I liked their early stuff (idea) by Stealth Munchkin

An interesting variant on this, and one I am occasionally guilty of myself, happens when a band with a long career has a period of commercial failure after their success - this is particularly true of bands from the '60s.
"The Beach Boys? Don't like the early stuff - Surfin' USA, Little Deuce Coupe... Far prefer Friends or The Beach Boys Love You. You've never heard of them? Shame..."
"The Kinks? Don't like all that You Really Got Me, All Day And All Of The Night stuff... I prefer the later stuff - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire - you know, the good stuff..."

Indier than thou	"The Simpsons" has become too mainstream	How good bands go wrong	My complaint about Dem Bones
Describing feelings with words is like playing the piano with a baseball bat	Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called	Feeling like you're moving when you're really sitting still	IT snob
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society	Annoying, affectless hipster kids in record stores	Caroliner	Why I gave up on anarchy
music snob	Why did the indie rawk kid cross the road?	The Kinks	I have spent all night paging you
sold out	Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements	Nirvana	classic rock for indie people
Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire	sheep recovery program	Stereophonics