Hallucigenia wrote:I must admit Be Here Now was the first thing I thought of reading that, although you did rather set it up to exactly reflect what happened to Oasis - two albums developed at leisure before they were famous, then just couldn't cope with creating more material in the frenzy of touring etc that happens once you've made it. It's not particularly uncommon that, they were lucky to have the chance to make two albums before the industry ate them, rather than having to make "that difficult second album".
I'd always heard it as that difficult third album but the reasoning stands. t'internet offered me the phrase sophomore album - for that difficult 2nd. Even some stats exploring the third album syndrome https://towardsdatascience.com/https-to ... 5d7a710412