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Surrounding a band, when they first debut on our radio waves, is always a shed-load of pressure. Not only are they expected to perform well – if not better – live, handle the strains of becoming famous and juggle a dozen broads all in the same night, but there are also extra special demands on them to release an album just as bitching as the first.

A second album has been known to make or break a band. We can all think of our own examples. Would Ian Brown be the solo artist he is today if The Stone Roses Second Coming had not bombed so badly? Would Blur have gone on to release storming tracks 'Tender' and 'Charmless Man' if they hadn’t first gained a whole host of fans with Modern Life Is Rubbish?

A second album can sometimes be a continuation of the band’s first album and therefore carry the same sound, but not always. Moods change, artists grow and people grow up. Listeners grow up with the bands too. I know that it wasn’t until I got a little older that I started to appreciate albums for the journey rather than just a few cool songs.

With this in mind, although some of the tracks picked for this playlist were singles, there are others that were not and so not heard on the radio at the time. Tracks like Blur’s love-swathed 'Blue Jeans' (later to be heart-breakingly contradicted by No Distance Left To Run) and Nirvana’s 'Lounge Act' – which can be adored simply for it’s bass line – are grand examples of tracks that may have slipped under the radar of the casual radio folk. Then again, the list also includes cracking singles like Radiohead’s 'High and Dry', Hot Chip’s 'Over and Over' and Chemical Brothers’ 'Block Rockin’ Beats', showing that an artist can come back, having reworked their sound a little or a lot, and send its listeners spiralling in delight.

So, here is a list of twenty recent tracks from twenty recent artists that have either kept to that benchmark or blown their first efforts out of the water. It also gives me a reason to put Biffy Clyro’s stonker 'All The Way Down: Prologue, Chapter1' at the end, where I always thought it should have been put.


Playlist Link-

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1.    'Block Rockin´ Beats' – The Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole)
2.    'Blue Jeans' – Blur (Modern Life Is Rubbish)
3.    'Sam´s Town' – The Killers (Sam’s Town)
4.    'The Sounds Of Science' – Beastie Boys (Paul’s Boutique)
5.    'Radio' – Alkaline Trio (Maybe I’ll Catch Fire)
6.    'High And Dry' – Radiohead (The Bends)
7.    'Over And Over' – Hot Chip (The Warning)
8.    'Old Yellow Bricks' – Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
9.    'Vietnow' – Rage Against The Machine (Evil Empire)
10.     '(Antichrist Television Blues)' – The Arcade Fire (Neon Bible)
11.    'Monsters In The Parasol' – Queens Of The Stone Age (Rated R)
12.    'Everlong' – Foo Fighters (The Colour And The Shape)
13.    'Reptilia' – The Strokes (Room On Fire)
14.    'Demons' – Super Furry Animals (Radiator)
15.    'Johnny Quest Thinks We´re Sellouts' – Less Than Jake (Losing Streak)
16.    'Richard III' – Supergrass (In It For The Money)
17.    'Lounge Act' – Nirvana (Nevermind)
18.    'Nice Weather For Ducks' – Lemon Jelly (Lost Horizons)
19.    'The Bucket' – Kings Of Leon (Aha Shake Heartbreak)
20.    'All The Way Down: Prologue, Chapter1' – Biffy




That link again...:


spotify:user:gobshout:playlist:6pSovhiSDLssdT1pZuVzg8

Posted In Gobify, Jan 19 2010. Words - Rich