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Do you have certain bands who you buy everything by despite not really liking much of what they've done for years?
I do this with Liars.
I liked the debut, adored the next 2 records and have carried on buying everything since. Liars, deluxe version of Scissorworld, tracked down all the myspace demos and now have the latest.
But I don't think I've really liked any of their material overly since Drums not Dead. There are a couple of belters on the most recent but yeah... the thing is, I KNOW how much I love them live and will always adore They were wrong... and DND so continue buying all their output anyhow, hoping they can rekindle the fire. I'm not even sure that they haven't, maybe more that for whatever reason I've moved on and miss their old sheer oddness.
Do you do this with anyone?
Anything Greg Dulli does
Love them live, but only really go for about 2 or 3 songs per album. It's an Afghan Whigs hang-up. Just to hear his voice is kind of a reward for me.
Radiohead
of Montreal
Autechre
Love their 90`s stuff, but the albums after I find to be hit and miss. Alright in small doses, but it`d do my head in to listen to them on a regular basis.
Incunabula, Amber, Tri Repetae = best Autechre
Completely agree
But I`ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Chiastic Slide as well. Something a bit mysterious about it that makes me wanna go back to it.
yeah but confield is by far their best album
I think it`s their worst.
Those three are great
but LP5 is at least as good.
Did it with Orbital for a bit
and they rewarded by being brilliant again. That NEVER happens!
No.
I'm extremely disloyal, musically. I will drop a band like a hot potato if I feel they've gone wack. Artists need to go hard to get my attention; it's not like I'm short of things to listen to.
this ^
Totally
And if a band start putting out shitty stuff it makes me listen to their back catalogue with a newfound scepticism.
Kid606 for me
Though the latest LSDMTB303 EP was an unexpected surprise, really liked it. The Songs About Fucking Steve Albini album should have been brilliant (loved the concept of a 'beatless' release from him but it was largely forgettable). Trouble is Kill Sound/Who Still Kill Sound were so so good that it's difficult to top. He also didn't do a record with his live band set-up which was disappointing as the live footage on youtube looked insane.
dEUS & Pearl Jam...
Pains me to say it for both though...
I was like that for dEUS
but decided not to buy their last album after hearing it online.
I did for Beck
have all the early (slightly) onscure vinyl EPs and stuff from the beginning right up to Seachange. Same with Flaming Lips up to Soft Bulletin. But finally got over them both and don't care about EITHER of them any more. Phew.
Check out Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM album.
It's essentially a Beck album, but with her on vocals. And it's wonderful.
(ooops. posted this downthread. reposted cos DiS crashed. and then the original appeared.)
Nick Cave
Hasn't released anything decent since 2001 (2004 if you count bits of Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus) but I stick with him based on previous greatness.
Depeche Mode - they've been piss-poor since Alan Wilder left but they were my first ever big fave band back in the 80s so I stick with 'em.
Ultra & Playing the Angel are very good
Exciter & Sounds of the Universe are the weaker albums.
Ultra has its moments
Barrel of a Gun is awesome. Playing the Angel is piss-poor in my opinion but not quite as utterly awful as Exciter & SOTU. But it's been a loooooooooong time since they released a truly great album.
SOTU isn't awful
I think it's pretty decent. Not up there with their greatest highs but still a good listen
Totally agree re Nick Cave.
Totally disagree re Nick Cave.
British Sea Power
Their debut was one of the first albums I bought, and I loved it. It has a certain charm about it... a sort of English quality about it. Open Season just wasn't as good, despite the odd good song. Then the next two albums just sounded like self-parody. Horrible lyrics and vocals. Man of Aran was different because it was a soundtrack, but it still wasn't great. I think I've pretty much given up now.
Crikey
I got as far as album three with British Sea Power, entirely on the strength and promise of the debut. Might bin the other two come to think of it.
Open Season has its moment
That Rock Music one is terrible
Open Season is a masterpiece of mood and entrapment and escape
It's their best by a long way for me.
But yeah, 'Do You Like Rock Music' is dreadful.
^^^^ This this this
That first album blew me away, it's fucking incredible, but they've never come close to matching it.
Thought BSP might come up here, unfairly I think
as I love DYLRM and the Krankenhaus EP, but you are entitled not to like them of course!
Super Furries
although I did think Dark Days/Light Years was their best effort in a while.
Have got all Beck's albums (apart from early, rare stuff) and would still be interested to see what he comes up with next.
Check out Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRM album.
It's essentially a Beck album, but with her on vocals. And it's wonderful.
Tindersticks and dEUS
One day the "return to form" claims will be true. ONE DAY!
Not heard The Something Rain?
one good song and the rest is lift music.
^
I think part of this phenomenon is about how much you can want a great band to put out more great albums. There are very, very few bands/artists that have anything other than a very brief run of genius.
...go fuck yourself sadpunk
Sigur Ros
I have every album...but the last one and the live one before it I've only played twice.
Law of diminishing returns....
all the same crap
just like her below
I only really properly got into them recently
I liked Valtari quite a lot though
Björk
Think I've listened to Biophilia about three times.
The Cure
I somehow ended up with all three Kasabian albums at one point
And I fucking hate Kasabian. Looking back I have no idea why I brought them. Juts a sour of the moment thing I think. AnywayI've sold them now, so all is well.
"Spur of the moment thing
I supposed I'm still interested in artists I used to like
and will listen to their new stuff, but not buy it. Just boring teenagery stuff really.
the fall
I don't much care for their early punk sound, but for the past 20 years or so I'll get 'em all, even if they seem iffy. Smitty's my man.
Eels
the last album of theirs/his that I loved was Blinking Lights. The subsequent three (?) albums just seem so average in comparison. But I'll keep on buying any future albums in the hope that I love one of them again. Electro-Shock Blues and Daisies Of The Galaxy were such lovely albums.
