S/D: Reunion Shows & Albums

Can't find a general C/D S/D thread in the archives on this, so here we go...

SEARCH reunion shows and albums
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond, Farm
The Feelies - Here Before
The Go-Betweens - all '00s albums
Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
Mission of Burma - ONoffON, The Obliterati
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me...
Wire - Send, Red Barked Tree

SEARCH reunion shows, DESTROY reunion albums
Bauhaus - Go Away White
The Slits - Trapped Animal
The Stooges - The Weirdness

SEARCH reunion shows
Led Zeppelin - i wasn't there but by all accounts it was excellent, right?
My Bloody Valentine
Pixies - especially the first big tour in 2004

SEARCH reunion albums
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering - did she tour behind this at all?
ESG - Step Off - same; any touring?

DESTROY reunion shows and albums
Jane's Addiction - Strays
Gang of Four - Content
Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy (but then, i was never a fan at all, so...)
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

UNDECIDED... help me?
Big Star - In Space
Devo - Something for Everybody
OMD - History of Modern
Seefeel - Seefeel
Television - Television

Blur gigs in 09. that's the way to do 'em.

I like the Bauhaus record quite a bit.

Search: The Telescopes!

Search: Guided By Voices at Maxwells, etc. Holy shit.

television's comeback album is pretty ok. some of the live shows i've heard are great, too.

Search reunion shows: Pavement. I saw them probably close to ten times in the early 90s, and the reunion show in Central Park trounced them all.

Dinosaur Jr have really become the new model for how to do reunion albums the right way.

Search reunion songs: 45 RPM--The Alarm

Search: all Who tours 1999 and after, Endless Wire

Destroy: 1989 Who tour, Join Together live album

I'd say "search" re: Devo - Something For Everybody

Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering - did she tour behind this at all?

she did and it was magnificent

I saw that Television tour. It was a great show. Makes me want to dig up that album again. Gang Of Four show this year was disappointing and lacked energy except for a couple encore tunes. I didn't think the album was bad though, but I need to go back to it. Slint played a pretty great show several years back. Since you're counting Wire, then also search Killing Joke tour/album, Buzzcocks and Undertones tours.

Search:
Slint
Pavement
My Bloody Valentine

House of Love reunion shows were stellar.

The Television reunion was odd. I saw them when they first got back together, playing the 1500-capacity Forum in London. Maybe 300 people there. Five or six years ago I saw them again in a smaller venue that was rammed and sold out very quickly. I guess the difference was that the Strokes had happened in the meantime. But a transfixing live band both times.

Destroy: the Slint reunion. Ruined Spiderland for me.

No way, brah. Did you see them in '05 or '07? Because in '07 they played that krauty unreleased track leftover from the Spiderland sessions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCM5cvDAU6M

The first Buzzcocks reunion show was fine/search/whatever...

The first Van der Graaf Generator reunion shows in 2005 were superb but the accompanying album Present was a bit meh, except for a couple of standout tracks. The live album from the first reunion show, Real Time, is superb. After that David Jackson left, the others are carrying on as a trio but it's lost a key element and I can't get too excited about them anymore. Much prefer Hammill in solo mode.

The Dead Can Dance reunion shows were triumphant and they did a bunch of live albums of those.

I enjoyed the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions reunion shows in 2004 very much. Ditto Throbbing Gristle and American Music Club, although the studio albums both those bands put out in the wake of their reunions didn't do much for me.

Godspeed You Black Emperor, not really a reunion as much as a return from a long hiatus but it's great to have them back.

oh and I very much doubt this will mean anything to anyone else on this board but the British folk rock band Home Service are reuniting this summer and I am very excited about that indeed

I remember seeing Home Service providing the musical accompaniment to the National Theatre's production of the Mysteries in the early 80s. Brian Glover was God (I mean, that was his role, not what I thought of him). Home Service played on a balcony above the floor in the Cottesloe.

yeah that's where I first saw them as well, but in the revival of the production which took place in 2000. best evenings I've ever had in a theatre

devo are still ultra great live. as for AMC i really love Love Songs For Patriots but Golden Age didn't do much for me.

Search (live, at least) these punky types:

Doom (the UKHC band)
Amebix
The Freeze
English Dogs
Varukers
GBH

Search: the Sabbath reunion shows they did with Dio in the four or so years before he died.

Yeah, the Devo album is great. Would also give the thumbs up to the new Cars album.

soft boys reunion was fun, i played nextdoorland recently and was pleased at how well it held up.

Loved that Soft Boys reunion, forgot the Stooges made an album. Add to the queue for consdering the Cars, Buffalo Springfield, E Street Band, Tribe Called Quest, New York Dolls, Suede, Crowded House ...

the new cars album and the new duran duran albums are both surprisingly excellent, so search those.

Really loving the Cars reunion record, but their shows were legendarily lifeless even at their peak.

Search Blur '09, Pavement '10 Pixies '05?(whenever it was they played Brixton)

I think Mission Of Burma picked up where they left off.

I'm pretty enamoured with the new Feelies, too. But I am a huge fan of Time For A Witness. Here Before nestles quite nicely along side that album.

Big Star In Space is kind of gloriously underwhelming, in a charming Chilton-esque way.

Search:
Neu!

Destroy (as much as it kills me to say this):
Liquid Liquid - way too sloppy for a band based on such tight grooves

Have seen two liquid liquid shows in the last year; one was just good, the other was incredibly tight (at primavera with tons of up for it spaniards) and one of the best shows of that year. people going nuts.

haven't been to see many reunion shows. most 5-8 years ago:

the pixies - a massive, youth crushing disappointment. they acted unhappy and sounded like a decent cover band. crowd went nuts tho.
buzzcocks - on their first reunion tour, fucking brilliant, autonomy, love battery, everything
mission of burma - better even than the buzzcocks, a force of nature
television - had the impression this was a reunion tour, but i dunno, did they ever really break up?
esg - a million times better than they had any right to be, so much fun, love the 2nd gen assistance
sleep - missed this because i am a total fucking derp

oh sleep probably win the whole reunion shows thing actually. unbelievable.

oh and:

cheap trick: not so much a reunion, but they'd been on hiatus a (short) while. KILLED IT.
big star: with posies folks, half cool, at least half cringe

My litmus test for a "breakup" is when Band member makes album that could have been made in much the same way as the original band.

So, as Tom V made a few "could-be-television" albums in-between, yes.

sleep - missed this because i am a total fucking derp

yup, me too. forgot i had a ticket, went to bed at like 9 PM, woke up the next morning, remembered, "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucckkk!!!!"

I can't count Neu!. That'd be like a Can reunion without Leibezeit. But Sleep is a good call. I was planning to go a few months ago, but it was a) too late and b) sure to be too loud. ;)

Looks like Sleep is still playing the occasional reunion show, btw.

I can't count Neu!. That'd be like a Can reunion without Leibezeit.

More like a Simon & Garfunkel reunion without Simon. Or one without Garfunkel.

Anyone catch the Harmonia reunion?

Yes. At least I think it was billed as Harmonia. They were all there anyway!

Anyone else remember The Bible? Finely crafted, literate pop from the mid-80s, frontman Boo Hewerdine had a subsequent solo career of sorts and wrote all kinds of songs for Eddi Reader and suchlike. Anyway they are reforming for 25th anniversary shows in the UK later this year, really wish I could be there.

Anyone catch the Harmonia reunion?

yup, saw 'em at ATP 08 i think? and it was fantastic

great (though short) live recording of harmonia at atp here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Harmonia/

have archers of loaf started their shows yet

Here's the Hallogallo 2010/Rother & Friends thing (fucking fantastic btw)

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/music-hub/2010/aug/10/no-cover-michael-rother-friends-play-music-neu/

MBV reunion was one of the best gigs I've been to. About 10 years ago I saw Amon Duul II, it was fun but not exactly mindblowing.

Has anyone seen Tom Tom Club recently? I'm not overly enthused to go see them but maybe I'm being stupid...

have archers of loaf started their shows yet

omgomgomg really?!?

GAH YES! kicks off in less than two weeks. would give anything to see them in chapel hill (again). the fucking cat's cradle even...

The new Urge Overkill - Rock & Roll Submarine is surprisingly good.

Tom Tom Club inexplicably (or not so inexplicably) cancelled their tour last year. Too many bad memories of their momentum-killing appearance in
"Stop Making Sense?"

Grant Lee Buffalo are currently touring Europe again.

Anyone catch the Harmonia reunion?

yeah this was totally amazing