After Kyrie: Mr. Mister and the Album That Could Not Be Welcome to the Real World
Their previous album had spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and produced two consecutive number-one Hot 100 singles. The follow-up, released twenty-two months later, peaked at number 55, generated one Top 30 single, and effectively ended the band's commercial career. The standard rock-history vocabulary calls Go On... a flop. The accurate framing is more complicated, and substantially more interesting.
By Deep Cuts · Issue 04 · · 13 min read