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?

Bands who won't reunite (probably):

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

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

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

CCR

It’s still the 90s to me maaan

modern lovers

xpost A decade when Adler was in the band for 6 months

Weezer could just do GnR and Oasis songs live and then you wouldn't need GnR or Oasis at all.

its always seems weird to me that people still talk bout guns n roses in 2024. or the 21st century in general. i always forget how much people liked that one album. their claim to legendhood based on a very thin body of work.

I like the Illusions!

The Illusions boiled down would be one really good album. One.

The Illusions boiled down would be one really good album. One.

One vinyl LP. 45 minutes of music max.

I would happily accept this.

I would rather see a Wild Flag reunion than most of these

Slash had a cool hat

I saw Guns and Roses in 1993 and it was pretty cool even though no Izzy and too much Sorum

Then I accidentally saw them last year and I dearly wish I had left that memory alone

Which I guess is another factor for me - did I see this band in their (approximate) prime? Then I probably don’t need to see them in 2024

https://pitchfork.com/news/refused-cancel-reunion-show-after-frontman-has-heart-attack/

Trying to think of who I'd want to see if they did, I'd probably buy a stupidly expensive ticket to see R.E.M. Even without Bill Berry, definitely with. I saw them twice and they were really good, I'd enjoy seeing them again.

I guess the tour for Ragged Glory was sort of a reunion of Neil and Crazy Horse. That was one of my favorite shows.

Well now we have a new litmus test for the original question:

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haha I came to post this here as well. Stipe sounding a little weak vocally and obv whole performance has kind of a 'just kicking shit around' feel to it, but I kind of like that TBH. still very much doubt that this will ever result in even a temporary reformation but who knows.

that CBS interview they did was sad and nice. reminded me of the talking heads on fallon.

if they do some 6-month Sphere show in Vegas...that would be sad. but i can't see them doing that. i hope they don't do that. they seem like pretty chill retirees.

they should just do a weekly residency at a bar somewhere