The Official Max Accolades Tribute Thread

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Use this thread to pay homage/respect/share the love bands you loved/love that split up or are no longer making music for reasons other than old age and death.

I miss Bear vs Shark (2001-2005). Underrated post-hardcore outfit that "enjoyed" a career as explosive as their tunes. Two excellent albums in four years before splitting up because of road and tour tensions. Interesting dynamics, layered instrumentalism, raw yet melodic vocals, they were making post-hardcore enjoyable right around the time all the Thursday clones sprang forth to conquer, and then disappeared.



Also, snaps for The Dismemberment Plan (1993-2003). Tremendously enjoyable indie rock, labelled by Pitchfork as "the fathers of the 1990s-2000s dance-punk movement" but really just a damn good time. Renowned for their live shows which often saw much of the audience dancing on stage with them. Ironic hipsters before being ironic hipsters was cool. Groundhog Day reference. Bonus.

Check out how much the audience loves the D-Plan:



You see that shit on produced music videos, where everybody's dancing with the band, and you're like "that never happens", but the D-Plan goddamned made it happen. All the time.

At the Drive-In (1993-2001), who broke up in tumultuous circumstances a month after their controversial (and fucking awesome) Big Day Out performance, is a wary addition to this list. Because on the one hand, if they'd never broken up, we would never have been given the Mars Volta, and I arguably like the Volta more now than ATDI, but there was a time when the angry little man in me dug the shit out of this band because of their seemingly boundless energy and ferocity and hair. And badass songs.



One of the earliest bands I really, really "got into" ever was Ben Folds Five (1993-2000). Folds' later material is great and all, but the dynamic of the three members of the Five eclipses it effortlessly. Their sound, a unique yet familiar dabbling of indie light rock or piano indie pop or whatever you want to call it, it is some of the most widely appealing and enjoyable independent music of its time. I have this live DVD of them; they are simply tremendous. Most of YouTube appears to have it, as well:





To quote my apparent new mancrush and stalking victim Jamstar, OKURTURN.