The Jam, though they mean nowt in America apart from a few Anglophiles.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:29 (three weeks ago) link
Xp REM
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:53 (three weeks ago) link
Carrying over from the TayTay thread: OutKast
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:16 (three weeks ago) link
... although they actually did one of those at Coachella ten years ago.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:18 (three weeks ago) link
Talking Heads have to be the biggest reunion holdouts.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 26 April 2024 16:44 (three weeks ago) link
(Andy Rourke not essential)
Rude!
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:07 (three weeks ago) link
Of the bands that feasibly could (i.e. no dead essential members), it's down to the Stripes and maybe like Dire Straits.Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, the Smiths (Andy Rourke not essential)― Pierre Delecto
Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, the Smiths (Andy Rourke not essential)
― Pierre Delecto
yeahhhh not sure the smiths would work
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:55 (three weeks ago) link
Decent chance the set ends with Johnny smashing his guitar over Morrissey's head so I'm on board with it.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:10 (three weeks ago) link
The Coachella crowd vibing to "Sultans of Swing" would be amazing. "This was my grandpa's favorite song!"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:12 (three weeks ago) link
OutKast did Coachella in 2014
― brimstead, Friday, 26 April 2024 21:12 (three weeks ago) link
^^I caught myself with that right after I posted them. Whenever I think OutKast reunion, I immediately flash on the Key & Peele sketch and forget that it actually happened.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:33 (three weeks ago) link
The slogans Andre 3000 printed on his clothes during the OutKast reunion tour (he was at one point wearing literal price tags reading "SOLD OUT") make it unlikely there will ever be another.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:38 (three weeks ago) link
I remember posting here myself one time about how Dire Straits were the biggest broken-up band that there was no demand for a reunion, but then I saw somewhere that Knopfler has been turning down stupid huge paydays from (European) promoters for years.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:40 (three weeks ago) link
Interesting to think of which legacy act reunions would hold sway at a place like Coachella. The recent muted response to the Blur reunion makes me think a Kinks reunion might draw similar levels of apathy.
― henry s, Friday, 26 April 2024 21:41 (three weeks ago) link
Oasis would get a good reception at a US festival.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:48 (three weeks ago) link
Oasis would be victim to Gen X'er fans who are now too old to chase festivals. I think One Direction could still attract millennials with time and money to spend, though.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:51 (three weeks ago) link
Dire straits reunion would be cool if they toured with some of the Tuareg/North African bands they influenced
― JoeStork, Friday, 26 April 2024 22:16 (three weeks ago) link
Coachella’s owners have done an old people act festival on its own. The timeframe for a legacy act being a headliner has, I think, shortened. The festival just isn’t as much of a draw for people above a certain ceiling, and with the audience being mostly people in their 20s wanting at most a revival of someone they loved in their teens or a childhood callback, I don’t know if Meg and the Stripes are it. I feel like part of the late 90s/00s legacy acts being successful at the festival was the Pitchfork-esque cred of knowing an act that’s name-checked as having cred. And even that seems like a throwback to the earlier era. Maybe if something other than Seven Nation Army is a tiktok hit there could be enough pull
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:20 (three weeks ago) link
For a 22-year old the White Stripes were on the radio when they were a kid in the car with their parents, for a 30-year old "Icky Thump" was a middle-school jam
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:41 (three weeks ago) link
You could probably push back another ten years to the alt-rock heyday and capture an under-30 crowd (who have all been exposed to grunge via Youtube) but all those bands are either impossible to reunite (Soundgarden) or have carried on in zombie form (STP, Alice in Chains) anyway.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:43 (three weeks ago) link
My kids know the Stripes catalogue like I knew the Beatles as a kid
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 27 April 2024 07:30 (three weeks ago) link
it could work! Meg’s not coming back, though
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 27 April 2024 15:23 (three weeks ago) link
I basically ILX me included is too cool to care but Jack White's popularity post White Stripes to a similar but somewhat different crowd is not to be underestimated
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 April 2024 16:25 (three weeks ago) link
I never got to see them; they came nowhere near the mountain west of the U.S. I'd welcome a reunion tour, although it's extremely unlikely they could match the energy that is apparent even in videos of their live performances back in the day.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 April 2024 21:16 (three weeks ago) link
(Andy Rourke not essential)Rude!
And wrong! He was as important to their sound as Johnny.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 April 2024 21:17 (three weeks ago) link
Hell, I'd settle for a Style Council reunion.
― henry s, Saturday, 27 April 2024 22:03 (three weeks ago) link
The Jam won't happen ofc but Weller, Talbot, Dee and Steve played It's a Very Deep Sea at the end of the SC documentary
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 28 April 2024 15:47 (three weeks ago) link