so my girlfriend and i recently broke up. she says we can't be creative together anymore as a result.

so i am trying to think of exes in bands or other arts together.

jack and meg white?
janet weiss and mr. quasi?
recently, robert scheidner and the drummer girl? i forget names.

anyone help?

The girl and one of the guys from No Doubt?

ah yes. the bassist. he was a looker. so what's the deal with no doubt this days, anyway?

They ceased being relevant to me a long time ago. The only album of theirs I ever liked was Return of Saturn (I think that was the name) which, if I'm not mistaken, was about the break-up of the ex-lovers.

Eurythmics
Parker & Lily
everybody in Fleetwood Mac

Kate Radley and Jason Pierce (Spiritualized)

Mike Watt and Kira Roessler (assumed)

Fleetwood Mac has to be the ultimate example.

No Doubt is working on a new album.

Boy George and John (?) the drummer from Culture Club!

Tenac ious D

James and D'arcy from the Pumpkins.

L'Altra

The 1900s have exes as members.

Veruca Salt. Love triangle between Louise, Nina, and the drummer. That's the legend, anyway.

Or Dave Grohl. I heard thats why they broke up.

this one is debatable. their best album is about their breakup and while she does play on it, she left the band immediately after it was complete. i don't even think she toured behind it (i should know, saw them on that tour...)

The Go-Betweens made their best album (IMHO), 16 Lovers Lane, while one of the main songwriters (Grant McLennan) was involved with one band member, and the other main songwiter (Robert Forster) had just broken up with the band's drummer IIRC.

Of course, they broke up after that album and didn't make another for a decade and when they did the two females had been replaced by Sleater-Kinney, but they were still able to function briefly!

superchunk AND Merge Records.

mac and laura

Deborah Harry and pretty much everyone in Blondie.



Everyone in Twisted Sceptre.
Everyone in Eagles.

The Libertines, The Smiths.

husker du?

Yeah, see. Your band was no good anyway.

X - John and Exene

Richard & Linda Thompson?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'assumed', but they were married for eight years, and still work together.
EDIT



So I've heard.

I meant it's assumed that they are ex-lovers, based on things watt says....

Elysian Fields?

nobody's mentioned ABBA

Stars.
Sleater-Kinney.
Silversun Pickups.

If this was the Mr. Show round in the SOMB trivia bowl, I would be crushing you right now.

I think we've filled the Wyckyd Sceptre reference quota for the month.

I just remembered that buttplug called "The Jazz Singer" and had to refrain from laughing out loud at work just now.

prince and everyone in the revolution.
corin/carrie from sk. they (as a band) lasted many yrs afterwards.
did amanda and whatshisname from the dresden dolls breakup yet?
michelle philips and the other guy from the mamas and papas who wasn't her husband.

The Beatles in 1961.

You could've just have easily have said, "I am King Shit of Fuck Mountain."

Why would you fuck

with ME??????!!!!

Eric's Trip

ET is always my favourite completely heartbreaking break-up story. So, you have this band where the two singers (Rick and Julie) are dating for years. The break up then proceed to make an album. While Julie tends to sing and write songs about said break-up, Rick does the same, but also starts writing about his new girlfriend, even going so far as to name the album "Love Tara" after his new girlfriend Tara S'Apart (Great name, eh?). So, you have Julie Doiron singing songs written by her ex-lover about his new lover. That's got to be as bad as it gets, no?

I can't quite put my reaction to this into words, but I will say that I wouldn't want to try to logically convince an ex to "stay in the band (or whichever artistic collaboration you're referring to)" by using some of these wonderful and heartbreaking examples. Also, it just sounds like a recipe for more pain and sadness if you ask me.


Killer thread, though.

good god, that's awful!

this why that album is so fucking good.

Throbbing Gristle

I guess this only works if they still want to fuck each other... otherwise, completely aggravating.

Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal (probably the least famous dude to ever have several extremely famous songs written about him)
Mark E. Smith and Brix

Let's not forget Feist and Kevin Drew. (Does that count??)
The relationship definitely had more influence on Feist's records than Broken Social Scene's but still...

Bobby Wratten and Annamari Davies in Trembling Blue Stars
TBS' debut Her Handwriting is pretty much all about the end of their relationship, but Annamari is still singing on their albums.

And speaking of BSS-related relationships...
Jimmy Shaw and Emily Haines in Metric

No, they're a recent couple, still together.


You must be thinking of Chris Murphy from Sloan. That's who a lot of Let It Die was about.

My understanding is that the band's name is what he called her eyes.

Ouch.

word to yancy's point. i totally thought kevin drew and feist were still together.

Now, didn't Murphy swing both ways and have a relationship with Andrew Whiteman from Apostle of Hustle as well? So the rumor goes...