Band’s/groups / singer songwriter last album should have been...?

...?
Abbey Road

 

I mean an obvious one is the Clash's final album should have been Combat Rock.

 

Queen ~ Innuendo

 

Get Back / Beatles album should have came out April, 1969. Single was a smash hit.

 

Beach Boys / Holland

 

U2 - Zooropa
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

 

R.E.M. New Adventures In Hi-Fi

 

Tattoo You

 

Depeche Mode - Ultra

 

Rolling Stones aesthetically?
Exile.

But ..liked their boogie stuff up till Some Girls.

 

Should have kept Mick Jones.

 

Earlier lol.

 

XTC

Should have been the one three albums after Wasp Star.

 

Cat Stevens
Teaser

 

The Magnetic Fields should have stopped after 2004's excellent "i"

 

Pink Floyd. The Final Cut.

 

Black Flag - Damaged

 

Is Squeeze considered a real VU album? If so then Loaded should have been their last.

 

Yeah, with Exile they achieved what they had set out to do when the band formed a decade earlier. After that they pretty much just became a good time rock and roll band, because there was nothing else, they had done everything "meaningful" they could within their chosen idiom. Jagger even said in interviews around that time that he had "done" rock and roll and wanted to try something else.

 

The Guess Who should have stopped after the Road Food album. Burton Cummings has said the same thing. After guitarists Kurt Winter and Don McDougall were fired by Cummings for partying too hard during the Road Food Sessions, delaying the album's release, Cummings replaced them with Dominic Troiano, and later referred to this iteration of the band as "a cash grab." Flavours, with Troiano, was a good album overall, but a step down from the superb Road Food. Troiano tried to highjack the band into more of a proggy and jazz fusion direction, and even convinced Cummings to condense their hit songs into a medley on stage to make room for his long jamming guitar solos. The final studio album of the Guess Who with Cummings, Power In the Music, has its moments but doesn't resonate with me as a full album statement.. As much as I like Flavours, Troiano was basically not a good fit for the band. Had they broken up after Road Food, they could have gone out in a blaze of glory with, IMO, their best album overall, and the last song on it (the 7-minute "Ballad of the Last 5 Years") could have been a fitting coda for the band.

 

Blue & Lonesome was an exceptional blues covers LP from them, and it brought their discography full circle.

 

Genesis Self titled.

 

The Who - Who Are You

 

Billy Joel - Storm Front (River Of Dreams was clearly one too many. As inconsisent as Storm Front may have been, at least it had several strong highlights)
10cc - How Dare You! (The band really wasn't the same without Godley & Creme)
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature (Everything Must Go wasn't up to their very high standards)
Genesis - We Can't Dance (Whether you like Calling All Stations or not, it really wasn't Genesis)

 

McCartney called them recently a blues cover band.