They just finished playing "November Rain" on the radio where I live.
And it ocurred to me how much I miss Guns N'Roses.
They used to be my favorite band, back when Bush Sr. was still president!
They were supposed to be making a comeback... almost three years ago!
Another long gone/much missed band is one third of HA's "Holy Trinity", which consists of: EAC, FB2k and Pink Floyd (almost anyone here loves this stuff, I do!)
Does anyone have any idea if they will ever come back?
So, how about you?
Who do you miss, and why?
Please, no dead people here, just bands that may actually come back.
Vlad Tepes
It's like asking an old boxer to make a comeback, but for me, the Pixies or the Smiths. Whilst there've been rumblings of a Pixies return, any such comeback wouldn't probably do either band justice. But (breaking the spirit of your thread) if someone/something ever managed to resurrect Jeff Buckley or Jimi Hendrix...
It's like asking an old boxer to make a comeback, but for me, the Pixies or the Smiths. Whilst there've been rumblings of a Pixies return, any such comeback wouldn't probably do either band justice. But (breaking the spirit of your thread) if someone/something ever managed to resurrect Jeff Buckley or Jimi Hendrix...
Throw in Jeff's dad, Tim.
The Afghan Whigs. They stopped at their zenith while their star still shone bright.
Well since their leadsinger, main songwriter and primus motor, Greg Dulli, still is quite active in his "own" new band, Twilight Singers, the loss is more tolerable.
But I'd still love a reunion.
Prince & The Revolution (add Sheila E. on drums)
He's been floundering lately, and I really like to see what he could stir up with the old band.
Claudia Brücken (of solo and Act/Propaganda fame)
Ever since I heard her solo album in 1991 I've been waiting for a followup or at least a solid collaboration.
I'd like to see what Sly (and the Family) Stone might come up with should he/they ever become active again.I don't miss him, but I'd like to see what he could come up with after such a long hiatus.
Edit: added Prince
I really miss Nirvana.
I always had the impression they had so much more great music "in them". Kurt Cobain was a great singer/songwriter, and it's generally known that he had the strong desire to keep evolving and improving.
"You Know You're Right" shows that there was still so much potential in the band...
Red Snapper, since they splitted up two years ago.
Prince & The Revolution (add Sheila E. on drums)
Definitely. I also miss the
Dirty Mind/Controversy era Prince.
Also, pre-
The Game Queen.
Rob
I miss the band "Grey Daze"
Another long gone/much missed band is .. Pink Floyd
Does anyone have any idea if they will ever come back?
A remnant "Pink Floyd" still exists, but they aren't planning to do anything new (as a band that is). What we might see are 5.1 mixes and DVD's from older work.
Personaly, I'm looking forward to the PULSE DVD
the Smiths
Swing Kids
Unbroken
Negazione
Phil Ochs
and a lot of others
the Smiths
Swing Kids
Unbroken
Negazione
Phil Ochs
and a lot of others
Unbroken... I can't say that I actually miss them, since I'm too young, but I'd kill myself to see them live again... :(
Indian Summer, At The Drive-In, Refused.
Damn me for being so young.
The Bags.
http://www.probstein.com/bags.shtml (http://www.probstein.com/bags.shtml)
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0054.txt (http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0054.txt)
Sublime
Don't miss Guns'n'Roses. They'll be soon back ad definately as the other metal bands from the 80s and early 90s. The record stores are currently selling re-released 80s metal. There were re-releases of Guns'n'Roses, Motörhead, Vasp etc in the shelves of the local record store last Saturday. Everything else from the eighties coming back also; Lacoste, Miami Vice (Isn't your local tv-channel showing it? If not it'll be back in two years.), Boss. I'm just waiting for those neon colored clothes to come back.
Ps. I'm completely seroius with this.
Don't miss the eighties/early nineties they'll be here before you know. The producers are also browsing through their archives. Before you know it the New Kids On The Block will be back!
The Smashing Pumpkins...great music
The Smiths: Morrissey and Johnny Marr have been taking defferent paths for so long. But maybe that's better this way...
Noir Désir who are from the same city as me, already and sadly (those who know what happened to their singer will easily guess why)...
