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Are your favourite bands defunct?/alternative recommendation thread

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Thrillho:
Okay, rather than make two threads, I'm combining two.

The first thread is just curiosity on my part - how many of your favourite bands still exist? Not as in, are still alive, as in are still recording/touring, and reformations count.

Looking at my list, artists that still exist/reformed/are active:
Ryan Adams
Beastie Boys
Billy Talent
BRMC
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Bob Dylan
Eminem (working on a new album)
Gallows
Glassjaw
Green Day
Hard Fi
Hell Is For Heroes
Hundred Reasons (though they are sans label)
Jacob's Stories
The Mars Volta
The MC5 (for what it's worth, the two most important members are dead)
Nine Inch Nails
Oasis
Outkast
Paramore
Plan B

Artists that are on hiatus/broken up/dead/inactive:
blink-182
Blur
Dr. Dre (has been 'working on' Detox for something like eight years)
Faith No More
Fony
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hope of the States
Joy Division/New Order
Mansun
NWA
Notorious BIG
Pink Floyd

Okay, that's blatantly too many. The point is, about half of my favourite artists are inactive, even modern ones that I got into as they debuted. That's depressing, does anyone else find a similar trend?

The other reason I started this thread was for recommendations. And not in the completely general 'LOL I LIKE THESE GUYS WHO SHOULD I LIKE?' way. I mean, what should I buy by these artists:
Poison The Well
Thrice - I'm interested in their concept double album based on the elements but it seems very pricey, and is it a good place to start with a four-EP collection???
Led Zeppelin - Keeping in mind, I'm looking to only ever buy ONE release by Led Zep. I like 'Kashmir' and 'No Quarter.' Recommend me a Best Of.
Nas

Go for it.

Funk Thompson:
Most of my favorite artists are still touring, here is a few of those not:

Frank Zappa (Zappa Plays Zappa is an acceptable substitute given that I never saw the real thing live.)
Faith No More (Mike Patton is still around, but I don't like his latter material / bands / projects nearly as much.)
Talking Heads (David Byrne solo work is good, but it is not Talking Heads.)
Pink Floyd

Christophe:
Hey, Grown Backwards is so awesome.

Anyway, a list of bands that I like that have kicked the bucket:

June of 44
Rodan
Silkworm
Archers of Loaf
Vitreous Humor
Blur
Elliott Smith
Mister Metaphor (I posted one of their EPs on the mediafire thread)
The Dismemberment Plan
Chisel
Hum
Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes
Hefner
Fugazi (for all intents and purposes)
Pavement
Polvo oops.
Q and Not U
Unwound
Talking Heads
Shiner
Refused
McLusky
Joy Division
The Jam
Husker Du
Boys Life
Josef K

Note that the majority of this list is probably the majority of the music I actually listen to.

Xaris3514:
For me, very few bands I listen to are defunct, but a few are:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Jimi Hendrix
System of a Down
Conception
Pantera
Liquid Tension Experiment

Durin:
Going off my somewhat small collection here. I just opened up my respective music player and went off bands I still like (not absolute favorites) and had full CDs by. So a fair share of my music collection isn't on this list.

Still around:
Arctic Monkeys
Daft Punk
Explosions in the Sky
Foo Fighters
The Killers
Muse
Oceansize
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Solids
Tool
Weezer
White Stripes

Defunct/Hiatus:
Blink 182
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
Pink Floyd
Queen
System of a Down


To give you a reccomendation for Led Zeppelin. Mothership is a pretty decent compilation. This is in the terms that I haven't listened to everything they've recorded and I enjoyed this. I'm sure someone with more expertise will come along soon.

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