History FanonDiscontinuity / Music

* Fans of Music/TheRamones will say that they never released a 60s-themed CoverAlbum called ''Acid Eaters''. They never worked on ''Music/EndOfTheCentury'' with Music/PhilSpector, either, and Dee Dee was ''never'' threatened with a gun.

* Music/AliceCooper exists in two phases, the band and the solo artist. The solo artist phase has several phases of its own: original solo/theatric phase up to ''From the Inside''; the New Wave/Lost Weekend era, from ''Flush the Fashion'' through ''Da Da''; the comeback/hair metal period from ''Constrictor'' through ''Hey Stoopid''; and everything since. Each period has its fans and it's detractors. ''Love It To Death'' was the first album by the band, and most certainly NOT the third. There was never a band called Billion Dollar Babies, nor was there an album by them called ''Battle Axe''.

* Music/AphexTwin, considered one of the greatest [[ElectronicMusic Electronica]] musicians alongside Music/{{Kraftwerk}}, Music/TangerineDream, Music/{{Autechre}}, Music/{{Leftfield}} and Music/BrianEno, is a particularly complex case. There are those who consider his first two ambient albums to be his greatest, whilst others only consider the first one any good; some detest the manic drill n bass/drum n bass noise of ''Music/ICareBecauseYouDo'', ''Girl/Boy EP'' and the ''Music/RichardDJamesAlbum''. The''Analord'' series, consisting of Acid Techno tracks done completely on analogue equipment without computers has an avid fanbase and yet many detractors, some calling it a masterpiece whilst others saying that his experimentation ''Music/{{Drukqs}}'' is better. All the while the other side says ''[=drukQs=]'' is a bunch of Richard's B sides thrown together as a double album. Funnily enough, his most commercial releases, "Come To Daddy" and "Windowlicker" have everyone agreeing that they're great.

* When Music/{{Alphaville}} released ''Crazyshow'' in 2003 without any contributions by recently-departed bandmember Bernhard Lloyd, some fans considered it a Marian Gold solo album, since all other contributors were either regular outside collaborators such as Rainer Bloss, or members of the touring band, such as Martin Lister. At the time the touring band was not considered the ''real'' Alphaville,[[note]]This is partly due to band representatives telling people that there were two Alphavilles whenever asked about the lineup situation, and also partly due to fans confusing Bernhard Lloyd's work on the first Atlantic Popes album with work being done for a future Alphaville studio album.[[/note]] but that sentiment, and sentiment toward ''Crazyshow'', started to wane with the release of 2010's ''Catching Rays on Giant'', and moreso with subsequent releases. Nevertheless, there is still a small faction who consider everything from ''Crazyshow'' onward Marian Gold solo material.

* Another [[CreatorBacklash disowned]] debut: Music/TheProdigy's ''Experience''. Since their second album came out and Oldskool Rave went out of fashion, Prodigy fans would deny there was ever a time when Howlett's music was bright, humorous and cartoony.

* Music/BadReligion fans ([[CreatorBacklash and the band itself]]) tend to ignore ''Into the Unknown'', which was a prog rock album from an '80s punk band, and their last two albums on Atlantic Records, ''No Substance'' and ''New America''. They cite the latter two as an example of what can happen when [[CreatorBreakdown your main songwriting partner quits the band, your band is stuck in major label politics, your wife divorces you, you record the album with one of your favorite artists from back in the day and find out]] [[{{Jerkass}} he's a douche...]]

* Depending on who you ask, Music/{{Rush}} disbanded no later than ''Signals,'' and have been on a reunion tour since 2002.

* Most Music/{{Pantera}} fans refuse to acknowledge that the band originally began as a hair metal group. This is a sentiment with the band itself; [[OldShame all members of the band discount all albums]] released prior to ''Cowboys From Hell''. They did license a pre-''Cowboys'' track for ''Film/DonnieDarko'', but apparently under the condition that it didn't have the Pantera name attached to it - it's listed in the credits as being performed by the (non-existent) band Dead Green Mummies.

* The popular-within-their-own-country band Music/TheTragicallyHip has a long discography (13 studio albums and two EPs) that chronicles the evolution of and changes to their sound over the years. Many fans have gotten on and off the bandwagon along the way. For instance, there are some who prefer the grittier sounds of their first three albums, though most fans would have to include their hit-filled fourth album ''Fully Completely'' among the canon (sometimes even to the extent of discounting everything else). After that it gets a little blurry. The next two or three albums get softer but still pack in the hits. Some fans draw the line of continuity after ''Phantom Power'' (1998) or ''In Between Evolution'' (2004). With most of band starting to release solo work/side projects around those points, it starts becoming personal preference as to what is and is not canon.

