KoRn shoots instantly to mind, I used to be a huge fan, like all my mates, now, they hate them and I only like them. Tenacious D too, but they were most of the time, in my opinion, crap!

AND MODS, why can't I use the search button, it just gives me "/news/search" in the corner, and thats what i see for ages, untill the page cannot be displayed massage, help please?

The Who's next album will be titled 'Who's Left?'.

Good call on KoRn. IMHO they lost the plot after the second album. I saw a tour notice for them recently and thought "are they still around".
The Offspring are another band that I no longer care for, which is a shame.

rage against the machine first albums was like "wow this is freaking awesome" everything after that was "wow that sounds like [insert song from first album]"

cleverlymadeup:
rage against the machine first albums was like "wow this is freaking awesome" everything after that was "wow that sounds like [insert song from first album]"

I totally hear you on that! They are one of those bands where I could take three songs off each of their albums, mix them together and make one absolute killer album. That said they were phenominal when I saw them live at the start of the year.

cleverlymadeup:
rage against the machine first albums was like "wow this is freaking awesome" everything after that was "wow that sounds like [insert song from first album]"

Yep, Rage Against The Machines were pretty cool, due to their first album. Then, they sold out. Shame, really.

- A procrastinator

cleverlymadeup:
rage against the machine first albums was like "wow this is freaking awesome" everything after that was "wow that sounds like [insert song from first album]"

Totally thought this exact thing when i read the forum title. Good call.
Others, lets see, Weird Al, ...Hansen? mmmbop haha ill have to find my old cd's

Well I stopped listening to Breaking Benjamin's newest album. I mean I still like his older ones but, the newest one... eh, I dunno. It's like you listen to it once and it's awesome, but then you listen to it again and it's boring...

MetallicA immediately came to mind when I read the title of this thread.

stompy:

cleverlymadeup:
rage against the machine first albums was like "wow this is freaking awesome" everything after that was "wow that sounds like [insert song from first album]"

Yep, Rage Against The Machines were pretty cool, due to their first album. Then, they sold out. Shame, really.

I don't really think you can say they sold out. Sure they didn't really have many areas to go after their first album, but they never lost the ideals that made them start the band in the first place, they were always rapping about political agendas and whatnot. Well, apart from the last album but my point stands, dammit!

I'm going to see them in a couple of months, can't wait! :D

I stopped listening to KoRn when their second album came out.
Offspring also comes to mind.
After Cradle of Filth's latest album I found myself wondering if ol' Dani needed to retire before he had no voice left and their sound became too shitty.

And definitely have to say System of a Down, long before they split they just stopped having appeal.

Offspring
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Soundgarden/Rage Against the Machine/Temple of the Dog/Audioslave

Which is sad because at one point I really liked all these bands (well, maybe not Foo Fighters. They've always been a puddle of suck). They all used to make really innovative and awsome music, and you can still catch them on the radio in the states. Well, you can't catch any of their good songs, but rather the crappy, generic, mid-tempo garbage that they've been putting out for the last half a decade. That last one get's a bunch of slashes because they all have so many members in common that they might as well be the same band.

I've left out the bands that I've stopped caring that no longer get radio play.

this thread is going to decend into a violent orgy of band fanboys and girls, beating each other senseless with their own stupid

Metallica.
There still alright but nothing quite as good as Kill 'em All, Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All but they said there new album would be like the previously mentioned albums and the Black album so here's hoping. :)

Madonnas new album Hard Candy just feels lame, like a return to Erotica without any cool beats.

*Dances away to Hung Up*

Second the Foo Fighters. Genreator, Money Wrench, Learn to Fly; All awsome.

Now they are churning out the same mainstream rock song and it is boring.

Silverchair: They used to be the best altern-rock/ grunge band around in the days of frogstomp and freakshow then they showed a wonderful emotion in Neon Ballroom. After hearing straight lines my ears bled and then daniel johns (frontman) said the most blasphemous thing: "Frogstomp sucked i really prefer my new stuff" (paraphrasing)

RHCP just because they outstayed their welcome. Same with Grinspoon. And Powderfinger.
Faker because they sold out.

many bands have a great first album or a few good oes but then go downhill quickly. Popularity can also kill innovative bands. Viva la Cat Empire for not succumbing.

