As in burning out from fame, strung out on drugs, on the brink of suicide (personal or professional), or just hung-over.

Tonight's The Night
Big Star's Third
Beatles For Sale
Plastic Ono Band
Pink Moon
etc.

Station To Station
On The Beach

This Is Harcore
Blur

I'd say 13 over Blur.

I'd almost pick Kid A and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot... but those are more about recovering from a burn-out than what's already been said.

And what's the story on Beatles For Sale?

Blur was a more of a removal from the Britpop/fame game and Damon not wanting to play it anymore. Songs like Death of A Party and the way Coxon wrangled the band away from him infusing the Lo-fi US influence is much more obvious.

13 is more about Damon's personal relationships but yeah it fits the bill too.

By Beatles for Sale they were running on empty, hence the amount of covers on the record (they still wrote and recorded 24 orginal songs and played 158 gigs, 43 TV performances, 30 radio session and made a film in twelve months.)

And those first three songs (No Reply, I'm a Loser, Baby's in Black) make up the most depressing stretch of Beatles songs (in a good way).

for obviousness' sake, The Wall.

TIME OUT OF MIND.

Shouldn't that be The Final Cut?

how 'bout 'self portrait'. or blonde on blonde even

OK yeah, there is one suicide song on it---one of the best on the album, too.

Well, I'm not like a HUGE Dylan fan, but I personally love that album - burnout or no.

Definitely The Final Cut over the Wall.

And the White Album reeks of burnout - even tho much of it is absolutely brilliant.

And, uh.... Boingo.

Insanity, Useless, Hey!..all great tracks...I sing the praises of this album whenever it suits the moment. Good call, shocker.

Grevious Angel -Gram Parsons especially the title song.

How about anything by Shane McGowan

Skip Spence - Oar

Dee Dee King - Standing in the Spotlight

Both Syd Lps

Figure 8, perhaps?
or really Basement on a Hill is probably more accurate, at least the original version of it, with "Shooting Star" as track 1

Shoot Out the Lights

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Stephen Granham can burn a fiery death.

Jay-Z - The Black Album

Absolutely best of mentioned so far.

happy new year everybody

Appetite for Destruction



by the way, great topic!! (every album is about drugs)

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Creedence Clearwater Revival's Mardi Gras.

By this time, they're down to a trio (Tom Fogerty left). The bassist and drummer start writing and singing their own pleasant but inferior pieces. Immediately the band went from being a first-rate roots-rock band (before the term was invented) to being a third-tier country rock band. They didn't quite jump the shark, and it's actually quite decent, but there is a definite feeling of despair here. Even though this LP contains two hit singles, note that no one mentioned this album in the recent CCR thread.

Awesome! Splendid investigating Gareth.

Are you kidding? Tme Out of Mind was an artist beginnint to rejuvenate, not burn out.

Shot Out the Lights is a great record - maybe not the best mentioned so far (not in any list that already includes Tonight's the Night, anyway) but how is it a burn out album? If you read up on the record, you will note that it was written and recorded almost two years before Richard and Linda Thompson split up.

How 'bout a lil' T. Rex?



T. Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow

Coming off a pretty impressive 3-album span with Electric Warrior, the Slider and Tanx (which is where the seams begin to show in Bolan's little party bubble) Zinc reeks of excess, hangovers, and formulaic laziness. A textbook warning of becoming so distracted by one's success that your work suffers, featuring poor songwriting coupled with a misplaced reliance upon machinery to save a weak performance. Copycat material all the way as Bolan travels down the same musical paths but with even less to talk about, while so lost he nicks his ol' rival Bowie's alter-ego trick and fools absolutely no one. Interestingly enough the demo versions are much stronger - something which became a pattern in his later works (altho Futuristic Dragon was surprisingly great as both demo + finished album).