Force a band which has split up to reform for at least one more album

[Silas Loom]

A thought experiment to run alongside the split band grief thread. I think the band needs to have definitely split up, rather than being on hiatus, and it’s reasonable to dictate the line-up that you want to be forced into the recording studio, as long as all parties involved are still alive.

I’m not quite sure whether we can insist on the particular era of their career which the band should revisit, or whether they are allowed absolute creative freedom while otherwise confined, so that can be left to the poster’s discretion.

My choice is Finnish post-rockers Magyar Posse, who abandoned music due to “lack of interest and motivation” six years after their third and best album, Random Avenger, and I resent them for it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Their fourth album would be a disappointment

 

[danski]

Wham.

 

[Silas Loom]

Wham.

You are quite sure that all of the parties involved are still alive? Okay, let it be so.

 

[danski]

You are quite sure that all of the parties involved are still alive? Okay, let it be so.

You never said they had to all be alive. No less reasonable than reforming

 

[Silas Loom]

You never said they had to all be alive. No less reasonable than reforming

My reason for stipulating that was to make absolutely sure that there was no danger of any more Beatles, ever.

 

[pesh]

cause that rule has worked so well with The Stones.

 

[danski]

My reason for stipulating that was to make absolutely sure that there was no danger of any more Beatles, ever.

Oh fuck, was on my phone and missed it

 

[brogdale]

"Force"?

Why not something a lot more hippy like imagine?

 

[Silas Loom]

"Force"?

Why not something a lot more hippy like imagine?

You can substitute with “entice”, but an imaginary album would not work.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Struggling to think of a band that has reunited after a long break and done an album that was genuinely really good.

Madness is the only one that springs to mind.

 

[rubbershoes]

Struggling to think of a band that has reunited after a long break and done an album that was genuinely really good.

Madness is the only one that springs to mind.

Dexy's released One Day I'm Going to Soar in 2012, 27 years after their previous album.

 

[Yossarian]

I was going to say the Breeders but it turns out they got back together 25 years ago and have recorded 3 albums I was unaware of

 

[SpookyFrank]

Dexy's released One Day I'm Going to Soar in 2012, 27 years after their previous album.

But they were by then just Dexys, having lost the 'Midnight Runners' bit, so not really the same band at all.

 

[MickiQ]

Somehow I don't think a band being forced to record at gunpoint is going to do their best work.

 

[Silas Loom]

Somehow I don't think a band being forced to record at gunpoint is going to do their best work.

I don’t see any need for guns. Produce the album, get released from the studio. It’s a reasonable deal.

Or we could get them to comply willingly, using a danny la rouge kind of character, but who specialises in humans instead of dogs

Why does Urban always obsess over the details?

 

[JimW]

What about an earlier line-up of a band that's still going? Aly Bain and Dick Gaughan back in Boys of the Lough would be good, though one of the others from that era since died.

 

[twistedAM]

Clor

 

[Hollis]

How about the Teardrop Explodes with Cope, Dave Balfe, Paul Simpson, Troy Tate and Gary Dwyer. With Bill Drummond managing it all.

It would but utterly nuts, and, err, end in tears..

 

[belboid]

The Smiths.

But the album is just the sound of the others kicking the crap out of Morrissey (who would still demand the royalties from his 'lyrics').

 

[bellaozzydog]

Spacemen 3

 

[hash tag]

System of A Down. As far as I know, all band members are still living. Would like them to reform for another album as they might then do a few gigs and il like to go and see them.

 

[Brainaddict]

The Imagined Village (I know it's not quite a band)

 

[stavros]

Struggling to think of a band that has reunited after a long break and done an album that was genuinely really good.

Madness is the only one that springs to mind.

My Bloody Valentine? Daft Punk? Neither had officially split up by the time of mbv and Random Access Memories, but they had been on very long haitii.

Anyway, the answer to the question is The Delgados.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Fugazi

 

[The39thStep]

The Organ -just the brief one album of youthful melancholic post punk revival ennui wasn't really enough

 

[Steel Icarus]

Slint

 

[Hollis]

Struggling to think of a band that has reunited after a long break and done an album that was genuinely really good.

Madness is the only one that springs to mind.

Blur - The Ballad of Darren: up there with their best.

 

[hitmouse]

Yeah, it has to be a band who broken up after one really good album, to maximise the chances you'll get the best out of them... so first name that comes to mind is Life Without Buildings, if for whatever reason they're unavailable for kidnapping then Siddeleys or Shop Assistants or maybe Dolly Mixtures at a push?

 

[belboid]

Struggling to think of a band that has reunited after a long break and done an album that was genuinely really good.

Madness is the only one that springs to mind.

Magazine - No Thyself

Absolutely superb album.