Bands Whose Last Album is Their Worst

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Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung
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Thank God Lightning Bolt came out otherwise I'd have to put PJ on this list.

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tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung
And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?
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durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung
And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?
i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts
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bodysnatcher wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung
And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?
i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts
Ah. Sure. I guess that's something that could be argued. But I think it absolutely counts.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung
And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?
i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts
Ah. Sure. I guess that's something that could be argued. But I think it absolutely counts.
it's basically PJ's next album
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Outtakes collections shouldn't count as albums! Just like Greatest Hits compilations aren't albums
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Coda doesn't count, but Lightning Bolt sure does, and the album suuuuuuuuuucks.
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bodysnatcher wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung
And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?
i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts
Ah. Sure. I guess that's something that could be argued. But I think it absolutely counts.
it's basically PJ's next album
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theplatypus wrote:Outtakes collections shouldn't count as albums! Just like Greatest Hits compilations aren't albums
I don't actually know anything about the background of Coda. It's the only Led Zeppelin "album" I haven't heard. What was the intention of the album? Was it more like Lost Dogs or more like Let it Be?
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It's like Lost Dogs if Lost Dogs had been released 12 years after Pearl Jam broke up.
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theplatypus wrote:It's like Lost Dogs if Lost Dogs had been released 12 years after Pearl Jam broke up.
Ah.

Then, yeah, that shouldn't count.
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A couple of special cases:
The Clash
Smashing Pumpkins

Both of these are under the name of a once-great band, but produced by pretty much the lead singer, and not the rest of the band. So it's debatable as to whether they should could - I say yes.
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Sonic Youth?

And PJ for me, easily.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Thank God Lightning Bolt came out otherwise I'd have to put PJ on this list.

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Ben Harper
Death Magnetic is pretty good.
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