ITT: Vaguely describe a band's discography, and others try to guess the band

EPs and the like can be included if you're a sadist... Which I am.

>Hi, we suck.
>Yep, still suck.
>TJAMC? Never heard of them.
>Wow, we had problems making this one, hope that doesn't happen again.
>Hey, after a style shift, we don't suck anymore!
>oh i guess we're sticking with our old style then?
>oh shit never mind new style it is
>Like a preview of things to come.
>Uh... Yeah, totally four tracks, no more no less.
>...Okay, I think I jinxed us earlier. This was a nightmare. Let's take a break.
>We're back!
>seriously we're back, another new album coming soon

>Rushed classic.
>Slightly more commercial.
>Very commercial.
>The overrated one.
>The one everyone owns.
>The better one.
>Starting to lose touch.
>The last good one.
>welp time to go pop
>"Should have never been released"
>Half the band is gone, so we relied on studio musicians. What a shit way to close out our career.

Singlehandedly created a new genre with their debut.
A year later they make a monster of an album.
Two years later they create the best album of their genre ever fucking created.
Some dude dies, hires a new guy a month later.
Absolutely no bass on the following album.
Finds the best producer ever for the new decade.
Creates the biggest metal album ever.
Tours like fucking maniacs for three years on said biggest album.
Creates two okay albums.
Plays with a fucking symphony orchestra.
A new song gets leaked on Napster, they sue..

..they do some other shit after the guy who was hired to replace a guy quits.
Creates a mediocre callback to their first decade of music.
Does nothing of note for eight years.
Creates the best metal album of this century.

why hello there, metallica

My Bloody Valentine?

Yep! Not a big fan of the pre-You Made Me Realise years, if you couldn't tell. Hype as fuck for the new album, though.

>Straightforward fun rock
>Some slower songs, this one has the big hit single.
>A lot more theatrical and experimental.
>The comeback, which was just ok.

>I am depressed
>I am SUPER depressed and ded
>our mate is dead, time to earn $$$

>unsure twanginess
>double album go
>psychedelia go
>the most unlucky album of all time
>pitchfork gave this masterpiece a fucking 6.6?
>soothing
>upbeat and accessible!
>how the fuck did this score higher than the masterpiece
>Woody Guthrie?
>it's shit but it got a 7.7, pitchfork are fucking morons
>okay back to making good music

Joy Division?

Nirvana, duh.

>hated upon release but now considered a groundbreaking classic
>the masterpiece
>the weirdest album
>"Forget our first three albums. We're now new wave!"
>"Forget everything we've ever made. We're now hard rock!"
>pop rock
>pop rock mixed with dance music
>hard rock
>"Hey, we're back and we've returned to our roots!"
>a continuation of the previous album

...Devo?

>garage geeks making some fun tunes
>I hate women cry for me
>sorry about that, here's some commercial pop
>I'm sorry did you say you want more?
>Even more commercial pop? Ok, but this time I'll try being sad again
>Hey I just found out what a "meme" is
>I'm sorry
>I'm so sorry
>Holy shit forgive me for this
>WE'RE BACK GUYS HELLO GOOD MUSIC AGAIN
>This one's decent enough too
>Never mind sorry guys maybe next time
MCR
Animal Collective?

Devo never went through a hard rock phase.

>see I'm not just a producer, I can make an album, I just can't resist adding the occasional shit song or filler skit to balance out the god-tier shit
>look, I'm not a one hit wonder, I can make an overrated garbage album which retards praise and unironically think is better than my debut
>look, I can make a pop album
>look, I can make a non-rap album which somehow ends up being my most influential on memerappers
>look, I can bring back my career and be responsible for a huge Fantano meme
>look, I can be wannabe Death Grips and have 4 god-tier songs followed by 6 good songs
>look, I can make a mess, but it's not a mess, it's art

Weezer

>MCR
Nope. Came before them.

>Animal Collective?
Nope, older.

kanye

>innovative yet dated classic
>slightly overrated masterpiece
>another masterpiece but this time it's really long
>meh alt rock
>dude politics lmao
>meh alt rock vol 2
>more minimal, stripped down album

>pop
>even poppier, with major commercial succes
>starting doing some more ambitious stuff
>lets do something completely new, fuck sales
>like above but even more ambitious, end of the band
bonus album:
>moremoremoremore minimalism

>Remember my last band?
>Clever lyrics and unique sound!
>LIFE IS PAIN GOD IS DEAD AAAAA
>Like a mental breakdown put into an album.
>I think we're trying to be Nirvana. Also bye.

