Name a CAREER RESUSCITATING album

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Although technically it was the Royal Albert Hall gig that reinvigorated there career and encouraged them to get back together, Bloodsport was the first album of new material post-reunion.
 
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Sure thing but was her career in freewill before this? I'm not that familiar with JESSUS pre-WTP (for shame).
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100% a career-changer, critically and also commercially when you look at how easily she fills venues.

I still liked bits off of the third album but she was clearly going through the motions and by the time she finished touring it, she was kinda over being a pop star or trying to be one.
 
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The Fall were largely considered spent in early 2003. Having slowly lost all the mainstays of the group between '96 and '98, Mark E Smith cobbled together a line-up and ploughed on - he knew nothing else. Then he had to cobble together another. 2001's "Are You Are Missing Winner" was considered a nadir and yet another imploding line-up led many to feel they were watching the undignified last gasps of a man who couldn't let go. Live shows were erratic, Smith was often drunk and he couldn't get a record deal.

"The Real New Fall LP" was held back due to the original running order being leaked and Smith reworking the album. It was released on the tiny Action Records label, run from a shop in Preston on October 2003. Word spread slowly...it's actually a cracker. No, not the kind of cracker that fans always say a new album is before admitting it's actually a mess 6 months later but a PROPER cracker. The songs were great, the performances were strong, the production innovative. Smith rose to meet this with some of his best lyrics and performances in a decade. Reviews were ecstatic. Smith swallowed his pride and did a Peel Session, the group's first in 4 years and it went down a storm.Gigs began to get busier again and then the venues got bigger again too. Smith, under the influence of his wife Eleni Poulou, was (almost) off the sauce and at his most *present* on stage for years.

In 2004, the album was licenced for a US release, a re-recorded version of "Theme From Sparta FC" reached #66 and a final Peel Session was recorded, one that is still considered one of the very best. A flattering BBC4 documentary was aired. Despite a slight blip when Smith seemed on Planet Elsewhere whilst paying tribute to John Peel on the day of his death, the release of the complete Peel Sessions box set was received with some of the most glowing reviews of their career.

By now, it was May 2005, the Fall were back playing the same Glasgow venue they'd been filling in the 80s and 90s and filling it again. In a little over 18 months, The Fall had gone from a sad shadow of their former selves, a drunk old man turning over group members at an unnatural rate to being legends, survivors, fit and working again. The Real New Fall LP may never have troubled the Top 100 but it transformed The Fall's fortunes and conferred a status upon them that saw Smith right through to his death.
 
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Although technically it was the Royal Albert Hall gig that reinvigorated there career and encouraged them to get back together, Bloodsport was the first album of new material post-reunion.
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I wouldn't call "Bloodsports" career-resuscitating. Reviews were so-so and they only played 4 songs from it when I saw them on the tour.
 
This thread becoming "post any album", no shock :eyes:

Anyway, 6 or 7 albums missing the UK top 20, and then Out Of time, a #1 album followed by another six or seven #1s.

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