Breaking Up With Your Favourite Band

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NPR recently did a show about breaking up with your favourite band. I highly suggest listening to the radio show, it's fucking hilarious. But, what was it like for you to break up with your favourite band? What happened?


For me, it was Tool. Even typing the word makes me want to vomit in my mouth. Sophmore year in high school, getting stoned in the parking lot, listening to Tool and A Perfect Circle. I swooned, I owned a velvet cape, I had lots of different lipstick tubes and pipes. I finally realized the romance was over when A Perfect Circle released eMotive. I was horrified. Don't even get me started on Puscifer. I was suddenly exhausted by everything Maynard James Keenan, even though I still love his voice. The romance was over.

Tell me, who did you break up with? What happened? Share your heart ache.
 
not my favorite at any time but I used to tour with "The Disco Biscuits."

We broke up once I woke up from the drug-induced fog and realized that they were horrible and did not play songs.
 
I guess I feel the same way about Green Day. I can't listen to their new shit, and furthermore, I really can't stand their new image. The whole wearing a red tie with a black shirt, tight black pants, and flat bottom shoes.

I listened to them as recently as American Idiot, and thought Jesus of Suburbia was quite a kick ass song, but even at that time, our relationship was on the rocks. I can't stand the whole "wave your hands back n forth in the air" and the "say weyyyyyy ooooohhhhh." Now all you see is 15 yr old girls at their shows. I guess I still respect them, but I can't appreciate, or even listen to their new stuff.

Punk Rock was supposed to be not giving a shit, not trying to make it look like you are punk. Their old stuff was raw, and now they are doing this rock opera b.s.
 
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^^ I think you were simply fooled at the start because greenday were never really punk.
 
I break up bands the same way I break up with friends and girlfriends. Theres progressively less contact as there are fewer things to qualify meeting up and at some point its like, we're not really friends anymore are we?

Im past the point were I feel self-conscious about the music i've liked. Even at the bar and shit around ppl my age (mid 20s) when dj guy takes an occasion to throw on nelly everyone rides this good feeling cause we all liked those songs in high school, even though theyre not that good. Like i used to swear by disturbed. and dimmu borgir. both these bands kinda suck but I can still see what attracted me to them. I can also say i thought i had disowned tool for good, but ive fallen back into a passionate and comprehensive relationship with the aenima record. i havent grown back into back into their later material, after 2000 they became progressively less memorable but that record has something special.
 
quiet roar said:
^^ I think you were simply fooled at the start because greenday were never really punk.
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Punk Rock then. I didn't like how they went from simplistic songs (although the bass lines were always somewhat complex), to these rock opera type songs was my main point.

Just because it's not the same as 80's punk, doesn't mean that they were never punk, or at least some of there songs. Music evolves. Just like rock or metal is nothing like it was in the 80's, it is still rock or metal.
 
The shift from weirdo anal rape to hippie progressiveness for Tool. Your favorite creeper chick discovers pot basically.

For the canucks Our Lady Peace was big in the teen years. Then their old guitarist left and the band turned into creative sellouts.

Modest Mouse maaaybe. I didn't like their last record.

I was thinking also there's bands that can do no wrong. Converge, Slayer, bands that just get better with age.
 
Tool fucking sucks, but not as bad as The Smashing Pumpkins.

Siamese Dream was awesome and I fell in love, Melancholy was OK - maybe I thought they were a little less interested in me, but I was still OK. Then it all went downhill and I couldn't cut and run fast enough. By the time they toured last year, it was like seeing that one ex you used to date who's new boyfriend is a fat, balding, 42 year old, and is addicted to disgusting plastic surgery.

Better to fall in love with bands like At The Drive In who produce excellent music for a short time and burn out quickly, leaving no bloody and disfigured body for you to cry over.
 
Pander Bear said:
i think everybody has a tool breakup-- i did.

I broke up with wilco @ sky blue sky. I don't wanna talk about it.
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Not me, I was always kind of ambivalent towards them. I can listen to 10,000 Days and Aenima back-to-back and not see any real significant change to their sound. It's a bit less raw, less edgy, but certainly not the end-of-the-world crushing difference that people seem to think it is.

Also, Sky Blue Sky is great. You're crazy. ;)

When I was younger, I kinda went through a break-up phase with the Goo Goo Dolls. A Boy Named Goo was fucking excellent, but then they released Dizzy Up The Girl and I was left shaking my head in disgust. I mean, fuck, it's like everybody in the band suddenly grew a vagina and decided to make music to help them get through their PMS.
 
American Idiot was the end of the line for me with Green Day as well...the real end of the line. Dookie is still their best album.

When Stone Temple Pilots got back together (after that shitbox known as Velvet Revolver came and went) and released another record that was it for me too.

I still really enjoy listening to Core, Purple and Tiny Music... from time to time.

Just not the same anymore. Same thing happened with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Audioslave, I was all about them in high school, and then, bleh.
 
not a break up, but a grow apart -- Garbage & I went our separate ways. Sometimes I still pull out my favourite tracks and dance to them applying lipgloss in front of my mirror, but I can't just listen to them cover to cover anymore. Is it because I'm not 15 ? or because i'm not in the right space? Bleed Like Me just didn't grow up with me like I thought they were going to. Some songs totally speak to me, and perhaps Garbage and I are just going through a trial separation. :( I thought I had broken up with Hole, but I listened to Live Through This again and realized, you don't break up with Hole, it's a relationship that lasts till death do us part.
 
Whoa! What the shit is with all of the Toll hating in this thread? Tool has gotten better and better and better with each album they put out. How the fuck can you grow out of great and powerful music like Tool? I could understand if their music had started to deteriorate over the years, but that's far from the case. This thread has become shit to me and I'm breaking up with it.
 
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