Why do so many rock bands from the 70s/80s have such outstanding hits...

why do so many rock bands from the 70s/80s have such outstanding hits, but the rest of their albums are fucking filler garbage? pic very related

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Cause back then people would buy an album if one song they liked was on it. You had to find out for yourself if the other songs were good or not and the only way to do that was by buying the record and listening to it; you couldn’t just skim through Spotify or whatever

This was actually a standard thing resulting from an industry practice. Record companies would require a number of albums per year and put you in a punitive status if you didn't keep up: Blondie originally contracted to crank out three albums a year! This practice ended as artists got more control, became their own record company, and so forth.

Pleb. Police deep cuts are better than the hits.

Tbh a lot of The Police's hits are just plodding duds as well. King of Pain? Walking On The Moon? Wrapped Around Your Finger? Yeah, no thanks.

Pleb squared.

Pleb detected. The Polices’ not singles were for the most part really good. They had no more album filler than any other decent album

Naw, the Police were great on about 70% of their recordings. Some of their singles are weaker than the deep cuts. Don’t Stand So Close to Me

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What more bands would you include in this description?
I listen to a lot of 70s shit, but I can't think of many bands this applies to

The worst is of course Synchronicity - one good song (Mother) and the rest is entirely filler. Tragic!

Case in point. Best song is Light up the Night Sky, an album-only cut and the single (Dance the Night Away) is the weakest one.

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well its like tom petty, he had a bunch of hits but can you really name a tom petty album. they are singles artists

I think maybe a lot of artists are hit and miss. By default, some music sounds fun to some people and not to others, or maybe it has a message, and it resonates with some and not others, maybe inspiration is only so plentiful and you run out half way through. Maybe less than that. Maybe you're pop and your songs are cool in some instances and age like milk in others. Maybe it's a song that got passed around like "Poor poor pitiful me," Which really only gets traction for being covered by Linda Ronstadt. Maybe you're just Joan Jet playing like nothing but power chords and faking it until you get one that catches. I can imagine that like in many of my own projects, there was maybe a 20% of aspects which were very captivating and then the other 80% happened and just sort of exists, meanwhile, on that 20% that I was interested in, I fucking killed it.
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Using the Police as an example of filler-filled albums is the plebiest take I've ever seen on Zig Forums

Close second.

>he had a bunch of hits but can you really name a tom petty album.
He had like 2 hits man.

gosh I would love an orgy with the police

>He had like 2 hits man.
Idiot.

>Breakdown
>Don't Do Me Like That
>Refugee
>The Waiting
>You Got Lucky
>Don't Come Around Here No More
>Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (duet with Stevie Nicks)
>Jammin' Me
>I Won't Back Down
>Runnin' Down a Dream
>Free Fallin'
>Handle With Care (with the Travelling Wilburys)
>End of the Line (with the Travelling Wilburys)
>Yer So Bad
>Learning to Fly
>Into the Great Wide Open
>Mary Jane's Last Dance
>American Girl
>You Don't Know How it Feels
>It's Good to Be King

Behind my Camel is the only good Police song. Mother is a distant second.

omg fuck off

Have you ever heard Secret journey off ghost in the machine? that shits so fkn beautiful

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>He had like 2 hits man.
nah, hes right. i just looked it up he never had a song go any higher than #7 [free fallin] on the billboard hot 100 chart. the only other song that could be called a hit [dont do me like that] got to #10 in 1979. just because you like his songs dont make them hits.

you piece of shit

>nah, hes right. i just looked it up he never had a song go any higher than #7 [free fallin] on the billboard hot 100 chart. the only other song that could be called a hit [dont do me like that] got to #10 in 1979. just because you like his songs dont make them hits.
Are you familiar with this thing called rock radio and/or MTV?

yep, but lets be real they are all secondary charts.he only had 2 Top 40 hits to most people the highest being only number 7.

What? A huge number of older people would be very familiar with a lot of these songs.

You're discrediting the popularity of MTV and AOR way too much and putting too much stock in arbitrary numbers with regard to the Hot 100. Something can peak at #1 initially and fall right out of the chart or spend months and months on the chart but quite climb into the top 10. The latter is going to be better remembered most of the time. Plenty of #1 singles were quickly forgotten. Plenty of lower charting singles were still very popular on FM radio in their time and are well known today.

The video for "Don't Come Around Here No More" was insanely popular and iconic.

you have a point. but the thing with tom petty is most of his songs sound alike. most people, casual listeners, probably cant name his songs by name. for example, he has 2 songs [american girl] and [here comes my girl] both are years apart but sound so similar no casual listener could tell them a part.

actually it wasnt. i had mtv back then. they tried pushing tom petty at that time but that song/video never became insanely popular. it only made it to number 13 on the Top 40 charts

>it only made it to number 13 on the Top 40 charts
billboard charts don't count mtv play

Tom Petty was never really popular at all. I don't remember anyone listening to him. It's just retconning history because he died.

>Tom Petty was never really popular at all. I don't remember anyone listening to him
i agree. and the Top 40 chart reflects that fact. he only had 1 song make it into the Top 10, making it only to number 7. baby boomers liked him then and now i guess