10 Rock Artists That Tried To Destroy Their Career

From the first time he picked up a guitar, Neil Young already had a bit of an edge to him. After making waves with Buffalo Springfield, his inclusion in Crosby Stills and Nash made for songs that had a lot more teeth to them, with Neil talking about the tragedies happening in the US at the time on tracks like Ohio. As far as his solo career was concerned though, Neil was going to do whatever the hell he wanted, whether the label agreed with him or not.

While his first few solo outings started off pretty promising by going down the folk rock route, he had no intention of making songs like Heart of Gold for the rest of his life. Once he had that genre under his belt, the '80s saw him genre hopping to one style after another, each met with more and more shock from his label. By the time he was trying to put out more out-there projects like Everybody's Rockin and Reactor, Neil ended up getting sued by his own label, which led him making more radio friendly songs that still didn't sell nearly as well.

Time comes around on the honest artists though, and Neil writing from the heart found a much more comfortable niche in the '90s, becoming known as the Godfather of Grunge and having a renaissance with songs that had the same rebellious spirit that he had in his first bands. Nothing that Neil has ever made has been for the suits, and his entire career has been the result of him dancing to his own tune and somehow making it work.