Better 2nd album?

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  • iamrockmusic
    iamrockmusic Orlando, FL Posts: 443
    black crowes, for sure... southern harmony and musical companion is brilliantly written, produced and performed...
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Radiohead- The Bends
    Nirvana- Nevermind
    The Tragically Hip- Up to Here
    Wilco- Being There
    Pearl Jam- Vs.
    Led Zeppelin- II
    The Black Crowes- Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
    The Weakerthans- Left & Leaving
    Sloan- Twice Removed
    Sam Roberts- Chemical City
    Foo Fighters- The Color and the Shape

    ...just to name a few.
    "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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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    smash mouth.


    really.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • bladworth116
    bladworth116 Posts: 344
    Blind Melon-Soup
    Josh Joplin-Useful Music
    The Verve Pipe-Villains
    Catherine Wheel-Chrome
    I'll make an argument that R.E.M.'s Reckoning can at times rival Murmur even though Chronic Town was the first release (EP)
  • bigmuzz
    bigmuzz Posts: 299
    hmm, im tryin to think of ones that havent been posted yet...

    Oasis - Whats the Story Morning Glory........their 2nd and greatest album!

    You Am I - Hi Fi Way....although Sound as Ever was a great 1st album, Hi Fi Way is still one of their best!

    Cake - Fashion Nugget.....still one of my fave albums from the 90's.

    The Offspring - Ignition was a great album, back in their pre-pop days......

    Black Sabbath - Paranoid....tho my fave Sabbath album is still Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Paranoid beats their debut album for the first side alone, containing War Pigs, Paranoid, Planet Caravan, and Iron Man.....throw in Electric Funeral and Fairies Wear Boots and you've got a fucken AWESOME album!

    Radiohead - The Bends.....still remains my fave radiohead album

    ah, thats about all i can think of right now........great thread!!!!!
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  • superdeluxe
    superdeluxe Posts: 119
    chitty wrote:
    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

    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream.

    Although I think their 3rd is better than their 2nd.
  • UKDave
    UKDave Posts: 5,557
    I'll go with:

    Pearl Jam - Vs
    Radiohead - the bends
    Kings of Leon - Aha Shake
    Killers - Sam's Town
    Faith No More - Real Thing (not sure if this was 2nd album though...)
    Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
    Queen - Queen II
    Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

    edit: don't agree with the Arcade Fire, Black Crowes comments... Funeral & Shake Your Moneymaker!!!!
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  • Ricsard
    Ricsard Posts: 1,943
    I do agree:

    Vs.
    Siamese Dream
    The Bends
    Purple (STP)
    Throwing Copper
    Dirt

    etc

    +


    THE VERVE - A Northern Soul
    DEFTONES - Around The Fur
    MUSE - Origin Of Symmetry
    KEANE - Under The Iron Sea
    STEREOPHONICS - Performance & Coctails
    R.E.M. - Reckoning
    PLACEBO - Without You I'm Nothing
    SUPERGRASS - In It For The Money
    TRAVIS - The Man Who
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  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
  • chitty
    chitty Posts: 610
    Totally forgot about STP myself. Has to be my favourite. Purple is unbelievable.

    I thought the Killers second album was pretty much crap. Expecting way more after their first.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Van Morrison - Astral Weeks. It's so good, most people think it was his solo debut. (His actual debut was his first post-Them album, for Bang! records, Blowin' Your Mind!)
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix

    Although I don't think it's better that Experienced it's an equal. :)
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    cutback wrote:
    Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix

    Although I don't think it's better that Experienced it's an equal. :)
    You can only equal albums as good as those 2.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    You can only equal albums as good as those 2.

    True dat.

    There are very few artists that can equal their first three albums. Besides our own PJ of course. :)


    (sorry didn't mean to hijack...continue on...)
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Reggatta De Blanc - The Police
  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    Personally, I think that first albums of most bands aren't that good. Usually you can tell if that band is good or not by their second album, at least that's how I tell. So I'd technically say every band that I listen to...
    If I could, think I would give in.

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