[Closed] Bands who used to be good.....

Joe Satriani
The Cult
And totally agree with Rush still being right up there.

Was going to suggest U2 and Red Hot Chilli Peppers until you said "and still are".

Edit: I see I've cross-threaded.

Iron Maiden.

My Bloody Valentine

Saw the Cult last year.

The still Rock!

New Model Army

Death in Vegas
Nick Cave
Bombay bicycle club

AC/DC

The Stranglers.

Iron Maiden? Nah. (And I am a big fan).

A massive slump since Somewhere in Time (and pushing it at that album) - only Final Frontier sees them anything like back to standard.

A massive slump since Somewhere in Time (and pushing it at that album) - only Final Frontier sees them anything like back to standard.

Seventh Son..., Brave New World, Dance of Death, A Matter of Life and Death, and Final Frontier all say otherwise.

Plus, their live shows have never been in doubt.

Take That 😆

Pearl Jam

D-A-D

Hoodoo Gurus

The Damned

Mikey - I really don't agree and neither do album sales.

And I *am* a fan - seen them about 10 times over the years (Beast on the Road tour was first, saw them last year). I just don't think any of the later albums are that good. Saying that, Fear of the Dark is one of my fave tracks by them...

Testament.

Machine Head - started awesome, went kind of crappy, then managed to pull it back to being awesome again. Unlike Metallica. -_-

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mikey74 - Member
Seventh Son..., Brave New World, Dance of Death, A Matter of Life and Death, and Final Frontier all say otherwise.

Plus, their live shows have never been in doubt.

johndoh - Member
Mikey - I really don't agree and neither do album sales.

And I *am* a fan - seen them about 10 times over the years (Beast on the Road tour was first, saw them last year). I just don't think any of the later albums are that good. Saying that, Fear of the Dark is one of my fave tracks by them...

There are still those that think anything post dianno isn't worth listening to....

I'll take each album and tour on it's own individual merits. I think they've still most definitely have it.

Now if this debate was about Metallica or Megadeth, as much as i like em, they're in need of some interesting material.

YM obviously MV 😉

Duran Duran surprised me with their most recent release so get a vote from me ! Saxon doing some good stuff... again. 🙂

Killing Joke

Got most of their stuff through from the first album to "Absolute Dissent" (personal favourite). Each album stands alone and brings something different to the table. Genius.

The Cure.

The Cure.

hmmmm as much I love them to bits, have seen them many, many times live and have everything from the meethook demo onwards, after disintegration they just sort of became a cure by numbers,,bloodflowers was really bad!

Stiff Little Fingers

Half Man Half Biscuit

There are still those that think anything post dianno isn't worth listening to....

<puts hand up>

Gotta say that Iron Maiden and Killers were far and away the best albums, but the best singles were definitely from NOTB, Powerslave etc.

Cowboy Junkies

Another good shout Markie, was thinking Cowboy Junkies as well.

Beastie Boys

Spiritualized

[i]Stiff Little Fingers[/i]
[i]Duran Duran[/i]

Please don't make me read this thread anymore.. it's silly.

I only have one thing to contribute - Underworld.

Hilarious input from many and some choices.
Bands that were mleh that I still like is a more accurate thread description

More of a one man band, Steve Earle knocking out great music since the 80's.

Rolling Stones, judging by ticket sales.

Have to say the latest ZZ Top single I heard was pretty good. 😳

I also quite liked the Public Enemy single that I think was the theme for the Paralympics.

The Beatles have recorded more recent 'good' music than the Stones. Its close on 40 years since they did anything remotely acceptable.

But at least the Beatles had the good grace to knock it on the head, then go and get shot/become a tedious, lecturing, weird-haired bore*

* delete as applicable, depending which one of them you prefer

The Beatles have recorded more recent 'good' music than the Stones. Its close on 40 years since they did anything remotely acceptable.

Think it might be well more than 40 years since the Beatles recorded anything, good or bad.

I guess I should have put a winky in my post.

Sorry vinny, my sarcasm filter was off 😀

I find the idea of people paying the exorbitant ticket prices the Stones charge, to watch a bunch of pensioners who haven't done anything decent for 40 years, absolutely incomprehensible

Mikey - I really don't agree and neither do album sales.

Rubbish. The only ones that really fell away were the ones they recorded while Bruce wasn't in the band (not surprising, really). In the US "Fear of the Dark" is their highest selling studio album ever, which really destroys your "after Somewhere in Time" theory.

I'm hoping that

808 State, The Farm and The Happy Mondays will be, as I'm seeing them this May, but I doubt it. 😐

Still, tickets were cheap and it's in Brizzle so I don't really care.

Rubbish. The only ones that really fell away were the ones they recorded while Bruce wasn't in the band (not surprising, really). In the US "Fear of the Dark" is their highest selling studio album ever, which really destroys your "after Somewhere in Time" theory.

