In an extent - A Silver Mt Zion.
It's not that they got bad, but their last albums are incredibly less beautiful than the first ones in my opinion. When they began to focus on the voice, they lost a lot of interest in my opinion. It's not that I expect them to be a GY!BE follow-up, but I just think it doesn't work so well now.

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I don't agree. Horses in the sky was a sheer beauty in my opinion. It's true about the "voice" thing though, Efrim has a characterisic vocal expression and not everybody must be keen on his way of singing.

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Redd Kross

Napalm Death? You really think they got bad?!

Oh, that reminds me of an OBVIOUS one no one's mentioned.. Cryptopsy. Going from the most insane tech-death stuff ever to ... well, whatever this new shit is. Damn.

second that. they got more interesting/technical/brutal with every album, up untill ...and then youll beg, which ive always thought is the pinnacle of thier soubd. they should have held the reigh of best death metal band in the world for quite some time, but instead, got shitty. like, really shitty.

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Agreed SavageClone.

I hate to say it, but The Velvet Underground.

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nothing to be ashamed about man. 'white light white heat' and 'the velvets and nico' are two landmark albums, perfect, and in my opinion, the only true velvet underground albums. the velvet underground to me is the collaboration between john cale and lou reed. the s/t record has some absolutley beautiful songs, and 'loaded' is a nice rock n roll record, but i have always thought of them as the beginning of lou reed's solo career.

I would totally agree that they're more Lou Reed solo works actually. Certainly live these days he tends to play tracks from either of these two. When I saw him he did "Rock n' Roll" from Loaded. I can't reeeallly faulter these musically, but they don't really have the magic of the first two.

Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker were good musicians in their own right, and the whole story about While Light/White Heat and VU & /nico sounding the way they do only because of Reed and Cale is a myth. Quiet a few of the songs on those two albums were written collectively much more than Lou Reed would want people to think.

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They probably didn't get bad but nothing I've heard is nearly as good as the first two albums.

Nearly all the big beat groups have been falling off, for that matter.

"most all bands" is right

And how they got bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Flowers of Romance is my favourite album of their's, possibly because it was the first I heard.

To be fair, the later records were John Lydon and some dodgy rock musicians. Possibly better than the reunited Sex Pistols though.

I must be the only person alive to enjoy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned :D