Name a CAREER RESUSCITATING album

octophone said:
I wouldn't call "Bloodsports" career-resuscitating. Reviews were so-so and they only played 4 songs from it when I saw them on the tour.
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But it did resuscitate their career in that they had pretty much broken up after A New Morning. So yes the quality may not be up there but the mere fact of actually making it revived their career.
 
octophone said:
I'm not sure about this one. It was only their second album. I get that they'd had a bit of a journey since the first record but it's more that it was their first big success after a moderately performing debut.
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I disagree. They were dropped by their label after an underperforming album and although they got a new member in Heidi it resurrected The Sugababes career.
 
VoR said:
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Good shout. A lot of people forget how transformative this was for her. She had come to be regarded as a bit weird, a bit out there and "The Dreaming" had not done well, dipping out the chart quickly, with "There Goes A Tenner" missing the Top 75. I was not a given that any comeback would be successful. Except she returned with a masterpiece.
 
Suedey said:
But it did resuscitate their career in that they had pretty much broken up after A New Morning. So yes the quality may not be up there but the mere fact of actually making it revived their career.
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I follow the logic and, yes, it took them to a higher chart position than "A New Morning" but it wasn't a particularly successful album. But I guess, without it, they'd have run out of steam as a reunion band.
 
octophone said:
I follow the logic and, yes, it took them to a higher chart position than "A New Morning" but it wasn't a particularly successful album. But I guess, without it, they'd have run out of steam as a reunion band.
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And I think that's why I had to post the live album too. In many ways that concert was actually just as important to bringing the band back as a unit.
 
Rita said:
I disagree. They were dropped by their label after an underperforming album and although they got a new member in Heidi it resurrected The Sugababes career.
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I suppose, yes, we were still in the phase were being dropped was seen as the end of your career whereas now, no-one even knows what label anything is on and it isn't a thing in people's minds. Yeah, OK. I don't think an uneducated public (ie including me) thought much was amiss - a line-up change and a label change were no great shakes to me, nor to the huge swathes of the public who bought this album.
 
Suedey said:
And I think that's why I had to post the live album too. In many ways that concert was actually just as important to bringing the band back as a unit.
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Well Anderson had a tough job persuading Richard Oakes to do that gig. So the fact that those Teenage Cancer Trust shows happened at all was a major deal.
 
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These kind of all go together. While always a respected songwriter, Dolly was in danger of slipping into tacky has-been status in the eyes of many, with her commercial chart fortunes dwindling and a string of roles in ill-advised movie flops. She went back to basics and while none of these albums were smash hits, they quietly built back her credibility and each one sold better than the last.
 
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They admitted it themselves, they were buggered. "Lifeblood" peaked at #13 and was out the chart a fortnight later. They sold less than "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours" sold in its first day. They needed to pull it round. A tour of smaller venues in 2005 felt to some like a farewell.

So, they got back to basic, playing and rehearsing as a group in their own studio in Cardiff, the same one where they'd made "The Holy Bible" and which they had subsequently bought (and then sold again - it's been pulled down now). The key was "Your Love Is Not Enough", an absolute stormer which rocked as hard as anything else they'd done but also carried The Manic Melancholy which characterised so many of their greatest songs. Having Nina Persson as co-vocalist gave them a new sound and radio loved it. No. 2. Boom. The album also went to #2 but hung a round a bit longer than its predecessor and the group embarked on a larger tour than could have been expected the previous year. This was the record that really secured them the fanbase that allowed them to continue - not only did they turn around many drifters, they also had another hit the wider public actually knew.
 
Alla said:
This thread becoming "post any album", no shock :eyes:

Anyway, 6 or 7 albums missing the UK top 20, and then Out Of time, a #1 album followed by another six or seven #1s.

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Again, I would dispute this. R.E.M. had been building slowly, charting higher and higher with each album. They were just lacking that breakthrough hit. "Losing My Religion" gave them that in the UK (for other territories, it was "The One I Love"). They played and sold out Wembley Arena in 1989 so they were hardly on the bones of their arse. Again, it's moderate "big cult band" success to mainstream success rather than a revival.
 
I agree with @octophone RE: R.E.M. Green was a hit album, and if anything, Out of Time was another step towards big mainstream success in a string of albums. They weren't on life support.
 
octophone said:
Again, I would dispute this. R.E.M. had been building slowly, charting higher and higher with each album. They were just lacking that breakthrough hit. "Losing My Religion" gave them that in the UK (for other territories, it was "The One I Love"). They played and sold out Wembley Arena in 1989 so they were hardly on the bones of their arse. Again, it's moderate "big cult band" success to mainstream success rather than a revival.
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I agree with you on that, but that applies to many albums posted here, where their career were not dead, they just had that album that pushed them to another level.
 
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They were over, apparently. Then they had an international hit with the superb "Ordinary World", possibly their best ever single. "Come Undone" did pretty well too.

Then they blew it with that ghastly covers album and they were all over again.
 
Alla said:
I agree with you on that, but that applies to many albums posted here, where their career were not dead, they just had that album that pushed them to another level.
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Yes, I disputed "Angels With Dirty Faces" on the same basis.
 
Rita said:
I was going to post Rock Steady but Wikipedia tells me this was successful just a year before!?
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Return to Saturn sold about 10% of the album that came before it. :D

There's an argument for Rock Steady though...
 
Suedey said:
Return of Saturn was a commercial disappointment after the blockbuster success of Tragic Kingdom.
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POP! said:
Return to Saturn sold about 10% of the album that came before it. :D

There's an argument for Rock Steady though...
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I was going to post Rocksteady but got sidelined by Return to Saturn getting to number 2 compared to Rocksteadys number 9 in America. It was 5 years later than Tragic Kingdom so I thought it possibly paved the way to Rock Steady being a success.
 
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