Albums That Almost Killed Rock Star Careers

Sometimes, an album can revive a flagging music career, and sometimes a stinker album can tank a career, or put a dent in a rocker's fandom....here are some of the albums that didn't do any favors for some bigtime musicians...Neil Young is known for going in many many directions from album to album, but it was his robot/synthesizer album "Trans" in 1982 that had even his biggest fans shaking their heads, and his record company threatening to drop him. And Kiss, after the disco era, thinking they had to come up with some serious content, and hiring producer Bob Ezrin, who had just done "The Wall" with Pink Floyd, embarked on a medieval concept album called "Music from the Elder," which was universally panned by critics and fans alike...here's more about those albums, as well as Van Halen's disastrous "III", U2's "Pop, and more.