Quit While You’re Ahead

A short while ago, someone wearing a hat did a blog on the Guardian webpage espousing the fact that bands should split up sooner.

Instead of hanging around to go mouldy, more bands should bow out in a blaze of glory

The article itself is fairly silly, but the author makes a good point. Don’t continue to do something… quit while you’re at the top of your game!

The problem is, that when you are on the top of your game, quitting is the last thing on your mind. You think this wonderful thing can last forever, but you know deep down that it can’t so you keep going on until you sink into mediocrity.  I’ve often considered jacking in this blog and starting again, but the problem is that I don’t feel like I’ve ever got started yet. I’m not at the top of my game yet.

In any discussion of “quitting while you’re ahead” Arthur Rimbaud has to be mentioned. Quit writing poems, at 21, got shot in the wrist, lived in Ethopia and died at 37. Apart from the being shot and the dying at 37, I can live with that.

Much worse than bands daring to release more than one album though, is sequels.

Is there ever a sequel that was worth existing?