10 Musicians Whose Careers Were Destroyed By Just One Album

Created during a tense period in the history of punk rock icons The Clash, Cut the Crap may be one of the most regrettable album titles in the history of modern music.

This sixth studio record was a radical departure from their earlier, infamously raw sound, abandoning a lot of the slapdash high-energy roughness which made them famous and instead opting for polished and futuristic flourishes.

Heavily produced and filled with unbearably eighties synthesizers, the album was derided upon release by critics who seized on its unfortunate title and revelled in tearing apart the once beloved British hitmakers.

The album’s experimental style found few fans and the record directly lead the dissolution of the Clash, as well as the crushing disillusionment of their mercurial frontman Joe Strummer who was already struggling with the band's many departing (and kicked out) members.

Some retrospective reviews have praised Strummer’s early adoption of rap-inspired delivery, but it’s one of few bright spots on a largely disastrous record.