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Seeing as it seems to be quite the rage with the Roses and the Mondays, it was all looking good
Until now. Six music are presently playing the new single by....
The Levellers.
They've got an album coming out! Dear God! Its bloody awful! As bad, or worse than you'd expect. Please, please make it stop! 🙁
Your nominations for a band who's members you would actually murder if they threatened to re-form, go on tour and get their woeful noise play-listed on six music
Where's my gun?
On the plus side, I hear Ugly Kid Joe are working on an EP as a prequel to a full return, which I am actually looking forward to.....
Showing my age a bit there...... 😉
I used to quite like The Levellers but then I did once own 1/6 of a Bedford Sherpa van and each of us painted our 1/6 with whatever we wanted. Maybe there is a bit of crusty in me.
"There's only one
Levellers song
And this is it this is it this is it"
And my nomination would be Milli Vanilli 🙂
Oasis...
And if only Coldplay would split up....
Speaking of which..
Whatever happend to [i]makecoldplayhistory[/i] on here ❓
I think I must black that kind of thing out, I can't think of any.
Really sorry about Whitney Houston tho, cos we now have to hear her dreadful version of that song belted out on every news report.
The only consolation being that Dolly Parton will be raking in the royalties (she buys books for poor children).
Roses and the Mondays!
The Beatles. The two talented ones are dead.
The Levellers have never split up, which invalidates their entry on the 'Bands that Should Never Reform' list ...
But still, I wish they'd stop making records, they're awful* 🙂
(*standard interwebs caveat: "IMO")
I went out with a girl who'd been seeing one of the Levellers and I always felt a bit odd about it
Anyway, had they split?
Reformed bands are never that good are they.
Apart from the nostalgia factor
The Levellers never actually [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers_(band) ]split up, it says here[/url]. They probably just ended up playing gigs to five stoned crusties and a dog for a decade or so. I have to confess to having a soft spot for them, I was a fan when I was 15, and they're so earnest, so very, very earnest, bless 'em. Wouldn't want to listen to their records again though, heavens no.
I was going to nominate The Cranberries as the band that shouldn't be allowed to reform, but apparently I'm too late, they got back together in 2009. God I **** hate The Cranberries.
Reformed bands are never that good are they.
As a rule I agree, but I saw Pulp last year, and they were absolutely bloody marvellous.
I saw pulp last year too and it was a sing-a-long nostalgia fest
God, the Levellers. Time to go to the bar everytime they played that shit "down the Poly"!
Easier to avoid this time.
Did I just read someone getting excited about new Ugly Kid Joe music.. 😆
I hate loads of bands, so can't pin it down to one I would get upset about...
Reformed bands are never that good are they.
I saw Faith No More at Donington a couple of years ago, and they kicked bottom.
Reformed bands are never that good are they.
I saw Faith No More when they reformed and they were awesome.
I quite liked the Cranberries.
However, if I never hear another Spandau Ballet song, I won't be disappointed.
I had the 'pleasure' of seeing Roxy Music at Bestival. Is it me, or does Bryan Ferry sound like Vic Reeves' club singer?
B*witched
[i]B*witched[/i]
Wash your mouth! I'll not have that fine band of denim-dressed Irish lovelies knocked!
if I never hear another Spandau Ballet song, I won't be disappointed
True?
^^^^^ very clever
the smiths
double post
B*witched
Now we're in to the realms of bands that should never have formed, never mind re-form ...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience...
AndyP - Member
The Beatles. The two talented ones are dead.
Paul McCartney: "I couldn't have put it better myself, John."
John Lennon: "Yeah, I know."
I saw pulp last year too and it was a sing-a-long nostalgia fest
Yeah, fair enough. Bloody marvellous sing-a-long nostalgia fest, though.
I think most of them [i]have[/i] reformed, it's just that the world didn't care.
But I'd be [b]really[/b] happy if Blur would just f off into the distance and not come back. If Damon could also make sure that the ex-Mrs Damon's terrible Elastica followed to the Great Indy Landfill, that'd be splendid.
Oh, and Damon? Take Gorillaz with you as well, eh, and The Bad, The Worse And The Whiny while you're at it.
Go on, f off back to Colchester, you git.
I'm not even going to talk about The Darkness.
Junkyard - Member
double post
Worth it tho, just to stress the point.. 😉
I'm not even going to talk about The Darkness
Not sure about Justin's new look, but they were rather good on the comeback tour late last year..... part of me still thinks he should have carried on with Hot Leg..... awaits new album with interest before passing final judgement.
+1 for Oasis
IHN - Member
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Don't worry, one of them is now providing backing vocals for Whitney.
Please don't let REM reform, they had run their once brilliant course.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
They're all dead. 😥
Black Sabbath!
Dexys, oops, too late....
Please don't let REM reform, they had run their once brilliant course.
Someone texted in to 6 music to say that when they heard REM had split up it was like hearing someone you thought had died 10 years ago had just died.
Pink floyd.
Droning, depressing 70s bollocks that was crap then and still crap now. The only reason so many people like them is because most people are, by nature, dull.
The Levellers - there's only one way of life and that's your own. Sung in unison by 30,000 people in a field
Reforms arnt all bad. I nearly wet a little when i heard at the drive in and refused were back! Just need some UK dates now....
Reformed bands are never that good are they.
Not true. I've seen the reformed Big Country twice in the last 12 months and they've been amongst the best gigs I've seen in years.
Bewitched.....too bloody awful for words
But I'd be really happy if Blur would just f off into the distance and not come back. If Damon could also make sure that the ex-Mrs Damon's terrible Elastica followed to the Great Indy Landfill, that'd be splendid.
Oh, and Damon? Take Gorillaz with you as well, eh, and The Bad, The Worse And The Whiny while you're at it.
Go on, f off back to Colchester, you git.
I'm not even going to talk about The Darkness.
Really don't like music very much, do you.
Elastica? Are you old enough to even remember them? They were great live, saw them a couple of times, but no-one has ever suggested they are likely to reform. Blur are a much better band with more musical facets than most of their contemporaries, Gorillaz a good fun, and Damon's other sidelines are at least musical and don't rely on identikit sampled beats and featureless autotuned vocals, like most of what gets played on Radio 1 and Kiss FM.
Go on, admit it, you don't like Albarn and Blur because you think he's posh and you're an inverted snob.
I think bands should only be allowed to reform if they are the same weight as when they started. I'm thinking New Order in particular.
I wish Janes Addiction hadn't reformed and I know it was ages ago but They were ace and now I can't distinguish them from U2 now. Some bands just have there time and should be remembered for the good times a bit like one off tv shows that don't get milked to death.
C'Mon Lennon did some toss once Yoko got the claws in him. A couple of classics swamped by dross imho. And then, no offense being dead means your ability to to do worse (or better) disappears. Funny how edgy folk are always seen as talented while anyone who tries to be pleasant/normal is rubbish. I personally feel L&M had equal amounts of good and bad.
The Levellers never split up- they just went into festival management. Good move in my book.
The Rolling Stones
To quote Viz, 'Save money on buying Big Country's Greatest Hits by just buying one of their singles and playing it over and over again'.
+2 for Oasis.
Plus Big Country without Stuart Adamson is just wrong.
[i]Plus Big Country [s]without Stuart Adamson[/s] is just wrong[/i]
Fixed 😉
[i]Really don't like music very much, do you.[/i]
Au contraire! I'd say that kind of vitriol could only come from someone who likes music very much.
Lightning Seeds and Cranberries. The bloody Cranberries have just done the dirty. ' Oim so ****ing Oirish I'm more ****ing Oirish than you my whole career is based on me being ****in Oirish,'
And definitely the beautiful south. Can solo people reform? If they can Paul Young, Alison Moyet and Fergal Sharkey. My 80s death list.
The levellers haven't split up. I've seen them live at least once a year for as long as I can remember, but I'll be on the lookout for doppelgängers.
God I love the Levs.
EDIT: missed eviljoes post.
Inspiral carpets are touring with the Mondays, that's just going to be awful isn't it?
Chesney Hawkes anyone?
[url= http://louderthanwar.com/featured/win-tickets-to-lakefest-2012 ]No really.[/url]
Plus Big Country without Stuart Adamson is just wrong.
I went along initially with pretty low expectations. However the new singer (Mike Peters) is a superb replacement. He doesn't try to be another Stuart (he never could be) but does his own thing instead. What you have is a band with a whole new lease of life, that also is a celebration of Stuart's music.
It's personal taste of course, but having seen the "new" Big Country twice now I've realised I'm still just as big a fan as I always was.
Extreme - if ever there was a band with th wrong name.
Get the funk out I ask you.
Rather see bewitched back.
Any of those indistinguishable early 90s bands:
Kula Shaker
The La's
East 17 etc
Deacon Blue
(thanks to Ton for reminding me of the band at the very top of my hate list 😉 )
+1 for Jane's Addiction, a once great band trashing their legacy comprehensively.
I think Kula Shaker had a go at it a couple of years ago, but nothing much came of it (unsurprisingly).
One of the highlights of Xmas tv was seeing that Westlife's "last ever performance" was on. Didn't watch it, but glad it happened, so I'd be disappointed if they went back on it.
I think I saw some where that Gene had reformed - wtf!
nick off with your whiny smithslite bollox i say.
No problem with Blur - i took Senorita J to see them for one of our early dates circa "theres no other way" - Damon Albarn is a very clever fella.
Big country without SA - nein danke.
Levelers first album - side two - the last track was ok if i recall...
Steps
Skooch
Take That. Oh...
Any band you liked shouldn't reform. At best it's nostalgia, at worst it's trashing your fond memories.
Blur - OK in the studio but incompetent live. Their performance at Leeds in 1999 was one of the most embarrassing shows I have ever seen. And the guitar work on their live album was second rate covers band level.
The Levellers by contrast were superb at Dalby a few years back - but then the venue was spot on for them.
What tyres for Dalby (Levellers stage)?
Chesney Hawkes anyone?
How the hell can a solo act reform? (Michael Jackson aside)
I've actually seen Monsieur Hawkes live, albeit accidentally. He was, it pains me to say, really really good, very self-aware, and an all-round top bloke.