Bands You Stopped Following

I gave up on them after Monster. And that tour was lousy, too.

 

thats on the same album as "not falling"

 

Yeah. That's one of the few songs from that album I actually enjoyed.

 

thats a good album. after that they went downhill

 

I shook off all the nu-metal once I turned 18.

 

aren't the bands first 2 albums concept albums?

 

L.D. 50 is but I'm not sure about the sophomore album.

 

i think the 2nd is

 

You're a 90's kid too?

 

nope born in 82

 

I lost interest in following Elvis Costello, I think the last thing I bought from him was "Brutal Youth".

I'm sure that there must be some highlights in his career since then?

 

I've been burned by so many with their newest releases - Paul Simon, Elton John, Neil Young...but still haven't given up hope. Guster is a modern band that had a great album (Keep it Together) and since then it's been the story of diminishing returns.

 

I pretty much stopped following Black Sabbath after Dehumanizer.

 

Flaming Lips- At War With The Mystics
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Iron Maiden- Seventh Son
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
Phish- Billy Breathes
Rush- Counterparts
Janes Addiction- Ritual de lo habitual
Pelican- City of Echoes
Pavement- Wowee Zowee
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
Pearl Jam- VS
Megadeth- Rust in Peace
Anthrax- Persistence of Time
Ozzy Osbourne- The Ultimate Sin
My Morning Jacket- Z
Jeff Beck- Wired
Santana- Caravanserai
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Slayer- Seasons in the Abyss
Wild Nothing- Nocturne
Pink Floyd- The Wall

 

radiohead. when hail to the thief came out...2002..i didnt get it except for the first song "there there".
it was not the same after ok computer but still cool with kida and amnesiac

coldplay....when viva la vida came out...that album i didnt get.
but honestly..after parachutes it just wasnt the same for me.

 

Eric Clapton
Neil Young
Rolling Stones
U2

 

I've heard Strange Times, having borrowed it from my brother some years back. As I recall I thought it was more like the '80s material than the original 7. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance ...

 

its more like classic 7 mixed with modern elements like drum loops, etc but its not pop music

 

Beat me to it. The next few albums cemented that for me.

 

I've followed many bands over the last 35 years and these are the ones who IMO have stopped putting out records I like :

Discharge : stopped following them after their historical singer, Kelvin Morris quit the band and was replaced by the fantastic Rat Martin, whose own band The Varukers I never stopped following. Not Rat's fault's though, but the band started trying to return to their roots and flopped miserably.

UK Subs : their '02 album ¨Universal¨ was so generic it made me lost interest in them. Subsequent albums did no better.

GBH : the horribly generic, purposely streetpunkish 2010 album ¨Perfume And Piss¨ was, well, piss poor to say the least; still hoping for a good follow-up though.

Marduk : '09 ¨Wormwood¨ and the 2 subsequent albums were so poor I've given up on them for good.

Broken Bones : their 2010 album ¨F...You And All You Stand For¨ made me wonder whether they'd ever put out another record as good as all their other ones or will continue in that vein (generic streetpunk)

 

Clapton
Foghat
Boston

 

Meat Loaf post-Bat out of Hell. BOOH dropped when i was 14 and it was the first LP i shelled out for, so it shaped me wee brain forever.

 

Tom Waits after "Bone Machine". Too much repetition, too much playing a Hollywood style role and ticket prices for live gigs for the extremely wealthy only (the latter definitely not corresponding to his self chosen hobo image).

 

I'm making efforts with Thompson, after getting off the bus in the 80s. I bought Amnesia a few months ago and Mock Tudor has been recommended. . .

 

I love pretty much all of Sting's song up to Brand New Day but Inside onwards, I find it really difficult to get into. The Last Ship is quite an adventure though and it's a good concept.

Strangely enough the first couple of Police albums bar a few songs like Walking on the Moon or Message in a Bottle, I can't really get into. I think he really hit his stride during Ghost in the Machine onwards, really.

Also I don't think I could bare listening to Roxanne anymore.