A Seattle man is infamously hoping to get Weezer to break up by offering the band 10 million dollars in exchange for never making a record again. (After seeing the way Weezer has sold out to PacSun, can you really blame him?)
Death Cab for Cutie
As much as it pains us to admit it, Death Cab for Cutie's time has passed. 2008's Narrow Stairs possessed a mere shadow of the lyrical clout that Ben Gibbard used to wield, and the band's nice-guy earnestness - once charming, when paired with Gibbard's unflinchingly honest, dryly-delivered observations - has become a bit too cloying for the band's own good. Would one more vaguely aching, sort-of-melodic album from Gibbard and co. kill us? Probably not. But the chances of the band creating a work that isn't coasting off of earlier inertia is pretty slim. (Besides, if Death Cab breaks up, Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel can obliterate the Starbucks CD rack together -- we're thinking the project can be called His & Hers -- and M. Ward can go back to being a brilliant solo artist.)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Karen O is a raging monster of a frontwoman, and she cannot be tamed. This is an incontrovertible fact, and this is why we have loved the Yeah Yeah Yeahs since it's ramshackle, punky inception in 2000, when Karen O first croaked that it's our time. Last year's trip down the disco rabbit-hole with It's Blitz yielded mixed reviews; but, that's not why the YYYs need to call it quits. It's because Karen O is a rare and undeniable talent and she needs to spread her wings and fly, dammit. She wrote the eerie, chanting refrains for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, and they had a resonant, child-like wonder that most artists simply aren't capable of capturing. Let her go, man!
MGMT
Commercially speaking, MGMT fucked up. After releasing the electro-pop catnip of Oracular Spectacular, MGMT followed up with the dense psychedelia of Congratulations this April, and the blogosphere congealed into one gigantic, burbling WTF? Though Congratulations actually proved to be quite listenable -- and even thoughtful! -- the art of the record was largely lost on the band's mainstream fan base, and the album fizzled. Now, the band is back in the studio and working on a more poppy record, which Andrew VanWyngarden describes as "super-satirical pop music, more along the lines of what we used to do when we first started out. Almost like Karaoke." MGMT, you earned points for not selling out the first time. Quit while you're ahead.
Arcade Fire
Win Butler has already acknowledged to Spin Magazine that his band won't continue forever, and seems to be currently mulling over retirement. Actually, this might be a good thing. Arcade Fire has created a perfect triptych in its three albums, Funeral, Neon Bible and The Suburbs. If Funeral spoke to the wild-eyed passion and ambition of youth cruising suburban streets in hopes of love, sex, and adventure, then Neon Bible catapulted that naivete into a grander scheme of Important Themes, like the government, the military, and justice. (It's Arcade Fire, gone to college.) The Suburbs finds our old familiar allies -- "the kids" -- back in the neighborhoods they once sought to escape from, settling down to families, and moving past the feeling. Arcade Fire shouldn't break up because they're not brilliant, or even because they aren't capable of making another incredible album. It's that they've run out of space. The band's career is a perfect arc, and it's beautiful, just as it is.
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Dislike!!!! Thats your opinion and Im sure theres millions of fans that would say otherwise!! Apparently you dont know good music either. Its nice to have a band who sounds different than all of the shit music thats out today.
I think the band Death cab for cutie is awesome! Who gives you the right to say that they need to break up? Apparently you dont know good music!!
Should be titled "Four horrible bands that cause ear cancer."
I disagree with Robert Moore about Weezer being "shit from day one". Although he is right about every album they put out since the first one!!! Also thanks for the Sonic Spectrum show spotlighting Television, Gun Club, Ramones, and X---It was really great!!
All of these bands are terrible, flavor of the moment hipster garbage. They'll die out eventually, or worse the members will splinter off into their own equally bad solo projects.
They need to break up? I've never heard of any of them, so....like keep on keeping on I guess.
I personally love all of these bands and although I agreed with most of what was said, I'd still be devestated if they broke up
Incredibly dumb list. I agree with the yeah yeah yeah's.. but not for the same reasons. They're a terrible band that's a caricature of themselves and early 2000's music. Karen O is okay at best and her confident "life is so perfect and everything i wanted to happen did" type attitude is annoying. She's overly confident and loaded with affectations and pretensions.
