I used to love Arcade Fire. Now they are rubbish. Any others?

New AF album is fantastic!

I used to love Quavers,now I think they are rubbish.

Much as it saddens me to say so, Depeche Mode started to lose it after Violator. Songs of Faith and Devotion was pretty weak and while Ultra sought of got things back a little before going right off the rails with, well I would even have to look up the name of the album after that.

Losing Alan Wilder was the end of their good run.

New AF album it utterly turgid and awful you mean Shirley?

Queen.

This has to be a toss-up between Jefferson Airplane and Van Halen, with the latter just taking it. VH went from being a groundbreaking juggernaut to bloated bobbins overnight with the loss of DLR.

One word “Muse”

U2, Oasis, Primal Scream, MGMT, Stone Roses, many more…

Metallica – St Anger.
Dear god.

Oh and The Editors when they abandoned guitars.

I like Van Halen. I like Extreme.

Cherone in VH though……

Jamie T
Flogging Molly
Gorillaz
Crystal Castles
Die Antwoord

Weezer 🙁

Oh god Weezer. We have a winner

Hanson.

Coldplay. Their early stuff was hauntingly good but now I just want to stamp on his face repeatedly.

Madness, first album was good then it all got a bit ‘Chuckle Brothers’.

Coldplay. Their early stuff was hauntingly good

It really wasn’t. It started off bloody awful then got progressively worse.

Doesn’t the law of diminishing returns apply to every band. None more so than the Rolling Stones

Red Hot Chilli Peppers after John F left, then when he left again until their last album which is great.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers after Hilel died. 🙂

JAMC, Eminem, Flying Lotus, Manic Street Preachers, Prodigy.

Foo Fighters – Started great, now garbage.

Kings of Leon – 3 good albums then a load of cobblers.

Status Quo.
Little Feat.
Dexy’s.
Guns and Roses.
Dire Straits.
Genesis.
Yes.
Iron Maiden.
Pistols.

DezB – Member
U2, Oasis, Primal Scream, MGMT, Stone Roses, many more…

I can forgive U2 for Achtung Baby, but yeah….
😐

Daphne and Celeste

reading fesival being their highpoint

Metallica after 1991 – their Black album broke them into the bigtime and put them more in the public domain but they were never the same after that. St Anger was utter dogshit. They have never bettered Master of Puppets in 86 so you could urgue they were on their way down even then \m/

Status Quo.
Little Feat.
Dexy’s.
Guns and Roses.
Dire Straits.
Genesis.
Yes.
Iron Maiden.
Pistols.

I said ‘bad’ not retired 🙂

Iron Maiden have retired?

😮

I agree with a lot of the bands mentioned above diverging from what I like to listen to, but surely a lot of this has to do with how we develop our listening tastes and what direction the band takes?

lostphrophets.

went really bad! 😯

Metallica after 1991 – their Black album broke them into the bigtime and put them more in the public domain but they were never the same after that. St Anger was utter dogshit. They have never bettered Master of Puppets in 86 so you could urgue they were on their way down even then \m/

100% agree!

but surely a lot of this has to do with how we develop our listening tastes and what direction the band takes?

Well, yes. One or the other or both, in all cases I’d say!

I wouldn’t put Iron Maiden in this thread – they went bad. Really bad. But the last two albums have had some pretty decent high points and perhaps one of their best tracks ever was during a period of crapness – Fear of the Dark.

Little Feat post Lowell George were nowhere near as good.

I read somewhere that most bands (that are actually good as opposed to just hyped) have three good albums in them.

Did you believe it?

Prodigy seem to have been on a steady decline since fat of the land.

Doesn’t the law of diminishing returns apply to every band. None more so than the Rolling Stones

Clutch are the exception that proves the rule I guess.

I read somewhere that most bands (that are actually good as opposed to just hyped) have three good albums in them.

See above

I read somewhere that most bands (that are actually good as opposed to just hyped) have three good albums in them.

The one about being the poor underdog with actual material

The one about coke and hookers

The difficult third album