I'll start
ITT: Bands that peaked at their first song on their first album
Anthony Reed
William Parker
More like the last song on the second album
Gavin Gonzalez
Ethan Harris
More like sixth song
Kayden Flores
The Smiths
Jose Cooper
Death Grips
Jace Young
Jordan Cruz
Ryan Adams
More like The Beatles and Playboi Carti are more culturally important than TVU
Justin Miller
Chase Johnson
agree with this one actually, day of lords is also my second favorite
John Hughes
>likes the slow poppy song best
Josiah Brown
>What is Sister Ray
>What is I Heard Her Call My Name
>What is The Gift
Camden Gray
Dominic Hall
Carter Turner
The Killers - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
Aiden Adams
get got or beware?
both are solid picks tho
Luis Wilson
They stole that from The Smiths, sorry pal
Daniel Long
In fact, you could do this with literally every CBGB band. Dead Boys, Patti Smith, Ramones, Mink DeVille, etc.
It seems like they all got accustomed to a culture where they could just obsessively hone their songs over a period of years in a dark club. Then when they all got signed and released in '77, the labels were like "okay, you have 6 months to make a new album," and then sent them on tour immediately. Then the record labels said "6 months are up, what do you have?" And all those bands threw together a few half-baked songs, and the leftovers they didn't put on their debuts.
That said, the Ramones' second album is actually great, and while Blondie and Talking Heads had a slump, they then obviously evolved dramatically and became two of the biggest new wave bands ever.
Henry Robinson
What
Jose Adams
based
Aiden Perry
Colton Brown
close, second song
Gavin Young
Julian Sanchez
The first three songs
Brandon Cruz
literally their only good song
Asher Robinson
Levi Garcia
Neutral Milk Hotel
Landon Hall
fpbp coty 3dpd qt3.14
Dominic Walker
Next Grips
Charles Nelson
This song sucks lmao fuck off prog tourist
This shit is snore core
Ian Hall
Almost king crimson until starless existed
Elijah Mitchell
i tried to make a RYM list about this exact thing but i only thought of these two examples so far lol
Easton Carter
this but it's the first song
Luis Howard
>tfw this could have been released but some faggot canadian boomer pussy'ed out
Dominic Wright