Bands that never hit the crapper

Lifted

There's so many. Some favorites....

Neko Case
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Sonic Youth
Grateful Dead
Wilco
of Montreal
Bright Eyes
The Who
Velvet Underground
The Smiths
The Cure
My Morning Jacket
The Roots
The National
Arcade Fire
Nirvana
Talking Heads
Radiohead

Driftin'Along

Pearl Jam
Tool
Wilco
The Band
Widespread Panic
My Morning Jacket
Rage Against the Machine
If the 80's never happened then the Grateful Dead could be added.
In response to some of the previous posts: The Rolling Stones have most certainly hit the crapper.

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nickburrows14 wrote:

JTH wrote:

Spartanacus wrote:

AC/DC: It all sounds the same, but it's all good!

:? :wtf: OK, I realize this is all opinion, but you can't possibly think that even the very best stuff they've put out in the last 30 years can hold a candle to the Bon Scott era.

Seriously, put a playlist together with the best 9 or 10 songs they've done since 1983 and then listen to Powerage (generally considered - but not by me - to be their worst 70s album) and tell me what sounds better.

That being said, their live shows are still a blast.

Black Ice was a huge improvement for AC/DC but since For Those About To Rock their output has been patchy at best

Black Ice was indeed a a huge improvement over many releases since razor sedge maybe. I saw them in Portland Maine and what a mad house crazy show. They do STILL put on one hell of a fun show.

Peace

pookasnake

Elliott Smith
Pixies
Iron and Wine
Joy Division

ekwipt

dharma69 wrote:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Six albums (no, The Effects of 333 doesn't count) and not a shitty record in the bunch.

Good call. BRMC are solid on record and live year after year.
I'll add Ty Segall, and King Khan and the Shrines to the list too.

Treyert14

Well, what about the bands that did hit the crapper?

foodboy

U2 , pearl jam, neil young, pink floyd, depeche mode, radiohead,

Treyert14

I'm pretty sure depeche mode hit the crapper?

brianlux

nickburrows14 said:

bluesuedeitzrad" said:

[quote="nickburrows14"]Some bands sure dipped towards the end or lately but not hit the crapper. Can't think of many though.

PJ
SOUNDGARDEN
REM
NIRVANA
SPRINGSTEEN
U2 (been a bit up and down and I really don't like No Line On The Horizon)
REPLACEMENTS

As for Neil Young........discuss

Neil Young never hit the crapper. Le Noise was a masterpiece. His low points were done on purpose. He did say, afterall, 'see what i tricked them into releasing?' That's art.[/quote]

That's what I think. I think Neil likes challenging the listener and basically does what he wants. I know some people who haven't even bought his latest stuff out of losing interest. Definitely missing out Psychedelic Pill is a great album.

That's kind of funny to think about because on the American Masters video (that PBS started to show on TV, cut off before the end, never released and never explained why and thank God I taped it) NY says something to the effect of "I'll go and do something that I think is great and then I'll go on to something new and look at the old thing and think 'well that was a bunch of crap' and move on to something else." So here he sees himself as gone into the crapper at times. But then later, in his book Waging Heavy Peace he talks about seeing some of his cut-out albums collecting dust in some bin in a record store and how incredibly sad that makes him. He's looking at these records and thinking "That's my work!". Ultimately, I see no way anyone remotely into Neil Young can say he ever went into the crapper. He may have walked down some lonely streets and turned down a few ragged alleys, but never went down the crapper.

Yarden

The Doors
The Breeders
Fiona Apple
Kate Bush
The Smiths
Pixies