When should have your favorite bands and artists quit recording new albums?
 

Hey guys,

Here's something I'd like to know, been talking to a friend of mine yesterday and we compared between bands and artists, who should have quit recording new albums at what year, meaning they are over the top and it's time to say thank you, goodbye and quit. So, here is my list:

Depeche Mode = Ultra, 1997 should have been their last album, after that no album was really that good or anticipated.

Madonna = Ray of Light, 1998 should have been her last album.

Metallica = Load, 1996 should have been their last album.

Enigma = The Screen Behind The Mirror should have been their last album.

What is your list? What do you think? Do you have bands and artists you like and enjoy listening to yet still think like me that at some point in the past they should have quit and from that point on no album was truly good enough?

Linkin Park definitely should've realised that their new pretentious, social-conscious preaching masturbatory aid music wasn't going to go down well with fans.....and although Minutes to Midnight has some decent songs on it...they should've either changed their name or gone home and realised that nobody cares anymore...nobody cares

It's a shame great bands and artists still produce albums which are not as good at all as their older albums, everyone should know when to quit, just ask R.E.M and that includes bands which I love, I just listen to their old albums.

I suppose it's all down to the rather unique time we live in where older bands (although not able to out-do the magic of their older albums) can still bring out records that out-shine and out-stage the music of their modern, springy rivals. Some notable examples are the Stones with 2005's A Bigger Bang and Sabbath with 13 in 2013. I have no doubt that there are countless other examples. But I will concede that for many older bands, it tends to end in embarrassment (Paul McCartney)

I think they should quit when they want to quit. If an artist/band/group still enjoy making music and enjoy the music they make, it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks.

Yes, but I'm asking you as a fan, do you have favorite bands and artists you think should have quit some time before? Not from the band's perspective but from yours as a fan.

I don't think that I would want good artists to stop making music. Even if they release a **** album or 9, there's still room for redemption. Sometimes this redemption does fall by the wayside in light of 9 bad albums, but it's still great when an artist rises from his rocker and puts out something incredible. One example of this is Captain Beefheart, my favourite artist. He released four albums in a row that are not up to his level of greatness, but then he went on to release three albums that stack up to his earlier work, or even outdo it (apart from Trout Mask Replica, his last album Ice Cream for Crow is my favourite of his).

There's always the curse of good tunes being lost with youth that some artists experience, but the notion of redemption gives me enough reason to wait out a bad run of albums.

Many bands/artists stopped making music I like and started making music I don't like, definitely. But I figure there are people out there who like their new material, probably some who like the new material more than the old material.

I don't know, as I feel it with bands I think that should have hang the guitars a while back like I've mentioned is that the inspiration and artistic level is not there anymore, the peak is behind them, the muse is over, the music is not exciting and great as before...you know? That's why I started this topic to see how you guys feel.