Random Bands Whose Whole Thing Is Hating Each Oth (15 items)

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  (#1) The Beatles

  • Pop music, Rock music, Pop rock

  They may have been at the top of the world in the 1960s, but the Beatles would have rather been anywhere else. Even though people blame Yoko Ono for the band’s demise, she’s hardly the culprit behind the dissolution. Following the group’s sojourn to India to mediate with the Maharishi, the band was more fractured than ever. As ludicrous as that sounds, it resulted in The White Album, one of their most daring efforts. 

  While recording the album, the group constantly exchanged nasty barbs. Starr quit the band for a short while after being teased by other band members, and the introduction of Yoko Ono to the studio did not sit well with anyone other than Lennon.

  The band soldiered on and even booked a date at London’s Roundhouse, where they were meant to play their first show since Candlestick Park in 1966. However, the band was in low spirits during the rehearsal period for what would become Let It Be and Abbey Road, with McCartney pushing the band to write as much as possible. Producer George Martin said, "Paul would be rather overbossy, which the other boys would dislike. But it was the only way of getting together... It was just a general disintegration."

  George Harrison quit the band for real during these sessions, telling the group, "Put an ad in [the papers] and get a few people in." He returned shortly afterwards, but the damage was done and the band unraveled completely before their final two albums were released. 
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  (#12) Kiss

  • Glam metal, Rock music, Heavy metal, Rock and roll, Hard rock

  At the heart of the dispute between the members of Kiss is that only two of the members - Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley - believed they were truly committed to making the band work. Even though the two aforementioned members worked with guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss on their seminal albums, they believed Frehley and Criss weren't pulling their weight. 

  One of the biggest sticking points between the two sides of the group was the fact that Frehley and Criss liked to party and the other two members didn't. While speaking with Guitar World in 2019, Simmons said: 

  Life doesn’t give you three chances. You get one chance. But Ace and Peter have gotten three chances. They were in and out of the band - fired - three times. For [controlled substances], alcohol, bad behavior, being unprofessional... all the clichés are clichés... So the only reason Ace and Peter were let go the first time, and then the second time and then the third time, is that they weren’t carrying their load. You can’t be in a car with two flat tires. It’s not going to go anywhere. It’s your responsibility to change the f*cking tires so that the whole car doesn’t stop. It’s nothing personal. 
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  (#7) The Kinks

  • Music hall, Pop music, Rock music, Garage rock, Folk rock, Protopunk, Country rock, Pop rock, Hard rock

  In spite of their lengthy and wonderful discography, it's easy to feel like history has overlooked the Kinks in favor of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. While those bands may have captured the hearts of America, the one thing they didn't have was a pair of feuding brothers. Ray and Dave Davies were born a couple years apart and they were fighting before they were in a band. 

  According to Dave, one of their first fights was as children when he pummeled Ray. When he went to check on his younger brother, Ray played opossum so he could beat up his older brother. When they actually formed a band, they made amazing music, but they even fought with the members of the band that they weren't related to. 

  The famous bit of infighting occurred in May 1965 when Kinks drummer Mick Avory smashed one of his cymbals over the head of Dave Davies while on stage, knocking him unconscious. Avory fled the venue, thinking he'd offed his bandmate, but Davies only needed 16 stitches. The band's infighting is one of the things that helped get them banned from America for four years in the '60s, when Beatlemania was riding high and they could have taken off. 
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  (#6) The Beach Boys

  • Pop music, Rock music, Psychedelic pop, Traditional pop music, Country rock, Pop rock, Surf rock, Art rock, Baroque pop, Psychedelic rock, Surf music

  There’s always been something magical about the Beach Boys. However, no matter how entrancing their vocal melodies may be, a family band is always going to fall apart. The rivalry at the center of the band was between Brian Wilson and Mike Love. If Wilson was the soul of the group then Love was its mesolimbic pathway, keeping the group motivated and never letting them slow down. 