Love: they played a gig in Paris last year (but not with the original line-up, only Arthur Lee was there with some young musicians) but I couldn't be there. And I doubt that will happen before soon.
The Apartments, my very personal cult band.
Edit: sorry, some dead people that I had to remove.
Leftfield
Genesis (wi' Gabriel)
The Smiths
Skinny Puppy
Bob Marley
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Or is it better that they are gone now and not morphed / degenerated into something different than what we fell in love with them for...?
Nirvana!
The original Black Sabbath (With Ozzy)
Great muzak.
Metal bands mostly:
Emperor
In The Woods... (the live was so great)
And the most important
Faith No More
Alcohollica.
(Or, should I say, early Metallica?)
The Marvelous 3.
At least Butch Walker has his solo material now...
Here are a couple I haven't seen mentioned yet... although I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
Moby Grape (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70310270211&sql=B37d1vwmva92k): The grape were poised to be "the next big thing" in the mid sixties. They had everything, including five brilliant musicians, all of whom could both sing and write. And what happened? They signed a managerial contract with Matthew Katz, who personally ruined more bands in the early San Franciscan scene than anyone else. Not from a dislike of the bands or their music, but from personal greed - which extended to laying claim to all the band's recordings, and even their name! After many, many prolonged legal battles with Katz, the Grape have finally reclaimed their name... but only time will tell if Katz legal hijinx have truly been laid to rest.
Captain Beefheart (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70310270211&sql=B6b3tk6dx9krd): Don/Van Vliet has spent the past decade low on the horizon, painting pretty pictures and dealing with multiple sclerosis. But his early sixties recordings were some of the most incendiary ever to be committed to tape. During the past year, a hodge-podge of the Captain's assorted cronies from various lineups of the Magic Band (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70310270211&sql=A69kbu3uaan4k) reassembled to record an album's worth of rehearsals and play some festivals... but Captain Beefheart remains as elusive and enigmatic as ever.
- M.
> Pink Floyd (IMO they broke up in 1983)
> The Police (I miss this band a lot)
(...and more recently...)
> Hole (...Riot grrrl...Yeah baby! They were just getting their sh*t together with Live Through This and Celebrity Skin...oh well...between heroin and hatred I guess there was no hope for them)
> The B-52's (the definitive new wave band)
I like all of these bands so much that I have all of their albums (except for the live PF's). What I wouldn't give for any of them to get back together...
Heh, pretty funny that Pink Floyd is mentioned several times here while they officially never broke up.
Pink Floyd still exists today, although I don't think they will release new work again.
OTOH, maybe you all mean you want the original Pink Floyd, with Roger Waters back ? Or maybe even with Syd Barrett ?
Heh, pretty funny that Pink Floyd is mentioned several times here while they officially never broke up.
Pink Floyd still exists today, although I don't think they will release new work again.
OTOH, maybe you all mean you want the original Pink Floyd, with Roger Waters back ? Or maybe even with Syd Barrett ?
Personally, I consider
the real Pink Floyd to have disbanded after the Roger Waters' farewell album,
The Final Cut in 1983.
After that,
The David Gilmour WeWannaBeAsMeaningfulAsWeWereWhenWeWerePinkFloydBecauseWeMissThoseDays Band released
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason in 1987, and finally
The Division Bell in 1994 (with some compilations in between).
Just my own view of things, anyway.
Black Sabbath
All four original members were playing together during a couple Ozzfests. I think they even released a reunion CD of some sort (with a couple new songs even.)
Soundgarden was the first thing that popped into my mind upon seeing this topic, even though I don't own a single CD of theirs. I heard a SG song on the radio the other day, and the first thing that occured to me was "hey, this is really f***ing good - way better than I remember it." Actually, the first thing that occured to me was that it would make for extremely difficult karaoke, but that's another topic entirely...
I think at the time when it was still new, the radio was oversaturated with a lot of music that sounded alike, and it made it hard to pick out the few good things. I hate listening to the radio today too. I can't think of hardly any music I've liked over the past several years that has gotten any airtime. Maybe five or ten years down the road I'll hear some song that was new this year but I never noticed because of the endless sea of overplayed crap.
