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

Have to add the Joe Walsh album with Life’s Been Good on it.

 

Most nearly every artist/band except the ones that broke up in time.

Faust, Gong, The Velvet Underground (Squeeze and the reunion live album), The Beach Boys, Amon Duul II. The Boredoms, Pere Ubu, Neu!, Can, Zappa/Mothers, Wire, Stooges (oh god even they foolishly came back), Panasonic, Van Dyke Parks, Bowie, Bowie and Bowie, T.Rex, Beefheart Magic Band, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, The Residents, The Soft Machine, Talking Heads, Henry Cow, Kraftwerk, Eno, Dylan, Ween, Robert Wyatt, DAF, Einsturzende, Der Plan, John Fahey, Ornette Coleman, Beck, John Cale, Cluster, Terry Riley, DNA. Samla Mammas Manna, Thinking Plague, Marcoeur, Muffins.

Exceptions:

Egg, Television, The Red Krayola (kept on with a 90's gap in the middle), Matching Mole, Naked City, Pain Killer, La Monte Young, Eric Dolphy, Mars.

Bands/artists who kept/keep coming in and out of the focus zone:

John Zorn

 

Boston- Don’t Look Back
Cheap Trick- Dream Police
Allman Brothers- Brothers and Sisters
UFO- Obsession- with start being Phenomenon
AC/DC- BAck InBlack
Scorpions- Lights Out
Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengence
Iron Maiden- Powerslave
Alice Cooper- From the Inside
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue

To name a few..

 

Rush. I love everything from the first album through Signals.

 

Barbra Streisand
Back To Broadway

 

Bruce - Tunnel of love
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Eagles - Long Run
Todd - Healer
Eric Clapton - Another Ticket
Costello - Mighty Like a Rose
Coop - Dada

 

Stones: start: Let It Bleed end: Tattoo You
My Morning Jacket: Z
Ryan Adams: was Jacksonville City Nights; now is Ashes and Fire
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Black Keys: Attack and Release
Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music
Macca: Back to the Egg
Pink Floyd: some of The Wall
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way?
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Son Volt: Straightaways

 

Missing out on some killer MMJ if true.

 

Lenny Kravitz Mama Said
Good album, after that, no thanks.

 

T Rex - The Slider
The Who - Who By Numbers
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Kiss - Creatures of the Night
Led Zeppelin - IV

 

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (hated it)
REM - Green
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel (love Elvis but lost interest in his later music)
Nick Lowe - Party of One
Dave Edmunds - Information

Paul McCartney - lost interest with Pipes of Peace, but he won me back 14 years later with Flaming Pie and Run Devil Run!

 

Cheap Trick - All Shook Up

The Cars - Candy-O

Kiss - Dynasty

Van Halen - Diver Down

 

Bowie, Pin Ups
The Stones, Dirty Work
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Zep, Physical Graffiti
Beatles, Revolver
The Who, By Numbers
Dylan, Tempest
Dire Straits, Love over Gold

 

Alan Jackson - the cutoff point being his album "Under The Influence" from 1999. Enjoy that album and everything prior to it, but the later material from 2000 onward has been awful due to the modern country direction of the material.

Alan's last enjoyable album, "Under The Influence"

 

Jethro Tull-A Passion Play
Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
The Beatles-Abbey Road (I’m not a fan of Let It Be)
Chicago-V
Black Sabbath- Vol IV
Joni Mitchell-Mingus

 

Sometimes its as straightforward as a cut-off label

The Rolling Stones - Decca
David Bowie - RCA

umm..umm..

 

I think you have to stop somewhere, for example for me this is after:
Accept - Russian Roulette
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Metallica - Black Album
The Kinks - Everybody's in Show-biz (though I have to try 'The Great Lost Kinks Album' eventually)
Gentle Giant - Free Hand

 

Jane's addiction- - ritual de lo habitual
U2- Actung baby
Body Count - Cop Killer
Flaming Lips- Clouds taste Metallic
Butthole surfers- independent worm saloon
WEEN - live at Stubbs
Faith no more - Angel dust
Frank Zappa- Joe's garage
Sly - they're a riot going on
Mr Bungle- Mr Bungle
George Clinton - the awesome power of a fully operational mothership.
Crust- 1st LP
Guns N Roses -GNR Lies
Metallica - the black album
Pink Floyd- the Wall
John Coltrane - crescent
Miles Davis - miles cuts me off I don't cut him off.
Modest mouse- good news for.people who like bad news
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam - vs.
Paul McCartney- Ram
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
Ministry - houses of the molé
Sex pistols -nevermind the bulllocks....
Jack Johnson - Bushfire Fairytales
Run D.M.C. -tougher than leather
Beastie Boys -Ill communication
Weather Report- this is this

 

KMFDM - Symbols
Yes - Big Generator
Skinny Puppy - The Process
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Front 242 - 06:21:03:11 Up Evil
Peter Murphy - Deep
Cabaret Voltaire - The Arm Of The Lord
The Cure - Disintegration
Ministry - Filth Pig
PiL - That What Is Not
Queen - The Game
Shriekback - Oil & Gold

 

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

 

Coltrane - Wow, the album before A Love Supreme? Never heard anyone say that.
Miles - HA!

 

The Precious Memories albums are also great. He also did a Bluegrass album.

 

gnr, just before they got a recording deal lol

 

Good point.

 

Sadly Elvis Costello. I loved everything he did up to the imposters albums