Name the bands that are least likely to reform (where all members are alive)

The Smiths, obviously and unfortunately

I think Paul Weller once said he'd rather see his children starve than reform the Jam.

Dead Kennedys

I'm getting deja vu about this thread.

yeah

What Acts Will NEVER REUNITE!

loads of wrong guesses there though.

Pink Floyd.

TIN MACHINE

The Ike & Tina Turner Revue

Oasis (because Oasis hasn't been Oasis since Bonehead left).

age of chance

Prolpase (please)

Pink Floyd.

WRONG, most of all because they're NOT all alive

Well. 70s Pink Floyd then.
But even when Syd was alive, a fully flegded reunion of the 1967 lineup was even less likely.

ABBA

PiL

My Bloody Valentine

RONG ^

I don't think the Police reunion was really as huge as contemplated in the original thread, was it?

Talk Talk

The Walker Brothers

The Sisters Of Mercy 1984-1985

(On the other hand, now The Mission is finished...) (Naaah, still never.)

Talk Talk

Thread = won. More to the point, this is probably ahead of all others the one band that SHOULDN'T get back together. Listen to those last 40 seconds of "Runeii" and tell me that isn't intentionally *the end*.

Husker Du

The Replacements (with Chris Mars)

The Fall. Any previous lineup, but especially ones in which band members came to blows.

Stormtroopers of Death.

after the ignorant shit Billy Milano said, I doubt it'll ever happen

The Misfits and Operation Ivy, both of which i would have loved to have seen.....

I dunno, the Misfits definitely seems likely too, but something tells me it could be manufactured for a one night only type thing if the money is right.

Glenn Danzig is a killer vocalist but he's an asshole and a hypocrite so it wouldn't surprise me.

Smashing Pumpkins (Iha/Wretzky)

R.E.M. with Bill Berry (for longer than a couple of songs)

Jellyfish.

The Replacements

Bob Stinson RIP

Jeez, nobody's mentioned XTC yet? To complicate things, I'm including Terry Chambers. I could complicate them further by including Barry Andrews, but I won't.

the original modern lovers reuniting seems fairly unlikely ... not that there seems to be a ton of bad blood, but it's hard to imagine Jonathan Richman going back to that material. And speaking of Jerry Harrison's old bands, Talking Heads probably are not going to reunite.

R.E.M. with Bill Berry (for longer than a couple of songs)

Disagree. This tour will happen within ten years.

but it's hard to imagine Jonathan Richman going back to that material.

oh I dunno, I've seen him do Pablo Picasso and Old World and Roadrunner as recently as a couple years ago. I think it's more that he doesn't like playing with a band, really. He's pretty freewheeling onstage in a way that's pretty impossible for a full band to follow, and that's a big part of his appeal.

oh, i didn't realize that he was doing those songs again -- thought he had pretty much disowned that stuff. I haven't seen him in about five years or so. hey, it would be a cool reunion!

"I dunno, the Misfits definitely seems likely too, but something tells me it could be manufactured for a one night only type thing if the money is right.

Glenn Danzig is a killer vocalist but he's an asshole and a hypocrite so it wouldn't surprise me.

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive"

i feel like the other band members have massive problems with him, and it seems like if it was all gonna be worked out, it would have been years ago. and at what point would them getting back together not really matter anyway? theyve gotta be getting close to that point, that music has so much energy and theyre getting olddddddddddddddd

galaxie 500

Disagree. This tour will happen within ten years.

OTM. I'd put money on it happening within the next five years. R.E.M. still owe Warners massive piles of cash, their studio records don't sell, and their "greatest hits" tour wasn't the bail-out profile-raiser it was supposed to be. All they have left is the "reunion" tour. Of all the bands on this list, R.E.M. are probably the most likely to reform.

None of them, apparently - although Husker Du, Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys seem like the longest shots.

Spacemen3

The Wings :)

...er, I hope none of the original line-up have moved on to that great gig in the sky yet.

dolly mixture

Spacemen3

OTM, sadly

The Birthday Party

Tracy Pew RIP

The Wings :)

...er, I hope none of the original line-up have moved on to that great gig in the sky yet.

