The Band Minus the Face: Difference between revisions

== Straight Examples ==

* By 1970, after [[The Monkees (Music)|The Monkees]]' TV series had been canceled ''and'' both Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork (the only members of the band who were actual musicians) had left, the band's future looked bleak. However, Saturday morning reruns of the show did well enough that the two remaining members, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, made one more album--''Changes'', a return to the bubblegum pop of the group's earliest hits, only not as good. Despite songs from ''Changes'' being inserted into the existing reruns, the LP didn't even make the Billboard Top 200 album chart on its initial release, and [[The Monkees]] were finished until their successful 20th anniversary reunion in 1986. When ''Changes'' (along with the rest of [[The Monkees]]' catalogue) was subsequently reissued, it finally made the charts, peaking at #152.

** In Yule's defense, ''Squeeze'' is only '''in''' the VU discography because of [[Executive Meddling]]. He wanted to release it as a solo album and record a Velvets album with the touring band, but couldn't get the budget.

* After Jim Morrison died, the remaining [[The Doors (Music)|Doors]] recorded two more albums, ''Other Voices'' and ''Full Circle''. These albums have been largely forgotten and, unlike the rest of the band's often-reissued catalog, are available on CD only as European semi-bootlegs.

** Some fans warmed up to the Biafra-less DK after they learned how much money he stole from the rest of the band. Not cool (or punk), Jello.

** It isn't confirmed which story (the one that Ray and the gang tell, and the one Jello tells) is actually true. Due to his charisma and consistent views, Jello's side of it tends to be believed more often than not.

* Wall of Voodoo's vocalist, Stan Ridgway, and percussionist Joe Nanni, quit the band after backstage trouble at the 1983 US Festival. Undeterred, the remaining members, signed up a new vocalist in Andy Prieboy, and a drummer to put out two more albums, plus a live disc.

** To be fair, the band's second best selling single, "Far Side of Crazy" was sung by Prieboy. In Australia, where "Far Side of Crazy" outsold "Mexican Radio", Prieboy is regarded as the band's face and Ridgway is seen as [[The Pete Best]].

* The Pogues continued for a few years after firing lead singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, who was temporarily replaced by Joe Strummer of [[The Clash]] before the band settled on co-founder Spider Stacy as their new lead singer. Their first post-MacGowan album, 1993's ''Waiting for Herb'' produced one of their biggest hits, "Tuesday Morning", but the album itself was savaged by critics and suffered poor sales. The band called it quits after their next album 1996's ''Pogue Mahone'' fared worse critically and sales-wise, and did not reunite until the members patched things up with MacGowan in 2001.

* Despite the fact that early Gangsta Rap group N.W.A managed to maintain a commercially and critical successful career after the departure of Ice Cube, the group fell apart after the departure of Dr. Dre and The D.O.C. due to the fact that they were barely being payed.

* Indie pop girl group The Pipettes has seen many lineup changes: the band's most successful lineup of Rebecca "RiotBecki" Stephens, Rose Elinor Dougall and Gwenno Saunders is the second lineup. Saunders replaced Julia Laird-Clowes, who left to become the singer and keyboardist for the indie band The Indelicates. After the release of their popular 2006 debut ''We Are the Pipettes'', Stephens and Dougall left the band, with Dougall going onto a critically acclaimed solo career. Saunders and Monster Bobby (the group's co-creator and leader of their backing band) continued the group, recruiting replacements that ''also'' departed soon afterwards. The group's second album, ''Earth vs. Pipettes'' only features Saunders and her sister Ani in the lineup, and it tanked in both sales and critical reception.

* When [[Alice Cooper (Music)|Alice Cooper]] transitioned from being a band to being a solo act, the original members of the band other than Alice Cooper himself (along with an additional guitarist\vocalist and keyboardist) became Billion Dollar Babies. Their lone album, 1977's ''Battle Axe'', didn't do well critically or commercially, and now it's mostly known as a footnote to Alice Cooper's career.

== Aversions ==

* After [[Red Hot Chili Peppers (Music)|Red Hot Chili Peppers]]' guitarist, Hillel Slovak, died, the band went through a lot of effort to replace him. The eventual replacement, John Frusciante, helped turn the band into a mainstream success and is currently regarded as one of the 20 best guitarists of all time. Whether or not RHCP will continue this trend with new guitarist, Josh Klinghoffer, remains to be seen.

* [[Pink Floyd (Music)|Pink Floyd]] has averted this trope twice. Roger Waters took over from Syd Barrett, and David Gilmour took over from Waters, but the band's records have just kept on selling.

** It helps that Waters' replacement, veteran bassist Guy Pratt, is proficient enough to play anything Roger ever could have. Pratt also did solid work on the band's post-Waters albums, ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason'' and ''The Division Bell.'' Not that this was going to be a huge issue: Dave Gilmour is the only stand-out musician in the band, few bassists distinguish themselves by bass-playing alone, and, well... Roger got bass because he didn't impress as lead (and was looking at drums for a while).

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