Career defining albums

[Goreripper]

It's hard to pick from them, because they've only done a few, and only the first two are really good, although I'd go with 'Freakshow' because they were trying to sound more like themeselves rather than a Seattle cover band.

 

[Spruce Goose]

I would actually go Diarama I love that album.

And I agree about In Absentia. Fuckin top album. Trains is one of the most well written songs I have heard for an age.

Fragile rocks

 

[Blitzkrieg]

It depends what you mean by 'career defining' really. Simply meaning their best album is different to picking an album that best represents a band.

For Silverchair, I would pick Neon Ballroom, not because it is their best (because it isn't), but because it is the best representation of everything they have done and will do.

 

[Spruce Goose]

but because it is the best representation of everything they have done and will do.

How do you know that?

 

[spawn]

Id say Freakshow too probably, everyone wants them to rock, but Daniel "In touch with my feelings" Johns just took over the band and wants to play girls music with stupid, stupid lyrics

Frogstomp is awesome too though, I cant believe how young they were when they wrote the songs

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Because I don't see them rocking out again like they used to, and Neon Ballroom is somewhat of a mix between their rocky stuff and their poppy softer stuff.

 

[spawn]

Because I don't see them rocking out again like they used to

 

[Blitzkrieg]

You know its true.

 

[spawn]

Thats why I am sad

 

[Blitzkrieg]

 

[spawn]

*Plugs in Mario Kart*

 

[The Amazer]

Def Leppard - Hysteria
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Extreme - Pornograffiti
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

There's some more

 

[spawn]

Id say it was Dr. Feelgood for Motley Crue.

 

[plattopus]

Yeah I didn't say Neon Ballroom on the basis that I think it's their best (even though I do)... but Frogstomp and Freak Show cannot be career-defining because if you gave someone Frogstomp saying "this is exactly how to sum up Silverchair", and then they heard Diorama, they would think they were two completely different bands. Neon Ballroom is a mixture of the rock from their early albums and the orchestral music of Diorama.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

I don't think you can pick one for Crue because they have different albums defining different aspects of the band. Feelgood is the biggest seller and probably the one the casual pop & rock fan remembers the most, however most people who listen to Motley probably remember them more fondly for Too Fast For Love or Shout At The Devil. No doubt Feelgood is the biggest but I wouldn't say it represents the band like the first 2 do, seeing as though Motley are more remembered as being the crazy big black haired stiletto heeled drug addicted tattooed bad boys of rock & roll and pioneers of Sunset Strip glam, rather than the clean sober fun time rock & roll band they were on Feelgood.

Kinda same case as Metallica, Black & Puppets are both defining albums for different aspects of the band... though Black is the biggest seller it's not their one defining album.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Exactly.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

That was in agreement with plattopus hehe.

 

[The Amazer]

oh oh oh!

I got the best one:

Quiet Riot - Metal Health

 

[Goreripper]

'Metal Health' was a genre-defining album, not just a career defining one.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

"Stay Hungry" for Twisted Sister too.