ITT: Bands whose most popular album is their worst
ITT: Bands whose least popular album is their best
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>>128710549I don't think this actually exists.
Korn gets really fucking close with Follow The Leader but Korn III is truly dire. Leader still has its two good singles going for it.
>>128710549It has NOT aged well at all. The band has definitely come a long way since then. The difference in quality between this and Pray For The Wicked is a stark contrast.
>>128710638Protest the Hero - Pacific Myth
>>128714113This is the greatest album when you count everything from the era, especially demos and b-sides included. Pretty. Odd. era is also good but it's like a spinoff. Everything else is essentially trash and not real P!ATD.This has aged so well that to this day there is nothing else like it.
>>128714300> Pretty. Odd. era is also good but it's like a spinoff. Everything else is essentially trash and not real P!ATD.Truthfully, I was trying to bait but hearing this dropped my guard and basically summarized how I felt about Pretty. Odd in a way I’ve always struggled to explain it to other people. I think a lot of people took it for granted when you considered what became of later Panic. People in general take Fever for granted and it is a shame because this was the band at their peak. The demos were great and really solidified why wentz took them in.
>>128710549By a mile.
>>128714424Pretty. Odd., despite the radical and drastic change in form, still retained the core essence of what constitutes Panic! At The Disco thanks to Ryan's peculiar creative direction in lyrical writing (cryptic, literary), aural mood (absurdist, ironically tragic), and soundscape (vintage and classically-informed), such as is found in this track from it:https://youtu.be/ymNI8hxbUXcThe only reason however you couldn't flip the first two album's releases is because A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was just more apropos for the zeitgeist; Pretty. Odd. as a hippy-era revival was always going to be sonically more niche regardless of its quality.Indeed, it's essentially a spinoff because although it still very much gives the sense of a PATD identity, it's not what anyone, I think, would wish was entirely P!ATD's core identity. It's something different from something you like a lot.It's also deeply ironic that the very track which granted them fame is also arguably their greatest track of all:https://youtu.be/xmxKnrUoLMII think for the official album they got led astray by a false ideal of polish that compromised some demos' compelling raw authenticity.
>>128714424>People in general take Fever for grantedI think rather we fans had been gaslit into thinking we only liked it because we were kids, and that one day we'd mature and realize it was never as great as we felt it was; so we never bothered shilling for it in the past 15 years and let it fade into obscurity as a pure nostalgia piece.But now with the breakdown of culture we've experienced for a decade now, peaking this year, we've been forced to reevaluate what we were told and have been being told is actually worthwhile culture, and that has prompted us to revisit these childhood pleasures long since labeled guilty by faux-elitists who actually just dismiss things wholesale on the grounds of genre label whilst pretending to hold this superior cultural cachet of real enlightened music that they themselves were told to like by someone else.And what we've discovered is that, actually, to this day, this music is unique and groundbreaking and impactful and impressive on its own merits and terms without the intrusion of nostalgia from having "been there". We've now realized it was popular because it was good, not that it was good because it was popular.With the success of the When We Were Young tour this year, I anticipate a revival of these kinds of oldies and goodies next year in 2026 and the complete marginalization of the pseudo-tastes of everyone who managed to convince us to distrust our own ears all these years.
