Artists for whom you have a firm "cut-off" album

Another that I must check out!

 

Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Rainbow - Down to Earth
Rush - Signals
Steely Dan - Gaucho

 

Def Leppard "Pyromania". I was a young kid getting into hard rock. On Through The Night worked well. High 'n Dry hit the sweet spot. Pyromania blew up huge and I liked it.
I started getting into heavier music and anything they released after Pyromania made my stomach turn.

 

McCartney - Venus & Mars
Pink Floyd - Animals
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Allman Brothers - The one after "Brothers & Sisters".
Neil Young - Comes A Time
The Who - The Who By Bumbers

 

REM - Green
Bruce - Tunnel of Love
Nick Cave - Henry's Dream
Dylan - Modern Times

 

I've softened on this type of thing but there were times in my youth when I was quite adamant...
High School Stoner Selectiveness:
Yes - Tormato
Rush - Hemispheres
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Aerosmith - Rocks
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
10CC - Bloody Tourists
Pink Floyd - Animals

Angry Young Man Self-Righteousness:
The Police - Regatta de Blanc
The Cars - Panorama
Devo - Duty Now for the Future
The Residents - Tunes of Two Cities
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Pere Ubu - Tenement Year
Boomtown Rats - V Deep
Elvis Costello - Punch the Clock
B-52's - Wild Planet
The Clash - London Calling

 

So the live album just doesn't do it for you, eh?

 

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

 

I used to sing that to my daughter when she was in the tub: "Shiny Happy Baby."

 

"Honey, why does the baby keep splashing you with soapy water when you try to give her a bath? She never does that with me!" -Mrs. Ska57.

 

...Time out of Mind, Love & Theft, Triplicate...

 

ZZ Top - Deguello

 

why is it perplexing? not to me at all. I only like Syd era Floyd, everything after bores me to tears, ( I quite liked Meddle when I was 16 and very loaded), The Police became full of their own ego after the first two LPs, Bowie stopped writing great songs after Lets Dance. All quite logical to me.

 

Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the only Floyd album I love, the rest is cold, "sounds a bit old".... I think I'm more of a Syd fan than Floyd fan per se for that reason!

 

These may be subject to change but here's a few cut off pints that I haven't gone past for a good few years:

Depeche Mode - Violator

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (this includes Steven Wilson's solo career which has not grabbed me in the say way Porcupine Tree did )

Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra

King Crimson - Discipline

Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn (I like scattered moments in their catalogue after this, but never been particularly excited by another full album like this one)

David Bowie - Scary Monsters

 

Hurt Me is fantastic, and not too time consuming, like 17 songs in 30 minutes .

 

The Kinks /Lola...
Billy Joel/Innocent Man
Chicago XIII
Black Crowes/Threes Snakes...
James Gang/Thirds
GnR/Illusion II
Van Halen I
Rod Stewart/Night on the Town
Deep Purple/Burn
Marvin Gaye/What's Going On
Kansas/Audio Visions
Van Morrison/Veedon Fleece

That's about all for now.

 

I was always pretty firm about Linda Ronstadt's cut-offs on the cover of Silk Purse.

 

Very good....

 

KISS just before their self-titled album "KISS" came out.

 

Zep 4....very little beyond that point warrants much attention....sloggy and dull. Kashmir? Repetitive, and bluhhhh.....bores me to death...cant listen to it...

 

Led Zeppelin Presence
Rolling Stones Some Girls
Rush A Farewell to Kings
Pink Floyd - Animals
Yes - Tormato
Genesis - And then there were three
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Bowie - Scary Monsters Till last 2
Tull - Heavy Horses
The Who - Who Are You
Joni Mitchell - Wild Things Run Fast
Heart - Dog and butterfly
Queen day at the races / night at the opera whicher is latest
King Crimson Thrak
U2 Achtung Baby

 

I try not to do this, but if I'm completely honest Metallica is dead to me after Justice.

 

10cc - Deceptive Bends
Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Suede - Coming Up
Who - Quadrophenia
Paul McCartney - Venus & Mars

 

Paul Simon - Hearts & Bones