So Fear of the Dark’s 3m worldwide sales matches NOTBs 6.5m worldwide sales? I won’t even mention album sales post Fear of the Dark...

And as for my theory... Somewhere in Time sold 4.5m worldwide, Seventh Son only managed to sell 3.5m and all the subsequent albums (up to Final Frontier which I have already said is back to something like their best) fared as badly or much worse.

Don’t know why you are upset about this - I am a fan but facts are facts.

Who said I was upset? Where are your figures coming from? None of the ones I've found reflect that.

Anyway, since when has album sales been a reflection of quality?

The Farm were never "good" DD! The epitomy of average.

"Groovy Train" was the soundtrack of one memorable summer for me 🙂

The Farm were never "good" DD! The epitomy of average.

Oh, I couldn't care less mate. I liked Spartacus and if they come on and play a bit of that, that'll do.

dezB they were good at being average 😉

Where are your figures coming from? None of the ones I've found reflect that.

Anyway, since when has album sales been a reflection of quality?

[i]it’s entirely subjective.[/i]

Hey hey! We're talking music here. Facts is facts 😉

😛

And yet No Prayer for the Dying was their first ever album to achieve a gold disc in Italy...go figure.

Well if you use that argument then neither of us can win - it’s entirely subjective.

Bingo!!! Your prize is a plastic kazoo.

Well your argument is sewn up then if they got one gold album in one territory. Perhaps they did a big tour there or headlined a festival that year?

And people say STW is full of nerds.....

'NO! THIS IS THE BEST IRON MAIDEN ALBUM'
'ACTUALLY I THINK YOU'LL FIND.......'

🙂

I thought Iron Maiden just released the same album lots of times with different scary monsters on the cover?

Well, technically the same scary monster called Eddie - originally designed by an artist called Derek Riggs (and I know this, along with lots more Maiden 'facts', without Googling).

Yes. STW is full of nerds.

I've got some tinsel for your plastic kazoo John 😀

My goggle fu isn't up to it - I can't find album sales numbers that I've any confidence in being accurate as they're not consistent.

Yes. STW is full of nerds.

/Raises hand 🙂

[i]Well, technically the same scary monster called Eddie[/i]

hm. I knew that too, but tried to pretend that I didn't.

Looking at most of the bands here who are described as being, at one point, "good", I fear my understanding of the word's meaning is in peril of being revised, as it may be inaccurate.

Edward T Head wasn't really scary though was he? I mean you could see him off playing golf with Alice Cooper at the weekend couldn't you?

😆

(He was slightly scary on the first album cover and very menacing as a silhouette on the Running Free single cover but he did get a bit soft later on).

But hands up all those who looked for semi naked women in the windows on the Killers album cover?

#handisup

Final Frontier Eddie has gone scary again, though. The one that appeared from behind the backline during "Iron Maiden" on the last tour was fantastic (although I will always have a soft spot for "mummy" Eddie on the World Slavery tour).

def with Pigface on D-A-D, and got tickets to see them again in a week and a half 😀

I met them all during the World Slavery tour (before a gig in Sheffield). As a 15 yr old I was very excited. Still have the autographed copy of Kerrang somewhere.

Leaving aside the wrangling about a fairly average metal band, lets get back to the original subject.
Agree with ZZTop, Cowboy Junkies, My Bloody Valentine, and I'll add Elbow, The Shins, Arcade Fire, Stars, Metric and Calexico, who I saw last night. Last saw them on the Hot Rail Tour, thirteen years ago, and, aside from a small tour with Iron & Wine several years ago, haven't done a full band tour since. They were outstanding, absolutely brilliant, the whole band were having a whale of a time.

I'm going to be controversial and say Metallica...they've put out a few duffers but I like Death Magnetic and they're still ace live. Although Lars is an absolute tool.

Agree on Machine Head, although for me they'll never top Burn My Eyes.

def with Pigface on D-A-D, and got tickets to see them again in a week and a half

Going to be there as well 😀

I'll also chuck in Shadows Fall, Lamb of God, Alter Bridge and In Flames (who seem to get better and better).

The Cult
The Cure
The Rifles
The Sex Pistols

Capdown
Rancid
NOFX

Maybe I just grew up a bit

Seeing the Happy Mondays about 5 years ago was an experience so bad that I wished I had been as out of my head the first, and only other, time I saw then.....then I experienced a moment of clarity, what if they were just crap all along?

Count Zero - were you at the Brighton Calexico show? It was rather fantastic

The Prodigy!

And I think Metallica are getting better with age...although I also rate Johnson as high as Bon Scott. Different but just as good.

Metallica are getting better with age 😯

grievoustim - Member

Count Zero - were you at the Brighton Calexico show? It was rather fantastic