Linda McCartney was always part of the Wings lineup, wasn't she?

Uncle Tupelo

Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt on drums.

*wingless, stands corrected*

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt on drums.

elton dean died in february, 2006.

Uncle Tupelo

wrong. give this one til 2015 and there'll at least be some one-off shows, maybe a reunion tour.

kenickie

Sun City Girls
Gastr Del Sol
Harry Pussy
DNA
Thrown-Ups
Heavenly

some of heavenly are dead

Why is DNA such a long shot? What happened to Tim Wright?

Why is DNA such a long shot? What happened to Tim Wright?

Not sure what Tim s'been up to nowadays. I can't see it though. Perhaps I'm wrong. May I add even if any of these groups DID reform, I wouldn't/couldn't be bothered to go 'see' them. Reformations are almost always never any good. Some things are better left a memory of sorts...

Now if Feelies/Trypes/Yung Wu/Willies, etc. reformed I'd have to reevaluate aforementioned reformed band theory.

Outkast.

New Order, based on the Sumner/Hook exchange of words a couple months ago.

Bros

Snap!

Lift To Experience.

(although there are rumours about the EitS ATP)

Reformations are almost always never any good.

Reformations may work live, but with a few exceptions (Aerosmith, Steely Dan and weird enough Kula Shaker) recording new material is rarely a good idea for a reformed band.

the who

..."where all members are alive"...

New Order, based on the Sumner/Hook exchange of words a couple months ago.

Boy Who Cried Wolf to thread. New Order breakup rumours mean nothing to me.

Spacemen 3 OTM.

Incredible String Band (the original threesome)

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, that's already happened

When? :)

I saw them play! Twice! Or maybe three times! 2000? 2001?

The Cure with Lol Tolhurst?

Prince and the Revolution

My Bloody Valentine has reunited:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/40473-kevin-shields-mbv-will-100-make-another-album

OTM about Uncle Tupelo - this is gonna happen in a few years, I predict.

Any band where one of the members has turned to religion - or at least a religion that discourages secular pop culture. Palmolive (Slits/Raincoats) comes to mind first, of course.

I don't think a Dolly Mixture reunion is completely out of the cards, btw - all three members live near each other and seem civil enough. (Disclaimer: this is in no way me being coy, I have no inside info.)

looks like the Raincoats are out too, I know they reformed once but it was without a key member and that member's songs actually got LEFT OFF of the reissue of "Moving" on CD.

didn't X-Ray Spex reunite briefly?

and Sun City Girls = dead drummer, so keep 'em out of this thread.

King Crimson, version 1.

I don't think the Police reunion was really as huge as contemplated in the original thread, was it?

-- Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, November 12, 2007 10:57 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

huh? it's supposedly the top grossing tour of the year so far. might not have much of a buzz among music fans under 40 (I mean I love the old records, but honestly the new arrangements they're playing seem like they'd make for a crappy show), but i'd say it's still pretty damn huge.

I think X-Ray Spex reunited WITHOUT Poly Styrene, right?

Great idea that was, huh?

I would have said Comus, but they ARE! They're playing on a boat in Sweden (i think) in March. If I had approximately $2,000 to blow on something, this would be it.

Chameleons

:(

Chameleons

I spoke to Mark Burgess last year on his short US tour with BIRD/Yves Atlana, and based on that conversation alone, I wouldn't say it's 100% not ever going to happen again.

I don't think a Dolly Mixture reunion is completely out of the cards, btw - all three members live near each other and seem civil enough. (Disclaimer: this is in no way me being coy, I have no inside info.)

true. i guess i don't know why they would ever bother as long as their back catalogue is entirely unavailable though

xpost, MBV: I'll believe it when I see it, and so will you...

Are all of the Jackson Five alive?

"Are all of the Jackson Five alive?

-- Finefinemusic"

Lamar and Jamal are dead.

ELO, the real thing, not "Jeff Lynne with a bunch of hired hands, featuring a special appearance by Richard Tandy." Some of those "hired hands" may have been Beatles, but no Bev Bevan, no ELO (or Move, either, though Carl Wayne being dead is a bigger factor).

"Selling England by the Pound"-era Genesis, although I'd love it if they did