10 Bands Who Should Have Stopped After One Album

The problem with jokes is they're less funny the second time. Ask your average Joe how many albums The Darkness put out and you’d receive guesses ranging from two to “who?” But the Lowestoft based hard rockers have in fact furnished us with an astonishing six full length albums over a top heavy 13 year career.

Permission To Land is in its way a good album. “Growing On Me”, "Black Shuck", and the once-ubiquitous “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” are well crafted tunes which hit a sweet spot in their day.

But did anyone need another five records of this stuff? They struck a chord for a while, and were a charmingly unlikely success story. But surely enough’s enough.

They still do the rounds as a live act, and there’s probably still fun to be had from the hits - but there’d be plenty of time to shuffle off to the bar, too.

In mitigation, the latest releases seem to get decent reviews from various hard rock-based publications, so maybe they've still got the goods. When your first release is such an unexpected hit, though, it can be best to thank your lucky stars, and leave it at that.