![]() The two Lumineers concerts I saw, were two of the best concerts I have ever seen. Those songs may be great, but is the whole record great? Many music fans, especially younger fans, don't need the whole record to be great, they need a couple of songs to stream or download. They may download some songs from a record. So many younger music fans, do not listen to a whole record. So, in anticipation for the release of Vide Noir and giving it those first listens, I wondered after "Lonesome Dreams" and "Strange Trails" could they make a great third record.Īlso, in 2018 it is difficult to review an entire record. Groups like The Who, the Stones, and only a few others have produced multiple multiple great records, to be honest most groups will only make no more than 3 great records. ![]() What sets apart say a group like The Who is that over the course of 50 years they have produced so many good records and songs. "Let's Be Still" is a very good record, but had no chance of living up to the debut. They are good records, but they pale when compared to the debut. ![]() Their debut, the self titled record, is amazing, again a record that you can listen to beginning to end over and over again. Another example of a debut just too good to follow up in my opinion is the Head and the Heart. It was not until 2017 that I realized how good that record is and how unfortunate that I and many other fans of the Crossing did not do that record justice. Steeltown is a great record, unfortunately it is a great record following an amazing record and in 1984, I just didn't give it a chance. So amazing that as good as "Steeltown" the follow up was, The Crossing is so good, in a way it doomed them in states. Whether it is 1983 when it debuted and I first saw "In a Big Country" and "Fields of Fire" on that new thing called MTV, or in 2018 while listening on Spotify, that record sounds amazing. The Crossing, their debut, is as good a record that has ever been released. How many good albums can a group make? What happens when a group has a debut album, or in the case of Lord Huron a debut and sophomore record, that are so good and they have to follow it up? Can the next record ever be as good as that debut or again in the case of Lord Huron that debut and that follow up? It is a difficult question to answer and sometimes it is unfair to the band.
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