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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 01:44 PM
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Poll question: Worst Band Decline Ever, part II
By popular request
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 01:46 PM
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1. Other: Marillion.
At least the Phil Collins Genesis made GOOD pop.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:35 PM
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14. I'm with you there...
changed singers from Fish to Steve and started producing bad redoes of softrock in the vein of Bread. A shame, a real shame.

That said, Fish's solo career has been wildly uneaven. His first solo record Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors was excellent, so good I still listen to it today, his most recent effort Field of Crows is okay, everything in between is stunningly awful.
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 01:47 PM
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2. The Fall gets my vote just for the fringy eclectic art anti-band factor.
And because the Fall listens (or listened) to Whodini.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:08 PM
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8. Their new album's pretty good.
And yeah, they've been spotty, but no moreso than say Van Morrison. I don't think they count as a decline.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 01:47 PM
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3. Did you put The Clash in there just to bait JimmyJazz
or do they actually deserve their place?

Me, I have no idea which to choose. :)
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 01:53 PM
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5. The Clash would have been unimpeachable if it weren't for:
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:08 PM
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9. ...and that's why I voted for them. n/t
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 01:52 PM
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4. Meatloaf - I l ove him but let's be honest
Edited on Thu Oct-27-05 01:53 PM by DanCa
While his vocal quality is outstanding and I loved his last albulm he puts out songs way to far and few inbetween. That said I do think he is a musical genius when on top of his game.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:16 PM
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10. how can that make him the worst?
Worse than Rod Stewart or the Rolling Stones, whose vocal quality is at the top of the annoying scale? How is putting out two good albums worse than putting out 20+ piles of dreck which could be sifted for enough songs to produce one good album?
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:19 PM
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11. Ah I never said he was the worst i just thought he was on the decline.
I may have read the question wrong.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:33 PM
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13. no, I did, it is about declines
In that case, what about Michael Jackson, he fell pretty far from Off the Wall, and Thriller, didn't he? Of course, that depends on if you ever liked Thriller.
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 06:36 PM
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16. Ah I think we need to define what decline is.
I was going by productivity and activity in this case and not quality. At the top of his perfomace Meatloaf is one of the best performers around at least imo. I appologise for any misunderstanding.
Michael Jackson, he shoulda buried himself after the Jackson Five sang rockin and robin :) Just kidding. Let me know if were cool
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:36 PM
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15. It's very hard to decline when one starts so near the bottom
'nuff said.
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:05 PM
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6. Has to be Genesis
From masterpieces like "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" and "Selling England By The Pound" to that insufferably treacly pop shite of the later albums is a fall from the top of Everest to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:07 PM
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7. Biggest slide since Lucifer!
:rofl:
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 06:51 PM
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19. "Duke" was a classic.
One of my alltime favs.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:32 PM
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12. Rod Stewart with the Jeff Beck Group, and early solo work
was great, then the long slow decline.

I actually saw his band rehearse for a national tour on a soundstage in Hollywood, without the Rodster. They were quite good. Then Rod showed up; he is a really funny guy. I wasn't a fan any longer at that point, but I was impressed by the musicianship of his band.
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 06:41 PM
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17. FU! Duran Duran, Psychedelic Furs, Genesis (Gabriel one) ARE GREAT!
Grrrr!
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 06:46 PM
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18. Tommy James and the Shondells.
In jr high and high school we were all about the Doors and the Kinks. In the secrecy of my room I really liked Tommy James and and that guy that sang "young girl get out of my mind".
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