* Whenever a ProgressiveRock group releases an album that is more "commercial" and less "progressive," there are always legions of progressive rock fans to deny its existence. Examples include [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer ELP's]] ''Love Beach'', anything by Music/{{Genesis|Band}} after ''Duke'', Music/{{Yes}}'s entire Music/TrevorRabin era, and any Music/GentleGiant studio album released after ''Interview''.
** With Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, some fans go even further and deny everything after ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', the last album with Music/PeterGabriel. Some are a little more generous and include ''Music/ATrickOfTheTail'' and ''Music/WindAndWuthering'' in the list of accepted albums, since the band still had Music/SteveHackett, and the music, stylistically, wasn't too different from their previous albums. In contrast, some fans refuse to acknowledge ''Calling All Stations'', the one album the band released after Music/PhilCollins left the band. In a sense, the band itself kind of does this, as [[CanonDiscontinuity they didn't include any songs from that album]] on their reunion tour.
*** It's easy for fans to disregard Genesis' first two albums and say that Collins was their ''only'' drummer.[[note]]The band actually went through three drummers before hiring him: Chris Stewart (who performed on the early demos and the first two singles), John Silver (who performed on ''From Genesis to Revelation''), and the late John Mayhew (who performed on ''Trespass'').[[/note]] If drummers before Collins are acknowledged, it's only on ''Trespass''. It's widely agreed that there is no such thing as ''From Genesis to Revelation''.
*** Other fans will disregard everything the band did that doesn't qualify as "prog", with the possible exception of an occasional pop song. This doesn't mean that everything they recorded after ''Duke'' doesn't exist. It means that the group's début, ''From Genesis to Revelations'', does not exist, and that after ''Duke'' the group sporadically released a series of [=EPs=] ranging in length from around fifteen to around thirty minutes, until their last EP in 1991, which consisted of "Dreaming While You Sleep", "Driving the Last Spike", "Fading Lights", and (maybe) "Living Forever" and/or "No Son of Mine". (Note that ''the band itself'' seems to regard ''From Genesis to Revelation'' and ''Calling All Stations'' as CanonDiscontinuity).

* Music/ArethaFranklin, the queen of soul, recorded a ''disco'' album in 1979, entitled ''La Diva''. She was trying to win back the mainstream success she lost in the early 70's. It was a critical and commerical flop and many of her fans refuse to acknowledge its existence. It's so hated that it still hasn't been released on CD in the US.

* Many hardcore fans do embrace it as a great exploratory departure album, and the band is quite fond of it, but to the casual fanbase and general listening public, Music/DefLeppard never released an album called ''Slang''. (On the tour to promote the album, the band even found themselves dropping the new songs from the set list and digging back into the 80's library to replace them, thanks to audience rejection of "the new Def Leppard.") The next studio album, ''Euphoria'', saw a return to the slickly produced arena rock sound that made them so big in the first place.

** His mainstream pop rock work of TheEighties. ''Music/LetsDance'' IS the biggest-selling album of his career, but it alienated many fans of his 1970s work and 1980's ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps''. His two follow-ups in that vein, ''Tonight'' and ''Never Let Me Down'', are seen as a huge AudienceAlienatingEra for him ([[CanonDiscontinuity and]] ''[[CanonDiscontinuity by]]'' [[CanonDiscontinuity him]]), and there are plenty who cringe at other work he did during this period, such as the syrupy and ''incredibly'' dated-sounding ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' soundtrack (unless you're a nostalgic Gen X-er) and the "Dancing in the Street" duet with Music/MickJagger, particularly its HoYay-to-the-point-of-ridiculousness music video. The most general consensus one can find is that ''Let's Dance'' was good, as were a small handful of pieces from his 80's slump (namely "Loving the Alien" & "Blue Jean" from ''Tonight'', "Never Let Me Down" and '''especially''' "Time Will Crawl" from ''Never Let Me Down'', his performance at Live Aid, and maybe his non-''Labyrinth'' movie compositions if you're lucky), but aside from that it's best to pretend that Bowie took a huge breather during those years.

* Fans of Music/TheAnimals almost always agree that they never reunited in the 90's without Eric Burdon.

* Fans of Music/TheRamones will say that they never released an 60's themed CoverAlbum called ''Acid Eaters''. They never worked on ''Music/EndOfTheCentury'' with Music/PhilSpector, either, and Dee Dee was ''never'' threatened with a gun.

* Music/StoneTemplePilots were a great 90's band. Too bad Scott Weiland died and the band [[Music/LinkinPark never, ever]] [[Series/TheXFactor replaced him]].

* Music/AphexTwin, considered one of the greatest [[ElectronicMusic Electronica]] musicians alongside Music/{{Kraftwerk}}, Music/TangerineDream, Music/{{Autechre}}, Music/{{Leftfield}} and Music/BrianEno, is a particularly complex case. There are those who consider his first two ambient albums to be his greatest, whilst others only consider the first one any good; some detest the manic drill n bass/drum n bass noise of ''Music/ICareBecauseYouDo'', ''Girl/Boy EP'' and the ''Music/RichardDJamesAlbum''. The recent ''Analord'' series, consisting of Acid Techno tracks done completely on analogue equipment without computers has an avid fanbase and yet many detractors, some calling it a masterpiece whilst others saying that his experimentation ''Music/{{Drukqs}}'' is better. All the while the other side says ''[=drukQs=]'' is a bunch of Richard's B sides thrown together as a double album. Funnily enough, his most commercial releases, "Come To Daddy" and "Windowlicker" have everyone agreeing that they're great.

