“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” — Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In each great musician there are two separate yet equally important parts: The good musician, who builds reputation and notoriety, and the bad musician, who draws media attention with their comically bad releases. These are their flops.