"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.
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Originally posted by Zincubus View PostExactly.. 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 .
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Originally posted by Richard1978
I think many acts struggle with a second album because they have less time to record it compared to the first one, & often ending up having to use left over tracks from the first one, or else going in a different direction & losing fans as the end result is too different.
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Originally posted by Richard1978I can think of quite a few artists who had a very good first album (I probably 2-3 hit singles from it) then either broke up before releasing another album or else released another one that wasn't as good as the first.
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A lot of bands release 1-2 good albums, after which it seems as if their creative potential ends. It seems to me that these are just one-day groups. Such ones arise in our days, arise, grab their piece of glory and profit and disappear into oblivion.
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I was disappointed in the second album by The Sundays. Oddly a lot of people say it was their favorite but I found at best one track worth having whereas I loved the first, and the much later, third albums. To a lesser degree I found the second album by the New York group Television disappointing, except there is one track on it, Days, that I really love. Again their first, and much later, third albums I treasure.
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After the classic Lexicon of Love, ABC’s follow up , Beauty Stab , was such a let down
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A band local to Chesterfield called Saracen released a cracking first album "Heroes, Saints and Fools" in 1981, full of pomp and catchy rock riffs. However the 1984 follow up "A Change of Heart" was exactly that: weak, weedy and distinctly not living up to the promise of their debut.
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Re: Disappointing SECOND albums ..
King Crimson's "In the Wake of Poseidon" was nowhere near as good as their classic first album "In the Court of the Crimson King."
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Re: Disappointing SECOND albums ..
Originally posted by zabadak View PostWow, that was the one I was going to say!
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Re: Disappointing SECOND albums ..
Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge was a bit of a disappointment after Tubular Bells.
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Re: Disappointing SECOND albums ..
Endlessly by Duffy, not awful but not nearly as good as the her debut Rockferry.
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