Walking along a beach in Italy and “Dear God” by XTC comes up on the Ipod. Somehow in my mind I construct a tale in my head that this song killed their career in the States…lack of play in the Bible Belts etc. Might or might not be true but what else has struck down a band /artist in full flight?
“Hope you like our new direction”
JustB says
Everything was going very well for Menswe@r, and then they made the fatal error of releasing a record.
Rigid Digit says
http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t490/Rigid_Digit/Actions-arrow-up-icon_zpsve8tpwpn.png
Zanti Misfit says
I thought I’ll Manage Somehow was a good single but of course, liking Menswe@r is a big no no in ‘ere.
Bingo Little says
I’ll join you Zanti. Being Brave is a tune. The album was shite but they had their moments. Or maybe moment.
DogFacedBoy says
“just a blind ignorant n-gger” – a drunk Elvis Costello trying to wind up Bonnie Bramlett. A US press who he and Jake Riviera had been baiting for weeks crucified him – and who can blame them. His inability to just say sorry didn’t help
SteveT says
Yeah its odd though that as time has passed Costello feels more comfortable in the USA than he does here and has a house in NY. His comments didn’t help him then but in the fullness of time he seems to have come out of it unscathed. Was pretty moronic thing to say though.
DogFacedBoy says
Bruce Thomas’ “fuck off, tin nose!” to Stephen Stills always gets forgotten.
He was at a concert with Diana and she played a Ray song and Ray wanted to meet her afterwards and Elvis said that he had to walk away even decades later. He just couldn’t bear to face the man as he knew he wouldn’t be able to explain himself. At the time I think Ray Charles said something like “we should judge Mr Costello by his music not his drunken bar talk” which was very dignified of him if true
Elvis knows he’s still haunted by it and said that even some reviewers of the Wise Up Ghost project with The Roots hinted at “Don’t they know what he said?”
ianess says
Billy Sherill on EC – ‘he has the worst voice I’ve ever heard. Why would I want to produce someone who sings like he’s sitting on the commode’.
Billy was informed that EC’s previous album had sold 700K copies. He then agreed to produce him. The sessions were grim.
(taken from Tammy Wynette autobiography)
DogFacedBoy says
And an album that got EC one his biggest hits. So hardly career suicide then.
ianess says
Didn’t mean to suggest so. Merely an off-piste comment.
badartdog says
Beauty Stab by ABC – I like it, as do plenty here i believe, but it wasn’t Lexicon of Love pt 2 and commercially they were dumper bound.
ruff-diamond says
Similarly, FGTH’s “Liverpool” – top-notch sessioneers replaced by cack-handed band members.
ruff-diamond says
“Dear God” was actually quite popular in the US and replaced “Mermaid Smiled” on Skylarking.
But anyway…
The name may not mean much to folks here but back in the 80s Billy Squier was the Next Big Thing in rock. His first two albums were multi-million sellers, and he was headlining (and selling out) enormodomes everywhere. Then came this:
Freddy Steady says
I remember Billy Squier being lined up as the N.B. T. but can’t actually look/ listen to that as my wife is in the room and watching something and she’ll get really narkyif I press play.. …so go on..has he gone all Irene Cara?
davebigpicture says
Crowded House play Chocolate Cake on Letterman. The line, “The excess of fat on your American bones.” Oh dear……
DrJ says
Id love Neil & the Crowdies, but it’s a hard watch. Tim throwing off the balance, albeit with those seemingly effortless harmonies.
Rigid Digit says
Slade
The time taken to produce Flame, its performance at the Box Office and spending the next 18 months trying to break the US, didn’t do much to help their career.
When they returned, they’re fanbase was decimated and their record contract not renewed.
I’m not sure if Dave Hill’s decision to shave his head helped or hindered in any way.
Jackthebiscuit says
WRT Slade I agree with you RD. Had they chosen to stay at home & consolidate they could well have been one of the few bands to have lived through/survived punk. (All so easy with hindsight I know).
I also think that Slade in Flame remains a fantastic film, but at the time, the bands core audience were left cold by the downbeat tone of the film. (You could never say that it had a happy ending).
duco01 says
Re: ending of “Slade in Flame”
“You know what Ron – we’ve all had enough!”
