Which band "break-up" most affected you?

[Hollis]

I seem to have got embroiled in a small part of music twitter full of guys still banging on about Steve Hackett leaving Genesis.

I mean Christ guys, it was 47 years ago...get over it..

For me the Smiths splitting was probably the worse. I guess If we include deaths then Kort Cobain killing himself comes a close second..

 

[hitmouse]

Pat the Bunny retiring is the first one that comes to mind for me. Still gutted I never got to see the Long Blondes live, there must be others... the Spook School breaking up definitely felt like a "everything is getting shitter all the time and here is another example of that" moment.

 

[Spymaster]

I've never been affected by the break up of a band.

My mum cried when Elvis died though.

 

[RevolutionSound]

Not bands breaking up, but Weatherall, Pete Woosh, Simon DK and Benjamin Zephaniah dying were all upsetting.

 

[marty21]

I've never been affected by the break up of a band.

My mum cried when Elvis died though.

Same , apart from my dad cried when Elvis died , probably the only time I saw him crying tbf.

 

[Griff]

Think Hugh Cornwell leaving The Stranglers is the only one that's had a real effect on me.

Saw their last gig (I think it was their last gig together) at Ally Pally and that was it with them.
Couldn't name any of their singers or a single tune of theirs after that.

 

[Silas Loom]

Was moderately irked about the Sisters of Mercy, especially when Children, Gift and Floodland were all so disappointing by comparison with First and Last and Always. And Ian Curtis’s death was retrospectively quite a blow given that I heard New Order before Joy Division.

 

[Knotted]

Whatever chemistry makes a band great, it doesn't seem to last more than a decade and in my opinion the most interesting period is the period when they haven't quite worked out how to slot together. Hackett era Genesis is as good a case in point as any. Nursery Cryme was flawed but different and interesting whereas Wind and Wuthering was pleasant but not in anyway vital. A few years back Steve Hackett and his brother John recorded an album of Satie covers which was pretty damn good and much more interesting than whatever half arsed version of prog rock Genesis including Hackett would be making now.

 

[danny la rouge]

Psychedelic Gutty Band.

 

[hash tag]

I can tell you where I was and what I was doing when I heard the announcement of Keith moons death

 

[Saffy]

Little Mix

 

[belboid]

Bands splitting though someone's death is one thing, its not really being upset about the band splitting up (well, mostly not, anyway).

Just plain old split? The most irritating and slightly upsetting one was Husker Du, just after I'd got tickets for them with Inner City Unit supporting. That was bloody annoying.

 

[isvicthere?]

I can tell you where I was and what I was doing when I heard the announcement of Keith moons death

I was in a the bar of a youth hostel on the only occasion I have ever been to Luxembourg.

 

[Spymaster]

Little Mix

They've split up?

 

[keybored]

Beastie Boys.

 

[Saffy]

They've split up?

Jesy left but they're better off without her.

 

[petee]

when the beatles broke up one of my buddies said "SEE I TOLD YOU SO" and he was right, becuase i'd denied that it was going to happen. so it affected me that i was wrong and couldn't deny it.

 

[CNT36]

Take That. Lots of girls crying at school. Awful.

 

[Yossarian]

Can't remember ever getting too upset by a band splitting up, though I was a bit saddened by the messy Sonic Youth breakup

 

[Sasaferrato]

I was really sad when Cream split up.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Bands splitting though someone death is one thing, its not really being upset about the band splitting up (well, mostly not, anyway).

Just plain old split? The most irritating and slightly upsetting one was Husker Du, just after I'd got tickets for them with Inner City Unit supporting. That was bloody annoying.

I still listen to Grant Hart.

 

[Serge Forward]

For me the Smiths splitting was probably the worse.

When the Smiths split, I might have been slightly sad but I didn't cry.

 

[danny la rouge]

I was really sad when Cream split up.

You shouldn’t have left it out at room temperature.

 

[MickiQ]

Never bands are like No 9 buses, there will be another one along I quite like to listen to shortly. Beside it doesn't affect me directly, it's not like someone will come round and demand I hand over my copies of any of their albums.

 

[mx wcfc]

I was a thrown by the spectacular implosion of the Sex Pistols, and how it exposed the whole charade.

Death wise, Ian Curtis' death had the biggest impact.

 

[hash tag]

Little Mix

To clarify is little mix a person or a band?

 

[davesgcr]

When the Jam and Squeeze broke up - it was quite depressing..........

 

[stavros]

I'm a bit pissed off that Fuck Buttons have officially split, but I'll survive.

 

[Silas Loom]

I'm a bit pissed off that Fuck Buttons have officially split, but I'll survive.

Blanck Mass is essentially the same thing, isn’t it?

 

[WouldBe]

To clarify is little mix a person or a band?

A band.