grunter

I nominate: The Stone Roses.

From that sublime debut (which I swear I played non-stop, full volume, everday of my senior year in college) to the utter claptrap that followed - what the hell happened?

"I don't have . . . to sell my soul . . . he's already in me . . . "

Yancey

Any record named "The Second Coming" is bound to fail. Just like Michael Jackson made a huge mistake naming the new one "Invincible."

But I agree with the Stone Roses. The debut is amazing.

With a lot of the artists listed in here I think people are just listing musicians or bands they liked and they just want more material from them. To me, that isn't what the question is about. It should be about people not being able to make music, not that they chose not to.

I totally agree with Ian Curtis Pikul.

I totally disagree with Jim Morrison, Hendrix or Joplin.

I wish Brian Jones hadn't died. I know he wouldn't have been a Stone anymore, but more material like The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka would have been wonderful.

big whoppa

Men At Work-- Down Under, Overkill

Pikul

The Stone Roses had one of the most amazing -- not a good amazing -- falls from grace. Legal problems didn't help.

Meatpants -- have you heard any of John Cale's early rock-based solo records? For me, Vintage Violence, Paris 1919, and Fear rate really well with the Velvet Underground records. However, I'm not a very big Lou Reed fan.

Liver&Onions

The Gandharvas. Once they tried to slip "into the mainstream" they died a quiet death. I saw them in a club with about 20 people in it, and most people left once they started playing their older stuff, really unfortunate.

bluesman

Duane Allman
Marc Bolin
Tommy Bolin

dork

Gram Parsons had a lot more good music in him. Seems to me he was in (or close to) his prime when he died.

Material Issue's albums kept steadily getting better and better until Jim Ellison killed himself. So there's another one.

I have to wonder about the Sex Pistols, though. Weren't they already an embarrassment by their second album?

trebek

I have to add Brainiac to the list. After their last EP I thought that it was inevitible that they were about to do something amazing for the next record. However Enon are pretty great so that's a minor consolation I guess.

Applejack

I woulad have to add the Pixies.

They have a decent sized catalogue, but they broke up right as that kind of music was becoming popular.

Whenever I listen to their music, it is hard to believe that they were making it at the same time crappy hair bands like Extreme, Poison, etc. were making crap.

(sorry to any Extreme or poison fan, just an opinion )

Alien Redrum

Whatever happened to Faith No More?

-Steve

Nosebleed

Choking Victim. They broke up the day they recorded their first full-length CD.

Alyoshka

I think there were a couple:

First Gregg Alexander who was the singer of the New Radicals. He just left the music world. Not really sure of all the reasons why, but I liked the music and his philosophies pretty well.

Second, and I'm sure many will disagree: Smashing Pumpkins. I really think that their last two albums showed a lot of musical progression and the chance to be something quite spectacular--much better than they had already shown.

Wormwood

Selena, shot in the back by her fan club president before her english crossover album was to be released.

MJKTool

2Pac/Makaveli

benedict

Perhaps it is the hippy in me, but I likedSecond Coming even though it was disorganised and self-indulgent! I was later given The Complete Stone Roses but I don't know if that really was all their pre-SC material (and never checked!)

I think perhaps there is space for a new thread for artists whose career was way too long!!

dork

Broke up into bands like Fantomas and Imperial Teen.

porieux

Frank Zappa

Had a prolific career, but there was
SO much more left that he would have done...

Pillowhead

Yep. The three albums he released were excellent.

I'd go with (along with Nick Drake)

Jeff Buckley
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Failure (name was a destiny I suppose)

bizquik

Bradley Nowell from Sublime
Shannon Hoon from Blind Mellon

theprophe

common people it can only be buddy holly

starving dvder

Jimmy Hendrix and the drummers from Led Zep and The Who.
Al.

TLamm

I second that. Sad day indeed...

starving dvder

I agree also. Metallica changed for the worst after his death. Master of Puppets is the last greatest classic metal album.
Al.