bonus hint:
>haha whoops guess i'm hated by everyone now

mark hollis and the talk talks

>the innovative masterpiece
>a continuation of the style of the previous album
>the mainstream hit
>a bit weirder and darker than the previous album
>their poppiest album
>bad
>AWFUL
>AWFUL
>above average "LET'S RETURN TO OUR ROOTS" album

EZPZ
>Kanye

Evolution:
>Dude Sex
>Dude Politics
>Male friend, we're intellectually superior to other bands and use mathematics in our music

Metallica was never good, master of puppets sucked

>conscious rap with some jazzy beats
>album with one of the best naratives ever
>the overrated one
>made for white people

duckworth

Devo

Nine Inch Nails

>hi yeah i'm the guy who media doesn't like
>hi now they hate me more
>now i'm really popular
>whoops this album is shitty also drugs
>now i'm back and i'm crazier than ever
>ok now i'm fine let me get those pop hooks in
>a kind of sequel to one of my more popular outings

>Metal!
>i'm addicted to heroin and life sucks
>life sucks more
>whoops guess i'm dead
>New guy!
>We're still good, mostly!

>Let's take a bunch of acid and try to make rock music
>Let's do that again, but with Beatles samples
>Let's get another guitarist and try to sound like Sonic Youth
>Let's get an actual producer and a different drummer and write some slow songs and stuff
>Okay but you know what's cool? Studio fuckery!
>Let's get a new guitarist and a new drummer so we can write an alt-rock album with a minor hit single
>Let's make the same album, but better, except no one cares because everyone thinks we're one-hit wonders
>Well shit, our guitarist wandered off, guess we won't have guitars in our music anymore
>What if an album was on 4 CDS AT ONCE???
>Alright, enough messing around, let's make some symphonic pop and rack up that sweet sweet critical acclaim
>That went well, let's do it again but try to make it kinda like a concept album, but not really, and there's another hit single.
>Heh, politics sure are crazy, huh?
>Double album of heavy psych-rock, because why the hell not?
>Oh, god, I'm going to die alone, everyone is going to die alone...
>Haha just kidding UNICORNS AND FAIRIES AND MANGLED POLISH LOLOLOL

>WE'RE HERE TO ROCK YOUR HIGH SCHOOL GYM
>WE'RE HERE TO ROCK YOUR HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING
>jesus can we get this vocalist out of here already
>much better
>'sup fuckers we're here to beat the shit out of you
>see, we beat the shit out of the guy on the cover
>painkiller addiction and alcoholism! yay?
>underrated magnum opus
>well that's a mediocre way to end it

dr dre?

>dude let's make rock music lmao I'm edgy
>OK let's think about the album we're making this time
>OK let's REALLY think about it this time, also fuck society
>fuck society but this time with bleeps
>we have a lot of b sides let's just turn it into an album
>dude politics lmao fuck bush btw
>let's just make this masterpiece real quick and have people not pay for it
> everything is about rythym now
>slow and steady, also sad.

radiohead

Oh hello, Flaming Lips.

Pantera?

>apart from one song, loud, annoying, lo-fi instrumentals
>moaning singer with a very punchable face
>can hardly hear singer’s awful voice over the sound of his band mates bashing on their instruments
>impossible to tell if fanbase likes them ironically or if they’re just really retarded

Eminem

Ep is pretty good
Debut is amazing
Band member leaves
2nd album is better than debut, used guest singers
3rd album is garbage

Yep!

Pantera.

Hmmm... Alice in Chains?

the goslings

Yep, there they are. I wonder what the next album will be like.

>lol rappin n shit
>lol the media hates me but idgaf
>lol i'm a a-list celebrity plus i hate everyone
>lol i'm a a-list celebrity plus i hate everyone except my kid
>d r u g s
>sorry for that last album
>whoops that last album sucked too also im depressed
>remember when i was relevent?

>pretty good pop
>commercial success, pop
>getting weird now, pop
>creative freedom happens, band make a ten/ten undisputed masterpiece that flopped
>record label complains, band doubles down and makes enough masterpiece, label drops band and they disappear into obscurity

>the one with the hit single
>this one's ok
>time to get wEiRdEr
>I SAID WEIRDER DAMMIT
>half concept album coooooool
>soft and delicate
>time to sell myself out
>...
>hey im back remember my famous album well im going to do it again but LARGE SCALE
>elton john what are you doing here

talk talk talk talk talk

yeh

this is kanye, but you have shit taste

>AAAAAA
>more AAAAAAA
>it's like a live performance! also AAAAAAA
>okay calm down a little fuck
>the first masterpiece
>"We really suck tonight, ladies and gentlemen!"
>the double album
>we grunge
>more of that but better
>what the fuck are you doing here, yamatsuka?
>claustrophobic masterpiece
>much less claustrophobic and more sad
>oh hey we have our own label now
>and it's where we're putting our weirder shit
>AAAAAAAAAAAAA
>well uh we're getting really sad
>hey you like metal machine music?
>...classical music. yeah. fuck you.
>the insanely underrated masterpiece. a fucking 0, really pitchfork, fucking really
>what the fuck is going on on these records
>okay we're... kind of back to basics...
>This is a fucking great album, I can't even make a joke description.
>a live ep, i guess, these self-released things are getting weirder
>vinyl only because fuck you
>more self-released live shit
>The final album, hope you enjoyed it.
>...jk we made a soundtrack too okay bye

Sonic Youth?

