The Most Washed Up Artists

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I'm Retarded? said:
on a similar note, The Crystal Method. they were one of the most legendary breakbeat artists of the 90s, then suddenly and inexplicably torpedoed themselves with the horrendous Divided By Night album, which features a collab with fucking LMFAO of all people. they are, incredibly, still releasing music, and sometimes when I'm mainlining enough copium, I listen to their newer shit in the hopes that they've rediscovered their old spark. but they sound so fucking awful that it's really hard to believe it's the same guys. their last good album was twenty years ago now.
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I'd say Prodigy since their last album before Keith's passing was... Not good at the very least. Maybe I am missing something, but I recall songs from Invaders must die on TV and in the movies and tracks from The Day is My Enemy in trailers, but No Tourists? It seems like it was released solely on YouTube. Nevermind the fact that it didn't have any catchy or memorable tracks at all.
 
Franz Joseph said:
Any punk band once it's members hit 30. It's a genre that ages like milk.
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Considering the impetus of the genre was rejecting anything that could make your music interesting so they could scream about daddy for a couple minutes, it didn’t have the best pedigree from the outset.

Yes I do post in the Progressive Rock thread, why do you ask?

Tax: any progressive rock group post-‘73, with a handful of exceptions up until ‘81 which left Rush as a sole survivor. The production cost vs return just couldn’t stand up to the rise of Southern Rock, Country, and *shudder* Disco….
 
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Slipknot today
Slipknot. Even when looking for a current photo of them I'm fucking baffled Corey is trying to relive the glory days with his mask and jumpsuits. I mean, I get it's an anniversary tour and all but it's just depressing to see.

1995. You have a bunch of guys from Des Moines, Iowa, getting together, betting all or nothing into making the world hear what they have to offer. They fund an album out of their own pocket, get more recognition, more gigs, the line-up shifts a bit, then Roadrunner takes notice, they sign a deal, in 1999 they release their first big album and the rest is history.
Self-titled era
Nine pissed of dudes from Iowa putting on a show like no one else before. Sound so heavy and dense it leaned into death metal at points despite being played on the radio. Then with all the fame and money, drugs come into play. Everyone is off their fucking rocker and on each other's throats, yet despite this lunacy they manage to create their magnum opus, and in 2001 they release Iowa.
Iowa era
I think everyone and their mother knows the story behind the recording of Iowa, the 15-minute song at the end of the album. Corey was completely out of his mind, high as a kite, naked, cutting himself with a piece of glass, and his vocal technique up to this point was quite literally "scream your vocal chords out". After Iowa, everyone went on detox, calmed the fuck out, and in 2004 they've released Vol. 3.
Vol. 3 era
By this point what defined Slipknot was pretty much gone. Everyone was no longer high or angry, Corey mellowed out on the vocals as he was yet to reach the same levels with a technique that didn't ruin his voice, and generally speaking, S/T and Iowa were the type of once-in-a-lifetime creations like The Downward Spiral. Without drug abuse and horrendous state of mind it all became bland and weak. Then in 2008, we get a swan song of sorts. All Hope Is Gone. And just like Shawn said, that writing that he saw was a fucking omen.
All Hope Is Gone era
For two more years it would seem like Slipknot couldn't be stopped. After all, if you hear "Slipknot", you usually don't think MFKR, or (sic), or People = Shit. You think Psychosocial. The song that everyone heard and everyone knows, and it was a song form AHIG. AHIG, albeit not very well received by critics, nor liked by the band, was a very impressive album on the technical side of things, and Corey was getting back into form with his vocals.

With their live performance at Download Festival in 2009 they have reached what is arguably the absolute peak of their career, because a year later, disaster would strike.
Paul Gray
Paul Gray, one of the founding members of the band, would be found dead from an overdose in his hotel room on May 24th, 2010. This was essentially the spiritual death of the band, as all remaining members of the band were completely broken by the news at the press conference held the day after his death, with Joey Jordison suffering from the news the most.
Paul and Joey
Paul was Joey's long-time friend. They knew each other before Slipknot, and they, alongside Shawn, were the three founding members of the band.
Joey Jordison
If that wasn't enough, unbeknownst to him, Joey at the time was suffering from acute transverse myelitis, which would cause him to be unable to perform at the level he was known for, and in December of 2013 he would be fired from the band altogether.

By this point Slipknot was dead for good. For you see, behind the scenes, Paul and Joey were the true driving power behind the band. They were the ones that wrote most of the lyrics and composed most of the songs. If anything, Slipknot should've disbanded on the day Paul died, but whether it was their contractual obligations to Roadrunner or some sense of untouchability, they've pushed on forward. But without #1 and #2 they were over. Sure, they've found new members to fill in the gaps, and in 2014 they've released an album dedicated to Paul, but the soul of what made Slipknot Slipknot was gone, and all that was left was a commercial entity that became too big for it's own good.

Today, Slipknot is a mockery of it's past self. Paul was pretty much the only force in the band holding it together, even at the time when it was at it's worst during the recording of Iowa, and without him it would only get worse as time went on. After the release of their fifth album, another long-time member of the band, Chris Fehn, would leave due to his mistreatment. Later on, another long-time member of the band, Craig Jones, would also leave the band. But if that wasn't enough, Jay Weinberg, the drummer that replaced Joey would also get fired.

