitely a best album of 2013 candidate.

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#36

yeah, I had that album too - even saw them in Iceland for Airwaves where they played Brennisteinn for the first time, but as excited as I was for that album, it really didn’t do much for me, sadly.

#37

Not quite sure if these are veteran bands in quite the same sense, but they’ve basically been going forever:

Jimmy Eat World - Futures was one of those strange albums that was pretty great (aside from one or two absolutely dreadful missteps) and simultaneously indicated everything going forward wouldn’t measure up at all.

Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning was another one like that, though more of a mixed bag. It suddenly started feeling like a schtick.

Everclear - Songs from an American Movie has some moments but from what I’ve heard and gathered, everything after has no reason to exist.

Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines was a great album but then the record label took over for Gravity and that was that. “Somewhere Out There” and its even worse music video signaled the end of a secretly very good band.

#38

Oh, forgot a painfully obvious one: Green Day after American Idiot.

#39

No one in their right mind wants to hear any Depeche Mode post-Songs Of Faith And Devotion. I mean cue all the hardcore saying “Playing The Angel has some decent stuff on it” or “The new one is a return to form”, all balls that i’m afraid.

Home is obviously a classic but aside from that and a song here or there (Suffer Well is a banger) they fell of a cliff after SOFAD, arguably before.

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#40

Bonne Prince Billy and The Letting Go. There are a few good tracks on Lie Down in the Light and Beware but The Letting Go was the last strong album, everything since has felt lacking in effort.

#41

Just Tonight is the best song on Futures :heart:

#42

I find songs of faith and devotion incredibly dull apart from I Feel You. For me they definitely peaked with Violator.

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#43

Late 90s ‘indie’:

Ash - Meltdown
Radiohead - King of Limbs
Spiritualized - Amazing Grace oooh fuck, actually I dunno, songs in A&E was pretty great
SFA - Love Kraft
Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration