am i really the only person who doesn't care about reunions/reunitings/new music by old bands, like, at all? is there something wrong with me?

the last pavement tour they were way better as a live band than they had been originally

too bad

?

I prefer them shambling and slightly amateurish

i was seeing... there's this band whose '90s demo cd went viral, and they're touring the us, which the original never would have done. they have fans now and they didn't before. i don't know if i'd see them or if they're good, but people get to _hear_ them live, they get to _play_ for audiences they never would have.
― Kate (rushomancy)

This is Panchiko fwiw!

Keyes otm. The professionalism of current reunion pavement clashes with a key part of their 90s essence. Felt like watching an INSANELY GOOD AND ACCURATE Pavement cover band, fronted by all the original musicians.

This is Panchiko fwiw!

― really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness)

them, yeah

it's weird seeing old stuff that catches on because i listen to it and i'm like "yeah that's alright" and there's tons of other stuff from that era that nobody's heard of and to me, you know, like hazeldine or whatever could go viral at any time. but it won't i guess because they hear and see that stuff in ways that people my age didn't. if i'd heard panchiko in '97 i probably would've said "yeah they're pretty good". maybe it just takes time for something like that to stand out. because i think it does, honestly, it just wouldn't have been obvious in '97 that it stood out.

what about specific lineups within a band's history?

like the cure is still around and great, but what if pearl started back up with them again? i just laughed in excitement at the thought!

they got a lot of fanfare when lol tolhurst returned for a few shows.

do these count as a "reunion"?

the best thing about those Lol shows was seeing a version of the Cure where Robert Smith was the sole guitarist - was really interesting and cool to be able to focus on his playing

definitely a return to the full "classic" lineup (ie Boris and Pearl) would be a big deal

like everybody else around LA I saw Jane's a bunch of time in their original incarnation and they were very good the first time you saw em and after that you increasingly had to ignore that they were a solid ass band whose frontman was steering the ship into cringey waters. at no point in their history however did they "become Led Zep" unless we modify that to "became Led Zep except not good"

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, June 4, 2024 4:31 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I meant "became Led Zep" as in went from weirdo alternative culture band to familiar arena rock cheese

See also the incredibly rapid evolution of Porno for Pyros from horny punkbro philosopher hard rock band to electronic beach hippies.

That first P4P album is an absolute classic to me, and I still couldn't work up the energy to hit the reunion shows, but that's also partially unemployment & residual covid paranoia

Well it was pretty awesome to see Television a number of times.

that beach boys / joni / csny show i saw as a kid in 1974 was technically a csny reunion. that show was formative. the jury's in -- reunions rule!
https://jonimitchell.com/chronology/images/1405_user10675_130608-151205.jpg

i saw CSN in 1984 outside somewhere. and i remember being surprised by how good they sounded. i was expecting something much worse. that was the year of the freebasing gun charge after all.

^saw them around 95, still sounded good then too

I saw the Pink Floyd reunion tour in 1987 and didn't listen to Pink Floyd for something like two years afterwards. Just completely burned me out on their music.

from the nytimes article on that 1974 csny show:

“Everybody's getting along great,” said David Crosby of his group, which has been famed for its periodic tensions. Crosby, Sills, Nash & Young hadn't played together for four years before their reunion this summer.

“We seem to have a two‐month half‐life, and then it blows,” Mr. Crosby said, smiling, this afternoon as he waited during Miss Mitchell's set for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to go on. “Actually there are no hard feelings now. We just want to take a well‐deserved rest, and then we'll go into the studio in November and record an album.”

ha ha! what album?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Highway_(album)

Crosby told journalist Dave Zimmer that Human Highway "would have been the best one, man."

After the tour ended, the band gathered in December 1974 at Nash's basement studio in San Francisco to continue the album. These sessions were marred with disagreements, leading to Stills slicing up Nash's demo tape of Wind On The Water with a razor, to which Nash responded by kicking Stills out of his house.

ha always such dramaz...I guess the drugs will do that

Nash, in his memoir Wild Tales, recalled that "some business, some cocaine thing, went down, and suddenly we weren't talking to each other."

if you haven't read that barney hoskyns Hotel California...maybe don't read it. its so bleak. in that book i learned that Stills was doing so much cocaine that he was starting to have flashbacks to his time as a soldier in Vietnam! !!! that is some heavy coke psychosis.

the only people who come out of that book unscathed are linda ronstadt and jackson browne.

