Bands that ended with their best album

impmann

thumpingrug said:

Majorscale said:

Marillion - Clutching At Straws

Because the following 15 albums didn't count.

No. They don't.

Philly_Q

prowla said:

Clockwork Angels isn't Rush's best, but it is a darned good album!

It did cross my mind - not many bands, if any, last 40 years maintaining the quality level like Rush did, but I couldn't say it's their best album.

And... is it definitely their last?

CeeBee

The Smiths - Strangeways

Controversial? I always preferred it to TQID

EricTheWeary

rlw said:

EricTheWeary said:

menamestom said:

First up:-

The Doors. LA Woman is a killer album.

Any more?

Not The Doors last album ,IIRC, just the last one with Jim.

[ Now that’s how you make friends and influence people...  ]

Err, if I can include not a band then Back to Black by Amy Winehouse. 

But Frank must be up there for the best debut in that case.

Although she would miss out on the best middle album category. 

In a not dissimilar set of career moves I'll throw in Closer by Joy Division. It's the album I think of when I think of the band. 

545454

Talk Talk's Laughing Stock is a corker.

Kebabkid

Jellyfish - Spilt Milk

bloodandtears

impmann said:

thumpingrug said:

Majorscale said:

Marillion - Clutching At Straws

Because the following 15 albums didn't count.

No. They don't.

I see them as different eras. Both excellent

builttospill

Terror Twilight - Pavement

Majorscale

thumpingrug said:

Majorscale said:

Marillion - Clutching At Straws

Because the following 15 albums didn't count.

I was being a little sarcastic

I like Hogarth era, but there was something more special about them back when Fish was fronting the band.

Fuengi

Majorscale said:

Marillion - Clutching At Straws

I disagree on many levels! Although I'd agree the Clutching at Straws is an excellent album which conveys a sense of alcohol fuelled travel and social transience beauitifully, I think that Misplaced Childhood still stands the test of time better. I'd also argue that Marbles and Afraid of Sunlight - although perhaps both are not as cohesive as 'albums' - are its equal, and that Brave is still the best album Marillion have made by some distance. It's an absolute masterpeace.

On the OP I'd say The Walkmen. There is nothing much to pick between You & Me, Lisbon and Heaven but they certainly finished on their strongest three albums. I saw them live three times between 2009 and 2013 and they just got better and better each time.

joetele

Enemies - Valuables

And until their recent reunion, At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

Jeff Buckley - Grace (admittedly he only had one 'proper' album) 

Distillers - Coral Fang

Sleater Kinney - The Woods

Fugazi - The Argument (arguable, funnily enough, because people each have their favourite - but it really is a stunner) 

Danchi

Fugazi - The Argument. Simply outstanding. Totally agree with Joetele.

stimpsonslostson

Reuben- in nothing we trust. 

joetele

Danchi said:

Fugazi - The Argument. Simply outstanding. Totally agree with Joetele.

I'm going to put it in the car for the commute next week. Saw them in Bristol on that final tour - one of the best gigs I've seen - complete with lecturing a guy who was abusing other audience members, and berating the house for putting on the aircon too high! 

rivercider

Never Mind the Bollocks

DarnWeight

CeeBee said:

The Smiths - Strangeways

Controversial? I always preferred it to TQID

Totally agree, it's the first one that sprung to mind when I saw the thread title.

guitarfishbay

Fair To Midland - Arrows and Anchors

PolarityMan

Ok Computer

poopot

Has to be the Black Crowes with " Crowology" - Divine album... Cannot get enough of that!!!!!

Snap

Joy Division - Closer, though admittedly a very fine line between that and Unknown Pleasures. Both truly awesome, but I think Closer edges it, just.