10 Rock Albums That Were Killed By One Song

When Green Day reached the end of the 2000's, they had moved up into the upper echelons of rock gods. The band's album American Idiot had become an instant classic whose praises are still being sung decades later. Though the followup 21st Century Breakdown was a little bit hit and miss with fans, no one could have expected to see a drop off as drastic as the band's album trilogy.

With over 2 hours of music between three discs, these albums marked one of the darkest periods in the band's tenure where you get one great rock song for every 4 boring ones. However, if there's one song that represents just how wrong these records are, it has to be "Nightlife." Taken from the band's second installment, the song is dominated by surf guitar and verses performed by an artist known as Lady Cobra, who puts a hip hop slant on the band's pop punk tendencies.

For an album that was intended to bring the band back to their garage rock roots, this song ends up sounding like one of the seediest attempts at a hip hop crossover any band had undertaken. Green Day may have owned their mistakes over time, but "Nightlife" is still known as the one track that no fan wants to talk about.