For example, a band like Joy Division. Two masterpiece albums in the form of Unknown Pleasures and Closer, and the untimely death of Ian Curtis cut it all short. They were even heading into the direction that New Order eventually went in, and it would have been interesting to see what Ian Curtis would have done if they fully made the leap into electronic music while he was still alive.
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Dude they played for nearly 20 years. That’s a great career.
This person didn’t understand the question lol. I wouldn’t call 20 years “short.”
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Nirvana.
I dunno man. I love Nirvana and they broke through just as I became a teenager.
But I think they would have become lame eventually. The greatest thing about Nirvana was their resistance to the mainstream, they youthful energy and great melodies. I don’t think it would’ve been pretty when Kurt turned 40.
But remember, one third of Nirvana in their final incarnation was Dave Grohl. With his talent, image what might have been…
I still enjoy Foo Fighters and feel that Dave Grohl has grown up and is still relevant. People change as they get older and some even improve.
System of a down. I mean they’re not gone but they’ve only produced music for like 6-7 years and nothing since.
Man, I absolutely love System of a Down. At the very least, I’m happy that those 6-7 years produced so many bangers
If they’d let vocalist sing instead of the tiny terrible guitarist.
They still put on one hell of a show, though.
Just enjoy what they made without giving in to record companies and turning to shit, only playing what they wanted.
Presidents of the United States of America
aka POTUSA
If you have young kids (or maybe even if you don’t) check out Casper Babypants. Same singer as POTUSA and it’s solid kid music.
Ok will do, thanks
I still sing Peaches to myself all the time, lol… great memories!
Greatest rock band ever. Just pure fun and energy. And bugs.
Blind Melon
Shannon Hoon went out way too soon.
Traveling Wilburys. I know a supergroup of old guys is kind of cheating as an answer to your question. But it’s a shame they weren’t able to record more.
They never did release volume 2, only volumes 1 and 3. So sad.
Slint. They broke up before dropping one of the greatest, most influential albums of all time.
Came here to say this, if I had a time machine I’d just go back and catch a Slint live show.
Whoever performed the theme song for Sealab 2021.
That was Calamine.
These days lead performer Julie Stepanek teaches ukulele in Massachusetts.
The original Drowning Pool.
Can we include Trevor Moore in this discussion?
2 albums of music in addition to the wkuk (which had songs as well)
Story of out times
High in church
Banana 🍌
Frightened Rabbit. Good body of work still but would have loved to see them keep going. Their music really hit close to home. Plus I only learned of them several months after Scott Hutchison’s suicide. What could’ve been.
+1 - I recently re-listened to all of his albums while creating karaoke versions of them all (here in case of interest: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjPVqMYwkaP4zaPCEhTfkTyRspxoOyjfY ) and it made me sad to think how much of Scott’s reality was actually coming through in his lyrics.
Power Trip. I don’t even know what happened to the guy but I’ll respect the family’s privacy.
Apparently it was Fentanyl
Juice WRLD. Was introduced to his music about a year after he died, and was bummed there wouldn’t be any new songs from him.
I was today years old when I realized he’s dead…
Death
I would love to hear the songs Chuck would have written about the current state of the world. Stuff like 1,000 Eyes always gets me when I hear it today.
I’d say Velvet Revolver. With most of the Guns N’ Roses lineup without Axl and with Scott Weiland (RIP) on vocals, broke-ass, 9th grader me downloaded that whole album on dialup (my family couldn’t afford high-speed at the time). And boy in 2004 did I listen the shit out of that burnt CD. They later released Libertad in 07’. It was okay…
Afterwards, Weiland left and by the time he passed away, I had forgotten about them. So I went back and damn did Contraband still held up. It comes up in my mixes from time to time.
The other one was kind of cheesy. Does anyone remember Battle for Ozzfest? The MTV show around 04, 05ish? Well, the band that had won was A Dozen Furies. They were a metal-core type of band (product of the time). But I absolutely loved their music at the time. However, by 2006 they had disbanded.
But I think I like them more because a friend of mine, somehow knew one of the members from a forum that my friend ran, or something like that. Anyways, because of that he got Ozzfest tickets, which I had no money for at the time, and I had an absolute blast there. Drank my first beer under the table, my virgin ass made out with a girl, had a Marine tease me for not being able to do pull-ups, rocked out all day, and got burnt with a cigarette in a circle pit (still got the scar).
I did meet the guys at the meet n’ greet tents, got a random sampler CD autographed and they seemed all around cool dudes! So thanks A Dozen Furies, you guys indirectly made my poor ass have an absolutely awesome time that summer!
PS: I don’t really listen to metal that much anymore. Unless I’m working out or something. But I go back to those albums every once in a while.
