Ask Lemmy

Boston is the first that comes to mind for me. there's their self-titled which is easily one of the best records of all time, and then everything that came wasn't exactly bad but it was nowhere near the same level

Pearl jam has fallen so far and that's all I'll say about it.

Bear with me on this one. Stadium Arcadian by the red hot chili peppers.

They've had other good albums before and after this one. But stadium Arcadian is so good everything else pales in comparison to such a degree that anything outside that album is trash.

The Queen is Dead is the only Smiths album I like, the others just don't do it for me.

Sleigh Bells - Treats

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

Hooray For Earth - True Loves

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

Dayglow - Fuzzybrain

The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

LEN - You can’t stop the bumrush

Other than the one pop song that got tons of radio play, it’s a great album. It’s still a great listen.

Every other album or song since then seems to be a weak grasp.

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stone Temple Pilots both have controversial albums that illicit love or hate from their fans.

Train. Drops of Jupiter was, in my opinion, just perfect. Others after that were meh at best, trying to recapture the spark that DOJ was. I always figured it was when a band loses one of its member, things like this happen…

Closure in Moscow, Pink Lemonade is an incredible album with such amazing style and intensity and I don't understand how it's the same band as some of their other things.

One of my favourite black metal albums is Rain Upon the Impure by The Ruins of Beverast. Nothing he's done before or since comes even close to the perfection of that album.

Groove Armada’s Black Light.

I highly doubt if anyone but me is listening to it.

Other Tragically Hip albums have some standout tracks, but the only album of theirs I really enjoy beginning-to-end is Fully Completely.

The album Colours from Graffiti6 was so good, I'm still mad about the crap album they released after that (it was also their last)...

And to a lesser extend, Miike Snow's first album was sooo good. Everything they've put out after that was mediocre at best.

Alt-J has also been going down hill ever since the first album. It's still decent, but if I had to rate the albums from good to bad, it would be equal to the release order. Saw them live two years ago and it was meh as well.

wall of voodoo and fine young canibals but its not like they had huge discographys although I love stan ridgeways later solo stuff.

Remo Drive - Greatest Hits (which isn't a greatest hits album) definitely fits the description. It's extra sad since it's their debut album, so it falls into your sophomore slump category. I respect the decision to not repeat themselves though, but I can't help to feel like they would be able to make an album that both pleases the fans garnered from the first, and which isn't just a rehash.

Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers

I think the popularity of Stacy’s Mom really scared them. But everything on the album is amazing. Interstate Managers was their third album. The other two albums following Interstate Managers were good, but not at that power pop level that Interstate Managers reached.

Ryan's Hope - Apocalypse in Increments. It's from 2006 but I didn't discover it until around 2012, by which point they'd already rebranded as The Reaganomics and adopted a more pop-punk sound that didn't resonate with me.

Regular Urban Survivors by Terrorvision. Most people probably know them by way of their subsequent album, Shaving Peaches, but RUS is far superior.