10 Rock Albums That Killed Artists' Careers

10. The Long Run - Eagles

Some of the most obvious career killer albums come at the expense of the amazing record that came before it. Since you're never never going to be able to top a masterpiece, there's nowhere else to go but down after that. Even though Hotel California was going to be tough to beat for the Eagles, The Long Run saw them dipping their toes into more drugs than actual songs.

Being fueled by more cocaine than could fill a warehouse, you can definitely here it on this album, with half of the songs sounding like jam sessions and the entire band sounding burnt out with each other halfway through the record. Hell, not even all of these songs were written for the project, with I Can't Tell You Why being a Timothy Schmidt original to introduce him to the fans and In The City being a leftover from a Joe Walsh solo outing.

It wasn't too long before everything imploded afterward though, with the accompanying tour ending with a charity gig that left Glenn Frey and Don Felder fighting with each other onstage. Though the sunset may have looked beautiful on the cover of Hotel California, this is where the darkness fully settled on the Eagles' era of sunshine rock.