By this point in time, Corey, Shawn, Jim, Mick and Sid are the only original members remaining in the band. Out of the remaining five of what used to be the Iowa Nine, Corey and Shawn were always the ones calling the shots, and nowadays they've lost the plot as for what Slipknot used to be and is today.

One thing is for sure:
-it's no longer Slipknot
-After Slipknot completed their contract with the release of the seventh album, Roadrunner is fucking dead
-Shawn got his head so far up his own ass that the person that pull it out of there will be crowned King Arthur,
-Corey is now forever disgraced for starring in Nostalgia Critic's "The Wall"
-Sid is still permanently high
-Jim and Mick are still Jim and Mick

And on July 26th 2021, Joey would finally catch up with his old friend up there in the heavens above.
Rest easy.
 
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The Penultimate Warrior said:
The fact Ozzy Osbourne is still even alive, or showing enough signs of life that you can describe him as washed up, is a miracle in of itself.
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I saw the Sabbath reunion tour in (I think) 2010. It was one of the strangest gigs I've ever been to. Ozzy was fucking awful, but it didn't really matter. The crowd there were there more to pay tribute to him than to see him perform. He lumbered around the stage like he didn't know where he was, mumbled indistinctly into the mic (every incomprehensible sentence accompanied by a loud cheer by a crowd who had no clue what he had just said but wanted to encourage him) and at one point poured a bucket of water over his head. He wailed the first half of the opening number, War Pigs, hideously out of tune until someone somewhere flipped a switch and turned the autotune on, and boy was it working hard.

There were a surprising number of kids in the audience, they wanted to see the guy who started it all. It was more of a wake than a gig. You could feel the crowd fucking willing him to get to the end without dying, something which looked about 50/50. By the time he got to Paranoid, he just got the crowd to sing it because he was completely spent.

I've never seen a crowd so enthusiastic about such a bad performance, but it did make sense in context (and it did help that Iommi and Butler were great). It was about getting to be in the same room as Ozzy performing, because looking at the state of him the time seemed to be fast approaching where that wouldn't be possible any more.

Yet that gig was fifteen fucking years ago, and he's still trucking. Maybe he's a lich.
 
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John Lydon just takes selfies of himself with people and posts his fat ass on facebook while starting flame wars with the other Sex Pistols about doing their music with the singer of Gallows. He's just a giant prick and a drunken buffoon.
 
Nicholas II of Russia said:
Eminem has been edging to getting washed up for a good while.

I still love that he destroyed Machine Gun Kelly so much that he had to switch between genres of music though.
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MGK did a pretty good shot at Eminem to be completely honest

He was right you know, Eminem should put down the pen. His current stuff is terrible
 
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I think The Offspring counts. They came back after a decade and Let The Bad Times Roll is basically half an album with nothing that stands out, just slop basically. And then their newest album was so forgettable I had to correct myself before I posted, I was gonna say Let the Bad Times Roll was their newst album.

I do wanna mention Avenged Sevenfold, I thought they were awesome growing up, but ever since Rev (their drummer) died during the recording of Nightmare they've been drifting aimlessly. First a generic if forgivable radio rock album with Hail to the King, then their last two albums are some artsy prog rock bullshit that sounds terrible, and M Shadows voice has sounded completely blown out the past decade.

For some honorable mentions, Green Day has sucked since at least American Idiot, Eminem has sucked corporate cock for at least 15 years.
 
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cleanerfromvenus said:
John Lydon just takes selfies of himself with people and posts his fat ass on facebook while starting flame wars with the other Sex Pistols about doing their music with the singer of Gallows. He's just a giant prick and a drunken buffoon.
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He showed up in the Kate Bush documentary praising her. I was very surprised. (Also surprised to find that Cher and Tupac Shakur were fans of her as well.)
 
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Scarlett Johansson said:
He showed up in the Kate Bush documentary praising her. I was very surprised. (Also surprised to find that Cher and Tupac Shakur were fans of her as well.)
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She had some of the best backing musicians ever. Including the guys from Pilot/ Alan Parsons Project. Ian Bairnson was one of the greatest guitarists ever.
 
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cleanerfromvenus said:
John Lydon just takes selfies of himself with people and posts his fat ass on facebook while starting flame wars with the other Sex Pistols about doing their music with the singer of Gallows. He's just a giant prick and a drunken buffoon.
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I honestly love John. He was very snarky in his early years, but he's grown a lot the past decades. You can tell that he's also very passionate about music, and he's the kind of guy you could talk to about it for hours. Very honest guy
 
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Underoath

In 2008, the band should have called it quits. When they did call it quits, nobody cared. When they announced their return, nobody cared. Then they blamed their surface level evangelical Christianity for their failure not realizing that they weren’t some prophets for God, but young spoiled men who wanted all the spoils with no pushback. But don’t go too crazy now, their most Christian album They’re Only Chasing Safety is still sold on their website and they still sing those songs even though they have disavowed Christianity.

Now, they jump from trend to trend looking for an audience beyond their subreddit to go to their shows. Resorting to touring with Papa Roach (another band that was a trend chaser) and fading libtards Rise Against. All because Underoath’s members could not admit to themselves that they were junkie drunk whores.
 
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Panic at the Disco but that's because Brendan Urie is a massive attention seeking whore and a sellout.
 
Arcade Fire. How the mighty have fallen, The Suburbs was genuinely fantastic, i don't know what the fuck happened, it's almost like their songwriting fell off a fucking cliff the second Win Butler started raping women, can't explain it otherwise.
 
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