Better 2nd album?

chitty
chitty Posts: 610
edited April 2007 in Other Music
Ok, after reading a Spin article on Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs attempting to create a 2nd album as good as their first, I had a question. What band has created a 2nd album that exceeded their first?
When answering, only give one answer.
My answer:
The Tea Pary: Edges of Twilight

It is obscure b/c I can't think of many great 2nd albums
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  • CM1847
    CM1847 Posts: 577
    The list isn't very long for bands who's first album I actually enjoyed but still made a better second album...

    I will go with Arcade Fire, I think "Neon Bible" is a better album than "Funeral"
  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    incubus
    arcade fire
    pearl jam

    as far as Kaiser chiefs i concerned, I must say I prefer the 2nd than the 1st...
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  • chimpat
    chimpat Posts: 590
    Pearl Jam
    Arcade Fire
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Hole
    Stone Temple Pilots
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  • Dick Jones
    Dick Jones Posts: 777
    Fuckin Neon Bible is one of the most hyped cd's in a long time.



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  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Pearl Jam
    STP
    Soundgarden
    Alice In Chains
    RHCP
    Cypress Hill
    Eleven
    Metallica
    Incubus
    Korn
    Gomez
    Rancid
    Foo Fighters
    QOTSA
    Black Sabbath
    Stone Roses
    Supergrass
    Idlewild
    Pantera
    Audioslave
    The Pixies
    Marilyn Manson

    I'm still undecided on The Arcade Fire, I'm loving both albums equally at the moment.:)
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  • The Vacant
    The Vacant Posts: 271
    Black Crowes
    Black Sabbath
    Neil Young
    Alice In Chains
    Bob Dylan
    Clutch
    Local H
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    The Vacant wrote:

    Local H
    Good one forget about Local H.

    Smashing Pumpkins.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Nirvana
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  • Brainofdz
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    Modest Mouse
    The Pixies
    The Dismemberment Plan
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Beck - odelay
    pearl jam - Vs
    radiohead - the bends
    smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
    the beatles - hard day's night (that was second right?)
    bob dylan - I believe his second was 'the times they are a changing' ahead of that mostly covers album he did.. or maybe it was the freewheeling... dunno.. either way..
    alice in chains - dirt
    kings of leon - aha shake heartbeat
    nirvana - nevermind
    blind melon - soup
    neil young - harvest (that was second right?... I get my 60s chronology confused sometimes)
    pixies - surfer rosa
    modest mouse - lonesome crowded west (def. on those last two brainofdz)

    that's just what comes to mind.
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  • Binaural
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    TOOL - Aenima kills Undertow (which is amazing though)
    Pearl Jam - Vs just fuckin rocks
    Nine Inch Nails
    Metallica

    Can;t think of any mor at the minute
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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    led zeppelin
    metallica
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  • faithful227
    faithful227 Posts: 352
    Weezer. Pinkerton is the shit.
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    Good thread :)
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  • pearlzepfan
    pearlzepfan Posts: 456
    The Band "The Band"


    The greatest second album ever recorded
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    My favourite second album that blows away the band's first is Stone Temple Pilots' Purple. That's a fantastic album that really brings the band away from the Pearl Jam ripoff tag they earned with Core. Meatplow, Vasoline, Interstate Love Song, Pretty Penny, Big Empty and Silvergun Superman kick ass. In fact, I'm gonna listen to it now.
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    pearlzepfan wrote:
    The Band "The Band"


    The greatest second album ever recorded


    Couldn't agree more!
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  • The Vacant
    The Vacant Posts: 271
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    bob dylan - I believe his second was 'the times they are a changing' ahead of that mostly covers album he did.. or maybe it was the freewheeling... dunno.. either way..

    Freewheeling Bob Dylan came after the s/t album of covers. The Times They Are A-Changin' is album #3.
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    neil young - harvest (that was second right?... I get my 60s chronology confused sometimes)

    Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was Neil's second album, and first with Crazy Horse backing him. Harvest was album #4. After The Goldrush was between the two. His first album was self titled.
  • Twatay
    Twatay Posts: 64
    isis - oceanic
    lagwagon - trashed
    mastodon - leviathan
    thursday - full collapse
  • pearlzepfan
    pearlzepfan Posts: 456
    can't forget Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"

    and

    The Stooges "Fun House"

    both better than the debuts
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"

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