10 Major Albums Where Everything Went Wrong

10. Two Virgins - John Lennon and Yoko Ono

At the turn of the '60s, any member of the Beatles could put audio of their own farts on record and it would have sold. Compared to the other bands coming out of the British Invasion, you couldn't touch the level of fame the Fab Four got in their prime, even going so far as to become leaders of the next generation of counter culture hippies. Even though things could only go up from here, Two Virgins from John Lennon marked the point where we found out they were fallible.

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Being the first in a string of experimental albums with Yoko Ono, this is about as experimental as it gets for rock and roll, with most of the record amounting to Ono and Lennon making random noises and recording them just for the hell of it. Even though there is an experimental bent to the structure, other experimental acts like Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa are way more engaging than something like this.

It's not like they didn't warn us ahead of time though, given that the original cover was just the couple posing naked in front of a random white backdrop shot just after the album was recorded. Let's face it...if that's already a high bar for you to clear, this record is going to be the moment where Lennon goes fully off the deep end.

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