MGMT on the other hand is true talent. They purposefully gave a big f-u to the radio and stupid youtube covers of "kids" by making a non commercial 2nd album. I think that was a great call. And the album is still really good.
Arcade fire isn't even a great band and should be on the level of "shout out louds", or something. WOw.. they've made three albums in six years. The beatles made 12 way better albums in like 7 and a half years. I think from first recording to last it was less than 8 years for the beatles.
Oh, and why is "Death Cab for Target/Walmart" mentioned on this list? Another band that should have moved on after their first decent-mediocre album.
why didn't these make the list?
Pearl Jam
Green Day (love the last album, but go out with a bang!.. you're getting old).
Linkin Park (for that style of music it's catchy but it's been many years now... let's move on with the 14 year old "I hate my parents and myself" mentality)
Eminem (what's it been, 15 years now? love him but either really bring the heat and the beat, or stop it).
many many others that I don't want to think of because I'm bored now.
Wow, this is a pretty awesome website. You write about bands that you don't like that nobody's ever heard of but you want destroyed for no apparent reason. Are the editors of this site 15-year old girls perchance?
HOW ABOUT MAKING STOCK PICKS FOR US INSTEAD OF TELLING US ABOUT STUPID GAY BANDS THAT ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN WOULD...................MUSIC
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Whoever wrote this article is a fucking retard. These are baseless and on this list only to draw readership on this sub-par blog.
These five bands merely scratches the surface of bands that need to break up. I would estimate 98% of music that is presented to the populous today is totally devoid of any talent or originality. Lady GagGag should have topped the list.
Kind of a toxic article, huh? Thats like an article "Married couples that need to break up", "Celebs that need to die", "People that need to be killed"....
Really? I mean.. Really? Even if these groups have only ONE fan, do you really want to be the one to deprive them of some happiness in the world?
Well, I guess you do want to be that person.
Karen O is fine right where she is, in all honesty I hated the where the wild things are soundtrack. Karen by herself is just odd...We need bands like the yeah yeah yeahs..at least until I get he chance to see them live.
I have to disagree with Greg, I think "Embryonic" is the Lips' best record since "Yoshimi." That "Dark Side of the Moon" remake was pure crap though.
Since this story was taken down from Facebook I will repeat my choices:
R.E.M. (sucked since Bill Berry left)
Spoon (always sucked)
Wilco (declined since Jay Bennett left)
She & Him (yech, boring ... M. Ward's solo work is way better)
As a self-loathing (or maybe just Weezer loathing) Weezer fan, I tend to agree at this point that the madness needs to stop.
If Arcade Fire called it quits now, I would turn Emo kid and cry. They have at least 5 albums in them. This isnt a play, we don't need 3 perfect acts to complete the arc
To add to this list, Jack White, and any of his derivations/bastardizations, need to go away in a big way
Nothing really shocking in this list, but I don't think MGMT have been around long enough to even warrant a mention in this piece. A better example would be !!!, who have become a bad imitation of their former selves in recent years. And if The Flaming Lips release another "Embryonic," they will get a spot on this list as well.
I agree on MGMT. They pretty much solidified the rest of their career as a fruitful and critically respected band with 'Congratulations'. Now they are making a blatant sell-out record? Lame. The first album was so naturally marketable. It will pay the bills forever.
Fuck calculated music.
Wow, they are the newest and least important band on this list, and I only want to talk about them. I'll quit while I am ahead.
Thanks. Yeah, I was never part of the Arcade Fire Kool-Aid cult; but I thought the Suburbs was pretty devastating/beautiful. I'm guessing people are pissed about a lack of commercial-friendly, anthemic tracks. (Say, "Wake Up" or "Rebellion [Lies]".)
and your take on arcade fire is dead-on. i'm referring to comments i've heard and blog posts since the new recording was released.
and your take on arcade fire is dead-on. i'm referring to comments i've heard and blog posts since the new recording was released.
hmmm. i've always thought weezer and DCFC were shit from day one. YYY had a good string of eps early on. MGMT...who cares? But, i really don't understand this overnight hatred for arcade fire....from the same people who said Funeral changed their life. fickle hipsters.
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