Yes indeed, top ending.
ruff-diamond says
Goldie chose to follow up ‘Timeless’ with an album featuring an hour long orchestral drum and bass concept piece about his mother. He was of course thinly disguised as “Rage” in Kill Your Friends.
niscum says
Is that a fact
niscum says
Is that a fact, Goldie is Rage? Makes sense I guess …
Black Celebration says
Body Language by Queen, for some reason, tends not to appear on compilations alongside we will rock you, we are the champions etc
DrJ says
Body Language was a top ten hit in America too, which gets overlooked. Hot Space is fascinating. It could have been the album that linked Thriller and Let’s Dance.
Timbar says
Stevie Wonder – multi talented, highly respected musician.
Releases I just called to say I love you. Bye, bye credibility.
Then when he could have restored it with a great 25 minute performance at the Nelson Mandela gig, someone stole his synclavier discs & he was bunged on at the end, shouting out the chord changes for I just called to say I love you
Hawkfall says
Well I blame Paul McCartney. I Just Called to say I love you isn’t that bad a song really. Ebony and Ivory is dreadful schmaltz.
To be fair, nobody could accuse Stevie Wonder of not taking risks with his career:
“Stevie darling! You’ve just made the best album of the 1970s, a double album full of so many hits that they spilled over onto a 45rpm EP! What’s next?”
“Well I thought I’d do an instrumental album about plants”
Zanti Misfit says
Actually, Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants was a soundtrack with quite a few good numbers. Here’s a bit of mutant disco.
Gatz says
As discussed here recently, Adam Ant uses Live Aid as an opportunity to try out some new material.
The Good Doctor says
Not sure the outcome would have been much different had he done some ‘old’. In 1985 an old Ants tune would have sounded very old hat, so he’d play maybe Goody Two Shoes or Apollo 9? Methinks he’d already secured a one way ticket to the dumper.
Nik Kershaw got a full set and played all his hits, but that didn’t help sales of his next waxing, Radio Musicola, and he too would be dumper-bound
Archie Valparaiso says
I’ll just leave this here.
Gatz says
I had almost forgotten abou that ad. How to all of it go so wrong? The crap song, the bizarre cycling around the supermarket, the worst tag line of all time? Shudders
Steerpike says
Must we be subjected to THIS … yet again?
http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy42/stevewilkinson7/kevin-rowland_zps77piofua.jpg
H.P. Saucecraft says
And here’s a saucy upskirt shot!
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/0_zpsionmlcd7.jpg
DogFacedBoy says
It’s not like his career was on the up and up at this point, he was handed a lifeline by Alan McGee. Plus it sold respectably rather than the reported 450 copies or wevs
The Good Doctor says
This went down well :
DrJ says
Whenever Sinead and the pope comes up, I always find this interesting: The following week’s Saturday Night Live was hosted by Joe Pesci, where he addresses the controversy and threatens to give Sinead “a slap”. What a classy guy.
DrJ says
Oh yeah and… Sinead turned out to be right too.
The Good Doctor says
The Beach Boys spent most of the 1980s trying extremely hard to trash their own legacy and reduce themselves to a dismal novelty act, the fact that they failed is a testament to the sheer quality of the material they produced in the 60s and 70s. This might be their absolute nadir…a rejected Culture Club song that even the beautful voice of Carl Wilson can’t rescue
H.P. Saucecraft says
The Beach Boys were effectively dead in the water (ouch) with 1980’s wretched Keepin’ The Summer Alive, their last album with any input at all from Dennis. They didn’t try much at all at anything during the eighties or the nineties (five half-assed semi-albums in over twenty years), and it wasn’t until 2012 that they recorded anything worth listening to. In fact, it’s arguable that you have to go back to ’73 to find the album that put them on the rocks – Carl & The Passions, a fine album that stiffed because it didn’t sound like the Beach Boys, and was packaged with a re-issue of Pet Sounds, a marketing ploy that scuppered its chances completely.
So, as bad as this track is, they really had no career to suicide by then. And anything from Summer In Paradise makes this sound almost listenable!
Hawkfall says
Where are you on Holland, H.P.? When I started listening to the Beach Boys in the 90s I was put off it by reading that the record company actually refused to accept it until they ended up including Sail on Sailor. I finally heard it last year and think it’s a pretty good album.
Not so keen on 15 Big Ones, mind. Was that where things started to unravel?
count jim moriarty says
The big problem with 15 Big Ones was the ‘Brian’s Back!’ campaign which accompanied it, and the fact that Brian Wilson was nowhere near ready to work again. The whole thing was, IMHO, a way for Mike Love to wrest control away from Carl Wilson, who had been basically the band leader since Brian’s first breakdown. Unsurprisingly, it was a half-arsed album of covers with a couple of very average new songs, the nadir being Brian’s appalling hoarse, cracked vocals on Back Home.
