Cutting The Crap: An Intro
You always have great bands: bands who rise in the public consciousness to great heights until they embarrass themselves and their art with a misstep, or at least one that gets remembered poorly by public opinion. It is to these albums that Cutting the Crap is dedicated. My primary goal is to give a fair shake to albums that get shat upon. At the very least, I’d like to write about the ways the great musicians have gone astray.
Each week, I’ll tackle an album whose street cred is only slightly better-valued than an MC Hammer pog and explore if it deserves its reputation and how albums get that reputation. It’s important to note that these aren’t albums I specifically dislike, but albums that don’t get as much respect as the bands that made them. To make this distinction, I’m partially reliant on Allmusic.com, talking to other music fans, and shit I’ve gathered about artists’ discographies over the years.
Here’s the preliminary list of bad artists moves I’m covering:
(Actual albums are a surprise)
The new hire
Poor fan service
The youth movement
The comeback as setback
The outside interference
The glory days
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Sounds interesting. Party.
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