Longest gaps between studio albums

can't wait for 'fate is only thrice' to drop in 2059
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, September 3, 2021 9:53 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

some of these probably shouldn't count - the Sea Nymphs album was recorded alongside the first one, and The Garden by Silver Apples was mostly tracks from a 3rd LP by the original band that was scrapped because they got sued. though Silver Apples do have a comeback album called Beacon, and it's pretty bad.

VdGG might be the winner for me, though Present really isn't that great a comeback, despite the fact that they really do sound just like they did. the two they did after were better. I haven't heard the last one.

I've also heard the Gryphon comeback was really good, but I suspect you gotta be a pretty big fan to listen to a Gryphon comeback album

wait are we voting for longest gaps, cos if so this is the easiest poll ever

Don't know when I can face up to listening to Supercalifragile, but it's here on a technicality; for me Loud Family = Game Theory.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 September 2021 14:41 (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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Present isn't that great but Every Bloody Emperor alone justifies it, and yeah, the next couple of albums were better (and then the most recent one wasn't)

that Sanctuary reunion album was pretty good but it sounded more like Nevermore than Sanctuary reunion (for obvious reasons)

Hard to not vote for the Sea Nymphs tho. In fact I'm going to. Try and stop me

Your loyalty demands.

when LSD drops we rerun this poll obv

I guess I'm not sure what LSD refers to in this context.

What about groups you HOPE will record follow-ups? I'm not a huge fan, but I think Sisters of Mercy (31 years in October and counting) may have one of these in them.

its a Cardiacs album that probably won't come out

I'd love to hear anything from Rosie Vela (35 years).

I was really hoping The Police would have recorded something in 2007 when they reunited. just out of morbid curiosity really

XTC would be a big one. I guess there's no way those two get together again but I'd really like to hear Andy do something new

its a Cardiacs album that probably won't come out

thanks!

not AS long, but it's been 18 years since The D.O.C. released an album, and as of 2015, his voice started coming back. doesn't have the same power and he has to concentrate hard, but he actually spoke with a normal voice in an interview for a few seconds and it sounded remarkable, even if the rest of the time, he sounded gravelly (https://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/the-doc-regains-voice-371632/).

would love to hear that boisterous voice with those clever assed rhymes again. even if he had to record it in spurts. but I don't think he's interested and it would require a lot of effort I'm sure.

Any particular reason why you missed out Dean Gitter, or the New York Dolls, for instance?

― Mark G, Friday, September 3, 2021 10:35 AM (one hour ago)

Wikipedia user "Doc Strange" has been editing that list like a madman over the past 24 hours, so this thread may predate a few of those edits

I'm not too thrilled that Dean Gitter holds the world record, as he spent his last years planning the development of a resort that poses an environmental threat to the Catskills. feel like someone should coax Diane Renay and/or Diane Ray out of retirement so they can smash his record

I've been compiling my own list for nearly a decade, limiting myself to gaps of 35 years or longer. you have to squint a bit to see some of these albums as glorious returns -- ex. Les Paul technically went 37 years without releasing a solo album, but he put out a couple of duets in the meantime; Chuck Berry's posthumous comeback was most likely recorded several years (decades?) prior to its release. I'm also not always sure whether to include bands that radically changed their lineups, released albums under different band names in the intervening years, released teaser EPs prior to the comeback album, etc.. building a useless ball of yarn is more complicated than it seems!

It’s Immaterial; 27 years.

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/15/we-got-there-cult-pop-band-its-immaterial-back-after-27-years

xpost - I don't know that I would count that 1980 Sonics record since, iirc, it's just versions of old songs with only one original member anyway. But that's just me, otherwise I really like that list!

feel like we're going to see more and more metal bands on this list. idk why but a lotta these old obscure death metal groups decide in their 50s "it's time to revisit my past"

xpost - I don't know that I would count that 1980 Sonics record since, iirc, it's just versions of old songs with only one original member anyway. But that's just me, otherwise I really like that list!

ah, thanks for the tip -- guess I didn't research that one properly, but the 1980 release does seem to be the Sonics in name only

apparently J.S. Bach was on the list at one point lol

He's just waiting out his previous recording contract.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--oA5LEOkoHE/V-E4Oy3SYfI/AAAAAAAAApc/vQrhNoTa4y42AcM3s2SC53CMNuNbJXyPwCLcB/s1600/flat%252C800x800%252C075%252Cf.jpg

So, if The La's get around to releasing album number two, that will be ooh.......

31 years.

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where's Dick Dale? (29 years, and the new one is excellent). or Jake Holmes (also 29 years, but the new one made me wish he didn't bother)...

...or Big Star (27 years, and would have been 31 years had the first of the pair been issued immediately after it was recorded)

wait are we voting for longest gaps, cos if so this is the easiest poll ever

surely highest quality gap = it being good that the artist didn't record ;)

thank u mike love for staying out of the limelight so long

I was really hoping The Police would have recorded something in 2007 when they reunited. just out of morbid curiosity really

XTC would be a big one. I guess there's no way those two get together again but I'd really like to hear Andy do something new

i was expecting more of these to be like the Mike Love records - two solo albums from someone who was heard from many times between them in a group context - but there actually aren't many like that

voted for 36 years of silence from Mike Love

xpost some of these are like that-- Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, Chris Squire, Danny Elfman

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XTC would be a big one. I guess there's no way those two get together again but I'd really like to hear Andy do something new

Andy Partridge's new EP My Failed Songwriting Career is pretty good - lots of his post-XTC stuff veers away from XTC stylistically, but this is much closer.

I'm not sure about any of these pairs, but in terms of the belated follow-up, X's Alphabetland would be my top pick.

(FWIW that X vote isn't mine though 'cause I didn't vote.)

Of course, if My Bloody Valentine had waited a couple of years, they’d have made the original list, and walked this.

(Then again, that list has been hugely added to - Rainbow Ffolly obviously, number two now (Sonics be third now))

Yeah, I would've gone with MBV. I'll need to listen to mbv again - I thought it was fine, but I played it for like a week then forgot about it.