Post the album that marked the beginning of the decline for that artist..

It can be artistically or commercially. (Both)

I'll start with this.

 

some folks might go with Ancient Melodies from the Future, which I actually liked, I choose:

 

Unfortunately it was only his second album!

 

That's my favorite album by the Ramones. My second favorite is Pleasant Dreams.

 

Donna Summer followed the career-defining Bad Girls album with this 1980 suck fest.

 

That might be the next female artist I check out. She's so damn beautiful!!!!

 

For me, I believe it was Asia's first album, as none of their subsequent albums did anything for me.

 

This is nowhere near as good as Ray Of Light.

 

Well, we all knew I'd have to slip Olivia in somewhere!

In 1981 she released her most successful worldwide album in Physical. She spent the next four years largely out of the limelight encouraging Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and Tina Turner to steal her fanbase. Then, in October 1985 she returned with the vastly inferior, overtly sexual (for her) Soul Kiss album. The final nail in the coffin being that it was released when she was 6 months pregnant and unable to promote it!


Sorry for the rant, BTW!

 

I hate when that happens....

I'd have thought amnesiac and then after a mild return in rainbows did it for radiohead (everyone loves in rainbows but after many many tries it slags) but unlike many I think the king of limbs is just fantastic...


That said let's see:
Flaming lips -at war with the mystics. I like the album but it's far from cohesive and a bit too kitschy. They teetered on that line for a bit but with mystics they fell victim and now seem to haven't found their full setting since...

I love John Lennon and all his albums have moments I enjoy (even stinyc has the spectacular Angela). I even really like this album, but after him creating masterpiece after masterpiece, imagine (a top 200-300 likely album) showed the first signs of Lennon not really improving on what came before...and though I love his albums after imagine and a couple are great (fantasy--yoko helped big time with her best work) and the overworked in the studio but still great walls and bridges were solid, Lennon wasn't as good as he'd been...,

Harry Nilsson's John Lennon collaborative album ***** cats was the first where he dropped....though he's a favorite of mine and I've found much in all his albums to like, that album is where he changed gears from the genius overload of before....I guess son of Schmilsson as good as it was foreshadowed the dip.,,

One more... for now...love the topic!

Adore to me killed the smashing pumpkins on many fronts:
1-the guitar sound defined them, moving away from that highlighted corgans flaws more (whiny voice and avg melodies, that while there perhaps before were masked by raw musicianship and power...

2-worse still and definitely more damaging given the pressure he was under, when the sales disappointed, corgan began to whine and whine and whine...and indicate he was 1 to 2 decades ahead of time and that his fans essentially were idiots (without saying it that direct).,,that killed more fans. He wanted to prove them wrong so carried forward and now is a shell of what he and the band was....though I'm still interested

 

Can --- Soon Over Babaluma...

 

More like Wanx.

Not as bad as the totally dreadful Zinc Alloy album a year later, though.

 

Beatles - White Album
Cabaret Voltaire - Code
The Clash - Sandanista
Killing Joke - Night Time
Metallica - Black Album
Pink Floyd - The Wall
PiL - Happy
Shriekback - Big Night Music

 

I like Hotter Than July, but even at my most positive I can only love about half of Tattoo You. Just couldn't follow Some Girls, Black & Blue, IORR and Goats Head Soup...

 

Judas Priest - Turbo
Slayer - Divine Intervention
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
Queen - Jazz

 

I do like this one, but I know what you mean. Hideous cover too.

 

Sorry I accidently posted the wrong album. I meant to post...

The album cover alone was enough to scare people away from her music forever.

 

For my ears, The Moody Blues Long Distance Voyager was their last great album, even though Mike Pinder was already gone, so The Present was where the decline began.