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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Green Day - Dookie

Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac

System of a down - Toxicity

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf

The Offspring - Smash

I love that game!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree that Songs for the deaf is QOTSA's magnum opus, but majority of their other albums are bangers too and it feels unfair to say they fell off after it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh for sure, I can listen to all their albums and be totally happy no matter which one I chose, SftD just has something special.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Also a great album, I just feel the other two were their peak and contrary to Green Day (that I also mentioned), I've continued listening to Radiohead, including their new albums and they're all great!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Fair enough 'Steal This Album' has a few flat tracks but there are so many great songs. Also, every song on Mezmerize is wicked. Granted, not in the same mood as Toxicity but far out... So so good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Disagree on Green Day and SoaD, imo American Idiot is green days best album and Mezmerize and Hypnotize are slightly better than Toxicity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I just really don't like Daron's voice 😂

As for Green Day, I feel like American idiot is the album where we could see they were really letting go of their punk roots and wanted to make stuff that would sell... But Dookie was my first cassette ever so I'm biased.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's fair, and dookie is a really good album, though I do like american idiot more. Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming, Holiday, Boulevard and American Idiot are just such bangers and the concept of the album is just really cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Songs for the Deaf is incredible, but how could you say they fell off when ~~Like Clockwork~~ Era Vulgaris exists and is clearly their best album all the way through?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

100%

Era Vulgaris is by far my favorite album of theirs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

"fell off" is interpreted very strongly by some, I just see it as "here's their peak, after that they never made something quite as good as that"

And to me that's SftD even if EV is still awesome!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'd have to disagree with QotSA, but I can definitely see why. I'm a huuuge fan of theirs, but for some reason every new QotSA album seems to take years for me to fully appreciate. I absolutely hated Era Vulgaris when it first came out. It's by far my favorite album of theirs now. Even ...like clockwork is barely starting to really grow on me, but I'm definitely coming around. I haven't even bothered to listen to their newest one yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No way with Green Day. Insomniac, Nimrod, and American Idiot are all excellent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The thing that impresses me so much about Green Day is that they peaked, had the usual big falloff in quality a few albums later, then they peaked again about a decade after Dookie. I can't think of any other band that managed to do this off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep. Although I really just think of Warning as one OK album in a run of great first 7 albums, which is a pretty remarkable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

QoS has a bunch of awesome albums after Songs for the Deaf. Unless we're talking about popularity, but quality def not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I never said they don't, I said that to me it's the best and nothing else they released was as good, it doesn't mean the rest isn't good.