Career Resurrection: Difference between revisions

* '''[[Pink Floyd]]''' with their 1994 album ''The Division Bell''.

* '''[[The Beach Boys]]''' have gone through this at least three times. They were one of the biggest bands of the 60's, coming about as close to surpassing [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] in popularity that a band could at the time. But after their groundbreaking 1967 album ''Smile'' was never released, coupled with Brian Wilson's notorious reclusion and drug abuse, they faded into obscurity, continuing to make music but failing to penetrate the charts as they once had. But then in 1974, they released a greatest hits album, ''Endless Summer'', which went triple platinum and made the band a hot item again, leading to sold-out concerts for many years after that. But as time went on, and as string of terrible/bizarre albums was released, and their beloved drummer Dennis Wilson drowned, this success faded as the group went into the 80s. However, they found themselves becoming suddenly successful ''again'' when they released their 1988 hit "Kokomo", from the ''[[Cocktail]]'' soundtrack, which gave the group a #1 record for the first time in decades. The band's last noteworthy spurt of popularity came with the 1993 release of the ''Good Vibrations: 30 Years of The Beach Boys'' box set, which yielded their most successful tour in 13 years. Unfortunately, time since then hasn't been as kind to the group, and with the death of Carl Wilson (their best vocalist) in 1998, it's likely to stay that way (barring some kind of 50th anniversary celebration).

** Bandleader Brian Wilson went through a similar cycle. In the 60s, he was on top of the world as a singer, songwriter, and producer, but as his mental state fractured and his dream project ''Smile'' failed to be, he spent the latter half the decade holed up in his room, while the rest of the band produced albums. But then in the 70s, as the band was becoming popular again, he was called back into the studio to produce albums in order to complement the band's new touring success, as well as being called back onto stage, with a big "Brian Is Back" campaign. Unfortunately, this mostly produced mediocre material, not to mention worsening his mental state. Then in the late 80s, his manipulative therapist/life coach Eugene Landy tried to invoke this trope with a string of Brian Wilson solo albums, but these failed to attract much attention. It wasn't until the late 90s/early 2000s that Brian's career really resurrected itself, first with an acclaimed live tour of ''Pet Sounds'', and then with a move that nobody saw coming: a completed, re-recorded version of ''Smile'', that, for the longest time, was the highest-rated album on Metacritic. He's been fairly well with himself ever since.

* '''[[Tina Turner]]''' with her 1984 ''Private Dancer'' album.