Second helping!

A musician friend of mine recently got some Facebook conversation going about a band’s “second recordings that I listened to even more than their first.” Here are some of the albums listed:

• Hypnotised
• Before Hollywood
• Heaven Up Here
• Chairs Missing
• Reckoning
• This Modern World
• Bandwagonesque
• Solid Gold
• Teenage Symphonies to God
• If You’re Feeling Sinister

To this list, I would add:

• II & III
• Surfer Rosa
• Power, Corruption & Lies

At this time of year, when graduations are upon us, can you provide some guidance and examples for the Class of 2016 that a band’s sophomore year may be even better, if not more memorable, than their first?