10 Bands Destroyed By Just One Album

The Clash were one of the essential bands to come out of the punk rock explosion in the late 70's. With every single album and track released, you could tell that these guys didn't suffer fools gladly. Across 5 different records, the band stood up as one of the era's most interesting musical voices, as they railed against politics in a way few bands could master.

While the band started the 80's strong with London Calling, the loss of founding member Mick Jones left only Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon to carry on. It would seem like an easy course correction, given that Strummer was one of the leading voices, whose topics were more political than Jones's pop-centric tunes. We should have been in for a raw, unfiltered political record right?

What Cut the Crap ended up becoming was one of the most maligned endings to a band's career that has ever been seen in rock music. Instead of the bellowing sledgehammer riffing of the early days, the whole album was dominated by new wave drum machines and some of the corniest material that Strummer would ever write. Coming from a band that started off so strong, Cut the Crap stands as the bittersweet ending to the band's near-flawless career.