>haha experiments and random stuff
>good psychodelia
>dude, pink floyd, lmao
>apparently magnum opus, maybe
>poppier
>even more
>pop rock
>more metal, but not quite
>shittier, heavier radiohead
>ultimate decline and hiatus

Yep!

battles

>YES!
>YES!!
>wait
>no
>STOP

Brand New?

U2?

Eyyyy, there it is.

Eminem

>Calvin Klein underwear
Is Dave trying to be a tool?

yup

>two masterpieces and a few ambient-ish tracks that everyone forgets about
>fuck we ran out of money lol lets just fuck around with two songs for half the album
>this album is as consistent as our album covers
>relations between bandmates is as poopy as this album
[silence]
>remixed version of the last album that is slightly less poop

Deftones

Big Star

;(

>it's not like the live shows
>it's still not quite like the live shows
>it's kind of like the live shows
>I like the instrumentals on this one (((sugar baby)))
>what do you mean they have other albums
I completely forgot this next one existed until recently
>like the last one but even less funk influence
>gee bill, how come your mom let's you have two discs? rivals 5th album for best
>funk and also soft rock and this one has a female vocalist alongside the main vocalist
>Yeah we can still do funk

>some of their glam rock stuff slowed down with some new songs
>darker and harsher
>mostly acoustic
> darker and more personal
>unplugged
>best of
>return with new singer
>continue with new singer

neu

Alice In Chains?

correct

>great
>great
>good
>great
>absolute dogshit

gorillaz

no, but close in that the absolute dogshit was released this year

Funkadellic

No but that's a good guess
Jump forward like a decade or two

Faith No More

Still no

RHCP

yea

ding ding ding

Very prolific so I’ll just do the first 10

>Debut album not that good, still finding their ground
>Haven’t heard this one lol
>one of their best albums. First on new label, amazing last track with 2 non album singles loved by many
>their best album ever, possibly of all time
> their most unconventionally recorded album
>their first poppier album still some earlier influence
> another popish album of the same manner
> their widely regarded the best album of theirs very good
>ain’t heard this one either lol
>their most pop album has a song with a chorus and everything

Beach Boys

Not even close haha

arcade fire?

correct

>drugs
>WELL
>WELL
>WELL
>WELL
>WELL

>Live record featuring songs from the next two studio albums as well as exclusives
>Extremely fun and metal esque
>Like last album but more popular, has their most popular song
>Another great album, this time goofier but a bit less consistent
>Alright album, the first and last few songs are really great but the middle is fairly bland
>A more straightforward, bouncy rock album
>A few covers and more live songs
>Longest record yet, not as highly regarded as the previous ones because of it's nu-metal influence, still pretty great though imo, they go on hiatus for a while after this one
>A bland album with maybe a few notable songs
>Haven't listened to this one, it's covers of songs from a famous movie, heard it's pretty boring again
>A short, fun, proggy concept album

The Fall

Nope. They're a 90s band

metallica was good and all but after cliff's death everything went to shit

t. nu-male

jane's addiction

>Good lo-fi rock with pretentious /lit/ references that the band claims is shoegaze for some reason
>Epic historical concept album destined to overshadow rest of career 10/10
>Stripped down album recorded without overdubs destined to be their best album according to contrarians
>Theatrical concept album that tries to one up the other concept album and increase their buzz/fanbase, but it doesn't really succeed
>Mediocre live album from what was possibly their last tour

>Singlehandedly created a new genre with their debut.
Come again? Metallica may have been the first thrash band to get popular but in no way did they "singlehandedly" create thrash metal.

>single released on a compilation that most fans don't even know about
>make a remix that becomes more popular than the regular song
>EP gains more attention, nothing revolutionary. one of the three songs is utter trash, and the two good ones appear on
>first full album is hugely popular and spawns copycats and catapults the label and the genre
>live album is even better, the best songs are bigger and louder
>follow up album is disliked for not being like the first, but is bland in its own right
>second live album is the best yet, improving the decent songs from the second studio album and mixes with the original album's best
>third album is definitely better than the second but ultimately still kinda dull
>current live tour once again improves the the salvageable songs and is shaping up for another banging live album

Oasis