  After Wilson’s first memoir, Love sued the songwriter for defamation, and that wouldn't be the end of the Love's lawsuits against Wilson. However, Love also harbors anger towards Dennis Wilson, the band's drummer. Not only did Dennis impregnate Love's 17-year-old daughter, but he also slept with Love’s then-wife Suzanne. Most of all, Love blames Brian Wilson for not standing up for him when his conservator kept Love’s name off the publishing rights of their early, most popular songs. He told Rolling Stone: 

  I wrote every last syllable of the words to "California Girls," and when the record came out, it said, "Brian Wilson" - there was no "Mike Love." The only thing I didn’t write was "I wish they all could be California girls." "Surfin’ USA," too, the big shaftola. Same thing with "I Get Around." I came up with "Round, round, round, get around, I get around" and redid Brian’s lyrics. And nowhere was my name mentioned on the record. Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Murry. And, OK, so then what do I say? My only recourse was legal. But if I stick up for myself, Mike’s an a**hole. I mean, Brian wanted to settle, but he was in a conservatorship that wouldn’t let him. I give him credit for that. But I was cheated... by my uncle and my cousin, and I don’t think it’s ever going to be resolved. I mean, how you gonna resolve it?
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  (#14) The Smashing Pumpkins

  • Shoegazing, Gothic rock, Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock, Hard rock

  Depending on who you ask, the Smashing Pumpkins is either a collection of four rockers from Chicago or it's the masterwork of Billy Corgan. The band began in 1988, but the first signs of infighting came in 1996, a year after the release of the landmark Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. When their touring keyboard player passed from substance use while using with drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, the band fired Chamberlain outright - but that was hardly the end of their interpersonal struggles. 

  By 1999, Chamberlain was back in the band, but this time bassist D'arcy Wretzky was on the outs with the band. She quit the group during sessions for Machina/Machines of God, citing problems with Corgan's need to control everything. In 2000, the band broke up after playing a four-hour show in Chicago.

  Four years after the breakup, Corgan claimed it was guitarist James Iha's fault that the Pumpkins broke up, he also said that Wretzky was a "mean-spirited [substance user]." In the 2000s, Corgan had a revolving door line-up of Smashing Pumpkins, and throughout the decade he made allusions to something that Iha did while never coming out and saying what happened. 

  Things seemed to level out with the band around 2016. Suddenly Corgan was speaking with Wretzky again, Jimmy Chamberlain was back in the band, and even Iha was playing various instruments on Pumpkins songs and popping up every now and then to play guitar. However, when Corgan announced that the band was getting back together, he really meant that he was getting back together with Iha and Chamberlain for a reunion tour - and leaving Wretzky out in the cold. The band released a statement saying: 

  James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, and William Corgan haven’t played a show with D’arcy Wretzky for over 18 years. But it’s not for a lack of trying. For despite reports, Ms. Wretzky has repeatedly been invited out to play with the group, participate in demo sessions, or at the very least, meet face-to-face, and in each and every instance she always deferred. We wish her all the best, and look forward to reconnecting with you all very soon.

  Wretzky responded by posting a series of Corgan's text messages about the reunion and adding: 

  If one takes the time to read it carefully, one will notice that as the conversation continues, the roll [sic] i’m offered becomes ever smaller. Finally Billy says that what I deserve is a T-shirt w/my face on it. I spoke with him and asked him if there was any possible way that I’d be able to play bass on the tour and he said no.
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  (#10) Guns N' Roses

  • Glam metal, Blues-rock, Rock music, Heavy metal, Rock and roll, Hard rock

  For a band that definied the late '80s and early '90s hard rock scene, Guns N' Roses really didn't get along. Aside from the heavy substance use, there were four very big personalities in the band, which can be a recipe for disaster. 

  Guitarist Izzy Stradlin drank so much that he couldn't play songs in key, and in order for the band to get through a set, the roadies allegedly had to turn down his onstage volume. However that's not the thing at the heart of the fight between Axl Rose and lead guitarist Slash. According to their ex-manager, the breaking point was Slash working with Michael Jackson. 

  The band's ex-manager Doug Goldstein explained that Slash playing guitar with Jackson at a tribute concert pushed Rose over the edge. He said:

  I told him not to do it because Axl was [harmed] by his father when he was two and he believed the charges against Michael Jackson. So I asked Slash, "How much are you receiving?" and he said, "I’ll just receive a big screen television." When Axl found out Slash was going to play with Michael Jackson and that the payment was a big screen TV, he was devastated. He thought Slash would support him and be against all [wrongdoing]. From Axl’s point of view, that was the only problem. He could ignore the [controlled substances] and the alcohol, but never the child [harm]. 

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