** With Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, some fans go even further and deny everything after ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', the last album with Music/PeterGabriel. Some are a little more generous and include ''Music/ATrickOfTheTail'' and ''Music/WindAndWuthering'' in the list of accepted albums, since the band still had Music/SteveHackett, and the music, stylistically, wasn't too different from their previous albums. In contrast, some fans refuse to acknowledge ''Calling All Stations'', the one album the band released after Music/PhilCollins left the band. In a sense, the band itself kind of does this, as [[CanonDiscontinuity they didn't include any songs from that album]] on their recent reunion tour.

*** Music/RingoStarr released two albums in 1970, ''Sentimental Journey'' and ''Beaucoups of Blues'', but since they didn't do well on either side of the Atlantic, many people ignored them in favor of considering ''Ringo'' his true debut as a solo artist. This has lessened in recent years as ''Beaucoups of Blues'' has been reassessed as a forgotten...well, not masterpiece, but a decent album at least. One of the people who discounted those albums was Ringo himself, who named his 6th album ''Ringo The 4th.'' Ironically, that album itself is highly contested by fans for its [[DiscoSucks baffling disco focus which was widely seen as trend chasing]]. Fans consider it the end of Ringo's relevance as a solo artist, if they even acknowledge it at all.

** Then, there's the majority of fans who accept the recent albums, but think Sound of the Universe was their weakest, and that its single "Peace" didn't happen.

* The popular-within-their-own-country band Music/TheTragicallyHip has a long discography (13 studio albums and two EPs counting) that chronicles the evolution of and changes to their sound over the years. Many fans have gotten on and off the bandwagon along the way. For instance, there are some who prefer the grittier sounds of their first three albums, though most fans would have to include their hit-filled fourth album ''Fully Completely'' among the canon (sometimes even to the extent of discounting everything else). After that it gets a little blurry. The next two or three albums get softer but still pack in the hits. Some fans draw the line of continuity after ''Phantom Power'' (1998) or ''In Between Evolution'' (2004). With most of band starting to release solo work/side projects around those points, it starts becoming personal preference as to what is and is not canon.

* The popular-within-their-own-country band Music/TheTragicallyHip has a long discography (12 studio albums and counting...) that chronicles the evolution of and changes to their sound over the years. Many fans have gotten on and off the bandwagon along the way. For instance, there are some who prefer the grittier sounds of their first three albums, though most fans would have to include their hit-filled fourth album ''Fully Completely'' among the canon (sometimes even to the extent of discounting everything else). After that it gets a little blurry. The next two or three albums get softer but still pack in the hits. Some fans draw the line of continuity after ''Phantom Power'' (1998) or ''In Between Evolution'' (2004). With most of band starting to release solo work/side projects around those points, it starts becoming personal preference as to what is and is not canon.

* Although it was acclaimed critically and has been embraced by a few fans, country singer-songwriter Music/AlanJackson's 2006 album ''Like Red On A Rose'', an [[GenreAdultery exploratory easy-listening album]] that consists almost entirely of slow, bluesy love songs (as well as the only album in his catalog not produced by Keith Stegall), might as well not exist to many fans. Usually the only song that's given a pass is "A Woman's Love", if only because it's a rerecording of an older song of his.

* The popular-within-their-own-country band Music/TheTragicallyHip has a long discography (12 studio albums and counting...) that chronicles the evolution of and changes to their sound over the years. Many fans have gotten on and off the bandwagon along the way. For instance, there are some who prefer the grittier sounds of their first three albums, though most fans would have to include their hit-filled fourth album''Fully Completely'' among the canon (sometimes even to the extent of discounting everything else). After that it gets a little blurry. The next two or three albums get softer but still pack in the hits. Some fans draw the line of continuity after ''Phantom Power'' (1998) or ''In Between Evolution'' (2004). With most of band starting to release solo work/side projects around those points, it starts becoming personal preference as to what is and is not canon.

*** It's actually faster to note the number of albums that AREN'T considered FanonDisContinuity by any number of fans, right down to the people who thought ''Music/RideTheLightning'' of all albums was selling out because of "Fade to Black".

* Most fans of Music/TheCars disown the New Cars period with Todd Rundgren singing. Especially after the original lineup, minus late bassist and lead singer [[FaceOfTheBand Ben Orr]], reunited, toured and recorded the reunion album ''Move Like This''.
* Music/{{Kamelot}} fans subvert this. While most agree that Dominion and Eternity were bad, they generally acknowledge the time before Roy Khan.

*** Oh, and once Music/RingoStarr took over, [[ThePeteBest Pete Best]] was never heard of again.

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