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NoMeansNo after Worldhood.....

I've tried those later albums, but nothing. While the early ones still hit.

Stevie Wonder
Paul McCartney
Elvis

Superchunk:

Loved everything through Indoor Living, then fell off because they went way too mellow for me. Then they came roaring back with Majesty Shredding, I Hate Music was meh, What a Time to Be Alive is one of my favorites of theirs, and since that record they've gone mellow indie rock again and I'm left cold by it. But that's ok, I got two excellent Superchunk records I wasn't expecting in the 2010s and that's pretty cool.

For bands that I both love and fascinate me, I do tend to follow thoroughly much of their discographies, which is the case for Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Coil. Love all their eras from beginning to end.

Even Public Image Ltd post-Flowers of Romance I liked, though I did not follow since their reunion. So that's one band.

It really pains me to say, but another band is Swans. I was a huge fan of all their eras, and I had many of their albums. I even had the Forever Burned reissue CD, along with their first self-titled 12" EP and Die Tür ist zu, and also Michael Gira's I Am Singing to You from My Room. I also loved My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky (I would've also had loved The Seer, but I hadn't had that record back then).

Unfortunately, when the Larkin Grimm incident broke, things soured. I believe Grimm and I can't reconcile Gira's actions with the music. Furthermore, every time when I try to search for any information or updates about the case, I tend to see gross Reddit threads about Grimm having a history of false accusations and other shit like that, which kills any moments of desire for me to listen to Young God or any of their stuff.

When I first heard the news (which was here on the old forum), I had just gotten Filth / Body to Body, Job to Job. While I was incredibly disheartened, I decided to listen to it a couple of more times until it faded from my daily listening cycle (this is a habit I have for newly acquired records). Enjoy the last moments of what I thought was a great band. Once my daily listening for Filth . . . faded, I stopped listening and following Swans all together. That was nearly 10 years ago.

The Cure post Wish, but the last album is pretty awesome, surprisingly. The Cure's music spoke to me when I was an angsty teen with romantic views of the world. Now, it's the nostalgia that comes with listening to certain albums and enjoying the art of it still. The substance of the lyrics can be really hammy, but I'm happy to overlook it. I have hated all the covers of Cure songs that have come out over the years. No artist has ever come close to how Robert Smith handles emotion, nor can they capture the way the songs are written and played. It always sounds like a fake Cure song and the vocals are usually awful.

Def Leopard. I loved them as a 12 year old, but it just stopped hitting me so hard after I dove into more interesting music and grew up.

cakes wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 11:42 am Def Leopard. I loved them as a 12 year old, but it just stopped hitting me so hard after I dove into more interesting music and grew up.

On Through The Night and High and Dry still rip!

It feels like an easy answer, but: Prince.

After he died, I determined to work my way through his entire catalog, front to back, but I ended up forgetting where I left off, what I’d listened to and hadn’t, etc, And besides the fact that there’s just so much material, somewhere past, say, “The Gold Experience” (which I recall really liking) everything started to blur.

Every now and again, I’ll pick a random later-era Prince album on Apple Music and give it a spin, and the results tend to be fairly consistent: it’s not bad, it’s a pleasurable listen, and there are usually a few “classic” Prince moments that jump out and invariably make me smile — but nothing sticks.

And then I end up looking at his discography and wondering, “Have I listened to that album?”

Stephen Malkmus (& the Jicks)
Guided by Voices

Many others...

DrAwkward wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 11:56 am

cakes wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 11:42 am Def Leopard. I loved them as a 12 year old, but it just stopped hitting me so hard after I dove into more interesting music and grew up.

On Through The Night and High and Dry still rip!

ABSOLUTELY

I like On Through the Night - especially Wasted and Rock Brigade - but I can never get in to High 'N Dry.