Having said all that, The version of In The Still Of The Night with a fabulous lead vocal by Dennis is a thing of beauty and wonder.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Beach Boys albums fall into two camps – quality music anyone can appreciate, and fan albums. Smiley Smile was their first fan album, and possibly their earliest “suicidal” album. They rallied well, though. Holland is just gorgeous. A kind of brother record (oh ha) to Carl & The Passions.
15 Big Ones is definitely (as with Love You) a fan album. From the shitty, shittiest cover ever, to the half-baked “concept” (Brian is Back – and doing an oldies album … er …) and shitty production, it should be monstrously shitty, but it’s not – it has masses of stoopid goofy charm, some great tunes (the originals aren’t bad), and Rock n’ Roll Music – adenoidal vocals and all – was a major US hit for them, even if the album kicked them (and the record company) in the nuts. Nobody gave a shit if Brian was back or not, apparently.
ruff-diamond says
It could be argued that their real ‘career suicide’ move was withdrawing from the Monterey Pop Festival.
Bingo Little says
In 2001, popular US band Boston Steamer released a little single called “Fucked in Da Hed”.
Boston Steamer had been a fixture of the nu metal scene for the preceding 24 months. Initially touring with Korn, they’d built a huge following on their side of the Atlantic, with their debut album “Captain Ungroundable and the Pink Submarine” going double platinum. Though virtually unknown in the UK, they played a series of packed out stadium shows in the States, supported by Papa Roach and Alien Ant Farm. In November 2000, they won Best Bass Solo at the MTV music awards, and lead singer Chester Fudd was rumoured to be dating Mariah Carey.
In many ways, that award ceremony marked their zenith, while also triggering a series of events which would lead to a decline as meteoric as their rise.
What exactly happened that night is still shrouded in mystery, but the most consistently reported fact is that at the end of the awards ceremony, at which the band had played their number one single “Spin the Bottle”, Fudd entered the backstage area, collected what he believed to be his skateboard and headed for the exit. As he reached the front door of the venue, he felt a hand on his shoulder; it belonged to DJ Lethal, chief mixologist of rival band Limp Bizkit. There followed an exchange in which Lethal claimed ownership of the skateboard, prompting Fudd to launch into an expletive laden tirade and stalk off into the night, still clutching the board. The entire thing took place in full view of the press, who lead with the story the following day, including the following memorable quote from Lethal’s band mate, Fred Durst: “Chester Fudd? Fuck that guy – fucking infantile”. The statement drew a swift response from Memphis-based rap star Infantyle, who rejected the accusation that he was involved in a sexual relationship with Fudd, or any man for that matter, proclaiming himself “100% hetro” and pronouncing that “Fred Durst can cup my balls and suck my dick”.
Meanwhile, the Bizkit/Steamer beef continued to escalate. During a televised performance of “Rollin (Air Raid Vehicle)” at legendary LA nightspot Big Joe Peaches House of Tattoos in January 2001, Durst “beat up” a mannequin clearly intended to look like Fudd. The following month, Eminem’s acclaimed new single included the couplet “take Leeth’s board and you’re on thin ice/faggot must be homo now he’s gotta pay the price”. The NME would later describe the lyric as “postmodern as fuck” and “clearly satirising Neanderthal homophobia”.
All of which brings us to April 2001, and “Fucked in Da Hed”, the record which had been intended to be the launch single for Boston Steamer’s second album. The entire lyric of the track concerns itself with the Great Skateboard Beef, and majors on insulting Durst. “Fucked in Da Head/Fucked in Da Head/Mess with me/And you end up dead”, ran the chorus over a colossal riff, with lots of scratching and “aw yeah” samples in the background. In the song, Fudd describes Durst as “a liar”, rages against the “haters hatin on the real legit skaters” and also makes frequent references to “Limp Bizkshit”. In the track’s video, Boston Steamer were seen kidnapping and torturing a small, chubby, balding man wearing a backwards red baseball cap. The suggestion was that this must be Durst.
The single killed Boston Steamer’s career stone dead. Within a space of months they went from playing stadiums to dive bars, their lead guitarist left to join an experimental electronic group called “Sauce Kode” and by the time of that year’s MTV awards (held in December 2001), Fudd had become a “where are they now” reference in host Tom Green’s opening gag monologue to camera.
