There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lover's lament crap. I want something peppy, something up temple, I want something snappy. Even the best musicians can make bad decisions, but it's the truly bad

left turns that drive them off the rails. I'm Jim Deeregatus of

Vocalo.org and I'm Greg Cott of the Chicago Tribune.

Stay tuned for our list of artists that have gone off the rails

plus reviews of our new albums by Outcast rapper Big Boy and rock singer-songwriter Alejandro Escavado

today on sound opinions.

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Maybe, it's not too late.

To learn out of love and forget I do hate.

Mental wounds not healing, like ability to shape.

I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

I'm going off the rails on a crazy train. That is Ozzy Osbourne with Crazy Train, a song about going off the rails and Jim whether we like it or

not some of our favorite artists of all time or at least they once were have gone

off the rails with their own careers that's what we're going to look at today. When was that

moment when that favorite artist of yours, the one you put all that stock in,

and you'd spend all that money on their records, you said this is one of the

greatest artists of all time, and then all of a sudden they put that record out and you go what happened well everybody

can have a bad day some artists we love have one bad album we're talking about

what what our TV critic colleagues would call jumping the shark named after that episode of

happy days when Fonzi did the jump over the shark right so these are artists that

were great and now we're abysmally awful exactly you're going to kick us off

Jim what are you going to start with?

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