Poll of the Day > You ever love 1 era of a band/artist but hate another?

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I love Van Halen but can't stand the hagar Era, they went from fun party rockers to a band that only has sad love songs


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I came to this thread to say exactly this!

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The Eagles. Didn't enjoy the early 70's stuff but really liked them from 1975 and on under Walsh.
Elvis: Liked his late 60's and 70's stuff, not so much the 50's-early 60's.
Genesis: Loved their earlier albums with Peter Gabriel, not so much the later ones with Phil Collins.

And I'm not a big fan of 80s music, so several 70's rock bands didn't transition well to the 80's, IMO because they adopted the sound.

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I think everyone does. Van Halen is a common one.
Pre-Black Album Metallica is another.
Blink 182 started weak, hit a sweet spot for a couple albums, then dropped way off.
Early, fun Green Day was way better than later emo Green Day

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Pre-Black Album Metallica is another.

This

Also, love old in flames and can't stand newer in flames

Muscles posted...

I love Van Halen but can't stand the hagar Era, they went from fun party rockers to a band that only has sad love songs

Agreed! How about wartime Metallica (first 4 albums)? What about Dickinson Iron Maiden but not the others (although I like DiAnno too)?

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This is a great thread btw - solid stuff. Im on the hunt now. LOL

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Punk era AFI.
First 3/4 albums era Santana (70s albums, not 80s).
First 3 Slipknot albums.
The Smiths over Morrissey?

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I wouldn't say I hate any given era of a band, but I used to love Depeche Mode, and their last couple albums have left me completely cold (which is true for a lot of their fans - most people agree they've sort of been on autopilot for a while now).

For me in general, if I like/love a band and they go in a direction I dislike I just become more apathetic to them more than I outright hate them. I don't obsess over how great they used to be and how it's somehow a personal betrayal that they're not still catering to my preferences, I just move on and listen to other stuff.



Muscles posted...

I love Van Halen but can't stand the hagar Era, they went from fun party rockers to a band that only has sad love songs

I'd argue that their music was much better in general in the Hagar era.

Now the Cherone Era, on the other hand...
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Collective Soul

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I wouldn't say hate, but the first few years Dreams Come True weren't really my thing. Anything from the mid-90's onward is gold though.

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Pre-80s Ultravox is cooler than post-1980 Ultravox. John Foxx is terrific

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I think everyone has at least one band like this. It's kind of inevitable unless they're a band that's only around for like under ten years and three or four albums

I thought that Beck kinda crapped the bed from 2014-2017. Morning Phase is a boring play-by-play of Sea Change that people had to wait years for, and Colors is just not interesting to me. I was happy when Hyperspace came out and I enjoyed it.

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CoorsLight posted...

I think everyone has at least one band like this. It's kind of inevitable unless they're a band that's only around for like under ten years and three or four albums

Foo Fighters has managed to maintain good quality I think

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Eminem.

Hes kinda like the Simpsons, in that he went from Good, to Bad, to actually pretty good again.

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Vanilla Ice was great during the To The Extreme days, but he went downhill. Charlie Daniels going religious was a bit of a downer too..

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Vanilla Ice was great

was he now

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Green Day, I didn't mind when they "Sold Out" in 94 (to me they were the same band, just with better production quality), but I haven't liked them since they "Sold Out" in 05.

Avenged Sevenfold, haven't been a huge fan of their work since The Rev died (Nightmare doesn't really count since he was mostly involved with the making of it).

Danzig had an Electronica period in the mid 90's till early 00's, but I have only heard bits of it. What I heard though I didn't like.

You could also lump in pretty much any classic rock band from the 60's and 70's who were still making music in the 80's (Pink Floyd, The Who, Rolling Stones, etc.), or most metal bands from the 80's who were still making music in the mid-late 90's. That will save me the trouble of listing them all here. Only real exception was Motorhead, they were awesome in the 90's.

Edit: Oh yea, and pretty much all "Punk Rock" bands just suck now. Except The Offspring, their latest album is awesome.

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Dikitain posted...

Except The Offspring, their latest album is awesome.

