The original post: /r/music by /u/Apollo-Moonchild-69 on 2024-10-12 12:21:08.
What do you think are some of the biggest fall offs in music? Here are some I can think of:
Animal Collective: AnCo's run of albums from 2005-2009 was legendary and Merriweather Post Pavilion had put them on top of the indie world. When they came back with Centipede Hz. in 2012, it was more of a whimper than a bang (I like it, but it's only a 7/10 at best). Then they followed that up with their worst album yet (excluding the noisey shit like Danse Manatee): Painting With, which is one of the most grating albums I've ever listened to. They released a decent pair of albums in 2022 and 2023, but not many people seemed to be paying attention, at least not nearly as much as when MPP came out.
Chance The Rapper: While I never liked this guy at all, it seems like he had quite the fanbase for having only released mixtapes and no proper album. However, once The Big Day came out, he became a laughing stock and 5 years later, still no new album. The "I love my wife" memes were great though.
Muse: They started as a Radiohead ripoff (albeit with some great tunes), but then became a little too bombastic and over the top. Their first 4 albums are great, but everything after has been pretty meh, especially their last two albums.
U2: People love to hate on U2, but their run from 1980-1993 is an important part of the rock canon. They put out some incredible music in their first decade and a half. 1997's Pop wasn't that good, but then they came back with 2000's All That You Can't Leave Behind, which is actually a solid return to form. Everything after this has been quite abysmal though, and we're talking a quarter of a century of decline at this point. The automatically downloaded album on iTunes did them no favours, especially considering it was like a weed and kept coming back every time you deleted it. After 2 and a half decades of sucking, mixed with Bono's personality, people seem to forget the great music they made and just think of the shell of a band that they now are.
Weezer: This band had two of the greatest albums of the 90s and then fell off hard in the millenium. Most of this can be attributed to the then sour reception of Pinkerton, where Rivers Cuomo swore off writing personal lyrics and decided to make pop music instead and collaborate with plenty of outside songwriters. There were some decent albums along the way like Everything Will Be Alright In The End and Weezer (White Album), but they have not managed to match anything from their first two albums.