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CountZero - Member

Don't know if anyone has put a similar thread before, but this is a regular topic of conversation over a couple of pints, whenever yet another old band gets back together. Anyways, one caveat, all the main original members must be alive and kicking, no 'one guy from an original four/five-piece', please. (Thin Lizzy springs to mind...)
Right, here's my list for starters, * marks those I never got to see first time around.
Genesis (Gabriel/Hackett line-up)*
Talk Talk*
Belly
Lush
Kenickie
Star 69
The Julie Dolphin
Curve
Pretty Girls Make Graves*
Catatonia
Creedence Clearwater Revival* (I think Satan will host the Winter Olympics before this one happens, tho')
Dark Star
Six by Nine
Dubstar
Mulu
Ten Thousand Maniacs
Screaming Trees
Soundgarden
Talking Heads
Tiger
Voice Of The Beehive
XTC* (about as likely as Creedence)

So let's see yours then.

Posted 4 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

Liitle Angels.....too posh to mosh, too good to last.

"I ain't gonna cry, baby, not even gonna think it over....."

And, of course, GNR, but I think we'll see hell freeze over before that happens!

Posted 4 years ago #
RichPenny - Member

Have seen half of Talk Talk live, with Beth Gibbons on vocals doing the Rustin Man stuff. That was very special.

Stone Roses was the first one that came to mind.

Posted 4 years ago #
ChrisL - Member

Faith No More - of course they have reformed, but the only date they're doing in the UK this year is a festival with a line-up that is otherwise of no interest to me. Hopefully next year they'll tour properly.

Posted 4 years ago #
ton - Member

the jam...........

Posted 4 years ago #
Nick - Member

nah, whats gone is gone, move on

Posted 4 years ago #
flyingmonkeycorps - Member

Did Pretty Girls Make Graves split up? They were good live!

I dunno if I'd want these bands to reform, but I would quite like to go back in time and see them at their peak...

Jawbreaker
Uncle Tupelo
Unitas
Soundgarden (totally with you on that one!)
The Pixies
The Dead Kennedeys
Minor Threat
Black Flag
Jurassic 5 (with Cut Chemist, they're not the same now!)
Texas is the Reason
Winter in June (although I did see them once)

Kenickie were ace live too and Tiger... I *think* I remember them. Gonna have to scour the record collection now...

Posted 4 years ago #
djglover - Member

The best bands NEVER split up

http://www.defleppard.com/

Posted 4 years ago #
sc-xc - Member

The only 2 bands I regret missing...

Have seen Sonic/Spiritualised/Darkside, but not Spacemen 3. Missed Culture Shock but have seen Citizen Fish/Subhumans a few times.

Posted 4 years ago #
sc-xc - Member

Jurassic 5 (with Cut Chemist, they're not the same now!)

too right.

djglover - have you seen this mighty epic?

Posted 4 years ago #
johnhoo - Member

Siouxsie & The Banshees
Shame Joe's dead, otherwise I'd have to say The Clash

other than that, nobody really

Posted 4 years ago #
theotherjonv - Member

The Smiths - but I suspect that's about as likely as Morrissey doing a corporate gig at the British Federation of Master Butchers.

Posted 4 years ago #
nickc - Member

Second the Smiths.

The Jam.
Au Pairs
Sundays

Posted 4 years ago #
CountZero - Member

Saw Beth and Rustin Man in Bristol. [hijack]Just got an email with dates for Massive Attack! Woo hoo, wasn't sure if they were going to be doing anything live, and they're playing Swindon Oasis. Result.[/end hijack]
Shame FTM aren't doing any dates this year, hopefully next. Never thought they'd ever get back together.

Posted 4 years ago #
xherbivorex - Member

can't believe someone mentioned texas is the reason on here... saw em ages ago in leeds, one of the best bands i've ever seen.
also, winter in june... hahaha!

personally, i'm not a fan of bands reforming really. they ended for good reason (usually) and should just move on. i think.
although i had to swallow my pride when lifetime played in leeds a year or so ago, and yeah it was worth the 10 year wait...

Posted 4 years ago #
slimtubing - Member

Can't beleieve the Mighty Husker Du not mentioned yet, for shame.

Posted 4 years ago #
shoefiti - Member

Yer at least they could earn a few bob out of it - to be honest 90% of the bands mentioned broke up for a damn good reason - that most likely being that a job in the local supermarket would pay more!

and remember kids

Home recording kills music.

Posted 4 years ago #
Pigface - Member

Husker Du were one of the best bands ever but getting them to reform, no no no no it would be awful. Can you imagine them trying to put there heart and soul into Chartered trip Away, Broken home broken heart, it would border on sacrilege.

Faith No More with out Jim Martin wont be the same either. I think its best to leave sleeping dogs lie.

Posted 4 years ago #
darrell - Member

only joking

Posted 4 years ago #
iseeadarkness - Member

Big Black
The Modern Lovers

And for Rapturefest: Minutemen...

Posted 4 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

Pink Floyd, with Waters and Gilmore.

Posted 4 years ago #
jobbyheid - Member

Specials, gotta be

Posted 4 years ago #
meehaja - Member

Specials are playing Leeds in a few weeks. best part of £50 if you want to ruin all your happy memories of what was a great band? IME never go and se your hero's when they reform... the only good one I saw was the Who, and if you shut your eyes they were amazing. If you looked at them, it was like my dad playing air guitar.

That said, I'd go see the Get Up Kids i they reformed. They were great live!

Posted 4 years ago #
SteveTheBarbarian - Member

Rammstein

Posted 4 years ago #
hora - Member

AFI- Please please play!

Rage Against the Machine in a small venue.

Rammstein- Yes again. I took my GF (hates metal) to see them and she loved it (especially mein teil). Loved the atmosphere, the showmanship and the mental bass that was around the venue.

Posted 4 years ago #
xherbivorex - Member

That said, I'd go see the Get Up Kids if they reformed. They were great live!

they did, last year. don't think it's ongoing though, but they definitely played a couple of shows in the U.S.
i preferred them before they added the keyboards though (i.e. "four minute mile" and prior)...

Posted 4 years ago #
xherbivorex - Member

Rage Against the Machine in a small venue.

smallest i saw them in was newcastle mayfair (i think 2000 capacity)... it was great.

Posted 4 years ago #
hora - Member

xherbivorex noooooo I do HATE you now!!! Noo.....

Posted 4 years ago #
hora - Member

Specials- I agree. I liked the old whistle test but not sure they'd have the same undercurrent now?

Same with simple Minds never seen them (too young) but would love to (and probably ruin my impression of them)

Ps. xherbivorex dont talk to me ever again. Call it insane jealousy.

Posted 4 years ago #
Haze - Member

Rage as already mentioned, Fugazi (although not technically split up)

Posted 4 years ago #
twohats - Member

can't believe someone mentioned texas is the reason on here... saw em ages ago in leeds, one of the best bands i've ever seen.

Was that the gig at the Duchess? I was at that gig and thought that at best, they were very average.

As for The Get Up Kids, they were pretty poor the 1st time around... IMO of course...

I saw Rage Against The Machine play in Manchester many moons ago, it were reet good...

Posted 4 years ago #
robdob - Member

Dire Straits. I love American punk mainly but if I had to have one album on a desert island it would be Alchemy Live by the the Straits. It just doesn't get any better.

Posted 4 years ago #
jojoA1 - Member

The Smiths (Saw them at Eden Court, Inverness in 87/88 I think and would have worked much harder to remember stuff if I'd known how significant they would be to me later. I touched Johnny Marr though!!! :))

Ben Folds 5

Posted 4 years ago #
jimster - Member

and remember kids

Home recording kills music.

I hate it when musicians/artists say this - if it wasn't for bootlegging most bands wouldn't be around, it was the easiest way to hear new bands/music, borrow an album of a mate - tape it and listen to it, if you liked it you'd go out and buy it.

Back On Topic, no-one - as has been mentioned bands split up for a reason.

Now if this were a "Bands you wished you'd seen" thread.....

Posted 4 years ago #
jimster - Member

djglover - Member
The best bands NEVER split up

http://www.defleppard.com/

Hate to admit this - first concert at the Malvern Winter Gardens was Def Leppard 1980.

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