Can you name a band from the 70's or 80's that have not reunited once since their breakup

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Can you name a band from the 70's or 80's that have not reunited once since their breakup. (I mean reunited in their original or most popular lineup). Has there been a thread on this topic before?

I can think of 2 bands at the moment

Talking Heads
The Vapors

Any other bands you all can think of?

― sigmundooze (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

There are probably 24514515432 bands that haven't reunited.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Lynyrd Skynyrd.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Magazine, and good on them, although I wouldn't cry foul in the unlikely event that they did reform.

― LC (Damian), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Wikipedia says Talking Heads played together when they were admitted to the Hall of Fame.

― white heat (white heat), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

ABBA were apparently offered a billion dollars to reunite for a tour, and declined.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that's true Ned.

To make my question more clear, I mean in which all original members are still alive today and have the possiblity to reform but havent.

As far as Talking heads get together at hall of fame im not sure if that really counts, thats not something for the public in general right?

― sigmundooze (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah ABBA is a good one. I heard about that Doug.

― Stan (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

To make my question more clear, I mean in which all original members are still alive today and have the possiblity to reform but havent.

Are you disallowing situations where there is still a fragment of the band touring?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

e.g. the Moody Blues who haven't played with Mike Pinder since the 70s.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Or Supertramp post-Roger Hodgson.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Tin Machine

― cheshy f cat (cheshycat), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Magazine

...and then I remember John McGeoch is no longer with us. More fool me.

― LC (Damian), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

The Modern Lovers
Minor Threat
Black Flag

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Lynyrd Skynyrd are touring again, of course.

Wham!
Eurythmics
Fun Boy 3
Big Audio Dynamite
Housemartins
The Jam
Felt
KLF
Godfathers
Stawberry Switchblade
The Police
Dire Straits
The Cars

― everything (everything), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Supertramp is a good one, except if you saw their last tour, the drummer's Son was just as good as Roger.

― Stan (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Minor Threat and Eurythmics got back together at one point or another not so long ago.

― Stan (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

husker du

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Smiths.

The Police reunited to record a new version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" for a "Best Of" album in 1986.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Police is a good one... Cars can't get back together Ben Orr is dead

― Stan (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Black Flag" also played some shows a couple of years back...

http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=246&IssueNum=15

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

the clash never reunited, did they? (they carried on without jones for a bit, but that wasn't a breakup/reunion, and once that lineup broke up, that was that, right?)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wings.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

The Police reunited to record a new version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" for a "Best Of" album in 1986

they also played together on that year's amnesty int'l tour, but they had never formally broken up, so they may still count. however, they did play at sting's wedding in the early '90s, and they also did the rock and roll hall of fame induction reunion thing.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Wombles

The Police I think have yet to formally break up. Same about ABBA.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wings missing 1 key member.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

The Wombles are still touring I believe. They just send the costumes up on the train with a stage manager and hire some local students to jump around on stage to a backing tape.

― everything (everything), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Wham! reunited for one gig at "Rock In Rio" sometime in the early 90s. The gig was named "The Andrew Ridgley Charity Concert" by lots of people.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Wings can't get back together Linda is dead.

― sigmundooze (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Talking heads are a strange choice because they were still playing in the 90s, and they continued as a band after Byrne Left. I'll let this go, but your question is vague. I mean do Roxy Music count post Eno?

Anyway to contribute, The Runaways.

― white heat (white heat), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I mean do Roxy Music count post Eno?

Irrelevant, as they are now reuniting with Eno.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

No I'm just saying a group in which all members are currently living and haven't reformed since like mid 90's to present.

So with that Talking Heads do count because they have not been a band since 92.

― sigmundooze (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Police I think have yet to formally break up.

how does one formally break up? do you have to issue a press release?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

A band member just takes a hammer to the group's framed portrait. They've yet to do it i guess. Sounds like fun to me.

― Stan (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Talk Talk
Haysi Fantayzee
'til Tuesday

are others I can think of

― Stan (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

X
Big Black

― white heat (white heat), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Wings can't get back together Linda is dead.