I really miss Nirvana. So much feeling in the music, something definitely lacking with most of the music out there today.
Smashing Pumpkins is another band. Could play the most pissed off song one moment and the most delicate piano song the next.
Led Zeppelin would probably still be recording albums today if their drummer didn't die. Classic Rock at its best.
What I would give to see Pink Floyd in concert just once. They were gone by the time I discovered them.
nobody mentioned The Beatles?
For me the most missed artist is John Lennon. There's no artist where I get what he's saying so well. And he had the most amazing personality ever.
Timoria (an italian rock band)
Personally, I consider the real Pink Floyd to have disbanded after the Roger Waters' farewell album, The Final Cut in 1983.
well, "the final cut" is a roger waters solo album performed by the help of two other pf members.
imho "the division bell" is more floydian than roger's "final cut", "pros & cons" and "radio kaos" are. I like roger's "amused to death".
The Queen, The Who and The Genesis
Timoria (an italian rock band)
Me too..
On the GNR subject, they released a set of DVDs for appetite and the use your illusions a few weeks ago, I sprang for them since they were under 20 dollars each, so if you need your axl fix since he's essentially a recluse now, they're worth it. I kind of feel like axl should have died before "the spaghetti incident" and the "kicking the crap out of stephanie seymour incident"-compared to the cheese that defined the era, the guy had the morrison/cobain aura to him. I suppose we knew it was all over with them when axl decided he wouldn't allow women in his videos post-novermber rain, giving us the computer generated dolphins that were "estranged", incidentally my favorite of theirs.
nobody mentioned The Beatles?
For me the most missed artist is John Lennon. There's no artist where I get what he's saying so well. And he had the most amazing personality ever.
I would of mentioned them but for the first post:
Please, no dead people here, just bands that may actually come back.
I would have to say I miss Acid Bath. They had so much potential... They were already great, but you could feel something huge on the horizon for them, until Audie was killed. That was truly a sad day for me.
Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, MBV...
Not that I want them back in any form though. Split-ups are healthy thing, generally.
Reunions on the other hand are mostly rubbish. Just think of Sex Pistols.
Acid Bath.
I consider them one of my alltime favorite bands but one of the dudes died or something after only releasing 2 albums. What is especially torturous is they were gonna release a third "double" album but at the last minute pulled the project. bastards.
I'd love to see the Pixies together again.
Same goes for the spanish bands "Surfin' Bichos" and "El niño gusano", and the french one "Diabologum".
Man I miss them.
"Dead Can Dance"
and a project named
"This Mortal Coil" B)
The Miles Davis Quintet/Sextet (from the mid-fifties to early sixties)...
boney M.
They just finished playing "November Rain" on the radio where I live.
And it ocurred to me how much I miss Guns N'Roses.
They used to be my favorite band, back when Bush Sr. was still president!
They were supposed to be making a comeback... almost three years ago!
Another long gone/much missed band is one third of HA's "Holy Trinity", which consists of: EAC, FB2k and Pink Floyd (almost anyone here loves this stuff, I do!)
Does anyone have any idea if they will ever come back?
So, how about you?
Who do you miss, and why?
Please, no dead people here, just bands that may actually come back.
Glen Miller. Really smooth sound. And, yes I'm a senior citizen.
Sorry. Didn't see the 'no dead people' restraint. Did I mention that I'm a senior citizen? I can't remember.
Sorry. Didn't see the 'no dead people' restraint. Did I mention that I'm a senior citizen? I can't remember.
LMAO.
I see a few people have already mentioned the Pixies. When they reformed and did Bam Thwok it was a bit of a disappointment though.
Another vote here for Soundgarden; Superunknown was superb. I do enjoy Audioslave, but I'd rather have RATM and Soundgarden around.
That said, I'm not sure that I agree with bands reforming. There is often a good reason that bands split.
Also, you could say that, without the break-ups we'd never have bands like Audioslave, Foo Fighters, Johnny Marr would never have played with The The, and of course not forgetting Phil Collins and Zwan...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
I was able to at least see them once in concert. Probabaly the best live show I have seen, and I've seen my share...
