DAY 24 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
Breaking up is hard to do - but often necessary and inevitable…. Let’s hear those songs that done called it quits!
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
The Sundays - Goodbye - superb band, three great albums, and then history. They still make music for their friends and for themselves, but nothing sees the light of day. They got out of music to raise a family and that family is now grown so I would always love for them to get back into it.
You can see the bassist and drummer around on the internet once in awhile. They do their own thing and have their own lives, so it’s been neat to catch up with them over the years. But the singer and guitarist disappeared.
+1 One of the top bands in my Pantheon but I never got to see them live.
I’ll do two:
Little Big League sure there’s Japanese Breakfast and I do love Michelle’s works but this band just really struck a chord with me.
The Rest a band from Canada that had broken up before I discovered them but damn they were good.
The easy answer for me would be an REM, but honestly, I’m not sad they broke up - they did it on their terms when they were done, that’s how you do it.
So, instead I’ll go to one that, while ultimately led to 2 great bands (Son Volt & Wilco (and others)), still loved the OG…. Uncle Tupelo. Here’s “Graveyard Shift” https://youtu.be/m5jsrhUQz4o?si=fFG5HY8TPH4EX19e
I decided to only consider bands that broke up legitimately and not due to the death of a member. Given that the 29th anniversary of this album just passed and I was thinking about them reuniting…
I’m not sure if this is a really band that split up or just a one off collaboration, but whatever.
Cracklin’ water by OP8Ugh. Just remembered Yeasayer broke up.
Outkast is one of my favorite hip hop artists and I would definitely be excited if they decided to do something together again.
Slint’s 1991 album Spiderland is one of my favorite albums ever. They haven’t done anything since and I have no idea what those guys are up to but I’d definitely be intrigued if they popped up again
God Lives Underwater - From Your Mouth
I always thought this band was underrated. They broke up after the singer unexpectedly died.