Hotel California BOOK. just to be clear.

They talk about that in Shakey too. Stills even bought a surplus uniform and claimed it has his gear from 'Nam.

Its funny in that book when Tom Waits says about the Eagles “they don’t have cow shit on their boots, just dogshit from laurel canyon”

Is that the book where Linda Ronstadt and Joni Mitchell meet on J. D. Souther's doorstep, one leaving and one arriving?

i want someone to make a biopic that is just joni, james taylor, and warren oates going across the country while they made two-lane blacktop hanging out in warren's trailer. a road movie within the making of a road movie.

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-jesus-lizard-announce-tour-and-first-album-in-26-years/

Well it was pretty awesome to see Television a number of times.

― encino morricone (majorairbro), Wednesday, June 5, 2024 4:49 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It really was!

they got a lot of fanfare when lol tolhurst returned for a few shows.

iirc both nights were sold out before Lol was even announced as guesting on Faith

(also iirc the tickets were sold on a lottery system so effectively all sold out before they even got assigned)

still feel a bit uncomfortable about seeing the jesus lizard the first time round tbh. david yow told a joke about raping a twelve year old and then played the rest of the show with his testicles dangling out of his jeans xps

i saw them in the early 90s - after Liar came out maybe - and they were so amazing. just otherworldly good. they had a good run. i didn't really play Blue much but they never made anything bad. to me, jesus lizard were better than shellac or rapeman and scratch acid were as good as big black.

andy gill produced their last album just to bring things around to reunions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Highway_(album)

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes)

is there a good comp of all the human highway tracks in one place? either floating out there on slsk or, dare i ask, ysi?

still feel a bit uncomfortable about seeing the jesus lizard the first time round tbh. david yow told a joke about raping a twelve year old and then played the rest of the show with his testicles dangling out of his jeans

I recall the age as 9 but I guess your point stands, probably best not to analyse the Jesus Lizard too deeply tbh

still feel a bit uncomfortable about seeing the jesus lizard the first time round tbh. david yow told a joke about raping a twelve year old and then played the rest of the show with his testicles dangling out of his jeans xps

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB)

this is why i always carry a pair of shears around with me

Billy and his brother

there's an "albums that never were" blog. i don't think 'human highway' is still posted but he describes what he did to concoct it.

I've only seen Yow fronting Fipper but that was a fun time, it's nice for the US to have it's own Mark E Smith

surely the American Mark E Smith is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thomas_(musician)?

there's an "albums that never were" blog. i don't think 'human highway' is still posted but he describes what he did to concoct it.

― Thus Sang Freud

wait a second i have that one lol

smdh

thanks :)

surely the American Mark E Smith is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thomas_(musician)?

― famous instagram dog (Shakey Mo Collier)

generous of lyric, jehovah's witness

(that's what Genius says the lyrics are, god knows if it's right)

my neighbor lou is going out on tour with his old duo!

https://preview.redd.it/folk-implosion-tour-leg-2-announced-v0-z65cm38r675d1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0ce660b15d3b551a37c6572dd93e062083efe5a0

the other half is my neighbor! I fret for both of them about the total lack of a break on that first leg, man...that's a lot of days without some time to just stare at the ceiling

This is kinda specific but I bought tickets to see Bikini Kill this coming September. I’m not sure why, as I was not particularly a fan in their heyday (maybe I was slightly too old, although I’m the same age as the band members). I tried listening to some of their music to get jazzed for the show and it’s just not registering with me. But that aside, I was pondering the strangeness of 50-somethings playing that kind of music today, and the audience of presumably a similar age that would go to see it. I mean, how weird is it, and is there a chance I would be blown away by the show?

Yes

I'm fond of the Comus reunion songs (there were only a few) and wished they had done more. Roger sounds like his body had changed a lot but Bobbie's voice hadn't changed even slightly (to my ears).

I haven't liked what I've heard of the recent Pixies much but I just love Frank Black so much (when he's very good) that I've got a strong hankering to hear something new by him. I should probably keep hunting for old b-sides before I try anything new.

there will be a ton of under 30 year olds at Bikini Kill.

The Sundays would still be a big deal, right? wait, they haven't come back have they...