the band had already broken up...but now you just want them reunited again??

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I wanna Stone Roses can be reunited again. (but I know it's impossible)

― qoo, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Smiths.

― Chris, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I sort of want the Pogues back together... but it might not be too graceful.

― Manny Parsons, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Verve

― apple, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Pixies...yes please!!

― , Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Chameleons! Oh wait...Soft Cell! Er...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Passage
Tuxedomoon (with Reininger in them
Devo

Would have a deep fear of them sounding worse though - a fear which has kept me from buying the Chameleons & Wire reformation releases....

― Ray M, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I love the Pixies, but I'm 100% anti-reunion. Imagine how bad it could be, and then times it by 50.

I'd like the Whigs to get back together, though.

― paul, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Beatles!

― J Blount, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Journey w/ Steve Perry and Boston.

― Chris, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Hot Five.

― Mark, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Les Pattinson - back with the Bunnymen.

― Sean Kids In The Hall, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Spacemen 3.

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!

Can you imagine what they'd sound like now? Jason "The Heretic" Spaceman trying to play his orchestral Disney soundtracks while Sonic makes evil wibbling wubwubwub synth noises in the background?

Oh, how I would laugh.

― kate, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Killing Joke - (supposedly in the works)

The Stranglers - BRING BACK HUGH!!!!!!!!

Cop Shoot Cop - It'll never happen at this point, but whatever.

Devo

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nirvana???

― JJ, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Spacemen 3, Roxy Music

― Chris, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Fall.

― The Actual Mr. Jones, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gang of Four - with Dave Allen. (No offense to Sara Lee, tho.)

― Dave225, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Queen

― Evan, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

SLOWDIVE.

― ., Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

uh... Roxy Music already had a reunion tour.

The only reunion that has (and probably ever will) excite me is the upcoming Camper Van Beethoven reunion tour. They're not too old, and I never got to see them, and I think they've always been to easily dismissed/underrated...

― Shaky Mo Collier, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

just saw Lifter Puller play a one-off reunion gig last night (well, a 1/2 off--they're also playing a wedding in SF this weekend), and I must say if anyone than them.

― M Matos, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Japan....though they're not as good looking as they once were

― cally_tram, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm with Alex -- Hugh Cornwell back to the Stranglers, please. Old & unfashionable to begin with, it's hard to imagine what kinda cred they'd damage by reuniting.

― briania, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hole. Because Courtney and Melissa's solo albums are just going to be shit in a bucket, aren't they? Might as well halve the pain.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I second Slowdive!

― Manny Parsons, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wish Rick Wakeman would be a member of Yes again...Oh, wait a sec, that's right...he IS...for the ***FIFTH*** time!!!

― Joe, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Flipper's Guitar

― Mary, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bauhaus, Revolver, Judy & Mary, Neu¡I, Galaxie 500

― Alex, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

arent the stone roses doing a reunion tour?
The hell with reunions. If they called it quits, let it stay that way.

― nathalie, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Reunions" are fine if the band never actually 'split up' in any kind of messy public press-release way. With Wire for instance I get the feeling that they do what they want to do musically and occasionally what they want to do will involve making a Wire record - and that's fine by me. Or take the Propaganda 'reunion' - nothing came of it because the participants realised it would be rubbish, which ironically would make me trust them more if they tried again and did decide something was good.

Reunions which don't involve creating new material are completely worthless, though.

― Tom, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Three words. Kitchens Of Disctinction.

― baxter wingnut, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Reunions which don't involve creating new material are completely worthless"

100% agree

― hoi, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

revolver? man i never expected anyone to pine for their reformation.

― keith, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Bongos, Love and Rockets, The Smiths, The Undertones, The Buzzcocks(again), The(English)Beat, and even The Police should reunite.

― Steve Morrissey, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Reunions which don't involve creating new material are completely worthless, though."

Ah, I don't know about that. I would've been perfectly happy if Kiss had just reformed for a reunion tour and not punnished the world and tarnished their already bloodied legacy with the sonic offal that was PSYCHOCIRCUS. Simillarly, the Cult's reunion album (BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL) wasn't exactly the stuff of legend. Nor was MALL by Gang of Four. The music that the reformed Velvet Underground were working on prior to the fallout and Sterling Morrison's death certainly wasn't top drawer material. The Bunnymen's EVERGREEN was an exception to the rule, being that it was actually listenable, but I'd suggest that reunion albums are generally pretty crap.

Tom's point seems to suggest that bands are like sharks.....constant progression is necessary to sustain life. What's wrong with simply reforming to play the music that made their name to begin with? Does it always have to be about pushing new product?

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hey Tom, Wire split up extremely messily ON STAGE! Why should mode of split make any odds anyway?

― Tim, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Reunions which don't involve creating new material are completely worthless, though."

this is a bit suspect. i saw mission of burma reformed and a grand old time was had by all, despite no new material. just because it's usually not fun to watch old people drudging up half-remembered stuff for cash doesn't mean it *has* to suck.

― Dave M., Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hah! They did have new material, just v. little.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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