# I'm like Yoko, but without the sex **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-like-yoko-but-without-the-sex/183408 "2003-06-21T13:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-like-yoko-but-without-the-sex/183408/1 "2003-06-21T13:43:56Z")
I was fighting off insomnia the other night by listening to my iPod, browsing through some of my favorite stuff, when I came to a horrible realization: I break up bands. Not by doing performance art and posing nude with one of the songwriters, but _just by becoming a fan_! Here’s a list of my past work, the album that had just come out when I really got into a band: Soul Coughing: _El Oso_ (last album) Pizzicato Five: _Happy End of the World_ (3rd-to-last American release) Chickasaw Mudd Puppies (an Athens, GA band): _8 Track Stomp_ (last album; they announced a “hiatus” less than a week after the first time I saw them in concert) Emergency Broadcast Network: _Telecommunication Breakdown_ (last album) Throwing Muses: _The Real Ramona_ (last album with Tanya Donnelly; I think they broke up, right?) The Pogues: _Hell’s Ditch_ (last album before Shane MacGowan left) Pixies: _Trompe Le Monde_ (last album) The Breeders: _Last Splash_ Donkey (an Atlanta, GA swing band): Ten-Cent Freaks (major line-up and format change within months after the first time I saw them in concert) Hothouse Flowers: _Home_ (next to last, I think) The Waterboys: _Room to Roam_ (last, I think) The B-52’s: _Cosmic Thing_ The list goes on and on. Does anyone else have a similar power? And before anyone asks: I don’t do requests. Yes, I have tried becoming a fan of bands like The Backstreet Boys and N\*Sync and Matchbox 20, but it just doesn’t work.