Strafe Mcgee:

I don't really think you can say they sold out. Sure they didn't really have many areas to go after their first album, but they never lost the ideals that made them start the band in the first place, they were always rapping about political agendas and whatnot. Well, apart from the last album but my point stands, dammit!

the thing is they did sing about similar stuff BUT the songs sounded the same, that's where they sell out

look at public enemy or boogie down productions, 2 highly political bands, but you can't take lyrics from one album and stick it on the music from another and have it work like ratm did

also to toss in the pile is front line assembly, i guess bill got upset over rhys leaving and the success of delerium and delerium was another band that falls in there too, tho newer fla has gotten better, guess rhys smacked some sense into bill

kmfdm goes in the pile, tho capt k has gotten better again, their songs kinda took a dip for a while.

ministry is another good example, tho i think that has more to do with a bush not being in power, once bush jr got back into power they went back to their pissed off aggressiveness of earlier albums.

jezz8me:
Second the Foo Fighters. Genreator, Money Wrench, Learn to Fly; All awsome.

Now they are churning out the same mainstream rock song and it is boring.

I disagree. It's still not completely mainstream and most of the album is actually very good. The Foo doesn't have to go mainstream to be popular, but it helps that they have a wide listening audience. There is a difference.

I do however agree with Darth about Metallica. Even though I still listen to them, I find myself grabbing their old albums instead of the new ones. They were way better pre-singing lessons.

Strafe Mcgee:

stompy:

cleverlymadeup:
rage against the machine first albums was like "wow this is freaking awesome" everything after that was "wow that sounds like [insert song from first album]"

Yep, Rage Against The Machines were pretty cool, due to their first album. Then, they sold out. Shame, really.

I don't really think you can say they sold out. Sure they didn't really have many areas to go after their first album, but they never lost the ideals that made them start the band in the first place, they were always rapping about political agendas and whatnot. Well, apart from the last album but my point stands, dammit!

I'm going to see them in a couple of months, can't wait! :D

I agree with you mate. Didn't sell out as much as just played more of the same. And am also going to see them soon in Ireland. Can't wait to hear it all live.

Children of Bodom, everything up to Follow the Reaper has Melodic Metal feel to it which was amazing and made me feel that they were one of the best bands of all time, then it all went downhill, 'Are you Dead Yet?' has to be one of the biggest disappointments in history, everything about it was terrible, it felt good to burn that disk.

cleverlymadeup:

the thing is they did sing about similar stuff BUT the songs sounded the same, that's where they sell out

look at public enemy or boogie down productions, 2 highly political bands, but you can't take lyrics from one album and stick it on the music from another and have it work like ratm did

I don't know, the first album's undoubtedly their masterpiece but I think that they've got a lot of different sounds that came in on the next two albums. There's not really anything on the first album that sounds like The New Sound, Down Rodeo, Mic Check or Roll Right.

Sure the singing sounds the same, but Zack's got such a distinctive voice that it'd be hard for him to vary his vocals too much.

Anyway, I'd like to add Incubus to the pile. Their first album is awesome, but everything after that is fairly whiny and annoying. I'll also see your Foo Fighters and raise you the Chilli Peppers.

Would have to be System of a Down for me...

the first album and Toxicity were utter brilliance
Steal this Album... was alright but they started to lose their subtlety
Enter Mesmerise and Hypnotise - *facepalm* just...no.

Two bands I stopped caring for, Nickleback and System of a down.

But now I have busdriver and Beck! And I struggle to find a reason as to why I'm here and not listening to Avantcore. I'll be back when the song gets old (Which it wont).

CosmicStorms:
Children of Bodom, everything up to Follow the Reaper has Melodic Metal feel to it which was amazing and made me feel that they were one of the best bands of all time, then it all went downhill, 'Are you Dead Yet?' has to be one of the biggest disappointments in history, everything about it was terrible, it felt good to burn that disk.

