A list thread.

Which musician has travelled furthest from good to crap, or crap to good?

Their starting-place doesn't need to be especially crap or good depending on the extreme that they travelled to from that place.

Make sense?

Bring it, Ghost of Rysie!

Dont be ashamed of a list thread Mr. Rabbit

Would Michael Jackson be an example.

Good to crap

rysie wrote:Dont be ashamed of a list thread Mr. Rabbit

Would Michael Jackson be an example.

Good to crap

I was kind've thinking that there'd be more detail than that...as you wish though.

it will be but i wanted to check that i had it right for once.

rysie wrote:it will be but i wanted to check that i had it right for once.

Phew!

Billy just got better and better!

There's bound to be many more dramatic shin-ups or slides into the mire but (moving from bad to good - it's too depressing to think about how many bands have gone the other way) Scott Walker and Talk Talk immediately spring to mind - neither were deadly crap to begin with (I don't have much of a stomach for Talk Talk's early synthpop, I love The Walker Brothers) but both buck the usual trend by moving away from massive mainstream commercial success and becoming far weirder and to my ear much better.

Playing The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine next to the baroque orchestrations of Scott's first four solo albums or - to hammer the point home - Tilt gives some idea of the distance covered. Same goes for It's My Life next to something off Laughing Stock.

The career of Miles Davis is a baffling series of wild escalations and descents in quality/crapness, later on covering both extremes in the same year.

Scritti Politti. WTF happened there?

Gang. Of. Four.

Bob Mould.

From the genius of Zen Arcade to the 'JeebusChristWhatTheHellIsThisCrapTurnItOfTurnItOff' of his new 'record'.