10 Musicians Whose Careers Were Destroyed By Just One Album

8. Thank You — Duran Duran

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Some of the albums listed here were later considered classics and simply fell victim to an unappreciative public and critics who weren't ready for their innovations, "Marty McFly at the school dance" style.

Some are passable efforts which were unfairly derided but didn't actually represent a meaningful departure or significant drop off in quality for their creators.

And some of them, like Hungry Like the Wolf hitmakers/ one time pop heroes Duran Duran's disastrous Thank You, are widely agreed to be some of the world's worst records.

This album of covers somehow featured the Rio creator’s beloved version of Lou Reed’s Perfect Day, but the rest of this record was an unmitigated disaster which earned nothing but ire from critics. A soft rock Public Enemy cover? A Led Zeppelin re-imagining which one critic compared to Chris deBurgh?

The band considered Thank You a disaster and critics agreed, thus putting a swift end to their short-lived mid-nineties comeback which began only one album earlier with the unexpected hit machine The Wedding Album.

At least Reed liked the cover?

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