To this day, “Fucked in Da Hed” remains a shorthand for spectacular career suicide. Fudd ended up working in an ice cream parlour. Limp Bizkit will define their era with Stampede of the Disco Elephants later this year (or maybe next, or perhaps the one after).
badartdog says
‘rumoured to be dating Mariah Carey’ – found my tee-shirt slogan at last.
H.P. Saucecraft says
I’m having your comment tattooed on my dick, Bingo. As we speak.
Bingo Little says
Excellent. I shall look forward to reading it again on the inevitable “Cock Selfies” thread in a few months’ time.
H.P. Saucecraft says
I’ve had it done in large type.
chiz says
Six albums into their career, The Church were about to go huge. They’d had their top-ten US hit, Under The Milky Way, and it was generally believed that the follow-up album would be the Big One, if writer Steve Kilbey could just whip off 10 or 12 more chart-friendly songs like that. The record company put the money in, the A&R men were primed, the radio pluggers ready to go.
Track one, side one starts like this;
Hi to all the people that are selling me
Here’s one straight from the factory
They’ve sewn my eyes up in their sockets
I dip my hand into their pockets
H.P. Saucecraft says
Ah, Priest=Aura. One of maybe two Rock Masterpieces recorded on heroin. That they continue to this day, possibly as Australia’s finest ever band, rather gives the lie to “career suicide”? Upspeaking? Perhaps if they’d gone down a more commercial route, that would have been the death of them. Just sayin’, chiz. Anyone who likes the Churchies is jake with me.
chiz says
Gold Afternoon Fix, smarty-pants.
Freddy Steady says
Yep Gold Afternon Fix, which was seen as a massive disappointment after Starfish but you know what? I actually like it quite a lot now…it’s got legs. Nothing quite as special/ spectral as Starfish but it’s ok.
Think H.P was trying to say that it wasn’t quite career suicide as they came out with Priest = Aura which is their artistic meisterwerk ( oh yes) . Though of course it sold diddly squat. So I don’t really know what I’m talking about.
H.P. Saucecraft says
No, I goofed. To make chiz feel good, mainly. It’s not a good time for him right now, and anything we can do to help …
Black Type says
Terence Trent D’Arby. After ‘Introducing The Hardline’ and it’s attendant singles bestrode the charts like a colossus, gathering awards by the armful, he looks to consolidate his success by releasing ‘…Neither Fish Nor Flesh’. Now, I like this album, I think it’s daring and interestingly quirky. Unfortunately, the Great British Public disagrees, and the game’s essentially up for TTD, pop’s bright new star. He did have a modicum of success with the fantastic follow-up ‘…Symphony Or Damn’, but in most respects NFNF stalled his ascending star irrevocably. Still, it’s good to see that he still makes music on his own terms, as Senanda Maitreya.
retropath2 says
Tubthumper killed the Chumbas, discuss.
Hawkfall says
Well, it might have knocked them down, but if they were that good, they would have just got back up again.
H.P. Saucecraft says
… and Hawkfall gets in the comment that has the entire Afterword groaning with regret it didn’t think of that first.
retropath2 says
Indeed, and one that spoils my defence that it allowed the eventual emergence of the acoustic reduction, resolutely unsuccessful but fab, in keeping with their earlier modus operandi.
salwarpe says
Not in my opinion, They still carried on being one of the finest live acts I have seen for several years before going acoustic.
dai says
Echo and the Bunnymem, their eponymous album. They should have been up there with U2 or Simple Minds. After 4 generally stupendous releases they needed to break America, but failed completely with an inspid, lazy effort lacking everything that had made them great.
The (original) group were no more. Maybe they never really wanted it that much.
ianess says
In 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis arrives in the UK in the wake of two enormous worldwide hits. A Mirror reptile notices a young girl is part of the entourage. ‘Who are you’? ‘I’m Jerry’s wife’. JLL lies to the press that she is 15, not realising this is still below the UK age of consent. It swiftly transpires that she is 13, is a cousin of JLL and that JLL has yet to divorce his first wife, who’d been 14 when they’d married. The UK press does what it does best and JLL’s career is destroyed.
Apparently, when he’d informed Elvis of his intentions to marry, Elvis had burst out laughing, thinking he was kidding him on. Apocryphally, Elvis is also supposed to have said ‘God bless you, Jerry Lee, for saving my career.’
johnw says
The main thing I think is odd about “…… Love You” is that it contains what, to me (a fan) is one of the best, if not the best, Beach Boys track of all in Ding Dang. In under 60 seconds it seems to encapsulate all the band have ever been about. I’d be happy not to listen to any of the rest of the album again!
