Thread about awesome comeback albums
In light of everyone on here pissing themselves about that m b v thing. Let's talk about other comeback albums that don't get as much love.
Third by Portishead is pretty much an all round epic right? Why didn't we have as many threads about that album at the time?
- Mission of Burma
- Dinosaur Jr
- Polvo
Any other really good comeback albums that match the original work/better the original run?
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Iron Maiden Brave New World
Good shout. You've made me put it on for the first time in ages too.
Go-betweens
Swans
and the one that followed that may well be the best thing they've ever done.
How long does a band have to be away for it to be a comeback?
Cause my favourite is Cave In's awesome return to form on White Silence (although the Planets Of Old EP set them up nicely). It felt like they'd been away longer because Perfect Pitch Black was a little lacklustre, Antenna felt like pretty much a completely different band and Tides Of Tomorrow was great but slight. That made it roughly 12 years between unimpeachably brilliant albums.
I like Perfect Pitch Black
certainly more than Antenna or Tides of Tomorrow
It's grown on me in the intervening years
I remember it sounding like they were doing Cave In by the numbers when I first heard it though, like they were trying to find the mid-point between early, growly rock and chunky, catchy stuff. It wasn't quite the reinvention I was hoping for. There's some good stuff to be found though. Antenna felt like they'd spun off in totally the wrong direction when it came out. It seemed a waste for them to be doing a standard post-millenial arena rock thing. But it's got some decent tunes on it that I've come around to too. It's probably still the one I go back to least, but stuff like Woodwork or Joy Opposites (despite the pretty terrible lyrics) still get an airing.
Joy Opposites is a huge tune
Woodwork too is simply stunning
Love the sound on that record, just so big and chunky
Youth Overrided is pretty good too.
I remember seeing them when they were touring Perfect Pitch Black, and quite a lot of people were shouting for 'Anchor' and stuff like that. I don't think they were expecting to hear songs like 'Juggernaut' instead. It was awesome.
i got into Cave In via Antenna
as a teenager, randomly bought it on a holiday in America, was confused when i found other stuff of theirs and it was totally different, at the time thought it wasnt even the same band!
Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
White Silence is awesome.
It's like a return to form, but also something new at the same time. Hopefully they'll continue from there.
Definitely,
you could hear the influence of all the various side projects (especially Adam McGrath's very Clouds-ish track and the acoustic Brodsky numbers) and a real sense of fun and experimentation. I knew they were coming back strong as soon as I heard Cayman Toungue from the EP. Probably their balls-out heaviest track, even factoring in the early, Converge-y days.
Gold Cobra
best thing the limp bizkits have done since significant other
Lifetime, 'Lifetime'
Ten years between that and 'Jersey's Best Dancers'. As good as anything they'd done previously
Oh man it was so good to hear that record
and realise that they the music still had that beautiful, slightly off-beat galloping pace that only Lifetime can really do.
M B V