Bands who broke up without telling anyone.

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I wonder because one of my favorite bands - US Maple - seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.

― Margus Nimbuam, Sunday, 14 November 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

whats happened to unwound?

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 14 November 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Not only are US Maple extant, they're going on tour:

http://www.dragcity.com/bands/usmaple.html

See y'all at the Gabe's show!

― briania (briania), Sunday, 14 November 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Unwound formally broke up, but not in a bitter sense, more of a "we were all individually wondering if we'd run our course, we all talked and realized we had so we wrapped it up with a final album and tour" sense, a calm and subtle way to bow out -- they announced it so people knew that the final shows were indeed the final shows. Check the Unwound thread in the archives for more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

pink floyd

― ^%^, Sunday, 14 November 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Did Boyzone ever officially split, or just drift away?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Did the Spice Girls ever split, or are they still pretending it's just a break to experiment with solo careers?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I was gonna say Boyzone. I guess pop bands have dispensed with the press conference to announce their splitting up. For shame.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I miss the Newsround reports with crying teenagers and suicide hotlines. Another sad part of the twentieth century disappears...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cibo Matto
Everything But The Girl
the Sundays

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

what the world needs now is Sparklehorse

website hasn't been updated in over a year. arguably lame 'side project' and recent johnny cash tribute track the only contact they've made with the world since their last tour. wtf, Linkous?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

what side project?

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rabbit.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Chavez.

Although they now seem to be willing to do the occasional show.

― pm, Monday, 15 November 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

red house painters. though kozelek still acts like they're a band who will do something at some point, i don't think anyone else in that band feels that way

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, Zumpano. Carl Newman still talks about a third album, but i think it's just self-parody at this point.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 15 November 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Isotope 217. Maybe they're still trying to find the "I Walkman"

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Boyzone must have split up, because they're doing a reunion tour soon (no Ronan, some guy from Pop Idol replacing him).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure why Carl Newman would want to make another Zumpano album when he can instead make another New Pornographers LP and rake in the cash.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ABBA and The Police to thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, and Dire Straits. Did they ever officially break up?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Spice Girls never split officially. The girls are not "ex-Spice Girls", they just haven't been in any proximity these last years...

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Bands that deny reunion rumours = have split up.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Menudo perfected this behavior.

― cdwill, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

any Athens people know the word on the Glands?

― Will (will), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

did pavement ever break up?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

labradford?

― Stampy, Monday, 15 November 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The members acknowledge that the band no longer exists, but they broke up in such a way that they could come back and say "well, we never formally broke up." When it first went down, the official word was that they were going on a long hiatus.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I was talking about Pavement just then.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Drive Like Jehu is the best example I remember. It took about four years for anyone to even figure out (i.e. get past denial) that there was going to be no more Drive Like Jehu. But there definitely were 2-3 years where almost everyone outside the band were expecting *something* to happen again. Alas. John didn't even start explicitly hinting at the demise until 1998 or so.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Seems like Fugazi fits this bill. They sort of faded out and have said they could do something else together someday... but for now, they all have different things on different coasts...

― Nostalgia for the Old Cineramadome (Ben Boyer), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Fugazi is over, they just go on long hiatuses between records. It was three or four years between End Hits and The Argument.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It makes more sense to go on hiatus than to break up - there's no need to be so dramatic, or close doors permanently when all you want is some time and space.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I sure hope Isotope 217 is over. After the first record (save for that Hodah EP) it was all downhill; and when I finally got some Miles Davis records I sold pretty much all the I217 I had.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

WHERE IS THE FOLLOW-UP TO LOVELESS?

Or, really, where is the follow up to Sometimes???

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"I sure hope Isotope 217 is over. After the first record (save for that Hodah EP) it was all downhill; and when I finally got some Miles Davis records I sold pretty much all the I217 I had. "

No way. Second album was by far the best.

The Miles Davis thing seems to be the most common line about Isotope, and I don't quite get it. It seems sort of like saying "Now that I've heard Led Zeppelin, I don't see the point of listening to Blue Cheer,"

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Having almost no experience with LZ or Blue Cheer, I can't agree or disagree.

Put it this way: a lot of Isotope just seems really dull to me, a sound that Miles actually injected some life into before Isotope took it on and re-did it a style that bored me (yes they're all great musicians and Tortoise was great up to IAAY but still).

I know that's a horrible sentence.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Have Hefner split up?

― Davel (Davel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

If it bores you, it bores you. But just because I217 also plays jazz-influenced acid funk doesn't make them a Miles Davis knockoff, even if you can hear the influence. I find Isotope 217 to be a much more introspective, composed experience than the post Bitches Brew Miles stuff -- a different feeling.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the swirlies

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Have Hefner split up?

not officially, but i'd say so.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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