Luscious Jackson, I'd only really just discovered them, then they split up. Love that band. I was a huge Pumpkins fan, but I was actually really glad that they decided to call it a day. After Siamese Dream, you couldn't make a better and more cohesive hard rock album, after Mellon Collie, you couldn't make a more epic one. It was just all gonna be downhill, my only regret is that Corgans interest in experimentation with electronic music awakened on Mellon Collie never really paid off on Adore the way a fantastic track like "1979" promised. I haven't heard his new solo album, anyone buy it? any good?

plague monkey's spliting kinda pissed me off - thought they had something really special and the single 'mouth to mouth' is one of irish rocks most complete tunes. rollerskate skinny, although I didn't 'get' them at the time - what a album and what potential that band had

as a teenager; nirvana as an adult; the beta band as a neurotic paranoid android; pre-emptive stress and anxiety over the demise of radiohead.....one day, although in my saner moments i feel that they will never break up the gaps between releases will just get wider and wider

Take That.

hahah i was just about to write that!!! But really.... yea prob Nirvana.

The verve. I got into music late in life, and couldn't believe one of my all time favourite bands were still together in my time (as the Roses and Happy mondays etc. had already split) Couldn't believe it when they split, I was devastated!!

I'm bracing myself for the day 'The Charlatans' breakup .... Always had a soft spot them.

I was pretty gutted when Richie Manic disappeared and it became obvious he wasn't coming back. Still am :(

smashing pumpkins. plus i had a ticket for their last gig in london and then couldnt go. i was distraught. then zwan happened which made it worse.

I suppose with the tragic deaths involved, we will never know if The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Thin Lizzy could have went on to be still great bands today. Not sure about a specific band.........still trying to think........but I know that John Lennon's death (even though I was just a toddler when it happened) kind of signified the end of one of the greatest songwriters - possibly the best!!!

Got to be The Smiths. Can't believe it is twenty years since 'The Queen is Dead' was released. When I was a kid, I played that album so much even my Mum grew to like it. I was gutted.

End of the Longpigs AND Geneva in the same year really pis*ed me off. Also, the departure of Bernard Butler from Suede meant that with the exception of the "coming up" album, Suede were really never a creative force of note again.

Hmmm. The Beta Band break-up was disappointing because of the reasons why they split. I'm curious though to hear how Steve Mason's solo record under the King biscuit moniker will sound when it's released next year. I would tend to be philosophical about band break-ups. I'd rather see a group go their separate ways leaving a decent body of work behind rather than floundering, flagging and eventually flogging a dead horse.

dont mean to be a big negative creep(ahem, spot the reference) but i've been more annoyed that some bands havent broken up-oasis,u2,metallica,aslan,coldplay,stereophonics,foo fighters. im not kidding, their output so far this century is appaling, subjective though that is someone must see what i mean, surely? these are brands as powerful as coca cola and nike, people dont even know why they buy them! not the people i've asked at least, but thats only anecdotal. i would love to hear more my bloody valentine, roller skate skinny, mexican pets and possibly jimi hendrix if he could be brought back! And slightly out of place in all that is the fact that I would love to see Pantera smash up a venue again(not literally Dougal), but poor aould Dimebag(guitar player) got shot onstage almost a year ago now. It would be special to see Phil Lynott live though. That statue on Harry St. is so cool, I get a bit caught up everytime I see it. Oh and it will never happen but Faith No More and Guns and Roses both pi55ed me off, but Velvet Revolver and Mike Pattons enourmous workload (check out http://beta.cv.org/ and you lose all respect for other so-called hard working artists, this guy must not sleep!) will do for now.

I think the Everly Brothers, simply because its very sad to see that kind of negativity within a family.

Bands I was sorry to see split up: Stone Roses, Beta Band, Orbital, Joan of Arse, The Jam (well only a wee bairn at that stage but would have liked to see where they went as a trio) and the Travelling Wilburys. Bands that should definitely not be trading under the same name and should go their seperate ways and make music under different moniker maybe would defo be Oasis, Beastie Boys, Rolling Stones etc... Just because they were good at what they did back then but now they are doing nothing spectacular.

Pink Floyd!!!

does it count if someone dies? like the Doors is hardly a band break up? For me, definitely the Beta Band, only band that i really liked that split up when i liked them. Would have loved to have seen the Stone Roses, most other bands that i like had broken up long before i got into them though, so i cant say that that affected me so much.

Id say that it counts if someone dies, doubly so because you know that the chances of a reunion are greatly decreased. I say greatly decreased as opposed to a reunion never being possible, because some bands do move on after the lead singer has died...the doors being the obvious example

funnily enough, i've never been overly affected by a band splitting up... none have while i have still been massively in to them... probably more likely these days... the closest i've come to being upset though was the smiths and pixies... however, nothing on the scale of my student president in '91 who collapsed publically in to a bout of tears when he heard freddie mercury had died

actually, scratch that... i was quite upset to see 'karate' split a few months ago

i was pretty disheartened when the libs split up. i loved the first album so very much. just thought it was such a waste to get us all riled up and then just nothing. they didnt even have the good grace to go out with a bang. just a mediocre second album and news of the world coverage

for me it has to be the slow and painful death of the stone roses. what is the break-up you fear most in the future? i dread the day radiohead quit

Pantera. That was a pisser. Had a ticket to go see em at tattoo the planet back in the day, and they didn't show up, so I never got a chance to em, and now I never will........... oh yeah, East 17

its definitely take that i cant believe there back together i already have two front row tickets

Hey, Klootfan, I was gutted too when Ten Speed broke up. I saw them 4 times live and they always gave a great, blistering performance.Such a great live act.I remember Tom Dunne playing the 'Girls and Magazines' ep and I was blown away by it, then came the album, which built on the promise of the EP. I was raving about this band to everyone, one of the rare occasions I'm really impressed by an Irish band. Then, they go and split up!!!! Really sad.This was one band that was genuinely gifted, had amazing energy live. Most Irish bands would tear up their Whelan's lock-in membership card to come up with something half as good as 'Don't go out', 'Fifteen' or 'Overcast'.

Smashing Pumpkins (though not as much the breakup as their degeneration and inability to keep up with themselves) Soundgarden, Pink Floyd, Tool, PETER GREEN'S FLEETWOOD MAC, I would say Screaming Trees, if it hadn't freed Mark Lanegan. Though I wasn't actually aware of them at the time, these are bands I have since mourned....:(

And At the Drive In, if it hadn't produced the Mars Volta.