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Difficult Second Album Syndrome

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  • #32
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    It's bizarre how KoL went from just another indie band to biggest group in the world.


  • #33
    dr oatker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭dr oatker


    Use your illusion albums were a bit messy compared to the rock monster that was Appetite For Destruction, they should have got rid of the filler and released one album. That was a difficult second (and third) album, and the less said about the fourth the better.

    Dog Man Star is better than Suede

    As for a band who dipped after the first album but came back what about the Manics?
    Generation Terrorists followed by Gold Against the Soul followed by the Holy Bible
    I'd also argue that Bleach is a better album than Nevermind and that In Utero is better again than Bleach


  • #34
    The Hustler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭The Hustler


    dr oatker wrote: »
    Use your illusion albums were a bit messy compared to the rock monster that was Appetite For Destruction, they should have got rid of the filler and released one album. That was a difficult second (and third) album, and the less said about the fourth the better.

    Dog Man Star is better than Suede

    As for a band who dipped after the first album but came back what about the Manics?
    Generation Terrorists followed by Gold Against the Soul followed by the Holy Bible
    I'd also argue that Bleach is a better album than Nevermind and that In Utero is better again than Bleach


    Both Generation Terrorists and Gold Against the Soul are 6 out of 10 albums though, far too much filler and only the singles really stand out, and I'm a huge Manics fan!


  • #35
    Bubs101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    The bands that tend to qualify for second album syndrome tend to need a good first album. I'd imagine that the likes of Wilco,Nirvana,Blur, Muse and Radiohead didn't feel the pressure because for the most part (bar the likes of Too far apart, creep and muscle museum) their first albums are crap to average at best. For them, second album syndrome isn't much of an issue because there's no pressure.

    For the likes of Oasis, Nine inch Nails and the Arcade Fire for example it's much harder to deliver because they have so much further to develop. When you release a great first album you instantly put pressure on yourself to repeat the trick and some bands just cannot deliver (We are Scientists or the Stone Roses for instance). Doesn't mean their crap


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