[Music] Artists/bands who never bettered their breakthough album

[Weststander]

Was it David Hepworth who said that most pop/ rock bands only have enough really good ideas for two record albums.

I’d disagree with him on that - e.g. The Jam, OMD, The Beatles all made multiple excellent albums packed with original ideas.

 

[Pondicherry]

Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds - beat that!! 2.5 million sales in the UK alone. Next best effort was the Big Match theme tune (which still sounded like WotW)

 

[colinz]

Tracy Chapman first album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc05jL1d8h8

 

[larus]

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus.

Never tire of listening.

 

[studio150]

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus.

Never tire of listening.

Black and White, The Raven, Dreamtime just as good

 

[Stinky Pete]

The Killers - Hot Fuss

Down hill from there

 

[GT49er]

Anyone who is any good, it's usually the second album that's better - all the imperfections from the first one ironed out; thereafter, descending into crap (usually).




If they're just crap, they might be lucky enough to get one half decent album out first.

 

[GT49er]

Great album but bettered by Moondance and St Dominic’s Preview for me.

N,N,N........sorry!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Love it, I still play the vinyl. But the often forgotten Flesh and Blood (1980) is also a truly great album with some beautiful tracks.

I like a lot of other Roxy Music, but I think their first album was the best debut album ever by anybody anywhere. I was about 18 when it came out, so at a fairly impressionable age, but it was just so different to anything that had gone before in the mainstream.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Oasis arguably? Definitely Maybe far better than their later stuff IMO

Morning Glory at least it’s equal though?

 

[smillie's garden]

Sacrilege perhaps, but I've never been bowled over by this album. You're right though, they never did anything better.

 

[larus]

Black and White, The Raven, Dreamtime just as good

Black and White/The Raven are good. Just not up to Rattus IMO.

Personal choice and all that eh