The Beach Boys' endless summer had an ending after all, when they tried to capitalize on "Kokomo" and instead brought their comeback to a crashing halt. Hootie & the Blowfish's rushed second album ended Hootiemania just as suddenly as it started.
Sometimes they wondered if it would ever end, and whoa buddy did it ever. Here's a tip, if you're going to make one of the worst-sounding albums of all time, don't make it easy for the critics by putting the word "Crap" in the title, like The Clash did with their career-ending final album.įairweather Johnson by Hootie & the Blowfish Robin Thicke's desperate attempt to save his marriage instead sends his personal and professional life plummeting into disaster. I know you want it? No, no one wanted it.
The Political Girl? Madonna brought one of the longest winning streaks in pop music to a sudden, ignominious end in 2003 with her little-loved dip into politics. Lauryn Hill was miseducated even worse than we realized, as she demonstrated with her legendary public breakdown disguised as an Unplugged special. There was a bad moon rising over Creedence in 1972, when John Fogerty made the rest of the band do the writing, and the result ain't no fortunate one.ġ993 was not such a nice day to start again for Billy Idol, when he released his bizarre concept album about cyborgs and virtual reality! Mardi Gras by Creedence Clearwater Revival Van Halen's third incarnation! Featuring new singer Gary Cherone, the guy from Extreme! And it was Extremely bad. Today is gonna be the day that we look at the album that killed Britpop and made Oasis has-beens overnight! New series! In this show, we'll be looking at the records that ended thriving careers, and we're starting with the album that turned Jewel Kilcher from folksinger poet to poor man's Britney Spears The shadows conceal who he is as he could be just about anyone from a government spy to a humble church official.
Unlike Todd's other series, his piano playing is placed at the end of every episode, over "The End"/"Thanks to my Patrons" cards usually the most famous song from the album reviewed ( although there are a few exceptions). For albums by bands, interpersonal relations between the members are also run through, since fallouts between them tend to be factor in the album's failure. Todd then walks through the album's contents, starting with a lengthy analysis of the lead single, then following that up with a look at the overall thoroughline of the album interpolated with reviews of the followup singles, as well as a variable number of album cuts. Trainwreckords is a show by ToddInTheShadows where he looks at the career-ruining albums from various artists.Įpisodes start with a summation of the artist's position in the pop scene leading up to the subject album.
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