Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town and Human Touch

What happens when the whimsical, sprite-like 1970s Bruce Springsteen becomes older, heavier, richer, and more into big-screen TVs? The Boss. Never was the Boss more fascist than March 31, 1992, when he released Lucky Town and Human Touch simultaneously. Well into his second decade of stardom, he divorced his wife, kicked his lovable misfit E Street Band to the curb, and moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles to hook up with some "ace session musicians" and record soulless, clinical, reverb-heavy rock. Look at those shades! On the albums, a sad-robot Boss clamors for "human touch" and captures a miserable, technology-centered lifestyle with the incantation "57 Channels and Nothing On."

As if all that wasn't fascist enough, he had to smother his name all over the 1992 charts with two separate albums of bloat. Let some other people have a chance, Boss!