Worst career moves in music history.

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I'm pretty sure there's a thread on this already but I couldn't find it.

I think the worst career move is The Mooney Suzuki recording with The Matrix.

They had so many people anticipating their new album and it was they first album with a really big label (Columbia). I was even busting for it, but when "Alive & Amplified" came out, it all went down the crapper.

― Voodoo Child, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

No doubt various musicians stepping into various airplanes, helicopters, fishing boats, etc.

― PB, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Getting Ian Broudie to produce you or having Morrissey become a fan of yours.

― tatty, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

starting another momus thread

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Bob Mould's LoudBomb?

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:qYZrMBR8Kp8J:www.musicmatic.de/M/Ministr4a.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

"I've got an idea so hear me out. What if I ... I ... I put on this, like, Flashdance shirt for the video, and then I - WAIT PLEASE HEAR ME OUT, then I just ROCK OUT and SNAP MY FINGERS to show everyone how much of a good time one can have when they're LISTENING TO ROCK AND ROLL?"

- Billy Squier, 1984

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Is that what he said to the director of "Rock Me Tonite"?

― Voodoo Child, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

http://photo.sing365.com/music/picture.nsf/Billy-Squier-photo/48256C71003578A2482569AF0015DEC2/$file/Billy+Squier.jpg

Ooooh Yeeeaaaaahh!

― Voodoo Child, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Terence Trent D'Arby's Neither Fish Nor Flesh, a soundtrack of love, faith, hope & destruction

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

http://movies.nnov.ru/Covers/Glitter.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thatscountry.com/images/chrisgainescover.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.history-of-rock.com/lewismyra.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

http://people.zeelandnet.nl/aerssens/wedding.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lewzworld.com/vanhalen/pics/vanh100.jpg

― Voodoo Child, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://ultra.rockmetal.pl/pics/big/1/2/001521.jpg

― Voodoo Child, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

Recording with the Matrix was the only thing that had me interested in the last Mooney Suzuki album. Not enough to buy it (or download it), but that was more than I expected. The album (or maybe two?) after People Get Ready seemed redundant.

You've got to be way more interesting than M-S to get me to buy the same album every two years.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

yr right, that coat is awful

2xpost

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

If no one gets that picture up there. It's Van Halen with Gary Cherone as the lead singer.

That was just an awful mess of more awful mess.

― Voodoo Child, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

I got it. Way to put the new guy (the new front guy) all the way in the background, guys! Lotta confidence in that one!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Slash and company sign over the GNR name to Axl Rose

― pinder (pinder), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Freddie Mercury grows a moustache.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Killing Joke decamps to Iceland.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Alternately either the best or the worst career move: Miles goes electric.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.metallica.kiev.ua/photos/3.jpg
http://www.coverportal.de/cover/audio/m/metallica-acoustic_metal_a.jpg

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

ian broudie produced a fine pink industry single.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

Ian Broudie produced several extremely fine Echo & The Bunnymen albums.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Freak-On-Ica effectively killed Girls Vs. Boys. They became bozos overnight.

Pink getting all butch-dykey for the (excellent) Try This album.

Built To Spill making the conscious effort to suck on Ancient Melodies of the Future.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Are we limiting this to musicians? If not, the Decca A&R staff circa 1963. First they turned down the Beatles; then they signed Pete Best as a solo act, according to www.petebest.com.

― mike a, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Billy Idol needed more than a full decade to recover from Cyberpunk.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

xpost — You dare disparage Freddie's 'stache?!?!

― electric derby, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Billy Idol's worst career move was driving Bob Andrews and Mark Laff out of Generation X.

(x-post)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

As of this morning, the personality formerly known as Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, Puffy and P. Diddy wants to be called Diddy.

― pappawheelie II, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

This thread should have been locked as soon as the picture of Jerry Lee and Myra went up.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

We won't know for a couple years how much damage it did, but the Britney Spears TV show certainly didn't help her career.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Diddling young boys, or naked pictures of same, certainly hasn't improved many careers.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rossoalice.it/alice/musicstore/image/39/39278.jpg

― Elwyn Chow (I say we take off and nuke the), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

http://eil.com/newGallery/Gang-Of-Four-Hard-315670.jpg

― twist_tie, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

I used to spend a lot of time at this Jazz coffeehouse in Jax FL circa 1993, and I befriended all the rock dudes who were in the Jazz program at UNF.

Eventually, we'd vaguely talk about forming a band over pre-bedtime breakfasts. They all wanted to do what they called "heavy groove". I had no idea what specifically that was, but they cited Rage Agianst..., of course. They all knew I had a little rap career a few years prior - after a while they'd look to me and say "you know, it'd be cool if you rap on it." I'd laugh it off and say "no one wants to hear rapping on Rock music...oh, wait, Rage. Nevermind."

I always thought they were being half assed and somewhat joking. I never flat out said no, but it was pretty clear I wan't into the idea.

Eventually, the coffehouse closed down and I went my way, never taking the idea of their band serious. I bumped into one of the guys about a year later and he said "hey, we actually decided to have someone rap over our band since you weren't so into it. He's a tattoo guy named Fred."

Ladies and gentlemen, Limp Bizkit.

-- PappaWheelie (pappawheeli...), July 25th, 2005.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

is that an excerpt from Paul Harvey?

― michael burble, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

TEENAGE KICKS ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

If dying counts...

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

True in this case, but most of the time dying is one of the best career moves.

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

If dying counts...

The article doesn't overtly link the fight to the brain hemmorrhage. Is that the implication, though?

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Presumably. Anybody know this story better than I do?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

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