Evan Sawdey

While many have an entire lifetime in which to grow their art and expand their legacy, sometimes they pass into the great unknown before they get a chance to see their completed and intended works unleashed upon the listening public.

There are many ways to leave a career: through frustration with the industry, because of conflicts with your band, because you're no longer makin' the hits you once you used to, or maybe, just maybe, you want to try something else.

Some consider some of these records good or even "misremembered classics," but no matter how you draw it, these are undoubtedly the biggest flop albums of all time.

MTV prophetically debuted with a too-appropriately-titled Buggles clip for "Video Killed the Radio Star", and the debate about whether video did that rages on to this day. Music lovers, here are the 50 Greatest Music Videos of All Time.

While some musicians make a big commotion about stepping away, it's even more fascinating when some of them decide to return to the game. Sometimes a return to the studio elicits screams from anticipating fans, sometimes it's done with quiet fanfare, but no matter what, we love to see if our favorite artists still have that magic in them.

Two decades ago, the hushed indie-rock luminaries Grizzly Bear released a buzzy acoustic debut. A year later, it got a wild remix LP. This is its story.

No artist wants to make the same album twice. New records should build upon previous successes, perhaps deviating from an established formula, or experimenting with something fresh and new.

The music industry, for decades, has changed and evolved and found strange little gimmicks to drum up interest or force an artist down your ears that you may not even realize.

A great movie often has a great soundtrack, but this isn't a universal truth. Sometimes great films are drenched with boring scores or obvious needle drops.

Sometimes intentional and sometimes very much not, the live concert setting can yield unexpected delights and strange curiosities, the wildest of which we're rounding up here. (For the sake of levity, we'll be dismissing outright tragic events.)