Pinnacle/Pullback Albums

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Trying to think of consecutive releases by artists where the former pushed boundaries, and the follow-up pulled back, for commercial/aesthetic/personal reasons, whatever.

― abeta (abeta), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

my examples would be:

Tim Buckley- Starsailor/Greetings From LA
Ghostface Killah- Supreme Clientele/Bulletproof Wallets
Dylan(?)- Highway 61 Revisited/John Wesley Harding

not that the pullbacks are bad albums, just not as extreme as the pinnacles.

― abeta (abeta), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Agreed w/Dylan, but it's Blonde on Blonde/JWH I think.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

rings around the world/phantom power

― undercoverfurrylover, Friday, 1 August 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Metallica - master of puppets/ ...and justice for all
Primal Scream - Screamadelica/ Give Out But Don't Give Up
Public Enemey - Fear of a Black Planet/ Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sandinista!/Combat Rock
McCartney II/Tug of War
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants/Hotter Than July

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

rancid - life won't wait / s/t
chemical brothers - surrender / come with us
dismemberment plan - emergency & i / change
jay-z - the blueprint / blueprint 2

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids/Kingsize
Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess/Light Years (possibly)

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

john wesley harding as an album is actually a lot more wierd than blonde on blonde. i think anyway. lyrically and musically, its just odd, and sounds like nothing else in dylan's catalogue. blonde and blonde was a step on from bringing it all back home and highway 61, in fact slightly less extreme than highway in my opinion. whereas JWH is a large step into the wierd.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Royal Trux- Twin Infinitives/ s/t
VU- White Light/White Heat/ s/t
Capt. Beefheart- Lick My Decals Off, Baby/ Clear Spot
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation/ Goo

― Jay Kirsch, Friday, 1 August 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Missy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive/Under Construction
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?/Stories From The City Stories From The Sea
Tori Amos - To Venus And Back/Strange Little Girls
Mansun - Six/Little Kix
Katy Carr - Screwing Lies/Passion Play

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMD: Dazzleships/Junk Culture

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

why i always forget about "Blonde on Blonde" i'll never know, but the pullbacks are not necessarily 'bad' albums. the enigmas and dare-i-say, 'funk' of JWH lead me back to consider it more often than pre-crash Dylan. and i think "Greetings From LA" is an incredible Buckley album, it's just not as out as "Starsailor".

― abeta (abeta), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scott Walker - Til the Band COmes in does this in ONE album!

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation/ Goo

ahh, i remember the heartbreak well.

― fromgodztogoofballs, Friday, 1 August 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Public Enemey - Fear of a Black Planet/ Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age
Shouldn't this be Fear of a Black Planet/Revolution '91?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 1 August 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

grandaddy - sophtware slump/sumday (not that sophtware slump "pushed boundaries" exactly - just that it was more complex/less one-dimensional than the follow-up)

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 1 August 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shouldn't this be Fear of a Black Planet/Revolution '91?
No, it should be Apocalypse '91 / Musesick'n'hourslonelyheartsclubresistancecell

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 2 August 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

uh duh, the most obvious one...

Sly- There's a Riot Goin' On/Fresh!

― andybeta, Sunday, 3 August 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

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