Political albums

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>really enjoying band
>find out they're all far left open borders sjws

The only good political album

I laughed, thanks...

no problem friend

>band writes great first and second albums with real life lyrics and inspiration
>becomes popular and wealthy
>third album is generic garbage
Kill me now

>album has one cuck song

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>first album is alright but a little too inspired by another band I like
>the next three albums are great and unique, it seems the band is really finding their groove
>the next three albums are cheesy and generic and definitely not as good as their earlier albums
I want to suicide

name 56 bands that did this

Father John Misty?

>Band doesn't agree with me politically

Basically what I was going for here I suppose if you can get three good albums before the cheesey generic shit, that's a good run.

Radiohead?

Never really got into him but it's true of a ton of artists.

First album will often have a couple jams but they haven't quite found their groove and the production isn't incredible. Then they record the second album while still touring in a van and playing shitty bar venues and maybe a couple opening shows for slightly bigger names. Then second album comes out and starts getting some radio play and they start touring in the lavish tour bus and playing big shows and that next album is mostly boring garbage.

There are a lot of acts that get more than one or two good albums in though. Sometimes a band will be relatively unknown for a decade and then their 5th album has a couple hit songs that get lots of radio play. Writing this now, I'm thinking about Wilco. I really haven't listened to the recent stuff but Sky Blue Sky was a big turning point when half the album was in commercials for VW vehicles.

no not all, but people say that they sound like Radiohead quite a lot, even though they really don't anymore

Whatever happened to Aaron from the land down under?

This, it's one of the few political albums that doesn't sacrifice music for the message, which is one of the worst things you can do in art, when you sacrifice overall enjoyability for the sake of being "deep". Thom's lyrics are mostly concrete imagery and vague mantras so really in a sense the songs become whatever you interpret them to be, too. That, and the album is less about things that were happening politically at the moment and more about the underlying theme or problem (I.E. Go to Sleep being about ignoring bad things that happen because they don't immediately concern you). Granted, the tracklisting is messy as fuck but if you listened to this album without knowing anything about it

Take a look at something like I Give You Power though. It was released the day before Trump's inaguration so immediately the song is shot in the foot, a good melody and interesting variation is sacrificed for a communal feel and the repetition of the same goddamn phrase. Hallelujah Money too, the lyrics are so on the nose and melodramatic (HOW WILL WE LOVE??!?!) and the instrumentation backing it is so over the top I'd almost assume it was a parodying the hysteria of Trump protestors had I known nothing about Albarn's politics.

TL;DR - If you want to make good political music, be subtle and lyrically nuanced, don't sacrifice the enjoyability of the music and structure for the "message" and alienate half your audience, and most importantly, have something fucking interesting to say that isn't just regurtitaing popular opinions.

apologies, I left the first part of that unfinished. If you gave this album to some fuck in India they could listen to it without knowing that it's even political and just enjoy the music, provided they don't know what "Hail to the Chief" is.

Just say Muse, and stop these homosexual guessing games.

alrighty then, it's Muse. Congratulations you win the prize

>song is nothing but zip-zap

>an album

>a genuinely intellectual and interesting post on Sup Forums


The hecky?

kek

Post 3rd frog

kek, I appreciate it my friend. wish we had more interesting discussions on here but I enjoy the shitposts all the same