Best Follow Up Album

[2scoops]

Question for you...


How many bands can you think of that released a follow up album (e.g. their second album) which was better than their first.

I'll start it off with Radiohead "The Bends"

[terry77]

Oasis - Whats the story morning glory

[hondavee4]

metallica, in fact imo the 1st 4 albums got progressivly better

[unique]

do you mean when you say "best", an album that is significantly better than the previous album? that is what second album by an artist/group is the biggest improvement over the first album? which pretty much relates to a bad first album and a great second album?

in which case, the bends was the first to spring to mend as the first album wasn't up to much

i was also thinking of screamadelica by primal scream, but that was the third album, marking a big change in direction, although i've not listened to the first two albums

[Matt_C]

Originally Posted by hondavee4

metallica, in fact imo the 1st 4 albums got progressivly better

EXACTLY the thing I was gonna say!

I also really like the 5th album too

[technoman28]

Hi unique (or should I say Chesney), on this subject, as an artist of note, do you class your first album (Buddy's Song Soundtrack, released May91) as your first album, or "The one and only" (released in Sep91) as your first which would make "Get the picture" (released july93) your second album? And which do you regard as your best?

ps. I remember the "are you famous" thread!

[overkill]

Led Zeppelin - Led Zep II was miles better than 1
Black Sabbath - Paranoid is better than Black Sabbath
Cream - Disraeli Gears is better than Fresh Cream

There's probably loads more but brain is fried by too much marking...........

[hondavee4]

Originally Posted by overkill

Led Zeppelin - Led Zep II was miles better than 1

sorry dont agree, the 1st 4 albums were all great

no one album was miles better than the other

[gingerninja72]

I'm taking this to mean a 2nd labum that improves on an already great debut, in which case here's some fantastic ones

Iron Maiden - Killers
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pixies - Doolittle
System of a Down - Toxicity
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

[Pecker]

Best follow up albums, off the top of my head. Not strictly 2nd albums, but the second of a pair, and obviously a sort of 'Part 2' to the preceding LP).

Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly (follow up to The 'Chirpin' Crickets)

David Bowie - Alladin Sane (follow up to Ziggy)

David Bowie - Station to Station (follow up to Young Americans)

U2 - Zooropa (follow up to Achtung Baby)

Steve W

[huwg]

Originally Posted by gingerninja72

Faith No More - The Real Thing

The Real thing was their third, after we 'Care a Lot' and 'Introduce Yourself'.
It is however a blinding album, I love the cover of War Pigs....

In fact I'm going to play the album right now.

Introduce Yourself was miles better than We Care A Lot imho, so I'm going to suggest that.

Tool - Aenima is better than Undertow (which is better than the Opiate EP)

[Shoka]

Originally Posted by huwg

Tool - Aenima is better than Undertow (which is better than the Opiate EP)

Was just about to say exactly the same thing, one of my favorite albums ever.

[metalhead72]

Originally Posted by hondavee4

metallica, in fact imo the 1st 4 albums got progressivly better

o yes !!

[krish]

some of my favourite best follow up albums (that were better than the first) are:

Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Radiohead - The Bends
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole


edit ... just realised the OP had kicked off proceedings with The Bends ... definitely the best follow up album in my view

[huwg]

Originally Posted by krish

Muse - Origin of Symmetry
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole

how did I forget those