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

You cut off the Stones before "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile"???

 

Interesting thread... got me thinking. These were the last albums by these artists that I rated-- subsequent ones are approached with caution, if at all:-

Prince - The Gold Experience (1995) [although it includes my least favourite of his big hits, "The Most Beautiful Girl..."]
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses (1978)
Supertramp - Famous Last Words (1982) [not great by any definition but I have a soft spot for "It's Raining Again"]
Credence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum (1970)
U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)
Grace Jones - Inside Story (1986)
Black Keys - Attack & Release (2008)
The Clash - Combat Rock (1982)
Procol Harum - Exotic Birds and Fruit (1974)
Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (2006)

 

Master of Puppets is my last Metallica album.

 

Johnny Winter- Nothin' But the Blues
Gary Moore- After the War (I have everything he released after but find I never listen to it anymore.)
Mountain-Avalanche (As with Gary Moore, I bought all the albums but no longer listen to anything after this one)
UFO- Obsession, (Nothing they did after appealed to me, with the exception of Walk on Water, which was lightning striking twice IMHO)
MSG- Assault Attack
Rainbow- Down to Earth
Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell
Guns and Roses-Appetite for Destruction
Scorpions-Blackout
Boston-Third Stage
Kansas-Vinyl Confessions
Yngwie Malmsteen- Odyssey
Pat Travers-Heat in the Street
Montrose-Paper Money
Van Halen-1984

 

It's always tough for artists whose first album is by far their greatest. Marquee Moon by Television is another that springs to mind.

 

Never really tried with SF, and with EOMS I have a oft spot for the tracks that feature on the NME flexi but mmmmmmmmmm not as a whole, no.

 

I cut off this thread at page 11.

 

So you only liked the song “Creep”? “Pop is Dead” was the single after Creep but before the album release

 

• YES Big Generator
• Eric Clapton - Behind the Sun
• Marillion - Clutching at Straws
• Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
• RUSH - Grace Under Pressure
• The Stones - Undercover

 

That would be mine too...but I do jump back on for Pyscho Circus, and then right back off again.

 

Chicago - 17 *

Stones - Exile

Humble Pie - Rockin' the Fillmore



* full disclosure: I did pick up "Now" and it was not bad.

 

My mistake, I meant A Love Supreme, though I do prefer the Crescent album to ALS.

 

What about The John Coltrane Quartet Plays? That one was still before his free period assuming that's why the cut-off.

 

I went through a period of not appreciating the latest Rush album until the next one came out (Hold Your Fire, Presto, Roll The Bones era)

 

Stones, don't care about anything after Black & Blue
Van Halen, nothing after 1984 until ADKOT
Radiohead, OK Computer
Who, Quadrophenia
Black Sabbath, sabotage
Pink Floyd, Animals
Metallica, MoP
Roxy Music, Siren
Cure, Pornography
Banshees, Dreamhouse
AIC, Dirt
New Order, PCL
Cabaret Voltaire, Crackdown
KISS, Creatures, although there had already been some highly questionable stuff before that.

 

I loved and still listen to all the Rush records up to Hold Your Fire. Their following albums , to my mind at least, incrementally seem to lack melody or lyrics with depth . The later the release , the more a boring a racket they are.

 

I take this back big time.

Err... well, maybe not, but I will say Out of Time is good and better than I thought a year ago.

 

Z.Z. Top "Tejas" - last great album (imo)

 

Queen - 'The Works' . The 1984 album, not their entire recording career!

 

Nah, don't like it

 

John Mellencamp's songwriting improved drastically after the nineties. 2008's Life, Death, Love and Freedom for example, is a great album produced by T'bone Burnett.

 

Should this thread be called "The album with the benefit of hindsight is cool to say you cut off at"?

 

This is my Yes cutoff also. A bit shiny and synthetic sounding, but there were still several great songs here. after that it was all downhill.

 

There was a time when I thought I would I would be buying every album Elton John released. that stopped with A Single Man - I bought the vinyl album but never felt the need to get the CD when I upgraded my collection to CD. I have only two post-1980 EJ albums, not counting live in Australia.

I don't believe in firm cut-off points though, I'm always open to hearing new music from someone I have loved in the past but got disillusioned with, it's just that I am more sceptical and need more convincing.

 

The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager