CHevril
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 09, 2008, 18:47
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keith a
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 09, 2008, 20:04
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Most of the one's I'd like to reform already have done or can't because members are sadly gone. And not sure I'd want the Teardrops or Smiths to re-form.
But...
Magazine (with Robin Simon or Ben Mendleson on gtr)
The Move (would have to be without Carl Wayne obviously)
PIL (with Wobble & Levine)
10cc (the proper four piece!)
Walker Bros
Gentle Giant
The Perfect Disaster
Loop
Talk Talk
Siouxsie & the Banshees (Scream-era line up)
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zphage
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 09, 2008, 20:54
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Let's face it most of these reunions will SUCK.
As the members get older it isn't about continuing a vital musical discussion, it is about resuscitating someting that died or wasn't valued enough at the time to continue making it work.
If a reunion is to work, it needs to be relatively close to the break up, or the members need to be young enough to still be vital.
How has House of Love and The Opposition been doing, two bands that reunited relatively young.
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Deepinder Cheema
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 09, 2008, 21:57
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Good to know someone remembers the Versatile Newts. I wonder how bad were the reviews such that John Peel took pity on them
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Moon Cat
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 10, 2008, 14:19
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Indeed! (and the Sister's thing too. Wonder if Doktor Avalanche is holding out for more dosh though? Prima Donna)
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Debaser
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 10, 2008, 16:57
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tinky10675 wrote: Kid Calamity wrote: Punishment Of Luxury
That Petrol Emotion (I'm with Moon Cat on this one!)
Led Zeppelin
The original Alice Cooper Group (the pre 'Welcome To My Nightmare' bunch, plus a relevant replacement for Michael Bruce)
Sidi Bou Said
Adam & The Ants
The Specials
The KLF
Adam and the Ants would be great!
Yes it would....as my 'I wear only black' bessie mate promised, in a rash dunkard moment that "If they were to ever reform I will wear bloody orange"
To be honest all the bands I wanted to reform have done - Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Chameleons - and I'm sure there's another...ah yes original line up Killing Joke and I'm off to The Forum in Oct to see them.
Any others, can't due to death.
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 10, 2008, 17:38
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zphage wrote: Let's face it most of these reunions will SUCK.
As the members get older it isn't about continuing a vital musical discussion, it is about resuscitating someting that died or wasn't valued enough at the time to continue making it work.
If a reunion is to work, it needs to be relatively close to the break up, or the members need to be young enough to still be vital.
How has House of Love and The Opposition been doing, two bands that reunited relatively young.
Well, yes, I agree completely really.
I did really enjoy the House of Love comeback album in 2005, though; no great work of sonic experimentation, but some strong, well-crafted songs, the guitar riff on Gotta Be That Way especially. I saw them live last year and they were rather wonderful then, too.
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caldervalium
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 10, 2008, 17:53
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Bogshed
Crawling Chaos
This Heat (R.I.P. Gareth Williams)
Mothmen
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Popel Vooje
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Edited Jul 10, 2008, 21:48
Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 10, 2008, 18:17
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That's true, "New Clear Child" was nowhere near as intreresting as the first two albums, which is strange, given that a lot of the genres AR Kane foresaw (post-rock and trip-hop, to name but two) were hitting their apex at around that time. I did like the solo album Rudy Tambala released with his sister Margaret as Sufi, though. There's a great otherwise unreleased track by him called "Desert Flower" on the "Ambient IV : Isolationism" compilation (wish Virgin would re-issue that series - those anthologies will probably be worth silly amounts of cash in the next decade or so if they stay out of print).
Never saw them live, but a friend of mine who was also fan told me he'd watched them at ULU and that they didn't really gel onstage at all, so maybe it's for the best that there's no live stuff out there.
No idea what happened to Bark Psychosis either, they just seemed to disappear off the radar after "Hex". Good album, though.
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Sir John Dunn
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Re: Bands you wish would reform
Jul 10, 2008, 18:27
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Wiggy wrote: Two bullets would reunite The Beatles!
Enough of that poop, Wiggy!
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