name a band that ****** you off because they got soft. (1 Viewer)

[wnelson]

the change was Justice's peak to the black album's commercial colossal sell out.

death magnetic was really ******* good

 

[GhostFace]

name a rapper that got soft.

Lil 'Wayne

 

[GhostFace]

The album, Good News For People Who Love Bad News, marked the death of Modest Mouse.

 

[Surviving Saint]

I'll say it first.

Metallica.

As soon as I saw the thread title this was my first choice. Once Cliff died the band sort of died with him. They had to change direction and imo never came close to reproducing the sound they once had.

 

[jbourque]

I'm with you on Justice being their greatest album, but I know that's a minority opinion. All their albums up to that one are masterpieces, hard to pick.

In my opinion Blackened is probably the best metal song ever written, so the nod for me goes to And Justice For All.

We've all heard it a million times, but I'll link it anyway :rock:

Ride the Lightning will always be my favorite. It was my introduction to Metallica.

 

[ktulu909]

Staind.I could listen to Dysfunction for days on end,but after Outside hit,it went downhill (although the new album does bring back some of the old aggression)

 

[saintsbank]

Lil 'Wayne

lol i was being a lil sarcastic about the band/rap situation, but yeah him too. after the first carter album i stopped listening.

 

[antipop]

Soundgarden got "soft" after Badmotorfinger...

although, i am not sure what that implies....they continued to make good music...but Badmotorfinger was their best

i also just like typing Badmotorfinger

 

[GhostFace]

I always liked typing ultramega ok.

 

[Symbiote]

I used to listen to a lot of heavy metal, before I got warped into Blues, Jazz and R&B, and I have to agree with the Metallica talk. It's cool to experiment, but I think they just sold out. Alternative Grunge was popular during the mid 90's, then they release Load and Reload. Nu-Metal garbage was huge in the early 2000's, so they make an album with the guitars all tuned down that sounded very bad. I'm waiting on them to write a rap/metal album next with some stupid rapper, cause that seems to be really popular right now




I'm going to go on an edge here and say the Stones made me angry getting softer. You listen to all their stuff from the 60's to the mid 70's, and when Mick Taylor was in the band, they had such an edge. Without him, no Exile on Main St., no Sticky Fingers, and no classic live album in Get Your Ya Ya's Out. But after he quit, and Ronnie Wood joins the band, they sound so dull. You can argue Some Girls as being a "great" album (I say it's OK, but not their best) but they really started going downhill after Taylor left. All the guitar work sounds so flat and dull, especially live when they try and get Ronnie Wood to play his stuff, they have been butchering Rocks Off, Can't You Hear Me Knockin', and Wild Horses ever since he left.

 

[ld_in_sc]

while he has always had some 'soft' tunes, i have always lamented the sobriety of elton john. he had much harder/intense music when he was a drunk heterosexual

 

[Symbiote]

You can also say David Bowie.

Bowie gave us some of the best albums of all time in the 1970's. You got Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station, Heroes, Hunky Dory, and going into the 1980's he gives us Scary Monsters which showed he was still on top of his game, but then he comes out with the abomination of Let's Dance, and the ONLY reason people even like that song is Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar solo. Take that solo out and the song is god awful, just like the album is. I also will dispute that China Girl was only a hit because of the solo in it too.

I still find it extremely odd he has a good guitar album in Scary Monsters, then when he has one of the greatest Blues guitar players to ever live on his next album, we get a crappy pop record that only has one good song on it (Cat People, SRV tore it up on that track)

After 1981, the only good thing Bowie did was jump start SRV's career.

 

[AndyG]

Really old stuff ...

Queen: Some say Jazz was the moment, others The Game, but by Hot Space, it was all over... except it wasn't quite, of course. But none of the aforementioned can hold a candle to any of the first six albums. Brian May was for years reduced to maybe one rock track an album, and side projects like Star Fleet (with Eddie Van Halen), or the little known "I go Crazy" which never even made it to an album, but ended up as a single B-side. Hot Space was so bad I turned down tickets to see them at Elland Road, Leeds where, if any further evidence was necessary, the support acts included The Teardrop Explodes. Good decision - I took a rather nice young lady out for a meal instead, and 29 1/2 years later we're still together.

Marillion: Misplaced Childhood. I don't think any further explanation is necessary, but if you insist, compare the live version of 'Market Square Heroes' from 'Real to Reel' with say, 'Lavender' or 'Kayleigh'. Have a bucket handy. Did they really open for Rush?

Status Quo (I know, nobody reading this will have clue one unless they happened to watch the start of the UK leg of Live Aid, and even then it will be a mystery): 1+9+8+2 is the death knell, following the excellent Just Supposin' and rather good "Never Too Late". This album was enough for drummer John Coghlan to quit during recording, followed a year later by bassist Alan Lancaster. you know you've gone soft when *that* happens. To really appreciate the difference, try some of the live staples from that time, like Caroline, Rain, or the magnificent Mystery Song. Then listen to Dear John. Goodbye indeed.

Turn it up:
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[Saints 4 life]

Motley Crue. Not that they were some really heavy band to start with, but they did turn soft. Their image proves it as much as their music does.

 

[saintsbank]

I used to listen to a lot of heavy metal, before I got warped into Blues, Jazz and R&B, and I have to agree with the Metallica talk. It's cool to experiment, but I think they just sold out. Alternative Grunge was popular during the mid 90's, then they release Load and Reload. Nu-Metal garbage was huge in the early 2000's, so they make an album with the guitars all tuned down that sounded very bad. I'm waiting on them to write a rap/metal album next with some stupid rapper, cause that seems to be really popular right now




I'm going to go on an edge here and say the Stones made me angry getting softer. You listen to all their stuff from the 60's to the mid 70's, and when Mick Taylor was in the band, they had such an edge. Without him, no Exile on Main St., no Sticky Fingers, and no classic live album in Get Your Ya Ya's Out. But after he quit, and Ronnie Wood joins the band, they sound so dull. You can argue Some Girls as being a "great" album (I say it's OK, but not their best) but they really started going downhill after Taylor left. All the guitar work sounds so flat and dull, especially live when they try and get Ronnie Wood to play his stuff, they have been butchering Rocks Off, Can't You Hear Me Knockin', and Wild Horses ever since he left.

i kinda noticed a change since their black and blue album.