Of all the albums I regret buying...

Via largehearted boy, I see that Stylus Magazine has come up with one of the more interesting Top 10 lists I've ever seen, the "Top Ten Momentum Killing Follow-Up Singles to Breakthrough Post-Grunge Albums". I'm not posting this because I think the list is spot on or anything...in fact I very much like "Angels of the Silences" (it's not in my CC Top 10 or anything, but it's solid) and "King of New Orleans". It was just an interesting list that I'd never seen anywhere else before. That, and...

In the history of modern rock music, there might not be another single that has done more damage to a band's earning potential than "Cleopatra's Cat." To say this bombed would be like saying Dresden suffered some urban upheaval during World War II.

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[I]n the span of four minutes—four awful, awful minutes—the Spin Doctors ended their career as we knew it, and started a sad turn of events that lead to Chris Barron's voice completely giving out and the band disintegrating. Based around a stupid hook ("my girlfriend's cat is smarter than me!") and the "all the girls in France do the naked lady dance" riff, radio treated it like a sex offender at the ten-year high school reunion. The Spin Doctors attempted to do some damage control with "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast," a more Kryptonite-ish nugget of jam-pop, but it was already over, and all the Doctors could do in the future to get even a sniff of radio time was to collaborate with Biz Markie and cover KC & The Sunshine Band.

That's an understatement. Holy crap, was it bad. Like, "makes you violently angry" bad. Of all the albums I regret buying, because of the disappointment and anger involved this ranks at the top of the list...even above Color Me Badd.