It's hard to pinpoint when some of rock's most popular movements became fads and subsequently died. It can be something as huge as one of the underground's favourite bands writing a mainstream hit that ends up in a car commercial. Or maybe it's as small and personal as your best friend's younger sibling tries to correct you on the genre label of your favourite album of all time. Whatever the case, there's always a moment when a once-exciting musical development becomes a trend worth leaving behind.
One can often only truly examine these things in hindsight, but sometimes there are specific albums that, when they came out, just felt like the tombstone of one movement or another. Even if their impact wasn't identifiable, these records created a fork in the road, one leading to cultural progression and the other leading to the graveyard of dated musical styles and ridiculous pants. Sometimes these albums herald the end of their own genres; others, they present a new option, representing the emergence of a better alternative to what was taking the world by storm at the time.
Here are 10 albums that definitively signalled the death of a trend in music…