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Which album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off? (lemmy.world)

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Demon Days by Gorillaz

Silent Alarm by Bloc Party

Metallica (Black Album)

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

No way with Green Day. Insomniac, Nimrod, and American Idiot are all excellent.

[-] beefcat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The thing that impresses me so much about Green Day is that they peaked, had the usual big falloff in quality a few albums later, then they peaked again about a decade after Dookie. I can't think of any other band that managed to do this off the top of my head.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yep. Although I really just think of Warning as one OK album in a run of great first 7 albums, which is a pretty remarkable.

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