Low. Alan Sparhawk has a couple of side projects.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
Zak Sally left to concentrate on his side projects (cartooning and publishing / running a printing press by hand) tbf, possibly when he got the Coconino deal
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
Sonic Youth
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
Jefferson Airplane (Hot Tuna)Yo La Tengo
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:22 (four years ago) link
The Pixies (The Breeders)?
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link
thought abt Pixies, but couldn’t discount that Frank split them out of grumpiness re Breeders
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
The Go-Betweens don't really count either as they did officially break up before pursuing other projects, but it's kinda like the two songwriters' solo experiences confirmed for them that they were meant to be together. Post-hiatus material was apparently their most commercially successful in some markets.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
Dave Davies released a couple while The Kinks remained a going concern.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
Did Suicide officially break up when Vega and Rev started doing their own things or was there just a long opening in their schedule?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 04:42 (four years ago) link
Wu-Tang Clan
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
^ already mentioned
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 07:29 (four years ago) link
There's been another side project since the last mention
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 07:59 (four years ago) link
people have been saying that Father of The Bride sounds like an Ezra Koening solo album, but I wonder how inclined I'd have been to listen to it had it been marketed and released as such. I think there's often an expectation with a solo album that it will either be a stripped back acoustic thing, a self-indulgent thing, an MOR pop thing, or simply a 'sounds like the band but not as good thing'
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 08:25 (four years ago) link
it doesn't particularly sound like one to me but the impression i've gotten is that the other two members of the band didn't have that much to do with the recording or songwriting this time so i understand people calling it an ezra solo album
― ufo, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 09:14 (four years ago) link
both sam prekop and archer prewitt have done solo records while also doing sea and cake stuff. and then there's all of john mcentire's various endeavors.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
I shall steal the obvious answer of Tom Tom Club
As well as David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel and Jerry Harrison's The Red and the Black, all of which came out in 1981.
On their 2nd post-Remain in Light (and pre-Speaking in Tongues) tour in 1982, they had 4 Byrne and 1 Harrison solo songs in the set:
Psycho KillerLove -> Building on FireCitiesBig Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) (David Byrne)Once in a LifetimeMindMy Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks) (David Byrne)Slink (Jerry Harrison)Big Business (David Byrne) / I ZimbraSwampHouses in MotionWhat a Day That Was (David Byrne)Life During WartimeTake Me to the RiverCrosseyed and Painless
"Genius of Love" didn't get added to the set until the Speaking in Tongues tour.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 05:57 (four years ago) link
^ surely Gold Class level of this phenomenon, when the 'main' band performs side-project material.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 06:25 (four years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac has done that a couple of times--Buckingham doing a solo acoustic "Go Insane" or the Buckinghamless '90s band doing "Stand Back."
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 06:30 (four years ago) link
The Church have released a lot of albums but I think there's even more Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, & Marty Willson-Piper solo albums out there.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:30 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, great example. Kilbey's really blown this out with actual dozens of demos album and whatnot on Bandcamp, but I bet you're right just going on physical releases too.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
struggling to see how Pop Will Eat Itself fit this tbh
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
one of them did a solo album and nobody split the band up over it
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
I dunno if it counts because all 3 were solo artists before the band started but Yellow Magic Orchestra had quite a lot going on through their run
Sakamoto released B-2 Unit & Left Handed Dream, plus the score to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. I think he toured LHD too but I'm not sure about that.
Takahashi had three pretty successful solo albums and toured a couple times.
Hosono only had one solo album during this period (Philharmony) but he was plenty busy as a producer and songwriter, getting involved with Miharu Koshi, Jun Togawa, and a dozen others
Of course there's also all the YEN Records stuff, most of which HH and/or YT would appear on in some capacity.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
xp
one of them did a solo album, quit the band less than a year later then the band split up completely the year after that!
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
I mean one of the criteria is the solo album member remains in the band, for a start. plus the band put out its final studio album 2 months after the solo album, and the only thing they released after that was a remix album
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
He recorded it about two years earlier though AIUI, in the wake of the bloopy ambient Part Man Part Machine remix he did on the Get The Girl CD. Then he stayed in the band, wrote so much of the next album that for the first time in their history he requested a tiny note saying who'd written the lyrics for how many songs, recorded and released the album, toured it around the world for a year, then - again AIUI - suddenly left because he had unexpectedly become a single or shared-custody dad and had to get a day job that enabled him to work during school hours only.
He wasn't kicked out bcz anyone was jealous of his massive success with a barely-distributed album of bloops and splashes, and he didn't make another record himself for over a decade (when he put out some moderately terrible laptop nu-metal MP3s). think there's even more Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, & Marty Willson-Piper solo albums out there
I figured this out btw and it's bonkers
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
fair enough I guess the band didn't split up directly because of his solo album (although Wikipedia says he left to focus on his solo project, but that's Wikipedia, and there is no citation), but they split up anyway so not exactly a continuing success
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
yeah, they split up because the remaining other singer had writer's block and threw tantrums when the drummer kept bringing in fully-written instrumentals. so they might have stuck it out if Gra hadn't irresponsibly chosen to go and feed and clothe and raise a child - and with a US label now putting loads of support behind them bcz Reznor asked, they prob would have been a continuing success - but it all worked out pretty well for the dude with writer's block in the end.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
I thought it was more normal to have solo albums that don't cause a split?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 17 January 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
doesn't the My Morning Jacket guy have a bunch of solo albums?
the Parquet Courts guys too
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 January 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
Animal Collective
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 January 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
Big Thief. (I read that sometimes Adrianne will do a solo set at a Big Thief show, and the other guys will set down their instruments and watch.)
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Friday, 17 January 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
course if it's true there was a racist showing their ass in the front row, pretty weak if nobody defended the dude from it
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 January 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
(xp - wtf)
Guitarist Buck Meek also released a solo album in 2018; and somehow has time to fit in a touring side thing, despite belonging to a constantly touring "main band"(!)
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Friday, 17 January 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link