Starting out with:YazooThe BugglesThe Supernaturals
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)
I'm having a much easier time thinking of bands that should have stopped after two than bands who actually did.
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:49 (fifteen years ago)
Joy Division
...rather macabre 'break-up' though
― Popture, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:52 (fifteen years ago)
Hmm... Joy Division, yeah. The band continued, but they did a wise move by changing their name, realizing they were no longer the same band.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)
My Bloody Valentine?
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)
I was going to say The Producers, but they actually did release a couple records after Portrait dropped them.
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)
be your own pet
― ibaka flocka flame (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:58 (fifteen years ago)
so far this is looking like the case for gnarls barkley.
― mark e, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)
Th' Faith Healers.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)
Dead Man's Shadow
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)
The Glands
― Becky Facelift, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)
Stone Roses obviously
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)
Considering how many people hate Second Coming I don't think so much with the "obviously".
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:30 (fifteen years ago)
Digable Planets
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:33 (fifteen years ago)
AUDIOSLAVE (j/k)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)
Neutral Milk Hotel
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:40 (fifteen years ago)
I know it was a joke answer but Audioslave had three (decidedly not at all excellent) albums before they broke up.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)
Big Black.
Sort of
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:50 (fifteen years ago)
Fucking Earl Brutus
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:52 (fifteen years ago)
Be Your Own PET
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)
woops, missed that upthread.
New Kingdom.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:02 (fifteen years ago)
MF Doom's first group, KMD.
― David (davek_00), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:05 (fifteen years ago)
VaporsNightblooms
― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:05 (fifteen years ago)
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 23:52 (Yesterday)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)
The Glands are the winner.
If 2 EPs count, DFX2
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)
Drive Like JehuSlint
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)
Silver Apples
― too dancy, rocking, jazzy, funky or american (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)
Dust
― too dancy, rocking, jazzy, funky or american (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)
Weezer? Lets pretend...
― Evan, Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)
(oh wait, Silver Apples re-formed, didn't they? xxxpost)
― too dancy, rocking, jazzy, funky or american (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:56 (fifteen years ago)
Elastica
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:00 (fifteen years ago)
Disco Inferno.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)
Oh wait... In Debt, huh?
I had no idea Silver Apples reformed. Whaaat>?
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:13 (fifteen years ago)
Yup, they played an Austin show here on Sunday (though with one original member, I believe).
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:14 (fifteen years ago)
Nightblooms
Haven't ever seen them mentioned on ILM before! I have their debut, which is great, but their second album was awful. Didn't they discard the shoegaze?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:27 (fifteen years ago)
The Pop Group
― henry s, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:37 (fifteen years ago)
Quella Vecchia LocandaJaculaLatte e Miele
loads more Italian prog bands
― Matt #2, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:43 (fifteen years ago)
Jellyfish
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)
The Geraldine FibbersSmart Went CrazyJellyfish (xpost)
― Thug Motivation 102: The Weinspiration (some dude), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:45 (fifteen years ago)
The Silver Apples nullified this with their 1998 album, The Garden.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:49 (fifteen years ago)
Traveling Wilburys
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)
The Proletariat
close:Sir Lord Baltimore (reformed for an EP 35 years later)Shakin' Street (also reunited for a comeback album decades later)The Left (two EPs, archival anthology CD decades later)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:54 (fifteen years ago)
Human Sexual Response
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:03 (fifteen years ago)
Do the Dukes of Stratosphear count? In that they only released an album and a half? Oh, and they don't exist.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:05 (fifteen years ago)
Essential Logic had an album a half (plus a couple singles.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:09 (fifteen years ago)
The LinesHarmoniaLiliputThe Moles
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:11 (fifteen years ago)
Pylon
(nerve_pylon's name reminded me.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:13 (fifteen years ago)
^ but what about Pylon's Chain lp?
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:15 (fifteen years ago)
Marine GirlsThe Legendary Jim Ruiz Group
Pylon released album #3, Chain, in the early '90s
― mike a, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:15 (fifteen years ago)
Oh yeah. (Though I don't think I've ever even seen a copy.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:17 (fifteen years ago)
Pale Saints - if u do not consider the post-Ian Masters material (which you needn't imo)
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:21 (fifteen years ago)
This Heat
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:22 (fifteen years ago)
'O' Rang
― henry s, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)
Rossington Collins Band
― xhuxk, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)
suddenly, tammy's first two were pretty good (tho the third unreleased album was probably the best one)
― we got to pray just to win in ok (tremendoid), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)
Wow somebody mentions Smart Went Crazy!
― Evan, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:48 (fifteen years ago)
Dammit! Of course!
Also Material Issue, Nirvana (UK) and The Lemon Pipers. Did Kaleidoscope (again UK) ever release anything more than two? Otherwise, them too.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:57 (fifteen years ago)
Material Issue had 3-4 proper LPs iirc
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:58 (fifteen years ago)
The WaitressesKaitOOlivia Tremor ControlSwell MapsHeliumSagittarius (a fake band, in fairness)Perrey-KingsleyCibo Matto
― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:03 (fifteen years ago)
― ibaka flocka flame (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:58 PM (3 hours ago)
geez, I had no idea they'd broken up,and nearly 2 years ago at that. RIP!
― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:04 (fifteen years ago)
I was about to nominate the Left Banke as well, but it looks like they reunited, sans Mike Brown, and put out a (probably shitty) reunion album in 1986. why do smart people have to shart on their legacies like that?
― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:07 (fifteen years ago)
Just walk away Left Banke
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)
haw
― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)
long xpost @ McBoing:
2nd Nightblooms album is fantastic, though yes it drops the shoegaze. Long track w/fake ending, talkbox guitar solo, etc. called "Shatterhand" may be the best thing they did...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:11 (fifteen years ago)
And re KaitO, they apparently had a 3rd album recorded but never released. Would really love to hear that someday.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:12 (fifteen years ago)
G n'R?
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:13 (fifteen years ago)
xpost - now you have me intrigued. I'll def. have to trawl slsk for that one, assuming it's floating around somewhere.
last I heard, Nikki from Kaito had started singing in a deep, Nico-ish voice & recorded a cover of Suicide's "Rocket USA" under the moniker Nik Void. it's pretty good though it's very much the opposite of KaitO's manic energy and garagey-ness.
― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:31 (fifteen years ago)
Ah, I knew I was forgetting a big one: Lee Harvey Oswald Band.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:45 (fifteen years ago)
Belly
― brontosaur, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:14 (fifteen years ago)
Duster
― Evan, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:39 (fifteen years ago)
ChapterhouseBlind Mr. JonesSeven Per Cent SolutionThe Darkside
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:45 (fifteen years ago)
I thought about Chapterhouse, but then Blood Music? I dunno..
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:50 (fifteen years ago)
Comus.
― anagram, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:51 (fifteen years ago)
"Picnic" saves the album and it's also the jumping off point for the Pentamerous Metamorphosis remixes, so I'll count it as excellent
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 April 2010 05:07 (fifteen years ago)
Silverfish
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Thursday, 29 April 2010 05:14 (fifteen years ago)
Television (not counting the weird/okay reunion album).
― Davey D, Thursday, 29 April 2010 06:35 (fifteen years ago)
Applause for many of these oft cited such as Slint, Pale Saints, Drive like Jehu...But a 'Hurrah!' for The Proletariat ^^^
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 29 April 2010 07:17 (fifteen years ago)
Minor Threat.(Spurious claim)
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 29 April 2010 07:21 (fifteen years ago)
I dunno if I could really make a case for both albums' excellence, but this thread is making me a little sad I didn't vote for Tiger on the 90s poll
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 29 April 2010 09:02 (fifteen years ago)
― Thug Motivation 102: The Weinspiration (some dude), Thursday, 29 April 2010 09:20 (fifteen years ago)
Bands whose legacy would have been much better had they broken up after their first two albums.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 29 April 2010 09:33 (fifteen years ago)
The 2nd Nightblooms is good! Yeah they totally dropped the awesome noisy shoegaze of the early stuff, even redoing Never Dream At All in a Pooh Sticks-ish power pop style, but it is good power pop IMO.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 29 April 2010 09:40 (fifteen years ago)
How much of a lineup change makes another band? The Stooges did the first two albums, Iggy and the Stooges did Raw Power.
― StanM, Thursday, 29 April 2010 11:43 (fifteen years ago)
The God Machine. (Stopped after one member died)
― StanM, Thursday, 29 April 2010 11:52 (fifteen years ago)
Sensation
― henry s, Thursday, 29 April 2010 11:53 (fifteen years ago)
Damn you, Radio Birdman reunion album.
― StanM, Thursday, 29 April 2010 11:57 (fifteen years ago)
The Housemartins
― New Hors d'œuvre (DavidM), Thursday, 29 April 2010 12:03 (fifteen years ago)
Wizzard (though you could could dispute this with The Wizzo Band and 'Main Street')
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 29 April 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)
I'd like to strongly agree with Earl Brutus and The Waitresses.
I'll add Kenickie. They managed to put out a fresh sounding debut full of catchy pop songs and then just a year later follow it up with a pretty dark comedown album. They split a month later. In a way their career was really frustrating in another way it was perfect.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 29 April 2010 12:52 (fifteen years ago)
The Latin Playboys
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:33 (fifteen years ago)
One of the best live bands I have ever seen too. So sorry for the bassist
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)
Sorry, thread ruinier - forgot - along with Earl Brutus (live)
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)
ahem. celebrate the glory that was ...
― mark e, Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:47 (fifteen years ago)
The Shaggs!
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:00 (fifteen years ago)
Bloody Hell, Mark e.Thanks for providing me with a wonderful puzzle to solve. How the hell do I get there?Tour? I doubt it somehow
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:42 (fifteen years ago)
Huggy Bear
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 30 April 2010 02:37 (fifteen years ago)