re: "Two career" bands/artists

definitely a slight deviation, but I'd say Joy Division/New Order...

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I'll submit one more: "The Killer" Jerry Lee Lewis. On top of the world, almost as big as Elvis; he married his 13 year old cousin - fell off the world. He started making country records in the late '60's and came back huge.

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This could be a separate thread, with all the pop/rock types who slid over to country music.

I feel like I should mention Iron Maiden. After a pretty long & successful run, Bruce Dickinson & Adrian Smith left, and for several years they slowly started circling the drain after a couple of mediocre albums with Blaze Bayley. Right when it seemed like it was time to call it a day, Dickinson & Smith came back. Not content with just living off their past, they've since released five studio albums (including a double, clocking in at 90+ minutes), and have done well on the concert trail too...

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Frankly, this is bullshite

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This is sig worthy Ace

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with all the pop/rock types who slid over to country music.

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Like Waylon fricking Jennings, just as one example - from Buddy Holly's touring bass player to the biggest outlaw in country music.

Hell, even the King himself - biggest thing in the history of entertainment, then Army, then movies, then huge comeback in the 1970s.

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I agree, and Division Bell is just a Gilmour solo album (to me). It seems like you needed the tension between Waters and Gilmour for it to be authentic Floyd.

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Sorry about missing this post. I would agree if you said A Momentary Lapse Of Reason is a glorified Gilmour solo album, since the other members are mostly (or entirely, depending on who you ask) MIA on it...but I'd consider Division Bell a Floyd album, since Mason & Wright are on it prominently, and Wright has a lead vocal on a track + several co-writes. To me, it's no less Floyd than The Final Cut. But yeah, both albums would've benefited more if both Waters & Gilmour worked together.

As an aside, if they'd mixed the best songs from Division Bell with the best instrumentals from Endless River, it could've been a hell of an album IMO...

Heart
There was the rockin 'Baracuda' and 'Magic Man' Heart of the 70's and then the power pop ballad Heart of the mid to late 80's.

YES
There was the super progressive rock YES of the 70's and then the new wave #1 hit band of the mid 80's.


Both of these examples were like totally different bands and are very good examples.

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There was the rockin 'Baracuda' and 'Magic Man' Heart of the 70's and then the power pop ballad Heart of the mid to late 80's.

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Although the core of the band has always been Ann and Nancy, as they allowed the record company make more decisions, "encourage" more collaborations with other songwriters, push Nancy to the forefront (as Ann decreasingly looked the part in the 1980s), they suffered a little crisis of artistic integrity. I do dig the eponymous album and Bad Animals, but it was a big change - not only more ballads (now, keep in mind, your '70s "rockin'" Heart had Dreamboat Annie - a fantastic album, but loaded with mellow numbers), but the more polished, "overproduced" sound of the 1980s.

So, while their sound was more like mentors Led Zeppelin, or mainstream rock acts like Grand Funk and so forth during the 1970s, the '80s stuff was more like Boston or hair metal (and the softer side of hair metal, at that). I guess they are a good analogy to Aerosmith who saw similar changes.

How about Warren Zevon? He was huge after Werewolves of London and a couple of other songs that got radio play. Then largely imploded his career and was playing in small venues. Then Letterman starts bringing him on, and he's fairly popular again by his death (the cancer publicity didn't hurt either).

Jimmy Buffett had a lull in his career when it wasn't hard at all to see him without huge crowds. Mid / late 80's.

Bob Dylan has had numerous careers.

Folk Dylan
Electric Dylan
Country Dylan
Rock Dylan
Soul/Gospel Dylan
Blues/Jazz Dylan
Pop Dylan