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The split of which current band would upset you most? And how upset would you be?

― Tom, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This will sound all too in keeping with what I said that I imagine started this topic but I can't imagine being particularly upset by any band splitting. Even one of my favourites, I mean something would come along and fill the hole so to speak. What would really upset me is if a band I love like Daft Punk or Primal Scream came along and made an album that I hated. Bands take so bloody long between albums anyway that you get used to living without them.

I mean I don't miss the Prodigy, but when they come back I'll know they were gone.

― Ronan, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Radiohead. I'd be inconsolable for a long while.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i dunno, if someone like Yo La Tengo split i would be majorly bummed out, but i wouldn't cry or anything.

i am assuming that now B&S are allegedly splitting then Stuart Mudoch will start a band called THe Wonderful World of Stuart Murdoch or I, Murdoch or The Stuart Murdoch experience, or Stuart Murdoch Is God Bow Down Before Him or similar...

― katie, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would be very upset indeed if Martin Carthy broke up.

― Douglas, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If someone like Daft Punk or the Beta Band split up I would probably think something like "Oh that's too bad" but I can't see becoming upset over it. Which is kind of sad in a way.

― Nicole, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, getting upset equals bad. We must be strong and expand tastes over many bands to ensure they don't hurt us. Splitting up is part of the natural system jesus gave us whereby bands split up and their future which never happened is forever discussed but someone always comes along and fills the whole. Meta question, would it affect your taste in general if a certain band split up?

― Ronan, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would be bummed if Yo La Tengo split - only because they're so great live... And if Scrawl broke up - it would be weird because Marcy & Sue seem like great friends, and a breakup would mean an irreconcilable fight - which is sad in a any case. I can't picture one playing withtout the other. But I would not be upset - only 'weirded out'.

But any other group, I care not.

― Dave225, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was upset when Disco Inferno split - it seemed like such a waste especially since at the time it then looked like their last album would never come out. Not crying upset but annoyed and frustrated and feeling bad for the people involved.

I think this is the main thing that would upset me - if I knew there were great songs or sounds (being played live, say) that might now never see the light of day.

The other reason I can imagine feeling bad over a band split is if it was one which got famous when I was young and now split up because it had had a good innings. And I'd feel sad then because it would make me feel old.

― Tom, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Primal Scream came along and made an album that I hated"

They did that to me ages ago, the bastards.

― chris, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm glad I wasn't old enough to have to wait with anticipation for Give Out or Vanishing Point. Xtrmntr is probably my favourite album of shudder 2000? 2 years old, time flies I guess.

― Ronan, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come on B&S you bastards, SPLIT!!! DO IT. I, Murdoch sounds GRATE.

― Sarah, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i wax miffed when Dazzer Emerson left Underworld. not upset tho. just will miss that mix of people working on music together. i would be equally miffed now if beta band broke up, i hope they go on making stuff for many years.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would be very unhappy if Steps split. Oops.

― alext, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dEUS. Although not really a *proper* band - it's more Tom Barman with some musicians - I like the friction between the members which usually results in some excellent records.

― helenfordsdale, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was upset when Pavement split up. But then I didnt mind after a while because they were going crap anyway.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd be sad if there were no more Low records. Or Chan Marshall/Cat Power records.
I hope Sonic Youth and Stereolab stay together until All Tomorrow's Parties in March, but I'd get over it fairly quickly.

― dan, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At this point, probably the Climax Golden Twins -- for live show reasons. They're easily the most entertaining live band in Seattle today, and not having the opportunity to see their hilarious yet semi- infrequent live shows would make me sad.

As for missing great albums, Super Furry Animals.

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My friends' band "Slut Em Go" almost split this week but had a slamming live show on Saturday and decided to keep going! Yay! Their split would affect my life far more than some band I only know by their CDs or something.

Although I would be very sad to hear that Satanicide had split.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lush.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't think of a response to this. I guess that at some point all bands will disappoint you in one way or another. Bonnie 'Prince' Billie, Low and Mercury Rev all let me down to varying degrees last year. I find that the anti-climax when a long-anticipated record fails to live up to expectations is far more upsetting than when a band stops making music altogether. Here's to hoping that ...Trail of Dead have survived signing to Interscope...

― Ben Squircle, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Too many of my favorite bands have already blown the whistle and called it a day; Cop Shoot Cop, Gang of Four, Devo, the Stranglers (well, Hugh split, and that's all that matters), etc. Killing Joke are never really together for very long before their notoriously fractuous infrastructure gives way again, so it's impossible to say when they've ever called it quits for good (they're rumored to be re-grouping as I type). Radiohead splitting now would guarantee their mythic status forever ("think what they might've recorded had they kept going," etc.) I'd be upset if Firewater broke up — and I'd gnash my teeth heartily and cry bitter, caustic tears.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A band like Clinic would annoy me the most. Someone who you believe has their best work in front of them. Potential.

― bnw, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would hate it if Duran Duran broke up. Or ATC or Eiffel 65.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh wait, new Eiffel 65 single is a Franco Battiato medley. They can go, I wouldn't care.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

new Eiffel 65 single is a Franco Battiato medley

Are you kidding me?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The new Eiffel 65 single is a Franco Battiato medley. A more confusing record is not likely to be released this year. It is primarily in Italian, it is some kind of inscrutable tribute to 80s music, and it is the first single off their newest album. And it's terrible.

― Otis Wheeler, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My own. Very, very upset.

― electric sound of jim, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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