Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 8:45 pm
Yeah.durdencommatyler wrote:There are a ton.
I feel like it's a bit of a myth.
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Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
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Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 8:50 pm
why does no one agree with me on the Beastie Boys?
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 9:06 pm
apples vanguard
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 9:08 pm
I'm not familiar with their work, but I trust your judgement.E.H. Ruddock wrote:why does no one agree with me on the Beastie Boys?
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 9:09 pm
I did agree. I said I was including all the others that had been mentioned so far in my post, yo.E.H. Ruddock wrote:why does no one agree with me on the Beastie Boys?
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 9:26 pm
BurtReynolds wrote:APPLES VANGUARD
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 9:40 pm
Can't believe you forgot this one...durdencommatyler wrote:Tom Waits
The Beatles
They Might Be Giants
St. Vincent
Dixie Chicks
Garth Brooks
Green Day
The Decemberists
Radiohead
Muse
Led Zeppelin
Eagles
CSN
Eminem
Fiona Apple
Band of Horses
The White Stripes (All the Jack White bands, really)
Pink Floyd
Martin Sexton
And all the artists mentioned previously...
There are a ton.
I feel like it's a bit of a myth.
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Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 9:40 pm
E.H. Ruddock wrote:The Beastie Boys
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 9:48 pm
i doE.H. Ruddock wrote:why does no one agree with me on the Beastie Boys?
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 19, 2015 10:15 pm
What an asshole I turned out to be. Fuck.cutuphalfdead wrote:Can't believe you forgot this one...durdencommatyler wrote:Tom Waits
The Beatles
They Might Be Giants
St. Vincent
Dixie Chicks
Garth Brooks
Green Day
The Decemberists
Radiohead
Muse
Led Zeppelin
Eagles
CSN
Eminem
Fiona Apple
Band of Horses
The White Stripes (All the Jack White bands, really)
Pink Floyd
Martin Sexton
And all the artists mentioned previously...
There are a ton.
I feel like it's a bit of a myth.
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Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Sun February 22, 2015 12:38 am
!!!!mastaflatch wrote: Smashing Pumpkins
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Sun February 22, 2015 5:21 pm
Every artist in this thread, probably: http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... f=6&t=4396
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Tue February 24, 2015 3:10 pm
I think some of you guys are misconstruing what a sophomore slump really means. To have the potential for said slump, I would think that an artist's debut album would require some sort of widespread acclaim. Thus a case like Sigur Rós, for example, wouldn't work since I don't think Von was or is really all that highly regarded outside of maybe a small subset of people (of which I guess I am one, since I think it's good, just not so much as the rest of their discography). And then of course, the second album has to be highly regarded as well, which I think is where LV's reference to that other thread makes sense.
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Tue February 24, 2015 3:40 pm
let's talk about which albums avoided the junior jeers
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Tue February 24, 2015 3:50 pm
You're right, but I don't think the phenomenon applies only to artists with widely acclaimed debuts. Unprecedentedly successful records are hard to follow up at any point in an artist's career; with new artists people just don't have any frame of reference for what ebb-and-flow looks like in that particular case, so by default it just kind of ends up looking like the artist had one big statement to make before losing the plot.Brett wrote:I think some of you guys are misconstruing what a sophomore slump really means. To have the potential for said slump, I would think that an artist's debut album would require some sort of widespread acclaim. Thus a case like Sigur Rós, for example, wouldn't work since I don't think Von was or is really all that highly regarded outside of maybe a small subset of people (of which I guess I am one, since I think it's good, just not so much as the rest of their discography). And then of course, the second album has to be highly regarded as well, which I think is where LV's reference to that other thread makes sense.
I would agree that it's a bit of a myth; some artists' best records just happen to be their first.
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Tue February 24, 2015 6:22 pm
The Strokes, somehow.
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Tue February 24, 2015 6:26 pm
Would Interpol count? Their second album is good, but they really peaked with TOTBL.
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Tue February 24, 2015 8:35 pm
no, they don't counttommymtcom wrote:Would Interpol count? Their second album is good, but they really peaked with TOTBL.
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 26, 2015 2:38 am
BurtReynolds wrote:Jeff Buckley
Re: Give examples of artists avoiding the sophomore slump
Posted: Thu February 26, 2015 3:45 am
The new Field Report album is really good. Not as good as their debut album but they avoided the Sophomore slump. LOVE this band.