Which album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off?
Demon Days by Gorillaz
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Metallica (Black Album)
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Demon Days by Gorillaz
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Metallica (Black Album)
Green Day - Dookie
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac
System of a down - Toxicity
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf
The Offspring - Smash
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I agree that Songs for the deaf is QOTSA's magnum opus, but majority of their other albums are bangers too and it feels unfair to say they fell off after it
Oh for sure, I can listen to all their albums and be totally happy no matter which one I chose, SftD just has something special.
Fair enough 'Steal This Album' has a few flat tracks but there are so many great songs. Also, every song on Mezmerize is wicked. Granted, not in the same mood as Toxicity but far out... So so good.
In rainbows?
Also a great album, I just feel the other two were their peak and contrary to Green Day (that I also mentioned), I've continued listening to Radiohead, including their new albums and they're all great!
Disagree on Green Day and SoaD, imo American Idiot is green days best album and Mezmerize and Hypnotize are slightly better than Toxicity.
I just really don't like Daron's voice 😂
As for Green Day, I feel like American idiot is the album where we could see they were really letting go of their punk roots and wanted to make stuff that would sell... But Dookie was my first cassette ever so I'm biased.
Yeah that's fair, and dookie is a really good album, though I do like american idiot more. Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming, Holiday, Boulevard and American Idiot are just such bangers and the concept of the album is just really cool.
Songs for the Deaf is incredible, but how could you say they fell off when
Like ClockworkEra Vulgaris exists and is clearly their best album all the way through?100%
Era Vulgaris is by far my favorite album of theirs.
"fell off" is interpreted very strongly by some, I just see it as "here's their peak, after that they never made something quite as good as that"
And to me that's SftD even if EV is still awesome!
No way with Green Day. Insomniac, Nimrod, and American Idiot are all excellent.
The thing that impresses me so much about Green Day is that they peaked, had the usual big falloff in quality a few albums later, then they peaked again about a decade after Dookie. I can't think of any other band that managed to do this off the top of my head.
Yep. Although I really just think of Warning as one OK album in a run of great first 7 albums, which is a pretty remarkable.
I'd have to disagree with QotSA, but I can definitely see why. I'm a huuuge fan of theirs, but for some reason every new QotSA album seems to take years for me to fully appreciate. I absolutely hated Era Vulgaris when it first came out. It's by far my favorite album of theirs now. Even ...like clockwork is barely starting to really grow on me, but I'm definitely coming around. I haven't even bothered to listen to their newest one yet.
QoS has a bunch of awesome albums after Songs for the Deaf. Unless we're talking about popularity, but quality def not.
I never said they don't, I said that to me it's the best and nothing else they released was as good, it doesn't mean the rest isn't good.