1. Yield
2. Self-titled
3. Ten
4. Vs.
5. No Code
6. Riot Act
7. Vitalogy
8. Binaural
9. Backspacer

3 very different albums, but they are all good.

i now have Z, it still move and evil things

i wonder when/if my morning jacket does this. they are not huge by any means, but they have strayed from the sound that made them. luckily, it has been badass.

Arkbadger, that is a horrible analogy. I suggested they miss one meaningless regular-season football game to prove their point. This is hardly comparable to missing days or weeks of work because you refuse to buy gas. If everyone thought like you, there would have been zero social change. Oh, wait, you live in Arkansas where there has been zero social change. Nevermind.

one of my favorites

1. vs
2. yield
3. vitalogy
4. 10

+1

just like with zz top and dire straits

Last ZZ Top album I bought was El Loco. Dire Straits, it was Love Over Gold.

/ “Pearl Necklace” FTMFW

one of my favorites

1. vs
2. yield
3. vitalogy
4. 10

Yeah, Yield is up there for me. Do the Evolution is one of the coolest songs ever

/gimme fight like a brave and skinny green man

one of my favorites

1. vs
2. yield
3. vitalogy
4. 10

black was also when ballads took hold. don;t tell me about fade to black and one, they were islands in a sea of neckbreaking tunes. not so with nothing else matters and unforgiven

also was Bob Rock’s first album with the band. his last was st. anger. death magnetic was at least an attempt at return to what happened 25 years prior, which is something bob pushed them away from to go more mainstream

i think all bands get to a point where they exhaust their best tunes, like I think Pearl Jam hasn’t been the same since Yield, at least when you think of albums as a whole. Sure good bands are always capable of putting together a really good song here and there but I think collective works start to suffer after some time

i agree 100%. every band/musician has a limit before they start straying from what made them popular, and even if they keep doing what makes them popular it may no longer be as good as it was.

that’s what makes it interesting when you see bands break up and immediately the solo careers that come out of it are so different than what was being done as a group. look at the beatles, soundgarden for example off the top of my head. the solo careers of those band members strayed far from the last joint venture

they were pretty good songs, but just like with zz top and dire straits, the kind of tunes that break a band into superstardom get repeated and it sucks

/eliminator
//install microwave ovens

both loand reload had some pretty solid songs. devil’s dance was a strong one, and fixxer too (i guess neither of these songs is really that bluesly, so maybe that explains why I think they’re some of the better tunes)

I remember listening to Reload for the first time and “Bad Seed” came on. My mom comes in my room, “Hey I kinda like this!” The kiss of death.

I can’t think of a modern equivalent since there’s no current band with a Metallica-like following/reverence.

I remember hearing a lot of rock fans annoyed when Rush shifted to synthesizers in the 80′s, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tells us they don’t count I guess.