reunions

Bands who SHOULD reunite: Devo, Cop Shoot Cop, the Stranglers (with Hugh Cornwell, I mean), the original Modern Lovers

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(all reunions are bad, by the way)

part of me wants the pixies to record a new album and another part of me wants them to tour endlessly playing nothing but old songs until they become a tired oldies act.

both Wire reunion albums (The Ideal Copy and Read and Burn) are arguably the highlights of their catalogue.

Devo never really broke up, did they? They play corporate bullshit things every few years.

Yeah, this is kinda true. They just played some big thing for Nike in LA (and they're doing again this summer in NYC). But, they did go into a hibernation period (not having a record deal to speak of'll do that to ya, I guess). Supposedly, Jerry doesn't want the band to record again, but the other gents are up for it. Cynical bastard, he.y

(though i do admit to getting a decent amount of pleasure from seeing the reunited go-betweens. but then again, i got just as much pleasure out of seeing forster and mclennan do back-to-back solo sets, so they could've just kept doing that instead.)

That's a pretty big impediment, though, don't you think? T

Was kind of curious about the Urinals reunion album (with rare early Bee Gees b-side cover version), but not enough to spend fourteen dollars or something.

I'm a big fan of the new Burma, Wire,Go Betweens, and Soft Boys discs. Per an earlier thread, I think I'd like to see Gabriel-era Genesis reunite. Blondie's been pretty sucky since reuniting. Missed Radio Birdman.

Possibly Levi from My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (who also played for the Jah Wobble-less Damage Manual).

I met a girl a few weeks ago who told me Pavement played a one-off show in Portland "at my boyfriend's party". I wasn't sure how to take that. Besides, it's not a reunion w/out Gary Young

Deep Purple's reunion turned ugly down the line, but the first record 'Perfect Strangers' is pretty good, if you like the band.

Some friends saw the Urge OK tour a few weeks back and said it was fun. They weren't exactly the tightest live band when they were around the first time.

Isn't there one member of Cop Shoot Cop that ripped off a bunch of gear from the rest of the band?

That depends on who you ask. Phil Puleo and Natz claim that Tod [A] ripped off a sampler from them, whereas Tod maintains that it was compensation for monies owed. In any case, they don't get along at all well (or even acknowledge each other's existence, for the most part) -- so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a reunion. Moreover, after "Suck City" (the lyrics of which decrying the entire concept of reunion tours), it'd seem a bit hypocritical. Ain't never gonna happen, basically. Still, it'd be fun to hear "Shine On Elizabeth" or "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose" one more time.

(All the same, their pending reunion album can't but suck, I imagine.)

I heard great things about those Rocket From The Tombs shows...

Well, technically, it woulda been his instrument (being that Cripple Jim/Phylr/JF Coleman was, indeed, the sampler player in the band), so it'd make sense. Oddly, I think he's the least upset by the dissolution of the band.