Bands that never hit the crapper

Tim Simmons
Tim Simmons Posts: 10,264
edited November 2013 in Other Music
Caveats:

Must have 3+ albums (live albums don't count)
Albums need to be consistently good to great. Not some mediocre debut and then they hit a stride with a sophomore release
Can still be recording or broken up/retired (though if they are still making music, you run the risk of them hitting said crapper)
Take into account critical, commercial, and peer opinions, not just personal
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,264
    The Smiths
    Nirvana
    LCD Soundsystem
  • EarlWelsh
    EarlWelsh Buffalo, NY Posts: 1,127
    Tim Simmons wrote:
    The Smiths
    Nirvana
    LCD Soundsystem

    Nice little list there. I can't think of many right now.

    Mogwai
    Yo La Tengo
  • JTH
    JTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    Tim Simmons wrote:
    Nirvana
    Man, I love everything else they did, but I find almost every song on Bleach to be nearly unlistenable.

    There are others but I'll go with Arcade Fire (although who knows? I've only heard the one new song so far so I might think differently tomorrow.)
  • bluesuedeitzrad
    bluesuedeitzrad Posts: 434
    This is tough, because so many bands had that one bad album. REM is amazing, but Around the Sun was a tough listen. Even greats like the Ramones, The Who and Neil Young had their low points.

    The first one that comes to mind:
    The Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Three studio albums that were amazing.

    Others that fit:
    Cream
    Beck (not a band but all of his albums are great)
    Foo Fighters
    The Beatles (too obvious?)
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    edited October 2013
    Zeppelin
    Floyd
    Beatles
    Black Crowes
    Hendrix
    White Stripes
    TOOL
    Wilco
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  • bluesuedeitzrad
    bluesuedeitzrad Posts: 434
    I think the easy way out is to think of bands that were only together for 5-10 years.
  • SJHalp
    SJHalp Posts: 37
    edited October 2013
    Wilco
    Alice in Chains
    Post edited by SJHalp on
  • JTH
    JTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    bluesuedeitzrad wrote:
    I think the easy way out is to think of bands that were only together for 5-10 years.
    OK, I'll change my answer then.

    Clutch.
  • SJHalp
    SJHalp Posts: 37
    Candlebox
    Collective Soul
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Silverchair
    Bush
    Days of the New
    Sponge
    Seven Mary Three
  • foodboy
    foodboy Posts: 988
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,022
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    Arcade Fire
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    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • JTH
    JTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    JTH wrote:
    bluesuedeitzrad wrote:
    I think the easy way out is to think of bands that were only together for 5-10 years.
    OK, I'll change my answer then.

    Clutch.
    Wait. No. Arcade Fire's been a band since 2001 (holy shit am I old) so I'm sticking with them.
  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
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  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,984
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,264
    SJHalp wrote:
    Candlebox
    Collective Soul
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Silverchair
    Bush
    Days of the New
    Sponge
    Seven Mary Three

    I feel like most of these bands are the definition of diminishing returns/crapper. I don't know what most of them are doing or have done in the past 15 years.
  • JTH
    JTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    Tim Simmons wrote:
    SJHalp wrote:
    Candlebox
    Collective Soul
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Silverchair
    Bush
    Days of the New
    Sponge
    Seven Mary Three

    I feel like most of these bands are the definition of diminishing returns/crapper. I don't know what most of them are doing or have done in the past 15 years.
    I've never been a fan but a friend of mine saw Candlebox not too long ago and he said they were great.

    Of course, as a child, he lived under power lines and ate paint chips with great regularity.
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,264
    It's just funny to me that a band like Candlebox has supposedly never hit the crapper, but bands like REM, or the Rolling Stones have.
  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Tim Simmons wrote:
    It's just funny to me that a band like Candlebox has supposedly never hit the crapper, but bands like REM, or the Rolling Stones have.

    Well, when you're around for 50 years they can't all be winners...

    1994_-_Dirty_Work.jpg

    I didn't keep up with Candlebox after the 90's so I can't really judge. I don't like much R.E.M. after New Adventures In Hi Fi (which might be my favorite album of theirs), after that they never seemed the same to me. Not shitty, just not interesting to me.

    Has anybody mentioned Zeppelin? I know In Through The Out Door was very different and not well liked by all, but I still like it and consider all their studio albums great in their own way.
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,084
    JTH wrote:
    Tim Simmons wrote:
    Nirvana
    Man, I love everything else they did, but I find almost every song on Bleach to be nearly unlistenable.

    :o
    "School" is by far my favourite Nirvana song. The lyrics are genius albeit brief.
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
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