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― System, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
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)...
― Spikevax, the beloved entertainer (Lee626), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 10:37 (two years ago) link
...or Big Star (27 years, and would have been 31 years had the first of the pair been issued immediately after it was recorded)
― Spikevax, the beloved entertainer (Lee626), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
wait are we voting for longest gaps, cos if so this is the easiest poll ever
― Alba, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 11:22 (two years ago) link
surely highest quality gap = it being good that the artist didn't record ;)
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
thank u mike love for staying out of the limelight so long
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 11:36 (two years ago) link
I was really hoping The Police would have recorded something in 2007 when they reunited. just out of morbid curiosity reallyXTC 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
― Derek and Clive Get the Horn Street (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
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
― Spikevax, the beloved entertainer (Lee626), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
voted for 36 years of silence from Mike Love
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
xpost some of these are like that-- Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, Chris Squire, Danny Elfman
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
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.
― aphoristical, Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 9 September 2021 04:10 (two years ago) link
(FWIW that X vote isn't mine though 'cause I didn't vote.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 9 September 2021 04:11 (two years ago) link
Of course, if My Bloody Valentine had waited a couple of years, they’d have made the original list, and walked this.
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 September 2021 06:57 (two years ago) link
(Then again, that list has been hugely added to - Rainbow Ffolly obviously, number two now (Sonics be third now))
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 September 2021 07:01 (two years ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link