Jackthebiscuit says
Struggling a little with your “Mirror reptile” comment ianness. Are you suggesting that JLL’s taste for underage girls should not have been reported?
If so, I am surprised, if not, what did you mean? –
Honestly not trolling, just confused/curious.
ianess says
Just a nod to Private Eye’s description of our wonderful Press representatives. Nothing to do with the story.
Jackthebiscuit says
Thats fine, thanks for putting me straight.
niscum says
I think a lot of people question whether the next Lostproprophets album will be as successful as the last one.
deramdaze says
In the case of Slade (‘Flame’…..the true follow-up film to ‘That’ll Be The Day’) and The Monkees (‘Head’), the career suicide bits are now the go-to bits, and, in the case of The Monkees, it is now more readily available than the TV series!
Jim Cain says
Kula Shaker were doing well until Crispian Mills expressed a desire to perform in front of a burning swastika.
H.P. Saucecraft says
If Rob C was still around he’d point out the fact that the Nazis appropriated an eon-old symbol for spiritual well-being from the Akashic Elders on the Plains of Nazca, and it was this that … er … Mills was setting fire … er … nope. Mills is a twat.
ianess says
Marvin pissing off his Dad.
H.P. Saucecraft says
This wins, doesn’t it? Unless someone has the poor taste to mention Ian Curtis.
Sitheref2409 says
No – we have better Control than that
ianess says
Johnny Ace and Terry Kath playing around with what they thought were unloaded guns?
Jim Cain says
“Wanking with a bag on your head tied to a door. That bloke from INXS he knew the score.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGz6Y0k9m4o
Bartleby says
Saxon. Eagle Has Landed. Should have been a double. Should have had Dallas 1PM on it. Should probably have had as much studio ‘attention’ as Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous, AC/DC’s If You Want Blood and others of the era. Instead an all too raw, poorly recorded, single-disc effort limped out. And Iron Maiden took their crown. In my Kerrang-tinted rear view mirror anyway…
Hawkfall says
I think Saxon peaked too early. They did their best stuff in 1980, while the Heavy Metal spoils were really available after 1982 /3. Iron Maiden timed this right with Number of the Beast.
Plus, being on Carrere probably didn’t help. Saxon and Motorheard were on Carrere and Bronze respectively; Iron Maiden and Def Leppard were on EMI and Phonogram. Guess who made it big?
Bartleby says
Agree they were a bit previous – which is why a career-spanning, hi-fi quality double greatest hits might have been the tour de force boost that Live and Dangerous had been and that Live Evil became. Opportunity wasted sadly. Plus all that crusading bollocks they got into. They needed a Mike Love – “Don’t fuck with the formula”
JQW says
One fairly common one is a single getting flipped, and the non-representative B-side becoming a hit, making it difficult to issue a follow-up with more regular material.
See Streetband with “Toast”, Locomotive with “Rudi’s In Love” and countless others.
Malc says
Hurricane #1 had one of their songs used in an advert (or something similar, I forget the details but it’s in the Creation book, “my magpie eyes are hungry for the prize”) for the soaraway Sun.
End of band.
Jim Cain says
Yes, Only The Strongest Will Survive, I believe. Containing the amazing lyric: “Only the strong will survive, some days you’ve gotta kill yourself just to stay alive.”
The guitarist has done alright for himself.
Poppy Succeeds says
I think I might win the thread with this one. Does anybody remember Raygun? They were signed to Sony, had supported Pink and may well have gone on to big things. We’ll never know, thanks to a terrible interview — since deleted from whole of the web — in which the lead singer came out with pearlers like…
“We’ll come to work in fancy dress or have mojitos at 11am. What the hell, man, you know, its like, fun!”
And, “If you stuck Iggy Pop, James Brown, David Bowie and Shirley Bassey in a lift then you’d probably have our band!”
And, “We’d be at home knocking up some beats…..then we’d get together and mash up two types of song, Delia Smith style. Psychedelia Smith.”
They were dropped months later.
H.P. Saucecraft says
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/aug/04/raygun-sony
Poppy Succeeds says
Lead singer Ray Gun capped it all with one of those awful comedy apologies. The whole thing was a PR disaster.
Bingo Little says
I heartily endorse this band. Here’s the interview.
Locust says
Nope, it just goes black when you click play. At least it does when I try (and I tried three times)
Bingo Little says
Hmmm… might be a territory thing, it’s working for me. Here’s the URL: [https:] //vimeo.com/5933747
Bingo Little says
(Obviously you need to remove square brackets and put it all together – I had to stop it from embedding).
