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..."