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Your time has come, bands that ended too soon.

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<edit> Scratch that, thought of a better one:
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Red Blaster

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The Stone Roses could've been massive. Even if Ian Brown was the worst signer in the world, Mani/Reni/Squire were just incredible. That goddamn recording injunction in the early 90s and their total asshole of a manager did them in. By the time Second Coming arrived their enthusiasm was completely drained.
 
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Shin Kojima

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Pop Will Eat Itself.
Loved their style and weirdness. Clint Mansell (the guy with the hair fountain) went on to do awesome soundtracks like Requiem for a Dream though.
 
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Fatalah

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Man I love this first album, and the two following albums with each different lead singer. But that first album is special -- something Carrabba hasn't been able to recapture since.

Sample song:
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Igo

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Dahlia. Some Trip Hop band from Oregon that released 2 albums then split in 03 or so.

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Love this album so much, it chills me out completely. I actually hadn't listened to it in over a year until this thread reminded me of the band.
 
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pringles

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This thread was made for Carissa's Wierd.

So much talent in that band, if only someone had noticed them while they were still active.
 
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The Fall Of Troy. My most favorite band ever. Doppelganger and Manipulator are their best, didnt particularly care for Ghostship or their final album. I claim Doppelganger the best album I have ever heard. Ever.
 
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Elkland

Golden was an awesome album. I guess two of the members (the singer and guitarist) made a new band called The Drums...but they lost the synthy sound and therefore suck (in comparrison).
 
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BobDylan

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Great OP
I liked At The Drive In a lot but really was let down when I heard Death From Above split up. their shit was dopeee
 
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Alucrid

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xKilltheMx said:
The Fall Of Troy. My most favorite band ever. Doppelganger and Manipulator are their best, didnt particularly care for Ghostship or their final album. I claim Doppelganger the best album I have ever heard. Ever.
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I agree that their latter two albums were shit, I also agree that Manipulator was probably the best one. I went to one of their shows though and the lead singer was a little bitch, so that sorta made me dislike them so I didn't really care when they broke up.
 
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besada

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Dan said:
Lemon Jelly

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I hope they reunite and/or end the hiatus and make more music together.
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No love for '64-'95? But yes, yes, yes, yes.

Also:
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[I know it was a one-off, and I don't care.]
 
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The Field Mice. It has to be The Field Mice.

Naturally endings are often necessarily messy businesses, and by all accounts the demise of The Field Mice was thus. But at least they had the good sense to bring an air of self-knowing occasion to the final moments: after encoring with 'The End Of The Affair' at London's Tufnell Park Dome, the band walked off stage with Michael pausing just long enough to whisper 'the end'. Somehow you couldn't think of a more fitting conclusion.
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So Said Kay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMH0ssCyUVY
Canada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBM19HS8lj8
If You Need Someone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpQZB08zJ

Hot Snakes, too. Unicorns were already mentioned.
 
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teepo

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slowdive
my bloody valentine
young marble giants
cibo matto
jawbox
fugazi (they count, right?)

and most importantly

drive like jehu, leaving on such a note like yank crime :(
 
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N4Us

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If only they recorded a couple more albums.

I also wonder how Children of the Corn (Big L/Mase/Camron/Bloodshed) would've done if Bloodshed didn't die in that car accident.
 
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Another one...they were actually together for a long time, but the various members were always busy with other projects so they don't have that much stuff out:

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chaostrophy said:
Another one...they were actually together for a long time, but the various members were always busy with other projects so they don't have that much stuff out:

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I am so mad a this band.
 
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Leaf Hound - Leaf Hound started life as Black Cat Bones, featuring members who left shortly after their first album to form Free & Foghat. The remaining members brought in vocalist Peter French and guitarist Mick Halls and then changed their name to Leaf Hound. The band would release just one album 'Growers of Mushrooms' in 1970 and to this day it remains a blistering slab of British heavy-rock with more than few proto-psychedelic/stoner rock undertones. I was first introduced to the band in 2001 via an Unida cover of the song Stray, but since then Leaf Hound have reformed, released a new album and are still touring today.

Unida - formed from the ashes of Kyuss & Slo Burn, Unida only had one released album (and another which the band themselves leaked on to the internet) and split up after a falling out with their label. A huge, huge shame as I personally rate Unida's work above anything John Garcia has done before or since, they're one of my all-time favourite stoner bands.

Carcass - despite having a fairly long run, UK death metal band Carcass only really hit their stride with their final two albums; Heartwork & Swansong, which, while not as heavy as previous releases, were both fantastic early examples of the melodic death metal genre.
 
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ThanksVision

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Lots of good answers in here, but the only true answer is At the Drive-in. in/casino/out would probably be in my top 5 albums. Just enjoy it for what it was.
 
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Combichristoffersen

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The Misfits, with Danzig as singer.
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True. I love Misfits w/Graves, but man, Misfits with Danzig was the bee's knees. Too bad Danzig went on to a career of releasing progressively shittier solo albums (his first two are great, third and fourth are OK, and everything after that is liquid feces) :(
 
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UNKLE

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UNKLE without DJ Shadow could never recapture that magic. I often think about what we could have gotten out of a second round.
 
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Snuggles

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I'm apprehensive to mention him because he's my avatar and I don't want to come off like some raving fanatic, but Jeff Buckley is such a painfully obvious answer to this question. Gone at 30 years old.
He was an undeniably talented singer and song writer, and he only had a chance to create one full album and one unfinished album. I can only imagine what he could have done if he had the time.

Also, Cream kicked ass but they weren't around for very long. I agree with the OP's choice of Death From Above 1979. Valley of the Giants were a awesome group that never even had a chance to be noticed. Oh yeah, and Neutral Milk Hotel is an excellent choice.
 
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