Blooddrunk goes back to the Hate Crew Deathroll sound, but it's still not as good as Hatebreeder. Overall it kicks the piss out of Are You Dead Yet?. I heard it was due to them trying to establish a larger fanbase in the states, seeing as how most people appreciate a "heavy" sound over a melodic sound for metal.

BloodshotGtr:
MetallicA immediately came to mind when I read the title of this thread.

Definitely Metallica. Everything including and after 'St Anger' is terrible.

jim_doki:
this thread is going to decend into a violent orgy of band fanboys and girls, beating each other senseless with their own stupid

Hooray!

In that spirit, I'm going to throw Linkin Park and Nine Inch Nails into the mix.

How about the Spice Girls and The Backstreet Boys. Granted, I never really cared about either group in the first place, but they used to be BIG. Now both groups have gotten back together and the overwhelming reaction has been 'why?'

If you want a real flash in the pan, Fatboy Slim. There was a good five minutes he was famous before everyone realized he was just singing the same line again over and over and over and over. Yeah, "right about now, the funk's so brother" is odd, but it's not quite the riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a vest it needs to be to contemplate for five minutes straight.

That brings me to SUGAR RAY...

All I can say is thank God they're gone. Now I can stop sawing my own arms off trying to escape the prison that is their music. Please don't tell me they could come back; I would like to enjoy my delusion of freedom.

The ultimate band/performer we all just stopped giving a crap about, though, would have to be Michael Jackson. Thriller was just about the highest selling album of all time. The man made billions off his music, but now? Now we don't even care when he's running around in a Cobra Commander mask with a chimpanzee, seducing pre-pubescent boys on chemo.

"Whatever. They should've figured out not to spend the night in his bedroom back in the nineties... I wonder what's on CSPAN."

It doesn't get much more 'stopped giving a crap' than that.

Slipknot

When I was 14/15 I was right into them but now that I've grown up they just annoy me...

The did however get me into metal so they done somthing =P

I think this is the case with not just certain bands in general.
They always have there ups but there are also downs
due to them trying to fit in, biting off more than they can chew, change,and also making comebacks when they really shouldnt ruining what they had for themselves.
Think most bands are guilty of this at some point or another in there careers.

Pretty much all of the ones I used to listen to. Every band that's had hype, I've bought into, but I've stopped following stupid trends and hype. Now, my iTunes library consists of mostly video game music because it's the only thing I'll listen to and not get some wierd meaning.

Slipknot, shame on those who still listen to them... They're a good metal band to be introduced to and gradually go heavier and heavier...

bangtheDANCE:
Slipknot, shame on those who still listen to them... They're a good metal band to be introduced to and gradually go heavier and heavier...

funny slipknot story

they were complaining on the last tour they did with gwar and the rest, the singer pf slipknot was saying how hard it was to wear the mask and overalls and such. Oderus from gwar said "shut the hell up you pansy, you chose to wear that, try wearing 25 pounds of pvc like i do every night for 20 years and then come talk to me about how much it sux"

i laughed, tho not as much as the time Oderus tore a new one for the guy from disturbed

bangtheDANCE:
They're a good metal band to be introduced to and gradually go heavier and heavier...

I totally agree with you on that. I was introduced to Slipknot by a friend of mine's big brother, and since then I've listened to Metal practically constantly.

This, however:

bangtheDANCE:
Slipknot, shame on those who still listen to them...

Is bullshit. The Subliminal Verses was absolutely awesome, as are all of their albums.

I say Metallica. Although everyone will say my opinion is null and void because I like the album The Black Parade.

Metallica. Starting with St. Anger they stopped sounding like Metallica and more like they were trying to sound like Metallica. If that makes any sense.

krashdummy:

bangtheDANCE:
They're a good metal band to be introduced to and gradually go heavier and heavier...

I totally agree with you on that. I was introduced to Slipknot by a friend of mine's big brother, and since then I've listened to Metal practically constantly.

This, however:

bangtheDANCE:
Slipknot, shame on those who still listen to them...

Is bullshit. The Subliminal Verses was absolutely awesome, as are all of their albums.

Agreed, Subliminal Verses bought me back to them. There was a time (probably around Iowa) when I thought they were just for angsty, misguided teens, but as a musician I could not deny the raw appeal of their music.