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In reply to the discussion: Name a musician you dearly love, but admit also produced some unlistenable crap. [View all]Codeine
(25,586 posts)57. U2. The Cure. Depeche Mode.
Usually the longer a band sticks around the worse they get.
The Smiths, for example, never put out a bad album because they lasted a very short time. Morrissey certainly dropped a few stinkers in his solo career, however. Bauhaus flamed out before the crap started; Love and Rockets dragged on and on and just got awful.
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Name a musician you dearly love, but admit also produced some unlistenable crap. [View all]
Throd
May 2012
OP
Neil Young, almost EVERYTHING from the 1980s. 7 albums, 5 of them SUCKED HORRIBLY.
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
#1
Weren't those first 80's album done because he wanted to get out of a contract or something?
harmonicon
May 2012
#21
That would coincide perfectly with Neil's flirtation with the Reagan dark side
KamaAina
May 2012
#30
I don't know about the two gospel albums, but 'Slow Train Coming' is awesome!
DutchLiberal
May 2012
#62
You're the first I heard that discovered LZ so late, but the point is you got there.
Populist_Prole
May 2012
#72
Yeah, but Brain Salad Surgery isn't what most consider "listenable" - well, unless they're wasted.
HopeHoops
May 2012
#14
Depeche Mode is kind of like a fine wine - some years are just better than others.
Initech
May 2012
#65
Probably most of them, but the one who first comes to mind is Paul McCartney
LeftishBrit
May 2012
#78