One Album Wonders
Well, this is a first… I’ve been tagged for a meme. Thanks Heliologue.
Basically, I’m to name 3-5 bands who have exactly one good album to their name. So without further ado:
Powerman 5000. Tonight The Stars Revolt! is great, with the 60’s Sci-Fi nostalgia it has about it; just a good combination of simple metal with a slight industrial influence. Buuut, their material before that was just… odd (not in a good way), and then they got ruined by 9/11 when Anyone For Doomsday? was slated for release that day, prompting them to hold it off completely, following up instead with Transform. Yay for generic hard rock!
Disturbed. Down With The Sickness. It’s nu-metal, yeah, but I think Dramain’s vocals are damn good on it and no two songs sound the same. Neither of which can be said of Believe, which was just flat out boring both vocally and instrumentally. And I just heard the single off their new one, which sounds exactly like something from Believe. Imagine that.
Nirvana. Nevermind is their only solid album. Every other release consists of about two decent tracks and a lot of crap that sounds exactly the same… I wonder how many LESS people would put them on a pedestal if Kurt hadn’t shot himself. And if I hear one more person go off on how “ooh, it was Courtney! I know it was!” I may smack them. Shut the fuck up. Just because you read a suicide note doesn’t make you a damn expert; that’s what crime scene investigators are for.
Well that’s it I suppose. It’s so much easier to think of bands that released only a few good songs as opposed to albums. However, I’d like to mention Paradise Lost and Green Carnation as bands that released absolutely incredible albums (Gothic & Light of Day, Day of Darkness, respectively) and followed up with albums that weren’t so much bad as just disappointing. Paradise Lost moved from doom metal to generic goth rock (Draconian Times is flat out boring, and I honestly don’t understand the hype around it), and GC went kinda prog metal-ish. Which is a shame, I loved the vocals on LoDDoD and the long, atmospheric instrumental sections. I’m told In The Woods is quite similar in sound to that album, but damned if I can find any of their material.
And yes, I’ll get back to my real ranting and raving soon.