Albums with a great first track but then plummets into the abyss immediately after

I popped on Magdalen's "Revolution Mind" in the car today, an album that I have never actually listened to, only giving it a couple of spins to let it play in the background a looong time ago.

First track came on, the title track, Revolution Mind.

Great song...love it...thinking I'm stupid for not playing it sooner, and more often.

Then track 2 came on...

Man, this is not as good as the first track..but hey..not every song can be great. Skip.

Track 3 comes on...

Eh..not feeling this either...Skip.

Track 4...man, is this the same band? Skip.

Track 5...I really don't like this..skip.

Track 6....ok , this is getting ridiculous...skip.

Track 7...man, this sucks..skip.

Skip
Skip
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Throw up
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Whole album wound up being a skip....except the first song.


Have you guys ever come across this with another album?

Golgatha - Merry-go-Round.

I heard the song on a compilation album, spent a lot on the import CD, then realized there were only two good songs on it.

Incidentally, I like Magdalen - Revolution Mind as a whole.

For me it was Mastedon - Its a Jungle Out There!. 

I heard the title track on an sampler and bought that album way back and it just didn't keep up with me at the time. Dont know if it would today or not.

There are plenty of albuns like this. Though, the only that comes to mind is Broken silence - discerning the times

Thiago-Brazil wrote:There are plenty of albuns like this. Though, the only that comes to mind is Broken silence - discerning the times

Whaaaaaat!!!!

I love that album.....it is actually one of my favorites

Going to be so much opinions. I love It's a Jungle Out There. First album that came to mind was Force 3.

I used to think that about Novella's One Big Sky. I loved the song Do We Just Surrender, but none of the others seemed to be as good.  However, I revisited it not to long ago, and the rest of the album sounded better than I remembered.

The Watchmen "Fear No Evil" album... The title track smokes; the rest is pretty much forgettable.

Force 3, for sure. Lightforce "Mystical Thieves" fits, too. Love Mastedon...


Arttie

arttieTHE1manparty wrote:Force 3, for sure.  Lightforce "Mystical Thieves" fits, too.  Love Mastedon...


Arttie

I do agree on Mystical Thieves, never heard Force 3 and judging on other opinions Im not missing much.

GBR!

/< wrote:The Watchmen "Fear No Evil" album... The title track smokes; the rest is pretty much forgettable.

The Watchmen's Generation is bad too

Starts off with Turn, which is a great track, then the rest of the album is wrecthed

Ahhh, I like those Watchmen albums.

Black Rider wrote:Ahhh, I like those Watchmen albums.

Same here, sure I could do without the sax stuff on Generations, but other than that I really dig it.

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I like this album.  I do feel, however, that it would be better received with a different name (not just a respelling) and a couple less songs.  This is Lanny's band and not Lanny's and Ken's anymore.  For many, the magic was gone because Tamplin was out.  I like the album and actually get what they were trying to do.  I don't think that most fans of the first record really gave the second a chance.


As for the question:

Force 3 - Warriors Of Light
Stryken

With Stryken, the opening song got me to give it a chance, but even that opening song isn't great.  The album went down hill after that. It sounds like a bad Twisted Sister tribute band.

sentient, that not funny... 

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