Biggest disappointment follow-up album

[MartiniHoudini]

"Beauty Stab" by ABC.

Not a completely terrible album by any means, but too drastic a change in style from the brilliant "The Lexicon of Love."

[waukena]

TRB II...Power in the Darkness was brilliant...add Todd Rundgren to the mix and you get a mostly whiny overproduced disc that ultimately broke up Tom Robinson and Danny Kustow...

[fritzb]

This is an easy one for me:

Duran Duran <I>Seven And The Ragged Tiger[/i]

After the New Romantic classic <I>Rio[/i], this just didn't cut it... [V]

[MikeP]

FGTH - [i]Liverpool[/i]
Haircut 100 - [i]Paint and Paint[/i] (without Nick Heyward, they weren't the same)

[ExRat]

I agree with "Liverpool" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood". This album can be found by the thousands in EVERY second-hand record shop.

[randy]

Candy-o by Cars--great lp but does not compare to their first effort.
DEVO'S second lp--thought it was ultra lame.

...but TRB11???? I love that album!![:D]

[Moparmark]

Dead boys-We have come for your children,not even in the same league as Young,loud and snotty. MoparMark

[ghosty]

The Stone Roses "Second Coming". That was like taking everything I liked about that band and pissing on it.

[ekahob]

Does follow-up mean that it was the record released after the previous record? Does it have to be the artist's 2nd release? Can there be a follow up to a third or fourth album? These posts are getting really hard to understand.

Anyway...

The Knack - "...But the Little Girls Understand" - Maybe one good song?
Pretenders II - 1st album - one great song after another. 2nd - 2 or 3 good songs.
Marshall Crenshaw - "Field Day" - Great songs - lousy production from Steve Lillywhite

[xtc-1957]

XTC- "Mummer" in '83 was mucho lame-o after "English Settlement"

[Otters Walk Among Us]

Many good examples already mentioned. I'd add the second albums by Belouis Some, General Public, The Colourfield, Real Life, and Bronski Beat.

[skinnytie]

"Fire Me Up" by Roman Holliday (is that the correct title?)

[middlesexnj]

Very good topic. All I can think of right now was Cyndi Lauper's follow up to "True Colors." It was so bad, I don't even remember what it was called. A lot of ones I could mention from the 80s but they are so not at all new wave that I won't.

[KYYX4ever]

fritzb mentioned Duran's [i]Seven and the Ragged Tiger[/i], but for me,(I liked [i]Seven[/i]), it was their album AFTER [i]Seven[/i]--[i]Notorious[/i]. They took on a completely different sound and I didn't like it.

[Frayo]

I dunno...
for some reason... I thought Seven and the Ragged Tiger was some of their best work.

I take the dice was such a wonderful song.