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

I realize that my opinion in regard to Bruce is rather unorthodox. However, I think "The Wild, the Innocent..." is one of the best rock albums of the '70s especially because Bruce had a lot more r&b as well as some jazz influence (thanks to Dave Sancious) in his music back then - and he sang in a more natural voice. I have listened to "Born to Run" and "Darkness" many times over the years. While I like some of the songs on them, I dislike that Bruce started moving from a more narrative lyrical style to a a psuedo-philosophical one, and I really miss the r&b and looseness in his music. Also, his singing style started to become somewhat pompous to me (and I find his later country-twang singing style to be way worse). "Born to Run" is the transitional album for me, so maybe I should've picked that one. I consider "Tenth Avenue Freezout" and "Meeting Across the River" to be great, "Thunder Road" to be good, and most of the others to be overblown. "Candy's Room" is the only song I really like on "Darkness."

 

Blackstar !

 

How right you are about Roxy, I might even say Country Life !

 

Agree , Tonight, NLMD, BTWN, all pretty bad , but Buddha, was good!

 

Bowie was very hit and miss beyond Let's Dance , but up to then ,Wow.

 

Kings X - Ear Candy.

 

Queen-Jazz

 

Who - Sell Out ?Tommy, Quadrophenia,
Floyd - Piper ? DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall,!
Surely Sir, you Jest !

 

That's true, there's 80s stuff was paff, though some of The Works and Innuendo were good !

 

Stopped after and Then there were 3, Duke and Abacab , yuk !

 

This is also known as jumping the shark ,

Bowie , as stated by me before , highly brilliant 69-83 and then a bit up and down , but mostly brilliant really.
Queen, definitely Jazz,
ELP, Brain Salad Surgery, but ELPowell was very good ,
Roxy Music, Country Life,
Led Zep, House of the Holy,
Genesis, Then there were 3,
King Crimson , Red,
Status Quo, Just Supposing , ( just before the split of the frantic 4)
Thin Lizzy , Chinatown
The Who , Who by Numbers .

 

Good call.

 

nope.

 

way too many to list.

i don't have the time to list all of them. there are a LOT !

 

Funnily enough, I actually like a lot of mid 80's albums from classic rock artists. I don't care if they aren't up there with the classics, many of them are still enjoyable to me. I understand that I'm in the 0.005% minority, but so what? For those of you who are curious, I made a thread on this topic a while ago:

Mid-1980's albums from 60's/70's bands. Any love for them?

FWIW, I generally lose my interest in classic rock and pop artists with their mid to late 90's albums, though in some cases, I regain interest with the stuff they've done in this decade.

 

Genesis - Wind and Wuthering

 

Stones- Let It Bleed
Bad Conpany- Straight Shooter
Status Quo- Blue For You

 

Jethro Tull- Heavy Horses
Yes- Relayer
Genesis- The Lamb
King Crimson- Red
The Who- Who's Next
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
U2- Rattle and Hum
Bruce Springsteen- The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
Neil Young- Harvest
Dave Matthews Band- Busted Stuff
David Bowie- Diamond Dogs

 

Bowie - the world didn't really need anything more after Scary Monsters; I have them all but never play 'em.

 

So you ignored Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall? I'm glad that's not the choice I made!

 

This is mind-blowing. You've just knocked out songs like Powderfinger, Tonight's the Night, Like a Hurricane, Don't be Denied and so on.

 

The "firm" in the title is what actually elevates this thread just a bit.

 

I like the occasional song after that, but not full albums. Same with most of my list

 

Metallica ...And Justice For All