Deerhoof
Absolutely love everything from the first album up to (and including) the Runners Four. Carried on buying everything since then, finding myself less enthusiastic with each new release. "Deerhoof Vs Evil" was the first album with songs that I massively disliked. A week ago I checked out the jukebox preview thing of the new LP. Don't think I'll be able to follow them on this latest adventure. It just doesn't sound interesting/exciting to me anymore.
Oasis/Noel Gallagher (though not Beady Eye).
They were the first band I ever got in to and the band that got me into music. For that I kind of feel like I 'owe them/him' so still buy all the albums even though it's been diminishing returns since Be Here Now/Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.
Mind you, the High Flying Birds album is actually alright in places. Get the feeling that Noel was saving a few tracks that he could have put on Oasis's later albums, but saved them for his solo album instead.
Do you ever get bored of posting
this fascinating fact about yourself?
This was the perfect thread to encounter
Just as i put the new Squarepusher album on. sounds like an hour-long soundtrack to rainbow road
*goes out and buys the new Squarepusher album
I came to this thread just to see how many people have said Weezer
and am surprised that it hasn't happened yet.
Unlike a lot of people I like their recent output (especially the last album), although even I will concede that they're unlikely to beat the first two or three records...
Surprised no-one's said Muse actually
I know there's a lot of love for OOS and Absolution and the general feeling of being let down with each subsequent release, which suggests people are still listening. There's no way I'm paying money for their next album now though, no fucking way
I refused to buy the last one
.. if the new album sounds like the Olympic song, no way I'm buying the next one either.
I still have all the singles from way back. I'm even tempted to make a buck or two and sell them on ebay!
I've got a massive Plug In Baby poster somewhere
Like it's about 7 foot tall or something. Can't bring myself to put it up again now
I will keep buying Conor Oberst related material,
even though I found Monsters of Folk and the Mystic Valley Band stuff to be pretty dull. Like, I just bought the new MVB album/DVD... and I'm not sure I even want to put it on.
Feeder
In my early teens they were my favourite band, for some reason I can't let go. I've not really given anything a proper listen since Comfort in Sound
I gave up after Pushing the Senses
Fuck awful album, absolute fucking dross. Which is a shame, because I still genuinely like every album previous, loved them once, but Pushing the Senses REALLY tainted my opinion of Feeder and now I find it difficult to listen to a single track. Weird. Although I listened to Yesterday Went Too Soon a couple of weeks ago and that's still pretty good
The most recent one I'd say is a little bit of a return to form.
There are a few tracks which have melodies up there with the best of their earlier stuff, and it seems a lot like they've just made a good Feeder album, rather than having a specific agenda like they have with the last few albums.
The only one of theirs that I like is Comfort In Sound.
I could quite happily leave the rest.
Metallica
It's been going downhill since "Justice" with only a few tracks on Death Magnetic to raise hopes of an unlikely return to form.
But I always find myself picking up their latest album second-hand at some point.
You bought Lulu?
Buddy. No.
REM
Bought everything, despite my tastes having moved on some years ago...
Don't even know why any more.
Muse
Its just depressing now.
Queens of the Stone Age
sad, but true.
Mogwai to a lesser extent. Although I really like the last one I just never listen to it...
I really like Era Vulgaris
not as good as Rated R or S/t obvs
You think they lost it?
Only Queens song I can't listen to is "Make It Wit Chu" and that's only because some slimy fucker told me it was his make out tune.
... the Biff?
Surprised no one's mentioned Biffy Clyro. Their first three records, particularly Vertigo of Bliss and Infinity Land, are fantastic. Couldn't get past some of the stuff on Puzzle (though there's still some good stuff) and haven't gone back, sadly. Boss band live, though.
The thing is with Only Revolutions
Is the production mostly. And the fact that it had Many Of Horror on it. Shock Shock is a genuinely great song, and though a lot of the album is lowest common denominator pop rock and not what they were previously known for, they were good at writing those big pop hooks.
...and we still buy all their stuff :) I like it all so I can't be arsed about it.
Sonic Youth
Can't remember the last album that I enjoyed more than a couple of tracks from (certainly nothing this century) yet still I buy them. Not all the solo jazzwank and SYR stuff, as that would be mental, but all the real Sonic Youth albums.
Thing is, any time I've seen them play live in the last ten years the new stuff has seemed much more alive and interesting in concert. I suppose that's why I kept buying, knowing there's something there that's not being captured on the recordings and hoping it would.
I gave up on the Smashing Pumpkins after Zeitgeist
Corgan's voice definitely changed for the worse and it's absolutely awful. Plus, I don't think his band really counts as the Smashing Pumpkins anymore
The Manics are pretty much the one band from my teens I've full-on disowned.
Nearly everything I else I really loved then I will stand by and defend on some level but I feel embarrassed thinking about pretty much any MSP album. A few great songs but the lyrics are so cringeworthy...
Sonic Youth
I haven't been that fussed about anything since Murray Street, but I slowly bought everything they have ever done. I did the same with the Fall, bought each record in order until it became beyond a joke. I still download their new ones.
Interpol
and it hurts more every time
Ace of Bass
Manic Street Preachers - Thankfully rewarded with JFPL which is one of their best releases
Weezer - Given a cancellation prize in 'Hurley' before getting twatted in the balls with 'Death To False Metal'
consolation*
Yeah, many many many
Band puts out enough quality stuff, then they're due a certain amount of my loyalty.
Bowie could put out a double album of tape hiss and white noise and I'd buy the deluxe edition.
Muse
Haven't liked much from them since Origin of Symmetry yet I still buy all their stuff...not sure why
Wilco