"We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest …

The band's third album, 1983's Pyromania, sold six million copies in the US alone, and its follow-up, 1987's Hysteria, went ...
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Split Record Review: ‘The Commercial Album’

Come one, come all to the spookiest Split Record Review you’ve ever read! Today, Henry and James are reviewing “The Commercial Album” by The Residents. You may know them from their mysterious ...
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Crack Cloud tell us about their favorite albums that were commercial/critical failures at the time

“Scott Walker’s foray into orchestral pop music is brought to life with fascinating avant-garde arrangements. While his chart-topping fame with the Walker Brothers was not to be directly repeated, his ...