ITT: Great albums that don't get any recognition because it wasn't a rehash of the bands mos famous album

ITT: Great albums that don't get any recognition because it wasn't a rehash of the bands mos famous album.

I'll go first.

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>Television
>good

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Pygmalion is just as good as Souvlaki its true but i feel like at least people who are fans of Slowdive recognize this. Television fans only like to jerk off to Marquee Moon all day.

strokes - room on fire

very suspicious indeed

I've heard people say that they're practically the same album but I wouldn't know because I haven't heard either of them desu

Television get some really great songs in here. Great album, just a shame that the album that predicated it defined a genre.
Room on fire is a good album but it is the exact same as this is it. That's why it didn't have the same impact

So that just begs the question: If you release a genre defining record like Marquee Moon or Is This It? How should you release your next album, if even make another one at all? If its too similar it will be ignored. If its too different, it will be compared to much to what you made before. Sort of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation depending on how much you care about your bands legacy.

I recently read through Chris Ott's Ask.FM and he actually said something about this. He stated that Interpol and the Strokes should have never released albums after their first. His reasoning is that they were working in a well established genre, so when they made their mark with instant-classics there was nothing more they could do. This is in contrast to a group like Public Enemy, who also made a mark early in their career, but since the genre of Hip-Hop was less established the kinda had to keep going because the genre had no expansive history like those rock sub-genres.

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You break up and reform under a new name. This is the best method.

A Weekend in the City. Retards were expecting Silent Alarm 2 so people said it was shit and didn't judge the music on its own merits.

>because it wasn't a rehash
or because it wasn't as good. Adventure is ignored because it just isn't that good.

i did an American Guitar Music thread about non-Marquee Moon Verlaine albums - good shit - a while back

This album just has such deeper, darker grooves than entertainment

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Listen to it again, friend. :)

this

But clearly that doesn't apply to every band. If that was the case then bands like King Crimson and The Velvet Underground shouldn't have continued to make albums but they still did and they are equally revered along with their "peak" album.

i dunno

this is pretty fucking far from a rehash

re-read the OP

you need to try to build more on the ideas you established on the first album. if it's too different or a complete rehash, people won't like it

>If that was the case then bands like King Crimson and The Velvet Underground shouldn't have continued to make albums but they still did and they are equally revered along with their "peak" album.
Well that's different, because those bands were working within a still rather fresh genre at the time.

The Strokes and Interpol were doing the "post-punk/garage rock revival" thing, essentially making albums that stylistically could have been made 20 years prior, but just doing them exceptionally well. It would have made sense for them to call it quits early on because there wasn't really any room for them to develop upon that already well-trodden ground.

I really like several songs on here but others are sound like a boneless entertainment.

Anything DJ Shadow made after Endtroducing.

too bad half of the songs sound the same

Marquee Moon sounds timeless, while Adventure just screams 'from the second half of the seventies'
I think Gang of Four was never a good enough band to make another good album, to begin with. They reach their limit in Entertainment. They always struck me as one-trick ponies (Andy Gill's guitar playing)

They're worth listening to imo. They're both just good albums if you like catchy rock music

really anything rev and vega worked on after suicide
the second album sounds like suicide going pop and it's actually really good, ric ocasek worked on it too

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I agree, A Way of Life is great. Surrender is a exceptional dream pop song but it also sticks out like a sore thumb among all the other normal synth punk tracks.

What other album sounds like Adventure? I get it has a chill 70's vibe to it but it still sounds uniquely Television.

IMO Marquee Moon just has a different kind of energy compared to Adventure and that's why no one has been able to replicate it. Like Marquee Moon has this "fast-paced and anxious" vibe like its trying to reach the end of the album as fast as possible.