Songs that made you realize your favorite band was going downhill

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Tool 10,000 Days

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Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
Soul Coughing - Circles

The 2-step ladder down to I-don't-give-a-[censored]-about-Soul-Coughing-anymore. Surprisingly, there were decent songs on each of the albums those singles were on.

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REM - Shiny Happy People


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WTF? That's a crap song for sure, but downhill? Yeah, you're right -- following that up with AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE is a real step down. ROFL, etc.

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I actually think "Automatic" is their best album, and "Monster" isn't bad at all either, but you could tell on "Out of Time" that they were headed for the crapper, and it quickly came to pass after Monster.


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No, this is totally wrong too. Their immediate post-Monster album, NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI ranks up there with PAGEANT and RECKONING as the best work they ever did. Hi-Fi is way better than Monster, at least as good (for my $) as Automatic, and much better than Green, Out of Time, or Up (but Up is pretty good too).

REM started tanking at Reveal.

But up through 2000 they were untouchably great.

(Actually, if I weren't so lazy, I'd find and link the thread where OOT rated Hi-Fi among the top 25 albums of the last 10 years).

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Tool 10,000 Days

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Some people are so hard to please

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By The Time I Get To Arizona - Public Enemy

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Kill yourself.

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Are you kidding me??? Yo Bum Rush The Show rocked the rap world, It Takes a Nation of Millions is one of my top ten albums of all time. Fear of A Black Planet, more brilliance. Apocolypse 91, while there were a few good songs, was the end of PE as a rap era. Everything post Apocolypse 91 is garbage. Kill yourself or defend your position.

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I am somewhere between you two. I liked By The Time I Get To Arizona, and a few other songs on that album. At the time I thought it was a bit sub-par, but far better than the other rap out there. Unfortunately, every thing after that was complete crap.

Yo Bum Rush The Show is also pretty terrible though. It is interesting only as a curiosity for a die hard fan, but it isn't close to their two great albums. PE made two of the all time great albums, one pretty good one, a mediocre one and then a sea of crap.

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Well, of course it's personal preference. When looking at the title of the thread, when this song became popular, I knew it was the downfall of everything I loved. If perhaps, you don't believe that this was the song that lead to it, we can all agree that everything after Apocolypse 91 was garbage, right?

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del amitri - just before you leave

van halen - Gary Cherone (spelling?) not a song but still

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Float On - Modest Mouse

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I don't understand this one. They're wasn't another song like this on the album, and there isn't any indication that this is the direction they're going in, so let's reserve judgement for now, eh?

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The World At Large, Float On, This Devil's Workday, and to an extent Ocean Breathes Salty all would stick out like sore thumbs on previous albums. This alone doesn't mean they belong on this list, but the fact that they are both different from past work and... just not as good as past efforts means "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" better be [censored] awesome.

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Death Cab For Cutie - "Sound of Settling" ; puke

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I agree this song is bad, but I think their most recent album is their best. I like it a lot. I'm by no means a big fan of them, but I lived in Seattle while they were getting started and such and I've seen them play a couple of times.

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Smashing Pumpkings - Entire "Adore" album

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no. i'm not really a budding musician, and i haven't tried to play the black album. it's just an example to illustrate that metallica's interest in technical quality disappeared on that album.

i'll add an item to the list: primus, my name is mud. great thread idea btw.

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wtf?? on justice? it had some of the BEST technical work they've done. take another look at "blackened" and "dyer's eve" for some of hetfield and hammet's best technical stuff. and even if you're not interested in technical stuff, you have to appreciate the composition of songs like "one" and "to live is to die." I dunno if I'd say it was better than puppets, but justice had a darker and more polished feel than puppets and definitely had a clearly defined direction, unlike load and beyond.