When Influential Albums Go Bad

[Resident Loser]

...where does one begin?

The first of anything may be innovative (whether or not you like it is irrelevant) but at the first sign of popularity, the suits will slice-and-dice it, give it a new hairstyle and turn it into product...How many successful groups or albums haven't spawned a plethora of mostly useless wannabees?

Think boy bands, girl singers...And the public...well...for the most part, they just eat it all up, fueling the whole vicious cycle...and it ain't just music...

jimHJJ(...backwards ball caps and gray pony-tails get real old, real quick...)

[DariusNYC]

Great thread.

Pearl Jam's 10 created a whole subgenre of plaintive white-boy sincerity rock with overdramatic vocals that produced Creed and Nickelback. But don't get me wrong -- I love that album. It's just that style, when it's not done really well, really sucks.

I think Led Zeppelin's influence was largely negative, and I love Led Zeppelin; especially the early stuff.

[daviethek]

George Benson's "Breezin" probably kickstarted smooth jazz and helped further augment and corrupt the once creative medium by unnessesarily prolonging the lives an careers of mediocre jazz musicians everywhere.

[3-LockBox]

George Benson's "Breezin" probably kickstarted smooth jazz and helped further augment and corrupt the once creative medium by unnessesarily prolonging the lives an careers of mediocre jazz musicians everywhere.

OOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

That's a good one...I love the album actually, but yer completely right. Chuck Mangione, Dave Grusuin and the lot owe a lot to that album.