Jumping the Shark ...

[lurch70]

Some interesting conversation should start from this. For our overseas friends, "jumping the shark" is a term used when something, usually in the media, gets to point where it loses it's original appeal (or what made it great in the first place)
Usually used for TV series ... but can be applied to band discographies as well.

So name some bands and at what point did they "jump the shark"

here are some in my opinion

Sepultura - Roots
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Metallica - Black

 

[NAD]

Haha, this is the second jump the shark thread, and I still don't quite understand the meaning.

Slayer - Diabolus in Musica
Hypocrisy - Catch 22 (the followup to this was good though)
Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (again, the followup was good)

 

[NAD]

I just read that other shark thread, this is by far a highlight of not only that particular thread, but the forum as a whole:

The Smiths were without a shadow of a doubt, the greatest band to come out of Great Britain during the 1980s.

safety off.....laser sight on forehead...

DURING you freaks. Maiden started in 1979 or so.

...saftey goes back on.

 

[lurch70]

where is the other thread?

 

[J.]

never heard the term "jumping the shark". I guess we just say, "<blank> just sucks now".

 

[NAD]

Personally I prefer "fuck those guys" but that transcends music.

other shark thread

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

"Jump the shark" comes from a latter-day Happy Days episode in which the Fonz, while waterskiing, quite literally jumps a shark. The episode was SO BAD, and truly signified the end of the show, metaphorically speaking. So thus, jump the shark has come to mean, the point at which something takes a turn for the worse, never to recover.

For example, the phrase "jump the shark" has jumped the shark. Get it?

 

[NAD]

Cool, makes sense.

Except Happy Days ALWAYS sucked, what a terrible show.

 

[Ayeka]

Originally Posted by markgugs
DURING you freaks. Maiden started in 1979 or so.

Actually it was xmas day 1975, that durr brain