Is there ANY artist who had higher highs and lower lows than the Beach Boys?

Is there ANY artist who had higher highs and lower lows than the Beach Boys?

Probably not but Kanye is getting there.

me

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Might as well count Metallica since Lulu is just that bad

other than the car wreck which led to his initial success name one notable personal low Kanye had.

Yes, the prog band.

Dismemberment Plan
Grateful Dead
The Doors

OP didn't say personal low...

As an artist, Yeezus was considered shit by most fans of his previous work. All of it has been critically acclaimed. Sounds a lot like The Beach Boys huh?

his mothers death has devastated him and shifted his entire life every since

in b4 >it just makes him work harder!

even celebrities have feelings, user

the passing of his mother

Alban Berg will punish you!

Wu Tang Clan

I agree Smile was an all time low.

t. bitter bald man

Yes
The Stooges
Tim Buckley
My Bloody Valentine (I dare you to check out their early EPs)
Boris
Bob Dylan
M83
Frank Zappa
Pixies
The Rolling Stones
TVU

im tired of people praising it so much, its such a shallow listen because its incomplete, i dont want to have to imagine what it could have been. pet sounds is the source man

>Yeezus was considered shit by most fans of his previous work

haaa

black flag
ozzy
burzum

>tfw you realise Weezer's entire output since Green has been a deliberate attempt to imitate the Beach Boys' post-1966 career trajectory.

Think about it:
>Achieve success as a superior surf-rock band with catchy songs and occasional moments of greater depth
>Release an album that's a significant departure from the sound that made you famous. Double down on the emotion.
>The album is met with confusion. Existing fanbase don't get it. Sales are poor.
>Start making mediocre, more accessible albums, giving people what they want and sticking to the formula
>Carve out a new niche as a catchy but uninteresting pop band
>Later on, emotional album is held as the band's clear high point. Critics re-evaluate it and fans lament what "could have been" if the initial response had been better

Also
>Fans obsess over an incomplete concept album written and recorded around the band's creative peak, kept alive by a steady trickle of demos, bootlegs and fan-made mixes

Who is the Mike Love of Weezer?

>Start making mediocre, more accessible albums, giving people what they want and sticking to the formula

>implying Smiley Smile, Friends, Surf's Up and Sunflower are mediocre, accessible albums that stick with the formula
if anything, Smiley Smile is their most experimental record ever.

Rivers is both Brian and Mike

Rivers Cuomo

Why Boris

>Band's creative dead zone is punctuated with a few "experimental" releases that fans tend to overhype

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who enjoyed most of Yeezus.