I know he’d still have success, but at the same time that’s the album that has post-Beatles songs that get perennial radio play.

Ozzy doesn’t have a big solo career without Blizzard of Ozzy and he isn’t continuing to accumulate new fans in the ’90s without No More Tears. Ozzsfest is still successful (if we imagine it still happens) because of the lineups, and dumb people imagine that he named himself after it to capitalize on its popularity.

Trying to imagine Hendrix without RUX is interesting. Is he less famous than Cream, and more of a Jeff Beck figure that has alot of influence on other musicians but gets less recognition from the public? People would remember him from Woodstock. Voodoo Chile (slight return) and All Along the Watchtower are still hits, but that album is less accessible.

You have bands like Metallica where they the most popular choice for their best album, Master of Puppets, isn’t the one that breaks them out or the one that cements them as superstars.