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10 Artists That Need To Quit Making Music!

THE HIGH WATER MARK HAS ALREADY BEEN REACHED!
1Viet Cong
Viet Cong

Viet Cong never should have existed in the first place, Public Strain is almost a perfect album. Women even had the perfect ending: The brothers fight on stage, the one guitarist dies, the younger brother runs off and becomes a drag queen. It's just too good to be ruined by "Viet Cong? You mean those guys from Women?"
2Mac DeMarco
Salad Days

Mac trying to be introspective on Salad Days was like watching a 100 pound man wade around in a XXL shirt, it just didn't fit. It reminds me why he will never release a classic album, he just doesn't have the depth. 2 probably should have been his last album.
3Thee Oh Sees
Mutilator Defeated At Last

Special Entry: John Dwyer can keep making music if it is soft acoustic music, but anything involving a fuzz pedal, two drummers or that stupid acrylic guitar is off limits. See: Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion.
4Chance the Rapper
Acid Rap

Watching Chance go fame grab mode after this album got hype was depressing. For some reason there's something far more respectable about someone who wants to be poor their entire life. Jeff Magnum had the right idea.
5Kayo Dot
Coffins on Io

Toby Driver has seemed to adopt this whole "It's not selling out if I'm doing what I want" ethos, now granted that's true, but sometimes it'd probably be better to just not make music than do what you want to do. Kayo Dot always delivered something interesting, I was always excited to hear something I hadn't heard before. That ended after Coyote, which probably should have ended the band as well.
6Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind

People will probably see this entry and label me a "troll" or some other buzzword that has no meaning, but either way, at a certain point you're too old to rock n roll. I mean, what does Converge even have to be angry at anymore? "OH NO WE'RE LIVING OFF OF OUR MUSIC!!!!!!". There's a point where the anger doesn't exist anymore and the aggression just becomes sterile.
7Death Grips
The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death

How many times has this band faked a breakup? The anti-marketing schemes were cute at first, they garnered attention, now it's just become passe and predictable. It's just to easy to be apathetic towards bands doing the same tricks (in every aspect of their music) over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
8Tyler, the Creator
Cherry Bomb

In the modern age when you've lost to left-wing social justice warriors and the media that backs them you're already swirling the drain. He might as well just pull the plug while it's him doing it. Besides his whole gimmick isn't even fun anymore.
9Radiohead
The King of Limbs

Radiohead are a very special band because they are one of the few bands that have actually managed to beat their breakthrough album, that's a lofty feat. You see albums are like stories, few are articulate, tense and well timed. Some are just little amusements we use to get between the good ones. Most are just background noise we drown out because they're just not worth hearing. Radiohead is allowed to ramble and blab on because people hope and wish and dream that maybe one day they'll tell a story worth hearing. "Shush, it's okay, don't speak, you've served us well Radiohead, but your best stories are already behind you"
10Iron Maiden
The Book of Souls

This one is a lot more obvious than the others, but I saw my musician friend's Dad post about this album on Facebook and couldn't resist. Two things, A) This band should have quit after Paul Di'Anno left the band. B) If for whatever reason you have Bruce's dick in your mouth, they should have certainly quit before that horrendous piece of shit video game came out (shoutouts to anyone who has ever played it). I admit bands of yesteryear has a longer shelf life, culture moved a lot slower back then, it was more difficult to become overexposed to the personalities in music, so they probably would be able to run the grind longer than anyone else on this list. That being said, there is nothing whimsical about being 60 years old and still holding up the devil horns. That alone repulsed me to the idea of ever joining the "metalhead 4 life" club.
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