Cryptowen Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Counterpoint to that other thread Discuss musicians who released albums ranging from aight to meh to supahshit before moving on to bigger & better things. Maybe they needed time to hone their craft, maybe they rushed the first album, maybe they went for years unsuccessfully trying to do one thing before trying something totally different & nailing it. Of course lots of musicians improve there skills over time, so it's probably better to focus more on cases of "whoa where did that come from" than slight gradual improvement. For me: -Tom Waits. He didn't go crazy until like a decade into his career -Beach Boys going from surfrock to Pet Sounds I'm drawing a blank right now but I know I had more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Radiohead and Beck are two notable ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Meh worthy debuts, uphill afterwards (well, kinda): Mobb Deep – Juvenile Hell (downhill again after Hell On Earth) Talk Talk - The Party's Over Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy Susumu Yokota - The Frankfurt-Tokyo Connection (that's his debut, right?) None these artists has had weak albums for me, but their later stuff has just been better. So they are not exactly "meh". But anyway: Machinedrum - Now You Know Jetone (later Tim Hecker) Caribou – The Milk Of Human Kindness Four Tet – Dialogue Biosphere - Microgravity (N-Plants kind of meh) Cujo (later Amon Tobin) (ISAM was also a bit meh) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 chris clark - clarence park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kokeboka Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 My Bloody Valentine Blur The Beatles The Knife Wilco Depeche Mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 chris clark - clarence park I don't agree with that. Body Riddle might be his best effort. But Clarence Park is one of Clark's best albums in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest couch Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Autechre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Autechre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest couch Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Yea I figured that would happen. rofl But I mean like...you can see how their style developed. Especially in the first 5 albums. It's at it's most basic on Incubala of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Yea I figured that would happen. rofl But I mean like...you can see how their style developed. Especially in the first 5 albums. It's at it's most basic on Incubala of course. Well.. They've never really made a bad album (phanboi comment). So it could end up as a very very long discussion, and one there's probably already been a million times before. But Incunabula is probably my favorite of theirs. And I don't care if Rob & Sean has called it "cheesy" themselves. I love that album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Chris Clark was also the first to spring to mind for me, but i don't know that each album has been a steady improvement. Close to it, for sure. Wilco, Beatles and Tom Waits are all close to steadily improving throughout their careers. Hmm... Meshuggah and Merzbow perhaps. Oh, and Nick Cave. *edit: Nirvana, Elliott Smith. I don't really think any of these artists have released mediocre albums, save maybe Chris Clark's debut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Autechre Aphex Twin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest couch Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 But you can get where I'm coming from though right? (@ Dropp) dont hate me :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 But you can get where I'm coming from though right? (@ Dropp) dont hate me :( Sure I can. Choosing which is better: early ae, mid ae or late ae. That's a tough one, I love it all. And i'm sure most users here om watmm feels the same. But it just happens to be early Auchre that's slightly better to me Goddamnit I feel like such a fanboy right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest couch Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Cool, fwiw Autechre is my favorite of our featured artists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Autechre I'm not a tru fan but I agree, they didn't really get good until untilted (save a few tracks on LP5). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak of the week Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Autechre I'm not a tru fan but I agree, they didn't really get good until untilted (save a few tracks on LP5). Wouldn't agree. My favourites are Confield and Draft 7.30, closely followed by Tri Repetae. Tracks like Parhelic Triangle, Uviol, Surripere and V-Proc are in my opinion the pinnacles of their career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest couch Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Perhaps my problem with Incunabala is when I put it on I think "oh sweet, mellow early 90s techno with a slight srs bsns vibe to it". But anything afterwards I think "fuck yea Autechre!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 I know it's probably not a cool thing to say round these parts, but: Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective. And also, Autechre's best releases in order from amazing to great go: Confield, Draft 7.30, Gantz Graf, Untilted, and then the rest is up for debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Lol at these Autechre posts! Each to their own though, but I can't get involved with this thread now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 ^Of course Autechre's involvement in this thread was inevitable. It's Watmm for christ sake. /last post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest couch Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 lool, my bad. :( I like your gifs tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Well I was actually just using that post as an excuse to use that gif, lol. /last post(2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 David Bowie R.E.M. needs a thread meh to great to meh...or "ok, good, great, really great, good, meh, really dull, bad, ok again and now we quit" Flying Lotus (arguably) and Boards of Canada, if you start with Twoism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 bob dylan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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