Incubus - Light Grenades. After the successful reception of Make Yourself and Morning View, bassist Dirk Lance left the band for creative differences. Judging by the subsequent release of A Crow Left of the Murder, Lance took all of the creativity with him. The CD was full of overambitious concepts and riffs without melodies. After the lone abberation in their long career, Incubus got back on track with Light Grenades, which brought back the interesting sound that listeners know and love.
Eminem - The Eminem Show. The Marshall Mathers LP may have marked Eminem's most successful album, but it also was followed by a rough patch in Eminem's personal life. He was arrested for attacking a bouncer and his marriage to Kim was in shambles. However, Eminem took all of that negative energy and rolled it into a 19 track masterpiece that stands, in my opinion, as his best album to date. He referenced the incident in several tracks, including as a skit in "The Kiss," and with help from Jeff Bass and Dr. Dre turned something that could have been career-killing into the best-selling album of 2002.
Tool - Lateralus. Tool took the 90s by storm and essentially created the genre of progressive metal, or at least brought the genre to a bigger stage. With thrashing guitars, haunting lyrics and disturbing music videos, Tool had much success with 1993's Undertow and 1996's Aenima. But after a long legal dispute with their record company and a tarnished image thanks to their stance on the Napster/music sharing controversy, many Tool fans were thinking their third studio album might never come. Butin 2001 Tool released Lateralus, an album that took all of Tool's strengths and made them better, especially with the moving title track and epic songs like "The Grudge."
There are more, but they will be saved for another time.
Sit tight til the next grade,
RRC
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