Bands With TOO Short Of A Career

RedMosquito22

Wma31394 wrote:

DewieCox wrote:

I love Zeppelin and The Beatles as much as anybody, but I think they accomplished too much for this conversation. I'm not sure how staying together would've benefited them. I include the Doors in this as well, but personally, I think their career was too long.

Too long??? Morrison died at 27..not sure when they started..my guess when he was 18-22. They were just hittin their stride with L.A. Woman. IMO their best album.

The Doors were only together for only 5 years as well, just like The Beatles. Way too short.

Yellow Ledbelly

RedMosquito22 wrote:

drinkbigredinstead wrote:

Culture (with Joesph Hill)

Nirvana

Sublime

As much as I liked Sublime, I don't know how long that style would have lasted. I could be wrong with that, but I sure loved them when they were around though.

I agree with this...I think they would have travelled the same path jeremy lin is destined to go down. But I would've loved to see where they could have gone.
I echo CCR and The Doors for sure.

I will add SRV...he had 10 or so highly productive years but still far too short

g under p

EdsonNascimento wrote:

RedMosquito22 wrote:

The Doors
The Beatles(It's amazing their impact on American Music in only 5 years)

Yeah. I don't get starting a thread with Fugazi and Nocturnal Emissions and missing the obvious ones (these along with Zep, Hendrix, etc.). I don't even think Fugazi enters the conversation. Sorry.

I left those out just for you...I'm not a Beatles fan so their exit doesn't matter too much to me. However, please list what YOU like.

Peace

g under p

RedMosquito22 wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

I don't even think Fugazi enters the conversation. Sorry.

Especially when they were together for close to 20 years

However, I wished they were here and STILL touring after seeing them many years all around DC. There's no argument here list what you want or don't want.

Peace.

Wma31394

Guns n Roses only together what 6 yrs or so. I like them back in the day..not sure what they would be now..my guess somewhere inbetween motley crue and metallica.

DewieCox

RedMosquito22 wrote:

DewieCox wrote:

I love Zeppelin and The Beatles as much as anybody, but I think they accomplished too much for this conversation. I'm not sure how staying together would've benefited them. I include the Doors in this as well, but personally, I think their career was too long.

This topic is length of career. The Beatles as a successful band were together a shade over 5 years. Of course they put out 2 album per year most of that time but still was way too short.

I agree with you about Zeppelin though. They shouldn't be on this list.

Maybe I'm taking more into account than what is meant for the discussion. I just think both bands had peaked and weren't gonna achieve much more together. It's hard to deny that there was a creative decline with Let It Be compared to the 5 previous recorded Beatles' albums. By most accounts, they knew they ran their course. I think they called it quits at just about the perfect time.

I think The Beatles were a successful band for about the same amount of time as Zeppelin. Zeppelin's studio work ran from 68-78, Beatles 63-70.

RedMosquito22

g under p wrote:

RedMosquito22 wrote:

EdsonNascimento wrote:

I don't even think Fugazi enters the conversation. Sorry.

Especially when they were together for close to 20 years

However, I wished they were here and STILL touring after seeing them many years all around DC. There's no argument here list what you want or don't want.

Peace.

This list isn't a list of who you wish were still together. This is a list of careers that were too short, which to me means as a band under 10 years and probably closer to 5 years. I hardly think that a 20+ year career is short, in fact it's the complete opposite for a rock band. Not many make it to 20 years that's for sure.

brosio

I know I am coming to the game late, but as others have said Blind Melon came to mind first.
I guess we could include Soundgarden in this as well. I know they are "back" but their hiatus is 2x as long as they were together.

uninnocent-

I'll agree with everyone who said Blind Melon. They were so good in such a short period of time.

g under p

RedMosquito22 wrote:

This list isn't a list of who you wish were still together. This is a list of careers that were too short, which to me means as a band under 10 years and probably closer to 5 years. I hardly think that a 20+ year career is short, in fact it's the complete opposite for a rock band. Not many make it to 20 years that's for sure.

It's just short for ME...agree or disagree reason being I loved the band saw them from beginning to end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks

BTW there's some commercial using this opening baseline..I hope the band is getting some publishing money.

Peace

LukinFan

The Doors

BinFrog

The initial run/lineup of Jane's Addiction

Pond

GnR

Nick Drake

RedMosquito22

BinFrog wrote:

The initial run/lineup of Jane's Addiction

Pond

GnR

Nick Drake

GnR were pretty much washed up even when they were still together. That doesn't take away from how great Appetite and the Illusions were.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Dead Man Walking wrote:

CTD10 wrote:

Blind Melon. God how I loved this band. Still got their debut album on cassette. I really think these guys would have put out so many more great albums

I said they could have been the next Zeppelin.

I do not retract that statement.

Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest bands of all time. Agruably the best. Blind Melon achieved some success, but never exactly took the world by storm as Zeppelin did. There is a talent disparity as well. Bonham one of the greatest drummers of all time. Page one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Plant's voice... well... unreal! JPJ is an underated musician and writer of music.

I'll respectfully disagree with your statement. Blind Melon, as much as I might have appreciated them back in the day, are wet tissue compared to Zeppelin.

Wobbie

Arc Angels

CSNY

BinFrog

RedMosquito22 wrote:

BinFrog wrote:

The initial run/lineup of Jane's Addiction

Pond

GnR

Nick Drake

GnR were pretty much washed up even when they were still together. That doesn't take away from how great Appetite and the Illusions were.

I guess. Still, they were HUGE for 4 years and then just fizzled.

RedMosquito22

Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:

Dead Man Walking wrote:

CTD10 wrote:

Blind Melon. God how I loved this band. Still got their debut album on cassette. I really think these guys would have put out so many more great albums

I said they could have been the next Zeppelin.

I do not retract that statement.

Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest bands of all time. Agruably the best. Blind Melon achieved some success, but never exactly took the world by storm as Zeppelin did. There is a talent disparity as well. Bonham one of the greatest drummers of all time. Page one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Plant's voice... well... unreal! JPJ is an underated musician and writer of music.

I'll respectfully disagree with your statement. Blind Melon, as much as I might have appreciated them back in the day, are wet tissue compared to Zeppelin.

Who the hell cares. Blind Melon was a great band. No one ever said they were better than Zeppelin.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Who the hell cares. Blind Melon was a great band. No one ever said they were better than Zeppelin.[/quote]

What kind of goofy remark is this? I never said they were the shits. It would appear that you have difficulty following the discussions in these threads. My response was to the comment that DeadMan made suggesting that Blind Melon was going to be the Next Led Zeppelin.

So, Red Mosquito... you are wrong. Someone did make a comparison to Zeppelin. Is discussion and debate completely out of the question in threads such as these?

SatansFuton

Sex Pistols. Only recorded one album.

Lifted

blind melon (with shannon hoon of course)
nirvana

i would say the beatles, but everything worked out pretty perfectly for them.