Disappointing SECOND albums ..

[SunnyLeslie]

Exactly.. plus the first album is basically a collection of years and years songs then they pick the best ... turn suddenly they are touring and promoting the album but the record company want them to record a second album .

Well, very often the first album is written when the group is created. When it comes to a production project. But nuggets of songs in a lifetime can have 10 albums. The question is quality. A real creator sometimes improves over time, which means that the first songs may not be so impressive.

[Cartimand]

"the theory is that the artists cram all their life's best songs into their first LP ..."

A band that bucked that trend though was Genesis.

Trespass - their second album, was orders of magnitude better than the instantly forgettable From Genesis to Revelation.