Artists and bands who had one or two great albums or songs and then fizzled.
For me
Savage Garden
Rob Thomas.
I loved both and thought they had potential to be great stars with really long careers but disappeared to soon
BLIND MELON HAD ONE GOOD ALBUM AND ONE EXCEPTIONAL ALBUM...THEN THE SINGER DIED.
NOT REALLY A FIZZLE...MORE OF A TRAGEDY...IT IS WHAT CAME TO MIND THOUGH.
Guns N Roses when they fired Steven Adler (the original drummer)
Sublime losing the singer
4 Non Blondes
Oasis
GnR was the first band I thought of, those damned fools couldn’t keep a great thing together with all the dope and booze and arguing going on.
Idiots!!!
Appetite For Destruction is one of the greatest albums ever produced, not a throwaway song on it.
But guns N Roses if I’m not mistaken is considered a legendary Rock Band, whatever happened to Axel no one cares. The band is considered legendary and one of the greatest.
Savage Garden was a sort of primissing band that at the end was just the Male version of Spice Girls.
Guns N Roses is considered one of the greatest rock bands ever even though they had a short prime, Savage Garden is something like Hanson it’s something you remember the 90s for but they didn’t gain the long run accolades.
And wished they did become like one of the greatest Rock/pop bands ever….
Now that I think about no singers of the late or mid 90s have had truly long careers like the stars of the 80s Britney had 4 successful albums, Christina Aguilera probably 3 or maybe 4 as well.
But they aren’t like Michael Jackson who had 10 albums aprox, the same Madonna, U2 Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi and so many other 80s music stars
They are certainly legends, I agree with that but if they could have kept their shit together they could have made much more great music.
A good example of a great 80s rock act that weathered every storm and hung in there is Motley Crue. Those guys fought each other plenty but they knew how the bread got buttered. They were fools but The Crue was not idiotic.
That’s great for Motley Crue. I think it’s normal for bands to have fights. Especially because our frontmen can be quite arrogant and have pretty big egos.
it’s natural for rock bands to have big fights, the secret is being able to put their differences aside or fix them.
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry as far as I know they fought a lot but at the end they always came back to each other.
Tyler and Perry are not fools, I agree. It just irks me when a great act explodes because the boys can’t take a timeout and calm down.
Even The Beatles broke up, what a ridiculous situation…one of the greatest rock acts of all time fell apart due to everyone’s big stupid ego!
Tell you what, I’d make a great band member, I have no ego and I play a mean cowbell👍
Right ?
It’s frustrating they can’t just fix things like adults and act like 5 year old kids.
Did you know Jon Bon Jovi hired a therapist fir the band before recording keep the faith so they would solve their differences before the new phase of the band started?
Maybe bands should have that therapy every month and more great bands would stay together.
And well why don’t you make your own rock band, just when you all want to kill each other just all leave the room and then chill.
Or hire a shrink for all.
Appetite For Destruction is one of the greatest albums ever produced, not a throwaway song on it.
Axl killed G'n'R, they pretty tour as their own tribute band now. Even Use Your Illusion I&II were average albums.
shareAt the time, I was really into both of the UYI albums, but as time went on & with hindsight I've found that only the first half of UYI 1 is all that really works. After that, the rest of it & UYI 2 becomes really spotty. The whole thing would've come off better if they had trimmed the fat & released it as one album. Axl's proclivity for multiple background vocal overdubs got really irritating too.
shareYeah it could have been one really good album instead of 2 albums loaded with fillers. I still listen to Appetite but I have only listened to the entirety of UYI 1&2 once or twice. I think they or their record company decided they could make double the money with two albums released at the same time rather than a proper double album which tended to be priced the same as a single album or just a little more.
While Oasis never quite matched the brilliance of those first two albums, they still had some great songs & were quite successful after that......(Except for Be Here Now which was an utter trainwreck for sure!)
share4 Non Blondes
I foolishly got their one CD because of that one hit wonder song of theirs.
That is the ONLY good song on there.
The rest are clunkers.
No wonder why they failed.
I hate 4 Non Blondes specifically because of that annoying droning one hit wonder song of theirs.
shareI hated the name of the band as well, it was like a Pre Cancel Culture preachy type thing "Yes we're all female and none of us are blonde!!" I think that was the point they were trying to make.
And yes their one hit song was really droning the "Hey, yay, yay yay".
Yeah, it was such a godawful song and it was played constantly. And there was a stupid hat.
share I remember the days of buying an album based on only hearing one or two songs and then getting it home and thinking "Oh fuck!" they weren't cheap either so it would be really annoying knowing you could have gotten something else instead.
Some stores would let you listen to the album first.
Now I know better than to assume that just because one song sounds good the whole album won't.
It is obvious why that one Non Blonds song was a hit because to me it is the only one or the most easy-to-listen to song on the CD.
If you really think that one is bad, buddy, you are lucky not to hear anything else.
Some will upload the whole CD onto YT which is what I will seek out from now on instead of just going by one or two videos.
I bought the Cranberries album with "Zombie" on it thinking all the songs would be in that grungy style. Wasn't I disappointed with all the soft slow songs.
Killing Heidi an Aussie band from the late 90's they had a huge debut then follow up albums fizzled before they disbanded.
Gabriella Cilmi, another Aussie. Big debut then changed her musical style on the following album and tanked.
Evanescence, once their founding guitarist left the band was over. Amy Lee keeps it going but they are very ordinary now.
Mazzy Star
shareCarol of Harvest
https://youtu.be/m11sdvvFqZQ
The only album they made.. Beate Krause was 16! Aside from Pink Floyd's "The Wall", I consider this the last good prog-rock album.