Right, but they never did get back together in the, what, seventeen-odd years after they broke up? Not even some fakey reunion tour Wings with some hotshot hired gun standing in for Denny Laine. Obviously this is because Paul McCartney can sell plenty of tickets on his own name, but I still think they count.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Magazine could reunite with Robin Simon on guitar, perhaps.

Anyway, Any of the "proper" Ultravox lineups Cross/Currie/Cann w/either Foxx/shears, Foxx/Simon or Ure.

Gryphon

12th Night

Any of these would be great for me if they happened.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

>> Big Black

Uh...

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Vaselines?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

uh...

at least point, i think they've been reunited for longer than they were originally together.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

X is together

― Stan (sigmundooze), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Do the Misfits count? As in they haven't reunited with anything like their original lineup?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wham
Pussy Galore

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

the original modern lovers

young marble giants--right?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Big Black did a gig in Chicago last weekend for a Touch & Go anniversary gig... not a reunion, but they did play together (sort of, anyway)

― Bass-man (bassguy), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Eurythmics absolutely reunited.

I heard buzz about the Family Stone reuniting but don't know if anything came of it.

How about the Little River Band?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Wings can't get back together Linda is dead.

Jimmy McCulloch is dead too.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Davies/Davies/Avory/Quaife line-up of The Kinks hasn't reunited since 1969 despite recent threats to do so.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

No I'm just saying a group in which all members are currently living and haven't reformed since like mid 90's to present.

See, my scorn at the beginning is because of all the thousands of obscure/never famous/released maybe one single or something or never released ANYTHING bands out there who broke up and that was that. Which is hyperbolic but the original question is hyperbolic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jimmy McCulloch was only one of their many guitarists though. That could have been worked around.

Can we get They Might Be Giants, who have never broken up, to reunite as the original two-man-band lineup?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

KLF

http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/2k/r&kbd.gif

the clash never reunited, did they? (they carried on without jones for a bit, but that wasn't a breakup/reunion, and once that lineup broke up, that was that, right?)

Right. Strummer always wanted to do the R'n'R Hall Of Fame, but no-one else was especially keen, Topper wouldn't be allowed into the US, and death rendered it moot anyway.

Irrelevant, as they are now reuniting with Eno.

Not really.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mott The Hoople

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 16 September 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dead Fingers Talk
The Smiths
Liz Phair

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

Delta 5
The Teardrop Explodes
Y Kant Tori Read

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Cocteau Twins
Felt
Sleater-Kinney

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
Beirut Slump
13.13

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

Genesis
Porno For Pyros
Pajama Party

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Scandal
Comus
Voyage

I was just going through the ipod. So much praying to do tonight!

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sleater-Kinney would be a cute joke answer except that they're not from the 70s or 80s! Try harder!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 September 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

To prove Ned's point (and then I'll leave):

Language (the synthfunk group)
(The) Scars *
New Musik
Fingerprintz **
Industry (the one from Long Island) ***

*: Though a partially reformed version of the band reunited briefly for a few dates during Lemon Jelly's UK tour, to perform the sampled "Horrorshow" bits on "The Shouty Track", lead singer Robert King wasn't among them.

**: A couple of the bandmates have gone onto comparatively bigger fame as The Silencers.

***: Jon Carin's too busy with Pink Floyd to do anything with a band that's really only known for that one anti-war song, you know, the one with the video that took place on that aircraft carrier.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Saturday, 16 September 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't the KLF, that was "K2"

xxxxxpost

― everything (everything), Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Genesis

Wasn't Gabriel going to do a one-off concert with them a few year back? Did that ever happen?

Cocteau Twins

They announced a reunion (Coachella), then canceled it.

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

Would Japan count? I know there was Raintree Crow - but that wasnt Japan. OK maybe I'm splitting hairs.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

Heaven 17
Mighty Lemon Drops
Fire Engines
Win
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Danny Wilson
Crass
Gillan
Big Dish

for starters

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 16 September 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't the KLF, that was "K2"

No, K2 was their project to build a giant pyramid containing one brick for every person born during the 20th century, and heavy equipment hire company.

http://positivevoid.co.uk/page101.jpg

It also fictionally didn't demolish Stonehenge on 31/12/1999.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 16 September 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

Okay look, I feel this unexplained urge to know if The Knack ever reformed. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread title. So what's the deal? Did they?

― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Saturday, 16 September 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

Would Japan count? I know there was Raintree Crow - but that wasnt Japan. OK maybe I'm splitting hairs.

I thought it *was* Japan, except with a different name [more hair-splitting]

Spacemen 3. Jason and Sonic haven't even spoken since they broke up.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 September 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jason and Sonic haven't even spoken ... uh, to each other, although one could argue that the sentence is marginally true as it was originally written ...

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 September 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Fire Engines

Did a few gigs last year, all of which I managed to miss :-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 16 September 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

(and earlier this year too)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 16 September 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Did a few gigs last year, all of which I managed to miss :-(

Oh yes, and the split 7" with FF, how could I forget that. Win haven't reformed though.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 16 September 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't Gabriel going to do a one-off concert with them a few year back? Did that ever happen?

I don't think so, but they made a full re-recording of "The Carpet Crawlers". For me that counts as a reunion.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 September 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it *was* Japan, except with a different name [more hair-splitting]

Hi, yeah, back again. Rain Tree Crow = Japan - Rob Dean. Though Dean didn't take part in the Tin Drum album either (by that time they'd gotten in Masami Tsuchiya as his replacement), Dean definitely was a band member for all the other Japan albums.

Heaven 17

Color me confused, but didn't they release new/remixed material last year? Like, all three of them -- Glenn Gregory, Martyn Ware, and Ian Craig Marsh?

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Saturday, 16 September 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I find it a lot less likely that the original Human League lineup will ever reunite though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Masami Tsuchiya actually plays on 'Tin Drum'. He just toured with them around that time. He's a total badass.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Saturday, 16 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yazoo

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Saturday, 16 September 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Okay look, I feel this unexplained urge to know if The Knack ever reformed.

They at least turned up to play on the game show "Hit Me Baby One More Time"; they performed "My Sharona" and that shitty Jet song, and lost the round to Vanilla Ice's rendition of "Survivor" by Destiny's Child. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Me_Baby_One_More_Time)

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Scandal

Disqualified because they reformed for VH-1s "Bands Reunited." One guy is dead though.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Spacemen 3. Jason and Sonic haven't even spoken since they broke up.

Not true. They have spoken on rare occasion and did show up together on stage with Luna in the mid-90s.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

There's a better chance of Sonic & Jason working together than say, The Darkside.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

USA For Africa

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Masami Tsuchiya actually plays on 'Tin Drum'. He just toured with them around that time. He's a total badass.

Ooh, point taken. I need to refresh my memory on who was playing guitar during that album, then.

Ooh, no one's mentioned the Thompson Twins yet. I know Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie are busy doing their own thing in New Zealand, but they haven't done a thing with Joe Leeway since they disbanded. Last time I heard, Leeway was in L.A. doing film music work.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 17 September 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

T. Rex? Okay. Not fair.

Sisters of Mercy?

― vartman (novaheat), Sunday, 17 September 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Badfinger (?)

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 17 September 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

McCarthy & Microdisney are two bands I'd give my right arm to reform. All members are (AFAIK) still alive.

>>young marble giants--right?

-- Amateur(ist)

YMG were scheduled to play at the "25 Years Of Rough Trade" fest in London a few years back (I know, I bought a ticket stating as much), but cancelled at the last minute as Alison had a cold, or somesuch. They must -at least- have rehearsed for the show, and rumours persist that they'll return to the stage before too long.

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Sunday, 17 September 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sisters of Mercy?

Which version of the Sisters? They've pretty much been changing their line-up since they started, haven't they? Eldritch + others. He's still touring with a band under the Sisters' name.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 September 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

young marble giants--right?

They got together for a BBC Radio Wales broadcast a couple of years ago and even recorded a new song which sounded nothing like Colossal Youth or anything, but heartwarming to hear the three of them playing again. I don't know whether one-time radio appearances count.

They've planned and cancelled reunion gigs three or four times now. One of them has to work out someday.

― mike a (mike a), Sunday, 17 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

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