aeroplane
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For me, Artist on Autopilot isn't necessarily every band who has a lot of albums that sound the same.
By my definition, it is a band who keeps reproducing a similar album over and over again but the later albums slowly decline compared to whatever is considered the earlier or original work.
For me, a good example is ZZ Top's synthesizer work in the 80's/90's. The first couple of albums (Eliminator and Afterburner) were full of energy and hit singles. However, by the time Recycler came around, did anyone out there consider Doubleback to be on the same level as singles from an album or two before?
Rob Zombie's early solo albums were pretty successful but by the time he got to the album with Never Gonna Stop, it felt like a facsimile of everything he had been doing the last few years.
It is easy to suggest AC/DC and Motorhead are autopilot artists but at least they are recording inspired material that measures up pretty good to anything else they've done, more or less.
Otherwise for a more general example, it would be like taking a new cd, recording it onto a blank cassette tape for a friend and then that friend taking the tape and recording it onto yet another blank cassette tape for a third friend. The second and third generation are lesser than the first.
By my definition, it is a band who keeps reproducing a similar album over and over again but the later albums slowly decline compared to whatever is considered the earlier or original work.
For me, a good example is ZZ Top's synthesizer work in the 80's/90's. The first couple of albums (Eliminator and Afterburner) were full of energy and hit singles. However, by the time Recycler came around, did anyone out there consider Doubleback to be on the same level as singles from an album or two before?
Rob Zombie's early solo albums were pretty successful but by the time he got to the album with Never Gonna Stop, it felt like a facsimile of everything he had been doing the last few years.
It is easy to suggest AC/DC and Motorhead are autopilot artists but at least they are recording inspired material that measures up pretty good to anything else they've done, more or less.
Otherwise for a more general example, it would be like taking a new cd, recording it onto a blank cassette tape for a friend and then that friend taking the tape and recording it onto yet another blank cassette tape for a third friend. The second and third generation are lesser than the first.
