yours is more boring

Neil
Costello
Van Morrison if you exclude Them
Yardbirds
10cc
Dylan
Love
Cale

having a much harder time thinking of real sophomore slumps tbh...i know you like it but i think Clash s*** the bed on the 2nd album, not a single standout on there compared to that classic debut.

also;

Red Krayola
OMD
Eno

you tryna catch a fade with this Tiger Mountain disrespect TTM >> HCTWJ.

s*** be pissing me off, that’s my fav Eno

Bait i love most of TTM

this what it feels like everytime I bait with Beatles hate

how the turntables have turned

if it counts, the quality improvement from Infinite to SSLP is huge but idk, Infinite to me just a borderline demo of Em tryna find his style (which he clearly didnt have on infinite).

Having a hard time thinking of sophomore slumps... plenty of instances where the debut is better but the sophomore still a classic or very good in its own right...

Probably cause artists with that trajectory don't have as much staying power and are more easily forgotten or maybe I just deleted all the slumps off my iTunes so I have no easy reference like I do for quality increases

imo Husker Du and CCR also made huge leaps

It was the third CCR album for me

Lifter Puller and Dismemberment Plan both made quantum leaps for their sophomores

Green River is my favorite also, but Bayou Country is when they “became” CCR

I think the drop off from Summertime 06 to Big Fish Theory pretty big

BFT still a great record so not a slump

Watching Mud again. A clossic

jump:
dylan
dinosaur jr
gang starr
genesis
husker du
lorde
megadeth
my bloody valentine
public enemy

slump:
NEU
dr dre
clash
interpol
boston
snoop

surprisingly hard to think of slumps

for me the CCR debut is almost as good as any of em, Suzie Q f***ing rips. but im not as huge on them overall as some of youo are

I think Outkast made a big leap artistically with ATLiens. To go in a completely different approach with a more organic sound took a chance when they could have just doubled down with a great Southernplaya sequel.

Interpol are the masters of the drop off

Mobb Deep is people actually count Juvenile Hell

imo Replacements made a massive leap after their first 2

I agree on Eno. No P****footing is better than Here come the Warm Jets.

I wasn't including instrumental albums and also that is ludicrous

biggest jumps

Nico
Van Morrison
Tim Buckley
Kyuss
Fugees
Bruce Springsteen
to a lesser degree Nine Inch Nails but Pretty Hate Machine is awesome.

slumps

Lorde
The Clash
Red Krayola
Sinnead O'Connor
Meat Loaf
Vince Staples
Type O Negative (I still like Bloody Kisses though)
Guns 'n' Roses
King Gizzard & the Lizzard Wizzard
Nas
to a lesse degree OutKast. ATliens might be my least favorite thing they've done that is not Idlewild.

Darkthrone had a huge jump in sound from Soulside Journey to Blaze in the Northern Sky. Not necessarily better or worse but I cant think of another band that changed so drastically off the jump like that.

NIN if we're not counting Broken

Smashing Pumpkins

Cant think of anyone that completely fell off after album 1 right now