We all want Pearl Jam to deliver at their highest peak at least one more time. Which other bands have been made great records, only to go through slower periods, and then make a great comeback album (or several)?
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:12 pm
by VinylGuy
Alice In Chains and Soundgarden made amazing returns.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:16 pm
by surfndestroy
Green Day - American Idiot
The Cars - Heartbeat City
AC/DC - Back In Black
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:18 pm
by Anders
VinylGuy wrote:Alice In Chains and Soundgarden made amazing returns.
I've never really liked King Animal, in concert or the studio album.
Alice In Chains doesn't feel like the same band to me. But Black Gives Way To Blue is probably still better than King Animal. Had some good songs.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:20 pm
by Anders
surfndestroy wrote:AC/DC - Back In Black
Greatest album after the death of a singer ever. Still it was released only 13 months after Highway To Hell.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:24 pm
by Anders
Some Girls 1978 from Rolling Stones, but then it does feel more like a Riot Act album in career retrospective, than it does a Pearl Jam 11 album.
Tom Waits - Mule Variations 1999 was impressive after so many years. Johnny Cash with American Recordings 1994. But still they are not bands, probably easier for a solo artist.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:26 pm
by verb_to_trust
Dinosaur Jr.- Beyond
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:27 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Death from Above 1979. I like The Physical World a lot more than their old stuff.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:28 pm
by verb_to_trust
A Tribe Called Quest- Thank You For Your Service
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:28 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Oh, and Steely Dan. Two Against Nature is a great album.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:29 pm
by washing machine
I personally loved everything Sonic Youth did in the 90s, but with the exception of WM and their Simpsons appearance they really seemed to come close to irrelevancy in that stretch between Jet Set and NYC Ghosts. Nurse and Rather Ripped felt like amazing "comebacks" to me in that context.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:33 pm
by LoathedVermin72
washing machine wrote:I personally loved everything Sonic Youth did in the 90s, but with the exception of WM and their Simpsons appearance they really seemed to come close to irrelevancy in that stretch between Jet Set and NYC Ghosts. Nurse and Rather Ripped felt like amazing "comebacks" to me in that context.
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Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:38 pm
by surfndestroy
Pearl Jam - Yield
As much as No Code can be revered by hardcore fans it did not go over well at the time. Yield was a greater hit with the general population.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:39 pm
by surfndestroy
Grateful Dead - In The Dark
The single Touch of Grey brought them back into the mainstream.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:44 pm
by j's brain
Meatloaf: Bat Out Of Hell II
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:46 pm
by Anders
surfndestroy wrote:Pearl Jam - Yield
As much as No Code can be revered by hardcore fans it did not go over well at the time. Yield was a greater hit with the general population.
There is only three years between Vitalogy and Yield, and they also toured and released Mirrorball and Merkinball in that period. No Code peaked at 1, Yield peaked at 2, those are US numbers. I believe No Code has also outsold Yield, and is generally rated as close to, equal or better in quality. I do remember that the spin at the time was that No Code was different from what people expected, while Yield was more pleasing for the fans. But I think that is vastly overstated. And surely it can not be considered a great comeback coming after a longer period of creative drought.
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 4:52 pm
by stip
Anders wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Alice In Chains and Soundgarden made amazing returns.
I've never really liked King Animal, in concert or the studio album.
Alice In Chains doesn't feel like the same band to me. But Black Gives Way To Blue is probably still better than King Animal. Had some good songs.
I don't know that either of these could be classified as amazing. Are they considered to be on par (or close to) their classic albums?
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 5:03 pm
by washing machine
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
washing machine wrote:I personally loved everything Sonic Youth did in the 90s, but with the exception of WM and their Simpsons appearance they really seemed to come close to irrelevancy in that stretch between Jet Set and NYC Ghosts. Nurse and Rather Ripped felt like amazing "comebacks" to me in that context.
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Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 5:06 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Bands that have made great comeback albums
Posted: Tue July 25, 2017 5:23 pm
by Wendy Carlos's Twin
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
washing machine wrote:I personally loved everything Sonic Youth did in the 90s, but with the exception of WM and their Simpsons appearance they really seemed to come close to irrelevancy in that stretch between Jet Set and NYC Ghosts. Nurse and Rather Ripped felt like amazing "comebacks" to me in that context.
