Which current Rock/Pop/Rap dinosaurs should call it a day and retire gracefully?

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I'd like to nominate Garbage, Oasis and New Order.

― metalmickey, Monday, 23 May 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, and Sonic Youth.

― metalmickey, Monday, 23 May 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Much as I hate to say it, it may be time for KRS1 to pack it in. It might even be too late for that retire gracefully stuff.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Most egregious culprits:
Rock: rollin' motherfuckin' stones
rap: will smith/ll cool j
Meanwhile, the fall and busta rhymes are still goin'!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want Busta to pack it in at all.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

new order and sonic youth?!?!?!?! that's crazy talk.

i nominate the hold steady.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck
Ice Cube
Beastie Boys
Nas
Kool Keith
Dead Prez

G-Unit should die in a plane crash.

― High Ranking Militants, Monday, 23 May 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

None should. Not even the ones I dislike. I see no reason why people should pack it just because they are "old". Good music is about timelessness, good music works regardless of any kind of sociological context. Good music is good because of the musical qualities within itself, and thus, it doesn't matter if it gets "old" because it never does.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Rappers: Once you act, you can't come back.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yabbutt - does what Will Smith and Ice Cube do really qualify as acting?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice Cube, Ice T, Big Willie, LL.... you may have a point there!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

U2.
REM (although reunion tours every five or so years are permissible).

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Will Smith and Ice Cube's singing and acting are not timeless gems, and I doubt anyone will really miss them.

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Rather than enforced retirement, bands or artists older than, say, 10 years should be forced to write and record all future albums on mescaline in a studio in Antarctica where their food supply is slowly reduced day by day. Just to make things fresh.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

R.E.M.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Aerosmith

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Finding the mescaline would be near impossible from what a friend of mine says.

That's surely help the retirement along.

(not that I've ever looked or anything...)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't find Acid any more either. It make me sad.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Madonna

― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm disqualifying this nomination on technical grounds:
U2 should in fact have called it a day and retired gracefully immediately following the Pop Mart tour.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Henry Rollins

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Lou Reed
Red Hot Chilis .. PLEASE!

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I demand respect for Ice Cube's acting/directing. Friday, Barbershop, 3 Kings to thread....

― deej., Monday, 23 May 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

In the late 90s, it seemed as U2 might as well have called it a day. Their last two albums suggest it's good they didn't.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

In the late 90s, it seemed as U2 might as well have called it a day.
This was also true circa Rattle & Hum, but they rose from the ashes to prove the doubters (myself included) wrong.

Their last two albums suggest it's good they didn't.
My subsumption into the hivemind is clearly complete, as I have no idea what Geir is talking about.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

No Doubt. They've been around longer than Garbage. Or have they already packed it in?

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

REM thirded [sniffles]. Yo La Tengo.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

every band in the world should break up right now. also, no solo projects/new bands allowed. give everybody a damn rest.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"I demand respect for Ice Cube's acting/directing. Friday, Barbershop, 3 Kings to thread...."

I thought this said Barbershop 3 and I was trying to figure out if it was straight to video or something. I noticed you didn't mention numerous ahem failures Higher Learning, Anaconda, XXX 2, and that stupid looking road trip movie (or the AWESOME Ghosts of Mars either.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yet did not a wise man once say it's better to burn out than slide quietly into celebrated mediocrity, releasing album after tasteful album that all the major pubs dutifully if somewhat dully acknowledge as your finest since Blood On The Tracks? (Stipey, are you listening?)

Or was that Joe Elliot in "Rock Of Ages" (still rollin'! still rollin'!)?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young was not wise when he said that. Not at all. I despise this youth rebellion thing in popular music. It just isn't right, and it doesn't do music any good. Hayden, Bach and Handel all did their best work towards the end of their lives.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Burn Out vs. Fade Away?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

franz ferdinand

― rizzx (rizzx), Monday, 23 May 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Red Hot CPs seconded
Courtney Love
Everclear
Red Hot CPs thirded

― yr mom (yr mom), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, I had no idea Everclear hadn't called it a day and retired gracefully.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

McCartney & Lennon seemed to do their best work while still fairly young though Geir n'est pas

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, but it makes me sick that people can honestly call the last two U2 albums "good" when compared to The Joshua Tree or War or The Unforgettable Fire. They are a fucking U2 cover band at this point.

Here's a question: will Radiohead bow out gracefully or continue to make albums until they fade into insignificance?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rolling Stones
U2
New Order
Madonna
all seconded

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

tool.

u2, stones, rem, aerosmith, madonna, courtney, everclear all seconded.

there is no way that RCP, whenever they all it quits will do

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Iggy Pop?

Red Hot Chili Peppers
U2

Should be dropped from a great height rather than retire gracefully.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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