This time we're taking a look at musical careers: development and maturation or stagnation and decay?
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All-Time Great Album word cloud of the week: Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement!
Categories covered:
- 2: Best song from an all-time great band's worst album
- Jon: Tight Connection to My Heart - Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque
- Turner: Dramamine - Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
- 28: A band's overall best track that's not on their best album
- Jon: How Soon Is Now - The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
- Turner: Rattled by the Rush - Pavement - Wowee Zowee
- 63: That one song from a great band's first album that sounds out of place on their debut but is totally standard for their following albums
- Turner: Here - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
- Jon: About a Girl - Nirvana - Bleach
- Nirvana released Bleach, then Nevermind, then In Utero
- Pavement released Slanted & Enchanted, then Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, then Wowee Zowee, then Brighten the Corners, then Terror Twilight
- The Smiths released The Smiths, then Meat is Murder, then The Queen is Dead, then Strangeways Here We Come
- There is no way I am doing a list of Bob Dylan's bajillion albums
- Lots of artists' careers function like a bell curve (a.k.a. a normal distribution): they start immature, get better, hit their prime, are kind of okay for a while and then decline.
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