How Yes Please! by the Happy Mondays was like the Heaven’s Gate for albums.
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How Robin Thicke’s 2014 album about one Paula (Patton) had the effect of turning him into another Paula (Abdul).
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Taylor Dayne was one of the biggest hitmakers of her era. Then she tried her hand at songwriting…
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In the early 00’s, Jessica Simpson was a superstar. Before the end of the decade, she was finished as a musician.
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After the success of “Another One Bites the Dust,” Queen recorded an entire album in that vein. Too bad the songs weren’t as good.
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J.C. Chasez was always the talented one in NSYNC. But this album ensured he’d never measure up to the other guy.
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Mark Knopfler writes his own ending to the Dire Straits story.
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80’s star Bryan Adams beat the odds and thrived in the 90s. Then came this album.
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How do you replace the irreplaceable? You don’t — but INXS sure tried.
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Van Halen made a triumphant appearance with David Lee Roth at the 1996 MTV VMAs. So then they made an album with Gary Cherone?
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Lots of bands can’t follow up a career-defining album. The Long Run not only fell short of Hotel California, but it ended The Eagles.
For most of the 1980s and early 90s, Mötley Crüe were riding high — both literally and figuratively. Then they fired their lead singer…
Penty of cult artists have gone mainstream. Not Liz Phair…
A rare instance where a band’s most successful album helped lead to its demise.
Who would have thought a concept album inspired by the Falkland Islands War would end the most successful incarnation of Pink Floyd?