Which band has fallen the most in the last fifteen years?

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  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    Brez wrote:
    I think the perfect answer for this is Weezer, with Metallica being a close second.

    Yeah I just repeated what the OP said... dammit.


    Weezer's still around kind of.
    Their Pinkerton is often labelled as the start of Emo. So I wouldn't say they fell apart over the last 15 years. They had their niche and still sort of do.

    Metallica certainly would be tops there. The Black Album sold like 20 million and then St. Anger was a piece of crap along with that terrible movie. The movie sort of showed how out of touch they are as a band though.

    I would definitely put REM in there. They haven't put out a good album in years!
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  • Thecure
    Thecure Posts: 814
    what about the backstreet boys. they were very popular (but sucked) and now they can't sell out malls.

    but i have to say that there are alot of band that hav efallen.

    1) REM - Some great records but since Bill left nothing
    2) Offspring - enought said
    3) Green Day - what are you doing trying to think of another album to release that will suck
    4) Wezzer - i am sad to say since Pinkerton is one of my favorites records
    5) RHCP - never liked them any way
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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    Definitely Offspring. Great up to Ixnay on the Hombre... and then Americana came out :( Conspiracy of One had a few good tunes but other than that the last 3 albums have been hugely disappointing.
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  • pearljam0000
    pearljam0000 Posts: 450
    smithnic wrote:
    Weezer's still around kind of.
    Their Pinkerton is often labelled as the start of Emo. So I wouldn't say they fell apart over the last 15 years. They had their niche and still sort of do.

    I hear you but I am expecting big things from their next album. I mean it almost has to be better then Make Believe. I really like the one single form their new album, it's called Pork and Beans I believe, it sounded like vintage Weezer IMO.
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    All of you R.E.M. bashers really need to give 'em another chance and check out their new album. I'm listening to it as I type this, and it's kicking my ass.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

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  • Blind Melon
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    Ozzy Osbourne
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  • Omega47
    Omega47 Posts: 43
    LongRd. wrote:
    didnt realize "Live" is still around.
    Yeah, they're kinda there, kinda not.
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  • Omega47
    Omega47 Posts: 43
    direwolf74 wrote:
    All of you R.E.M. bashers really need to give 'em another chance and check out their new album. I'm listening to it as I type this, and it's kicking my ass.
    Their new album's amazing. I'm Gonna DJ at the end of the world.
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  • BamaPJFan
    BamaPJFan Posts: 410
    LongRd. wrote:
    That's Bullshit!i!

    No Code and Yield were better than Vs.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    but I agree, Avocado was awful ;)

    Vs. is my favorite album and to me Avacado is very similar to Vs.
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  • Omega47
    Omega47 Posts: 43
    direwolf74 wrote:
    You didn't like Automatic for the People? I still think that record is the best thing they ever recorded. After that, here's how I view their later albums:

    Monster: decent, but not great.
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi: better than Monster.
    Up: never liked it.
    Reveal: bored me to tears.
    Around the Sun: see Reveal.
    Accelerate: amazing album and a glorious return to form. By far their best album since Automatic for the People.

    But that's just me.
    Monster: "Strange Currencies" is AMAZING. Umm, let me think what else. Not really anything. Oh, "Bang and Blame" sounds like Losing my Religion too much. Album art hurts my eyes.

    New Adventures in Hi-Fi: Have yet to hear it.

    Up: Something different, I really like it. But it's an acquired taste. LOVE the album art.

    Reveal: It's got its jems, one of the only times I can say the best songs were the singles. Imitation of Life, All the Way to Reno, and Chorus and the Ring are pretty much the only ones I can listen to without my finger twitching.

    Around the Sun: Really good, from what I've heard from it.

    Accelerate: A great return to their old sound! It's definitely a lovely album and a good thing, they were losing fans like crazy. Album art is the most amazing album art from an R.E.M. album as well. I love it.

    Yeah, I analyze the album art too. Tells a lot about the album. Guess I've adapted to R.E.M.'s genre-crossing ways.
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  • Omega47
    Omega47 Posts: 43
    Get_Right wrote:
    AFP is a good record, but it makes me want to jump off a bridge after listening to it. Too depressing for me. Your ratings support my feelings- very medicore all the way around. I havent heard the new one yet, but Im not eager to do so.
    As someone who had reckoning on IRS vinyl and first saw them in 1983, it was over once I heard stand and happy shiny people. Tough getting me back.

    Great name by the way fennario.
    Listening to R.E.M.'s new album is like a breath of fresh air. I'm glad they came out with something new tracing them back to their roots. I like Shiny Happy People. You just have to understand it's one of those "for the hell of it" songs. Just gotta go and dance to it sometimes, don't take it seriously. It's a commercial single and it's made a lot of money. But it's also something fun. Enjoy it. Don't take it in. Enjoy its simplicity.
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  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,672
    Definately Counting Crows....started Great with August and Everything After, Recovering the Satellites was good..This Desert Life okay..then they went to Coke Ads and Shrek songs..even Eddie said they sold out..so much potential wasted with these guys...

    Everclear also is on my list
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  • BamaPJFan
    BamaPJFan Posts: 410
    PJammer4life wrote:
    Definately Counting Crows....started Great with August and Everything After, Recovering the Satellites was good..This Desert Life okay..then they went to Coke Ads and Shrek songs..even Eddie said they sold out..so much potential wasted with these guys...

    Everclear also is on my list

    I don't have the Crows on my list. I think that their commercialism has been limited at best. From my standpoint, their music is still high quality. Then again, I might be biased when it comes to the Crows because the first place their very first album was sold was at an indy record shop in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Ice Cube
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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    Peppers, metallica and green day.

    South of Seattle, plenty of rappers have gone down hill. I blame it on Ice T.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Collin wrote:
    Peppers, metallica and green day.

    South of Seattle, plenty of rappers have gone down hill. I blame it on Ice T.

    Yeah, but Ice Cube wrote the lyrics for one of the greatest albums of all time: Straight Outta Compton.

    You can't blame Ice-T, Blame Soulja Boy! :D
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    The riot act album is one of the worst albums I've ever heard.

    That being said, I think the s/t album (or "8" - I refuse to call it "Avocado" because that title is just stupid) is very good and I still listen to it. Ed sounds awake and there's a passion to it, and the tunes sound great live.
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    BamaPJFan wrote:
    Vs. is my favorite album and to me Avacado is very similar to Vs.

    Yeah, and riot act sounded like Master of Puppets.
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  • tonadax
    tonadax Posts: 594
    Korn
    Metallica
    The offspring
    PJ for many people since vitalogy, for me since riot act
  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    Riot Act is the only PJ album i dont like.

    A lot of people are saying RHCP but to be honest, i only ever liked them for a short period ages ago and grew very tired of them, havent ever been a big fan although i must say what ive heard of thew newest album is horrendous.
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.

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