Do they have a new one? Days Go By and Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace were great

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dislike the following:
Weezer after The Blue Album
Aphex Twin after SAW2 and before Syro
Nine Inch Nails after The Fragile (except for the Ghosts albums)
Kraftwerk before Autobahn

I loved ELO up through the album Time. I only liked about half the songs on Balance of Power, and only a couple songs from Secret Messages. ELO Part II was utter crap, though I did like most of The Orchestra's No Rewind. Jeff Lynne's ELO has been mostly crap as well. I wish the Tandy-Morgan Band had done more work, as I loved Earthrise. L.E.O.'s album Alpaca's Orgling was rather interesting.

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I love AC/DC with Bon Scott, after that, meh. I could give or take them.

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Muscles posted...

I love Van Halen but can't stand the hagar Era, they went from fun party rockers to a band that only has sad love songs

did hagar sing dreams and on top of the world?

Mastodon after Crack the Skye was also super bland for me.

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Oh, and Queens of the Stone Age after Era Vulgaris...

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Oh, and Queens of the Stone Age after Era Vulgaris...

True this statement.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Mastodon after Crack the Skye was also super bland for me.

Also true.

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Hate is a strong word. More disinterest. But both linkin lark and mariilyn manson I started to not care for their music the further they went. With linkin park it was cause their sound changed and became a little too political iirc. I dont mind some political references in music but I dont care for it being all political. Maybe im remebering wrong on them and it wad just the sound and not caring for the lyrics either

Manson i cant say its the sound. He always changed his sound on a regular basis. I think I just grew out of him. Im not the angsty goth kid I was back in the day.

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Early Rolling Stones is much better than the newer crap they came out with.

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@mooreandrew58 - for sure to the both of them. Linkin Park after Meteora and Manson after Golden Age of Grotesque for me.

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a lot of emo influenced bands I listened to around my teenage years have good early days and got cringe later. AFI, my chemical memical, fall out boy, marianas trench, linkin park.

I guess eminem. I liked him as the real slim shady when he didnt give a **** and just let it rip. Then he got sober and his music was no longer fun. I do like his Rihanna song monster and Godzilla with Juice Wrld. also like the one he did with Logic and they got the dude from the sandlot to play Logic
https://youtu.be/eQkSArQxYJg

Thirty3_1Third posted...

@mooreandrew58 - for sure to the both of them. Linkin Park after Meteora and Manson after Golden Age of Grotesque for me.

I still liked manson after golden age. But it was a decline starting right after that album. High end of the low is thr last album I bought and armagodamngeddon was probably his last great song.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Do they have a new one? Days Go By and Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace were great

Let the Bad Times Roll is their new album, just released a couple months ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Bad_Times_Roll

Excellent album, highly recommend giving it a listen.

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30 Seconds to Mars
Panic! at the Disco
Skillet
Papa Roach

Many bands like this declined (in my opinion) as they transitioned to/experimented with pop/electronic rock
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teddy241 posted...

I guess eminem. I liked him as the real slim shady when he didnt give a **** and just let it rip. Then he got sober and his music was no longer fun. I do like his Rihanna song monster and Godzilla with Juice Wrld. also like the one he did with Logic and they got the dude from the sandlot to play Logic
https://youtu.be/eQkSArQxYJg

I loved Godzilla w/ Juice Wrld too. I kinda feel the opposite re: the sobering up part, I feel like he started to get really sloppy being hardcore on the drugs for a while. Initially his sobriety probably did make him seem a little boring but I think hes back on the up and up.

Heres another good recent one-
https://youtu.be/xEd1WsRKikw

This was when him and Snoop -almost- came to a beef but it didnt come to fruition.

Killshot, his response to Machine Gun Kelly Rap Devil was real good too and pretty much ended MGKs rap career and he went full actor, lol

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@Joelypoely - omg, 30 seconds to mars, no question! First two albums were incredibly solid!

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Dikitain posted...

Let the Bad Times Roll is their new album, just released a couple months ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Bad_Times_Roll

Excellent album, highly recommend giving it a listen.

Damn! I can't believe I missed the news

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Thirty3_1Third posted...

@Joelypoely - omg, 30 seconds to mars, no question! First two albums were incredibly solid!

Absolutely, their debut album has some really interesting tracks. Their second album is brilliant.
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