They WERE good, but...

[erika]

How can you not like Meddle?? I am disowning this thread. It WAS good, but...

[NJL]

The Kinks, after before Muswell Hillbillies

Edit: Oh wait, are you saying that the stuff after Muswell Hillbillies is bad, if so I agree with you.

[masterofsparks]

The Pink Floyd.   Even though I've slightly warmed to some prog rock, I still think everything post-Barrett The Wall is pretty wretched.

[harris]

The Pink Floyd.   Even though I've slightly warmed to some prog rock, I still think everything post-Barrett The Wall is pretty wretched.

[dave from knoxville]

Queen's first three albums are 6000 miles ahead of everything else that followed.

[Christina]

There's this band called the Rolling Stones.

'Kay, just as an academic exercise, where do you put the good/bad line? An album?

I tend to group the Stones output by guitarist, so there's Brian Jones era, Mick Taylor era, etc etc.

[Christina]

Butthole Surfers.

Buh, I hate to admit this or see it typed out like this but you're right.

[Christina]

I would also add most of the Seattle "grunge" "bands".

[harris]

There's this band called the Rolling Stones.

'Kay, just as an academic exercise, where do you put the good/bad line? An album?

I tend to group the Stones output by guitarist, so there's Brian Jones era, Mick Taylor era, etc etc.

I'd say stop after Goats Head Soup.

[Christina]

I'd say stop after Goats Head Soup.

Yabbut the first handful of Ron Wood era albums aren't too shabby. Black and Blue, Some Girls (a fave), Emotional Rescue ... I even like Tattoo You still cause it was the new album when I figured out who the Stones were.

[buffcoat]

My long-awaited thoughts on Pink Floyd.  I think the Syd Barrett stuff is overrated in general.  Some great stuff but some awful stuff as well.  

Atom Heart Mother and the non-live stuff on Ummagumma are terrible.  Terr...ibul.

More is ok, I actually like a lot of the stuff on Obscured by Clouds, but they get pretty cool with Meddle.  I like the over-the-top self-indulgent prog stuff, which is basically Wish You Were Here, Animals and the Wall.  Then the Final Cut sort of becomes Roger Waters as Adult Contemporary.

One of the things I've thought about in the last year is a reassessment of A Momentary Lapse of Reason.  I think it's a really good record, it's just not the same as Roger Waters-era Pink Floyd.

Unfortunately, Dave Gilmour and Bob Ezrin (of Destroyer fame - not the Kinks one) only had one album in them, because The Division Bell is by far the worst Pink Floyd record.




EDIT: I was trying to remember which one I left out.  I think it was a minor Floyd record called The Dark Side of the Moon

[nec13]

I think there's a thread on a certain 70s band along these lines.

Does the band name begin with the letter K, by chance?

[Christina]

My long-awaited thoughts on Pink Floyd.  

More is ok, I actually like a lot of the stuff on Obscured by Clouds, but they get pretty cool with Meddle.  I like the over-the-top self-indulgent prog stuff, which is basically Wish You Were Here, Animals and the Wall.  Then the Final Cut sort of becomes Roger Waters as Adult Contemporary.

One of the things I've thought about in the last year is a reassessment of A Momentary Lapse of Reason.  I think it's a really good record, it's just not the same as Roger Waters-era Pink Floyd.

I think Final Cut and Momentary Lapse are kinda Waters' and Gilmour solo albums, one after the other, even though they're filed under "P".

I have no use/need for Wish You Were Here and The Wall, but I always always always have a copy of Animals. The early stuff post Barrett is uneven; I like some of it and currently have a copy of Meddle. Not gonna go out of my way to get the others, probably, unless I find one in a used record store for cheaps.

[buffcoat]

I think there's a thread on a certain 70s band along these lines.

Does the band name begin with the letter K, by chance?

If you mean Greg Kihn, then yes.

[thom]

I do not wish to "derail" this thread as they say, but it's much easier with directors:

Scorsese.

See?