What is the Worst Follow-Up Album of all time?

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internetbt 1 year ago
Wolfmother's new one could go down in history. New Moon Rising shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
Didn't the entire rest of his band walk out before they recorded that one? Always a bad omen.

MGMT's latest one was a pretty big let down too IMO. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Second Coming - Stone Roses, not a BAD alum per se but fucked if it didn't take them forever and end up sounding a bit shoe-gaze-lite. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Yes Please! - The Happy Mondays - the album that bankrupted Factory records, was intially recorded without vocals and most of the recording budget went up in several puffs of freebase smoke.

While you're at it, Black Grape - Stupid, Stupid, Stupid which, aside from Get Higher, which featured on lots of film soundtracks, the album was purchased by only myself and Shaun Ryders mum. shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
Yeah totally RE Second Coming - the classic case of a band spending way too much time working on a follow up and releasing an incoherent, over produced mess as a result. Chinese Democracy is the ultimate example of course. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Best;

The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance, saw the band transcend the emo tip and produce s concept album of exhilrating originality. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Sorry, should have read the main topic... shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
'Tusk - Fleetwood Mac.

How do you follow up the biggest rock record of all time? How about an experimental album, which due to romantic, creative and chemical differences you will record seperately, while including every member of the band's pet projects. shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
@Dan Nah you're all good, we want best follow ups too. We'll use 'em in next weeks poll. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Xibit - Man Machine. shared
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internetbt 1 year ago
Television's Adventure was sub-par as the follow-up to Marquee Moon shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
In Silico - Pendulum. Arse. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Contraversial but given how important Up the Bracket was, The Libertines self-titled album would rank. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
'The Doggfather' - Snoop Dogg (about the first point he disappeared into a thick, THC-laden cloud of nonsense.) shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Loads of people would say 'Contra' by Vampire Weekend too. Not me however. I like it. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
'Fat of the Land' - The Prodigy. shared
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internetbt 1 year ago
Not sure if it counts, as it was a soundtrack, but Tenacious D's The Pick Of Destiny CD was no where near as good as their first, which now that I think about it was sort of a soundtrack to their HBO series.

The killers' Sam's Town

System Of A Down- Toxicity, some may argue it was good, but rubbish next to their self titled 1st one. Others may argue they were both/all shit! Lol

BESTS: Kasabian's 'Empire' QOTSA's Song For The Deaf (was that their 2nd album??)

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internetbt 1 year ago
Head Automatica's 'Popaganda', the follow-up to the brilliant 'Decadance' shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
@internetbt Oh yeah I forgot about that second Tenacious D album. That was pretty awful, so was the movie.

I think Songs For The Deaf was QOTSA's third album, the follow up to Rated R. It doesn't need to be the scond album though, just the follow up to a successful or really good album, which it was.

@Dan That second Snoop Dogg album was so awful. He never really released another consistently good album after Doggystyle either. That Xzibit one was truly atrocious as well. shared
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ayouens 1 year ago
For me RHCP "One Hot Minute" was blerg compared to "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" - maybe because of the drugs Kiedis was back on. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
@internetbt 'Empire' by Kasabian, I would agree with you only because I loved the debut so much, I think it sold better though eh. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
@MikeP Ironcally, the silliest thing about Xibit's awesome 'Restless' was Snoop Dogg's nonsensical babbling at the end of 'X'...though he is potentially the only rapper to mention an Xolotel. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
'Sandanista' - The Clash

How do you follow-up one of the most critically acclaimed rock albums of all time? With a flabby four side paen to the Central American communist insurgents whose main tribute was that if you play the album end to end it lasts as long, to the second, as the Nicuagruan civil war. shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
@Dan Kurt Cobain actually said that Sandinista was the reason he became a musician. It was so bad he wanted to do something better. shared
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internetbt 1 year ago
Can i get away with saying Bloc Party's Weekend In The City was terrible, if I tell you i really really love Silent Alarms and Intimacy..?? shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
@internetbt I don't agree with you, but I can understand the position; they are all very different albums. Silent Alarm is really eclectic, sort of spikey post-punk sounding, Intimacy is a dance record, pure and simple, and Weekend in the City is a pop music concept album. They all differ hugely musically so I can see if you didn't like the direction of any opne of those albums you could argue the band deteriorated from record to record. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
@MikeP Hahaha...no shit? It is funny though, because it is an album that has some good songs on it, and it is far from the worst CLASH album, it is just bogged down by lots and lots of dross. shared
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AceMcWicked 1 year ago
Flux was one of my favourite tunes of 2008 eh, it was mega. shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
@internetbt Yeah man we can put Weekend In The City in there. Although I actually quite like it (it's definitely their weakest album though).

@Dan actually "Flux" was one of their between album singles, so will appear in the "Best Non-Album Singles" poll we're gonna do at some point (suggested by Mike Snow Hansen). Bloc Party released a single between each album and every single one of them is awesome: "Two More Years" after Silent Alarm, "Flux" after Weekend In The City, and "One More Chance" after Intimacy. shared
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squared99 1 year ago
is this a weezer free zone, or can we toss in Make Believe? I know some draw the line earlier, but when I heard the "preview release" of Beverly Hills I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach shared
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l_archer 1 year ago
problem is what exactly was "Make Believe' following up? Not the Green album (which was a hit), but Maladroit, which was only average. You could say that's where their slide downwards started.... shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
Yeah that's a good point, but I think we can include Make believe as it was the first time they were ever truly awful rather than average. Lets just say it was the follow up to their entire career so far, which until then had been pretty decent.

I felt the same way when I first heard "Beverly Hills" - definitely their worst lead single to date. At least the Red Album and Raditude had good lead singles, and current sngle "Memories" is a good 'un too. shared
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squared99 1 year ago
yeah maladroit isn't my favorite by any stretch, but it didn't hit me with the 'crash and burn' feeling Make Believe gave me and I could listen to it from start to finish without an overwhelming urge to skip a track, or even delete it from my library forever.

I was really looking forward to it for some reason and that made me feel even more disappointed.

I've liked a lot of their stuff since, but so far nothing has had the start to finish solidness of the earlier stuff. fingers always crossed though... shared
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The Zoup 1 year ago
@ayouens - could have been the drugs, or perhaps the lack of John Frusciante on OHM? Will be interesting to see what this new album sounds like without him... shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
Hey guys the poll is live now. I managed to squeeze most of your suggestions in there I think:
http://musichype.com/worst-follow-up-album/rank shared
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ayouens 1 year ago
@thezoup Yeah, John was brill...here's hoping the new album is super. I need some new, awesome RHCP. shared
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bsidebeats 1 year ago
God the list makes depressing reading doesn't it?

I once met this guy who had a record collection more or less along these lines. It was awful, you'd pull out a record and be like "oh cool, you like [x]. Oh THAT'S their only album you have?" Every record. Just awful. But he moved to Australia and he's dead now so it's ok.

Also I think I may be the only person who likes Sandanista. And Dan it's SIX sides, not four So it's even better! shared
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bsidebeats 1 year ago
Sorry, I can't even do it. I can't bring myself to rank any of them higher than zero equal. Can't physically do it. shared
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MikeP 1 year ago
Its OK for you, I had to listen to them all day as I put the poll together :-) shared

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