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.