best 2nd albums

NIN - The Downward Spiral

Bola - Fyuti

Devin Townsend - Infinity

  On 6/24/2011 at 1:13 PM, Greg Reason said:

NIN - The Downward Spiral

i 2nd that

burial - untrue

wu-tang - forever

atcq - low end theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_%26_Magic

my personal favorite is ladytron's 2nd album. not that the first isn't amazing, and the fourth isn't damn good. the third is ok, etc.

i have not listened to teh fifth yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Jdlw6Li2U

not that the rest of his career wasn't amazing, but something about this album that just rocks, hah!

  On 6/24/2011 at 2:08 PM, fondles the cat said:

amazing album! i really should listen again soon

prodigy, music for the jilted generation..

Chemical brothers, dig your own hole.

Both highly debatable, but true in my opinion.

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Starflyer 59 - Gold

Beck - Mellow Gold

Radiohead - The Bends

Outkast - ATLiens

  On 6/24/2011 at 1:16 PM, Captain James Mission said:

burial - untrue

wu-tang - forever

Untrue better than Burial

Wu-Tang Forever better than Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

No way man.

Tim Hecker - Radio Amor

Arovane - Tides

B12 - Time Tourist

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man

Marconi Union - Distance

Kangding Ray - Automne Fold

Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader

This Heat - Deceit

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters

eric's trip - love tara

pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain

mount eerie - lost wisdom

parenthetical girls - safe as houses

the cure - seventeen seconds

max tundra - mastered by guy at the exchange

wevie stonder - drawing on other people's heads

the psychedelic furs - talk talk talk

shed - the traveller

  On 6/24/2011 at 6:15 PM, Dropp said:

  On 6/24/2011 at 1:16 PM, Captain James Mission said:

burial - untrue

wu-tang - forever

 

Untrue better than Burial

Wu-Tang Forever better than Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

 

No way man.

yes, i think so...

but comparing these two albums is like comparing "ready to die" to "life after death" and "the infamous" to "hell on earth" and so on...

  On 6/24/2011 at 1:13 PM, Greg Reason said:

NIN - The Downward Spiral

  On 6/24/2011 at 3:10 PM, jules said:

  On 6/24/2011 at 4:21 PM, patternoverlap said:

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Beck - Mellow Gold

Second albums are where it's at. This list could go on and on for me.

(Zach Hill - Face Tat)

To list a few...

Ah yes, SYL's City and MBV's Loveless, indeed! Classics

  On 6/24/2011 at 8:45 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

yeah!

Hmm.... is this a 2nd album as the best of an artist or just great second albums? If the latter then:

and i just had a thread on this but

oh yeah this one of course