Hal-5700X@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agoWhich album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off?message-squaremessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1126arrow-down1message-squareWhich album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off?Hal-5700X@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agomessage-square152fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarersh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down2·5 months agoSmashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness R.E.M. - Automatic for the people
minus-squareEjh3k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoI don’t know is Mellon collie was a huge drop off, but their direction definitely changed.
minus-squaremisericordiae@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-25 months agoI agree with both of you. I’m very fond of everything by them up through the American Gothic EP, but Mellon Collie is still kinda the peak.
minus-squareEjh3k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoPeak, yes. But it’s not like their next couple of albums were terrible. They were just a different direction.
minus-squaremisericordiae@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoOh absolutely. Adore was actually the album that got me into them.
minus-squares_s@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 months agoGish is a transcendental album that created the genre that dominated the next 20 years: alternative rock. Everything after Gish might have been more popular or well known, but none of it will ever approach being as influential.
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
R.E.M. - Automatic for the people
I don’t know is Mellon collie was a huge drop off, but their direction definitely changed.
I agree with both of you. I’m very fond of everything by them up through the American Gothic EP, but Mellon Collie is still kinda the peak.
Peak, yes. But it’s not like their next couple of albums were terrible. They were just a different direction.
Oh absolutely. Adore was actually the album that got me into them.
Gish is a transcendental album that created the genre that dominated the next 20 years: alternative rock.
Everything after Gish might have been more popular or well known, but none of it will ever approach being as influential.