As far as I know, they are no longer together as this group. They have quite a few side-projects, but not quite the same.
pantera =(
The Glenn Miller Orchestra. (I'm old. So?)
It seems I only listen to solo artists or bands that are still going strong.
The only band I can think of at the moment is ABBA. o_O
The Glenn Miller Orchestra. (I'm old. So?)
In the Digital Mood.
Paul
Underworld with Emerson. Orbital. Mike and Rich.
I'll add my voice to those mourning Floyd with Barrett and Nirvana. Or maybe the Deep Purple line up around the time of Machine Head...
;_;
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
It's funny that a good amount of the bands mentioned in this topic actually have reformed since the thread was started, Led Zep, Police, Pixies.
Just goes to show that if you wait long enough most of them do eventually get back together.
I saw The Pixies in '04 and it may not have been the same as it was back in their heyday, I never saw them back then, but it was a pretty sweet show IMO.
The Band
Transatlantic
Transatlantic
That's funny, I just stumbled on this topic today, and this is the same band that came to my mind.
The Velvet Underground.
Oh, and Pink Floyd, of course...
I really miss The Who and The Beatles.. I wish I was even born to see them live.. but I found some really good stuff nowadays.. that have influences from them like Wolfmother, and this new band called The Black Summer Crush. They really have this 70's influence in their music.. and its kinda blended with some new sounds.. pretty sick stuff. check them out.
Several bands I like are now broken up, but most still have at least a possibility of reuniting. Of the ones that do not, I'd say I miss Led Zeppelin the most.
Captain Beyond
and
Iron Butterfly... luckily Iron Butterfly are meant to be releasing a new studio album this year
Devil Doll, ildjarn, isengard (nor), storm (nor), burzum
Still Decapitated...Vitek had a great voice and big talent...but he died
Dead Kennedys and Refused.
Don't see either happening, though.
Slowdive.
Reunite. Please.
Rip, Rig and Panic
The Smiths
23 Skidoo
Clock DVA
Cocteau Twins
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era)
Rage Against The Machine
Buffalo Tom
Pavement
Luna
Galaxie 500
Guided By Voices
The beatless
The Beatles
Cocteau Twins
Curve
Dead Can Dance
New Order
New Order lives.
New Order lives.
The wikipedia article made it sound terminal.
Well Hooky left and says they're dead, and he seems pretty adamant this time. I can't see the band continuing with just the two of them. I wasn't a fan the last two albums anyway - I think they've had a long enough run.
The TRUE Pink Floyd.....I mean the Syd pre-The Wall - oriented PF
The TRUE Pink Floyd.....I mean the Syd pre-The Wall - oriented PF
Is that the same idea as behind the saying "REAL FOOD".
Paul
Transatlantic
Miss them no longer.
http://www.transatlanticweb.com/ (http://www.transatlanticweb.com/)
Let's see how long it takes...
Gentle Giant is also reformed (called Rentle Giant) btw.
By the way, if it isn't obvious the band I miss the most is Yes, the real deal with Jon Anderson as opposed to the tribute band guy they have doing the singing for them presently.
By the way, if it isn't obvious the band I miss the most is Yes, the real deal with Jon Anderson as opposed to the tribute band guy they have doing the singing for them presently.
More than that, I miss the Yes with Bill Bruford behind the kit. Alan White is a fine drummer, but he's a bit too rock 'n' roll for my taste. Kinda like having Captain Beyond without Bobby Caldwell. Or Zeppelin without Bonzo.
The Duskfall.
And Sepultura. Yes. Sepultura. The last 10 years have been another band completely.
Dire Straits
Electric Light Orchestra
The Original Pink Floyd (with Syd Barret)
Fleetwood Mac like it was in the 80s
The Who
I miss
1.)Dr. Hook
2.)The Kinks
3.)The Doors
But I found this new band has influences from all of the above. If you're interested, they're called The Greening! You can check them out at www.myspace.com/thegreening. My fav song is Sunday Afternoon
=p
I miss the band INXS, on the pre - Hutchence era.
The band still exists, but not the same success as before.
I miss Nirvana (Kurt Cobain) too.
Hutchence & Kurt Cobain, both suicide.