Whose albums do you keep buying even though they now suck?

[Dookus]

There are some acts who had such a GREAT debut that I keep buying their new stuff even though it bites monkeydick. Here's my list:

REM
Cowboy Junkies
Tracey Chapman
Tina Turner (my all-time favorite, who hasn't done anything worthwhile since 1975)

[redqueen]

1. None

When they start sucking, they stop getting my cash. It's just how it has to be.

[Dookus]

2. ah

I'm just an optimist. I keep thinking "well maybe the last five albums were an aberration".

[redqueen]

4. hehehe

You're so sweet. I'm sure they love you for it, too. Give a listen in the store. Maybe if you quit getting burned by sucky bands you do like, you won't be so bitter about the bands you don't like. ;)

[Dookus]

5. but my most favoritest albums

are the ones I didn't much like on first-listen. The really good ones grow on you.

[redqueen]

6. You do have a point there.

Luckily I have friends to force me to recognize the stuff I dismiss without a careful listen.

[Gothic Sponge]

3. REM, but i don't think their albums suck!

They are just not as good as their early work.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. the new rem sounds really promising

back to a rock sound with ministry's drummer in the lineup. if it's anything like "bad day' the new single from the greatest hits pack last year, we're in for a treat

besides, i don't think any of their albums are bad, except possibly 'up' which was made right after bill left and is a little dull

[NewHampshireDem]

18. REM ...

I hate to say it but I don't think I've listened to one of their albums more than once since "Monster." :( Besides that, I saw them at Great Woods (outside Boston) back in '95 (96?) and, let me tell you, I thought there was going to be a riot after the concert ... I have never seen so many pissed off people in one place--the concert totally sucked, so I guess maybe that was what put me off of them.

[swag]

7. I followed that pattern a long time ago

kept buying albums after 1982 by bands who started to seriously suck in 1983:

Stranglers
Killing Joke
Siouxsie and the Banshees
PiL

1983. The year bands started to suck.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. I feel guilty now.

I really liked "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" and "Album," not to mention "Happy."

:-(

[swag]

20. Don't feel guilty

I'm just OLD.

Your taste is quite fine, I'm sure. I will look into "Happy?" and will re-listen to "Brighter."

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

8. ani difranco

though she's been in a rut since "to the teeth" which came out in 1998

[rucky]

10. I feel terrible for saying this, but...

Sonic Youth.

They're one of my favorite bands, but I keep looking out for the next "Sister"... 6 albums later I'm still looking. Dirty came closest, followed by A Thousand Leaves.

I'll also have to go with Neil Young & Bob Dylan - although Time Out of Mind was pretty darn good.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. I don't own a SY album after "Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star."

I own everything before that.

But it's not a suck thing -- I've just never gotten around to it! Strange, I know, as they are one of my favorite bands. But I ain't bought their records since '94.

Bad Moon Rising, EVOL, and Sister are my Holy Trinity. There are very few instances where any band has released three consecutive albums of that quality. What can I think of?

Beatles:
Help
Rubber Soul
Revolver

Love:
Love
Da Capo
Forever Changes

The Pretenders:
The Pretenders
Pretenders II
Learning to Crawl

The Pixies:
Surfer Rosa
Doolittle
Bossanova

That is all.

[rucky]

14. Pavement:

Slanted & Enchanted
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Wowie Zowie


Also...

Belle & Sebastian

Tigermilk
If You're Feeling Sinister
Boy With The Arab Strap

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. I don't like Pavement or Belle & Sebastian.

But that's okay, because you like SY, Dylan, and Young. I guess we can disagree on those two.

[swag]

21. Yes, your Sonic Youth trio is the exact one I would choose

A wonderful progression for them.

The foul "Rolling Stone" magazine woke up to them on "Daydream Nation" so all the toe-headed little shits now agree that that is the masterpiece, but I thought at the time and still do that it was a bit double-turd disappointment.

I do go on.

Anyway, saw them on a fresh-out "Sister" tour at 09:30 Club (the old old one) in DC in, what, 1986? 1987? Loved it from 6 feet away. Nothing beats a small club show on a band's upswing.

[James T. Kirk]

12. I stop at the first indication of suckiness.

I have dropped Bad Religion and Frank Black. I'm thinking of boycotting the Get Up Kids because their last album was mediocre and it wouldn't play in my computer's CD drive.

Life is too short for bad music.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

16. Counting Crows nt

[Dookus]

17. excellent choice

I have a few CC cd's that I listened to exactly once.

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

19. their debut was amazing

The rest have all, well, sucked. I keep buying the new ones, hoping for a similar August and Everything After mind-blowing experience. Never happens.

Does that make me naive, or stupid? Or both? :shrug: