How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.
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Music
He might not have been the most important musically or on stage, but Depeche Mode will miss Andrew Fletcher. R.I.P. Fletch.
The Super Bowl Halftime Show is a massive platform. So when things go bad, they can end careers.
Garth Brooks conquered country. Then he tried to cross over into pop-rock. Kind of. It’s still really confusing — even 22 years later.
R.E.M.’s “Three-Legged Dog” Era produced some good music. It also gave us this terrible album.
The Cars tried to go back-to-basics with “Door to Door.” Instead, they broke up for decades.
Sugar Ray was, perhaps, the ultimate party band of the late 90s/early 00s. Then the party ended.
Limp Bizkit were everywhere in the late 90s/early 00s. Then they fell off the face of the earth.
When is a hit album not a hit album? When it is “Adore.”
When done right, concept albums can be career enhancing. Or they can be disasters.
One of the few times Mike Love and not Brian Wilson helmed a Beach Boys album. Let’s just say it didn’t go well.
Eric Clapton’s re-invention as a COVID-skeptic and anti-vaxxer has spilled into his music.
Pearl Jam was about to be the next U2 or Led Zeppelin. But then they took a page out of Neil Young’s book.
Katy Perry was one of the most reliable hit machines in music– until “Witness” happened.
Was Billy Idol ahead of his time with “Cyberpunk”? Of course. But that doesn’t mean the album is good or deserved to be successful.