Bands that should never have split up

[g force]

Thirded on Grandaddy

Pavement
Swervedriver
PWEI

 

[8ball]

Eighthed on Grandaddy.

Drugstore
Seconded on Pavement
The Manic Street Preachers four-piece version

 

[cliche guevara]

The Manic Street Preachers four-piece version

Yup, they became the most boring band on the planet atfer Richey's dissapearance. Don't think you can count this as a split up though really.

 

[Firky]

The Manic Street Preachers four-piece version

Music for spotty virginal teenagers but the Holy Bible is the best thing to come out of Wales apart from that fit lass with the pert tits that I went to uni with.

 

[kained&able]

Soundgarden. Are my biggest loss i reckon. I can't believe i never got to see them live .

i can't count bands that disbanded cos of death so nirvana/alice in chains etc are off my list.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

skunk anansie. I fucking love skin.

Yeah they were fucking cool...

 

[twistedAM]

ARCHERS OF LOAF
Grandaddy (again)
Afghan Whigs (not least to have saved us from shit like The Twilight Singers and The Gutter Twins)

 

[chico enrico]

Libertines. Beyond anyone else.

No. they are a 'band who should never have formed'. They were SHIT.

 

[futha]

skunk anansie were fucking painfull to listen to!
another vote for grandaddy here. the libertines.

 

[ouchmonkey]

skunk anansie were fucking painfull to listen to!
another vote for grandaddy here. the libertines.

Really?
What's with all the Grandaddy votes here, I loved them but I was just listening to The Fambly Cat' album in the kitchen and it is quite weak
compared to the others, I think they split at the right time.

you're right about Skunk Anansie mind,

dreadful business

 

[cliche guevara]

Really?
What's with all the Grandaddy votes here, I loved them but I was just listening to The Fambly Cat' album in the kitchen and it is quite weak
compared to the others, I think they split at the right time.

Perhaps, but Sophtware Slump was an exceptionally good album.

 

[twistedAM]

Really?
What's with all the Grandaddy votes here, I loved them but I was just listening to The Fambly Cat' album in the kitchen and it is quite weak
compared to the others, I think they split at the right time.

Well, part of the deal about splitting up is that you never get to see them play live again which is a big shame. Saw them loads of times and they ranged from shambolic to sheer absolute bliss.

 

[clandestino]

Last time I saw Grandaddy they were morphing slowing into Weezer - keeping all the power pop stuff but shaving off all the great, weird edges. They split up not long after. I wasn't hugely surprised.

 

[stavros]

Afghan Whigs (not least to have saved us from shit like The Twilight Singers and The Gutter Twins)

Seconded, although to a lesser degree I do like the Twilight Singers too. Dulli's best guise was in the Whigs. I'll also nominated the Delgados, although Emma Pollock's solo stuff is pretty good.

In some ways, I'm glad some of the bands mentioned split, as it prevented them from sullying their place in greatness. For example, we've just about managed to block "The Second Coming" from our memories and just remember the Roses' debut and "Turns Into Stone". Would more stuff not have sounded like the Seahorses or Brown's solo stuff? Another example is MBV, with "Loveless" as the legend that destroyed Shields' creativity.

I will nominate Take That though, firstly because they might have carried on being camp and great and not the stuff they come out with now, and secondly it might've prevented Westlife assuming their omnipresence in the boyband stratosphere.

 

[marksims68]

skunk anansie. I fucking love skin.

I used to work for Mayking Multimedia and One Little Indian records were next door, I've lost count of the times I saw Skin and Skunk Anansie in there, god she was tall.

Bands.......

The Smiths
Cast (John Power = genius)
Sex Pistols
Ultravox (LOVE them)
Guns and Roses

To name but five......

 

[killer b]

mclusky

 

[purves grundy]

sugarcubes

 

[8ball]

I used to work for Mayking Multimedia and One Little Indian records were next door, I've lost count of the times I saw Skin and Skunk Anansie in there, god she was tall.

Everyone seems to say she's tall. I was on the Amnesty stall at the Nottingham Rock City gig of the Stoosh tour and she came round to say hello beforehand - I remember her as being about 5'7'' maybe, tops, which is tall for a girl but not that tall. I always figured it was an optical illusion caused by the blokes in the band being quite short . .

 

[skyscraper101]

A few bands I would have liked to see go on a bit longer....

Dubstar
The Beatles
Leftfield
Rocket From The Crypt
Orbital
Gene
Guns N Roses (original)
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Shamen
China Drum
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Sneaker Pimps (Mk 1 with Kelli Dayton on vox)
Massive Attack (original line up)
Jane's Addiction
Kenickie
Atari Teenage Riot
60ft Dolls

 

[dodgepot]

Rocket From The Crypt

yes

 

[brianx]

They already make sense to me now, mate.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way

Too true young Firky too true.

 

[Wookey]

The Goodies.

We can only imagine what heights they might have reached.

 

[tangerinedream]

ARCHERS OF LOAF

There isn't a weak Archers Album imo. I think White Trash Heroes is as good as anything else they did and it's a reet old shame there was no more.

 

[teahead]

No. they are a 'band who should never have formed'. They were SHIT.

Pointlessness of the thread becomes apparent. We have different taste: so what?

 

[twistedAM]

mclusky

Of course. Future of the Left and Shooting At Unarmed Men are no substitutes.

 

[Andy the Don]

The Jam

 

[cliche guevara]

Gene

Gene have split? Wondered why I hadn't heard anything from them in about a decade... That's a shame, "To See The Lights" was fantastic.

 

[half_eaten_arm]

theres only one band i wish never split up and that Rocket from the motherfucking crypt!....only saw them once at reading 2001 and they were fucikng ace!

 

[Lisarocket]

Everyone seems to say she's tall. I was on the Amnesty stall at the Nottingham Rock City gig of the Stoosh tour and she came round to say hello beforehand - I remember her as being about 5'7'' maybe, tops, which is tall for a girl but not that tall. I always figured it was an optical illusion caused by the blokes in the band being quite short . .

She walked past me in a club once. Didn't think she was that tall really. Stunning to look at, but not tall...

 

[twistedAM]

I should have mentioned POLVO but they're reforming for ATP!!!


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