Locust says
Hm, nope. At least when I use that link I get a message;
“Aw, fiddlesticks! This video can’t be played with your current setup.” The embedded video above just became black, no message, nothing to click, nada.
Oh well, I’ll live!
H.P. Saucecraft says
Locust, you’re fortunate. The only problem I had viewing it was rising bile. I quit at 1:38 and made a dash for the fresh air.
DogFacedBoy says
They look as uncomfortable and idiotic as that band who did the phone app ad.
If you have fingers, be prepared to look through them now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTgB0Yq-IZQ
Argot says
That’s bad.
Zanti Misfit says
Neo- Britpop band, Brother were NME darlings for a nanosecond. They had to change their name to Viva Brother after not long and attempting an off the peg Noel Gallagher attitude fooled nobody and people turned on them very quickly. They are now a dreamy synth pop act called Love Life, apparently.
DogFacedBoy says
Didn’t 18 Wheeler have any chance of career banjaxed by Tony Blair introducing them at some awards thing – although think he called them Wheeler 18
DogFacedBoy says
Is the bloke on the far left one of their little brothers who is only in the band cos their mum insisted that they let him join in?
H.P. Saucecraft says
All their mums insisted they were allowed to join. They’ve all got packed lunches, too (just out of shot).
Gary says
Modernism: A New Decade. Weller’s ‘house’ album. The record company refused to release it, The Style Council split up, the world mourned.
fatima Xberg says
Three words: Cut The Crap
H.P. Saucecraft says
Lighten up! We’re only trying to have some fun in a pop music thread.
Giggles says
I’d like to chop in with a doubtlessly derisive laughter- attracting defence of Ebony and Ivory. Not ALL of it, you understand, but McCartney’s harmony when Stevie sings ‘Peole are the same wherever you go,’ is audaciously tuneful and life-affirming.
IMHO…..
Bartleby says
Hamfatter.
Did anyone at all watch Dragon’s Den and think “Hmm, I can’t see this naked begging for the financial support of a bunch of multimillionaires backfiring in any way”
TRMagicWords says
Alex Chilton. Basically his entire post-Big Star output was like a long, drawn out career suicide note. It’s like he spent his life dodging the expectations he’d raised. I imagine he was an enormously complex personality underneath it all. For reference: Like Flies On Sherbet.
JQW says
I used to read Record Collector magazine regularly, and most months it would feature an article on some virtually unknown act whose album or single had become ‘collectible’. These articles would always contain a potted history of the act, and would always aim the reason for the act’s failure down to something outside of their control, usually down to the record company or management. Excuses I can recall include:
An album appeared with an unpleasant sleeve design which resulted in some chain stores refusing to stock it.
A&R manager leaving under a cloud, and the record company then refusing to promote any of his recent signings.
Financial problems with the record company, leading to fewer copies of a record being pressed than expected.
Gripes and grumbles about an albums mixing or mastering.
Release date clashing with something significant.
Record company getting taken over, and the album gets ‘lost’ in the mess.
Album released with the wrong artist credits.
Only 99 copies were pressed due to the then purchase tax regulations.
The real reason these acts failed was that they were, quite frankly, not very good. And these albums only became ‘collectible’ due to a dealer finding an unsold box of them in a warehouse somewhere.
Sour Crout says
The Quo release the worst record ever made. Radio 1 refuse to play it because it’s crap. Quo throw their toys out of the pram and show themselves to be Humourless,self absorbed bores.
Quite easily Brian Wilson’s nadir
DogFacedBoy says
Brian Wilson’s nadir?
Is it worse than this
Zanti Misfit says
Noel Gallagher claimed that ‘our kid fooked it for Oasis’ making it Stateside the moment he gobbed a string of spit on the stage at the 1996 MTV Awards. You can’t really see the goss but it’s at the 5:00 minute mark. The whole country went “Eww.”
6 SEPTEMBER – “America sickened by obscene Liam’s spitting rampage.” reports The Sun after Liam’s appearance at the MTV awards show. “Oasis wildman Liam Gallagher was branded a disgrace last night,” the paper continues, adding that “pop pundits” are the opinion he has ruined the band’s chances of success in the US by “SWEARING and insulting the audience with lewd lyrics, SPITTING a huge lump of saliva on to the stage, and HURLING an open can of beer into the crowd.” Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Liam comments, “I thought the show was s**t but that our performance was outstanding.”