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What's a band that has one album that is just about perfect in your opinion, but rest of their discography misses the mark with you? (lemm.ee)

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One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS's stuff just doesn't hit the same way.

And if you're not an album person, maybe a period of time in the artist's work? Whatever works for you.

*Lots of mentions of hit debut albums that subsequently petered out, which follows with the dreaded sophomore slump that hits many artists. Anyone with mid or even later career albums that stand alone? Those always intrigue me.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Forget the third Zombie brother, the lead singer for The Union Underground, whose only kinda good song is basically about how stupid the audience is and just make him a millionaire already...

To go into a bit more detail for what my actual knowledge is:

Tonight the Stars Revolt!: Ever loving masterpiece
Transform: Little more mindless, still really really good
Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere: I really like about half the album, most Powerman fans dont
Copies Clones & Replicants: Uh oh... absolutely trash cover album?...?? Where did that come from?
Builders of the Future: They've lost their identity, they have lost their vibe... still liked 2 of the songs. Overall a let down.
New Wave: Absolute utter trash. All of it. Never gave any of the songs a second listen. Actually actively avoided them.
The Noble Rot: One song I REALLY like, a couple I can stand to listen to if Youtube puts it up automatically, the rest just pretty bad.

Rob is definitely the OG Zombie. He just has more raw visceral roaring power in his energy. Spider One is, well, he is the dude from the video for When Worlds Collide (part of the absolute masterpiece collection that came with Tonight the Stars Revolt).

I would also say, moderately recently, I saw Allegoria, and I much prefer Spider One's B horror movie vision over Rob's "look at my wife" movie style. In fact, I would be pretty confident saying that Spider One's musical career trajectory and Rob's horror movie trajectory are VERY similar.