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?

that feels like a different category of albums to me, albums from bands who knew they were breaking up and weren't gonna tour again, so not only is everyone more assertive and willing to get weird it also means it's now or never for all the things they wanted to do but hadn't yet

something like Refused's Shape of Punk to Come or ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. The Beatles somehow recorded 4 LP's worth of this sort of material and most of it is really good

as stated before the whole point of these things as a fan is to see the people who actually played and performed on the albums you love do it in person which is always a special thing.


but there is zero chance Oasis would do this with the ppl that played on those first two albums, is the point being made

That was the case with Guns n Roses too, until it wasn’t

The Beatles didn't invent the reunion but they did invent the breakup

Wasn't there a thread for reunions that could still happen but probably won't? Who else is there, besides Oasis? Talking Heads, I guess.

Spacemen 3

The Jam

Or, reunions that happened once but that will probably never happen again - the Sex Pistols

Sonic Youth

REM

The Sundays would be big though, right? all kinds of people would want to see them. young and old. both my kids love The Sundays. so many Gen X peoples would want tickets.

I don't know who any of the members are though.

Bands who won't reunite (probably):

Pink Floyd (w/ Waters)
The Smiths
New Order
Journey (w/ Perry)

Cocteau Twins
Galaxie 500

The Field Mice

Lush a good bet to join that list at this point.

Also, Chicago (w/ Cetera)

Uncle Tupelo, I s'pose

re: The Sundays

In an interview with the C86 Show Podcast released on August 18, 2020, Patrick Hannan revealed that Wheeler and Gavurin had "never stopped making music" and that he had played drums on a number of their tracks. Hannan added that these recordings may never be released.

Uncle Tupelo probably doesn’t make sense because (among other reasons) Tweedy can make more money continuing to tour Wilco. That’s one of the only reunions I’d be in queue the morning of ticket sales to see, can’t stand Wilco though.

Bands who won't reunite (probably):

Pink Floyd (w/ Waters)
The Smiths
New Order
Journey (w/ Perry)

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did steve perry do something

morrissey is a racist

i'm not sure how roger waters turned palestinian liberation into stanning putin, but he did. i don't know. also, one of the people who can't manage to support palestine without being anti-semitic about it. i fucking hate it when people do that. he and gilmour were getting along for a bit but gilmour is _not_ on good terms with waters now because of the whole "anti-semitism" thing. also rick wright is dead, so what's the fucking point?

i don't know. i like a lot of oldies, like a lot of reunion music, but aside from some, like, folksingers, i can't think of people from the '60s i'd want to see live.

Journey is super successful touring with their new vocalist. I'm not sure bringing Perry back would help them much. Also, he seems like he has problems with touring.

The Smiths are unlikely to reunite regardless of Morrissey's political views unless someone manages to implement necromancy

there is no way the dead kennedys will play with jello again
keith or henry will not play with greg ginn again

ok maybe keith would

I think Perry owns the Journey name so they have to pay him a royalty to use it? Something like that, sounds like a bad scene (esp. because he's not even an original member). In short, they can't stand each other.

I'd have said Talking Heads until this past year, but they keep doing talks (I think there is another one coming up!), so I guess at this point now I wouldn't be surprised, but I wouldn't count on it either.

I don't think Jon Anderson will ever be back with Steve Howe in Yes at this point either.

Black Flag

Why Galaxie 500 in particular? I know they've said they don't want to reunite, but so has every other band.

but there is zero chance Oasis would do this with the ppl that played on those first two albums, is the point being made

im p sure you'd only need the brothers g to make a gajillion dollars and call it a reunion tour. they aint stupid. they will do it soon.

AFAICT Damon and Naomi still detest Dean Wareham over how he split up the band.

Cocteau Twins I would love ! But there’s zero chance unfortunately…

Wareham also has plenty of other fruitful artistic endeavours at this point and really doesn't need a Galaxie 500 reunion

Liz Fraser's voice is basically shot, right? I watched a few youtubes of her recent shows with Massive Attack and she was half singing, half speaking the words to Song to the Siren. I don't think she could do a whole Cocteau Twins show even if she (and the others) wanted to.

Really ? I thought her voice was still great on her Sun’s Signature project from a couple of years ago. No idea about live shows though

I would love to see Flash and Melle Mel mend their fences and do some shows, but Kidd Creole is still in jail and Cowboy died in the '90s

she sounded great when I saw her with Massive Attack a few years ago

would've been super cool to see the 5-piece Genesis reunite for some shows back in like '07

similarly I thought a reformed YMO could've come up with something really cool back when they were doing shows under the HASYMO name, maybe the only reunion I can think of where they didn't have a new album out but still changed their sound radically. it's too bad because Hosono and Takahashi were doing some great stuff together at the time, so I'm guessing that Sakamoto wasn't really compatible with them anymore

I don’t really get the point of an Oasis reunion (if one likes them): Liam still tours and sings oasis songs (I think !). What would the difference be with Noel playing basic power chords on the side of the stage instead of whoever plays with Liam ?

presumably you wouldn't have to listen to their awful solo material

I would be excited for a Kenickie reunion

That was the case with Guns n Roses too, until it wasn’t

Guns n Roses have never done this, afaik

and if you think Oasis are going to play stadiums with Tony McCarrol on drums…

Huh? They've played reunion shows with all the original members except Izzy--even had Steven Adler for a few shows.

yeah GnR reunited some time ago

guessing he's referring to the omission of Izzy.

the reunion show I went to was incredible

G'n'R didn't even have its original line-up on their 2nd album, so I think Axl, Slash, Duff counts as a reunion.

have to admit, i think the Madness reunion has gone rather well, both for the fans, and the band.

Gnr without Steven ain’t gnr

Matt Sorum is an emotionless robot

that's what his gf says

Sorum left the band in the '90s. They got Frank Ferrer now

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