Nastiest band break up poll
 

I think the beatles did pretty much everything better than everyone else so...

Not sure who "Spandaou Ballet" are, or why they broke up.
As for "Simeon and Garfunkel" I believe Simeon walked out after getting tired of Garfunkel constantly mispronouncing his name.
Which is completely understandable, as that shit can become quite irritating after a while.

'Smith' changed their name to 'Jones' and went on to be extremely successful despite the constant bickering between front man Dorrissey and guitarist Johnny Doe.
Their debut album, the self titled, 'The Jones' was followed by such classics as 'Meat Is Moider', which became popular amongst New York's criminal fraternity for tracks like Brooklyn Ruffians and The Godfather Ritual and This Poll Ain't Funny Any More.

Get up on the wrong side of bed this monring?

I'm still trying to figure out what the "wrost" even is.

Did what?
What exactly are you asking us to choose here?

Most violent break up?
Most missed band?
Band that had the best future ahead of them?

Half those bands you listed didn't even break up in a nasty way anyway.

Awesome.

Good thread idea. Shame the spelling and grammar are absolutely shite.

i say Pink Floyd. idk, it just seemed like they were the most bitter and mad at each other, especially with Roger Waters

In terms of how bitter the split was either NWA(with the death threats and continued animosity until Eazy-E's death, although I'd question whether or not the feud between Dre and E was for real given E's album sounded suspicously like Dre produced), or Pink Floyd/The Smiths given the continual court cases scuppering any hope of reconciliation. With the exception of The Sex Pistols and NWA(neither of whom were never much cop IMO), most of those groups were very much past their creative peaks by the time they disbanded, meaning their disbanding was simply the natural course of events. If you want a group whose disintegration was genuinely a loss to music on the grounds of unfuffilled potential, The La's,Life Without Buildings or The Specials would be far worse break ups.

they should have renamed Careful with that aex Eugene Careful with that lawsuite Roger.

Hmm, more bitter than The Smiths? At least post-Waters Floyd and Roger Waters have shared a stage together. ;)

David gilmore only did that for charity. He'll never forgive Roger.

I don't know, I still think The Smiths might be worse. Like PF, rivalries have turned into trials and they've resisted all external attempts at getting them back together, for example for TV productions or for very large sums of money.

I'm no expert on the breakups of either bands, though. I wasn't there with my bitterness meter to get a good measurement.

:bowdown:
I lol'd so hard.

Man i cried when Take That broke up :(

Don't remind me!

Oh the heartache. :(

The Clash had the nastiest break-up because it resulted in an almost universally panned album.

...which I still have yet to listen to for various reasons.

I went with The Smiths.

Hardly anyone's listened to it

I bet Urban has though

I own the vinyl, but it was like 50 cents, so why not

I'm really scared of what will happen if I do.

Hahaha same, I feel like it'd be a betrayal of some sort

Wrost wrost wrost

Am I the only one that voted Simeon and Garfunkle?

I haven't voted because, like Big3, I don't know what we're voting for. Is it the bitterest break up? Or the one we regret took place the most? Or the one we're most happy about?

It's so confusing :(

'Nastiest band' break up.

Someone killing themselves thus ending the band must be up there? Joy Division..

how about Jane's Addiction?

according to published reports Perry Farrell decided to wait until they were in the contract signing meeting (not negotiations) to announce to the band that where the royalties for the band are split between lyrics and music and he was the sole lyricist he should get that 50% of the royalties entirely and the other 50% should be split between the 4 band members since he also helped write some of the music. it prompted Dave Navarro to wear a 12.5 shirt for their first big show as a major label band.

... that's how the band STARTED.

suffice to say the stress and tension only escalated from there. drug overdoses and on-stage fist fights between band members lead to an inevitable implosion just as they were starting to really peak within the mainstream (they were the band - well, Perry F - that started Lolapalooza after all).

I nominate a charminig bunch of lads that went by the name of MAYHEM... They were a norweigien black/death metal outfit.

Firstly their singer aptly named "Dead" commited suicide, upon discovering the body the Guitarist took photos of the corpse which later appeared on the cover of a bootlegged show, it was also alledged that he made a stew out of "Dead's" brain and made necklaces out of his skull fragments and gave them to other musicians he deemed worthy.

Flash forward a few years and you have the bassist murder the guitarist. I've heard two different accounts of why? The first and most hilarious is that the guitarist was murdered for wearing a white sweater thus shaming the "scene". Alternatetivly it Is said that the bassist thought the guitarist was going to kill him and film it, so he struck with a pre- emptive strike stabbing his band mate upwards of 20 times.

I'm not making this **** up. Google them for more wacky tales of debauchery.

the problem was i had to re do the thread because when i first did it i'd exceeded a 5 mins. time limit to add a poll so i couldn't call it 'bitterest break up' 'cause it wouldn't let me replicate a thread title. That's also why i had to rush type it

The stories and myths surrounding Mayhem are quite popular and fairly common knowledge on these boards, actually, but yeah - they have an interesting story. Although there's been changes in lineup, they're still present and active though. Did they ever really break up? Not criticizing your suggestion, just curious.

I'm gonna go with BJM, cause **** like this happened and on the same tour Anton got arrested for narcotics and ended up finishing the rest of the tour solo.

I just went and checked em out on wiki your right they are still active but none of the original personel remain. It's funny I was flicking through an old mag this morning and re-read their story before loging on here to discover this thread, as I find the whole story so amusing ( especially the sweater myth) I posted it. Should have done my homework though.
In my defense I will say murdering fellow bandmates is in my opinion not nice.

Lol. :p:

well dead kennedys is a good one because there's still tons of tension everywhere and nobody knows what to believe and there were lawsuits and ughhh all that.

i've read about mayhem before, pretty hilarious in a really morbid, terrible sort of way

marc rilye' leaving the fall was rather unpleadint

I said Stone Roses only because I felt it was the saddest, career-wise. They released one phenomenal album, everyone had such high expectations, and then due to a bunch of legal BS it was a long while before their next one came out. By then, no one cared. Then they broke up. There could have been so much more.

I'm sure there are nastier band break ups out there....but I'm always left to wonder what they may have done if circumstances had been different.

They were always massively hindered by the limitiations of their lead singer. Fact is, and i say this as a fan of their debut album, without studio effect's Ian Brown's vocals would have been shown up

Most people's vocals would be shown up if it wasn't for studio effects. A lot of singer's voices are shite live and good in the studio. What's your point?

I agree with The Stone Roses though. Not the nastiest, could be a subject of another thread. The saddest, people around Manchester were saying the best thing since The Beatles etc.

Overhyped yeah but there was excitement there and they could've gone on to be absolutely brilliant. Very sad indeed. :(

Dunno, I personally think the Roses would have been brought down with the rest of Madchester in the same way as Oasis were with Britpop by virtue of being so synonymous with it.

The Roses WERE brought down in the same way as Oasis really. Except it wasn't their third album that did it, it was their second. But I dunno, they were tipped for greatness. As much as I love(d) Oasis I think everyone knew they were the biggest thing around at that moment. I think with The Roses people felt they could've gone on to bigger and better things. But then again, if Oasis did actually split up in like 97. People would've said the same about them so meh. We'll never know.