![]() A case in point is Dinosaur Jr, who may have scored the greatest reformation ever.įor a long time, many of us considered a Dinosaur Jr reunion to be about as likely as it was for a multiply bankrupt, compulsively lying real estate mogul with a periwig fashioned from Big Bird’s ass feathers to become a viable contender for the highest office in American government, but stranger things have happened. ![]() But there’s no point in having a pop at every single band that gets back together simply for the very act getting back together, because the fact of the matter is that some of them do it very well indeed. Adam Lambert is not the reincarnation of Freddie Mercury, Courtney Love can’t just plaster the word “Hole” across any old mob of random nobodies and The Spice Girls’ 2007 comeback single “Headlines” was not all I’d hoped it would be. You’ve just got to deal with it, Heston.īy all means criticize the acts that do it badly. ![]() Like them or loathe them, reformations are just a part of life like death, taxes and the fact that you will never finish Ulysses because you’d prefer to spend your ever-dwindling time on this planet reading blogs about fuzz-rock reunions. But kneeling in your loincloth, punching the wet sand and damning them all to hell isn’t going to change anything. They blew up their legacies, obliterating your beloved memories in the process. That’s right, they finally did it, the maniacs. “It’s been so long I can’t actually remember if you guys even split up in the first place,” they said of My Bloody Valentine, “but either way we’re still tremendously outraged.” And all with the effectiveness of Charlton Heston shouting at the Statue of Liberty’s blank face at the end of Planet Of The Apes. ![]() “What the hell is this?” they asked the Smashing Pumpkins when Billy Corgan turned up with a couple of strangers and occasionally his original drummer. “You’re only in it for the money!” they yelled when hipster entrepreneurs LCD Soundsystem reformed approximately seven minutes after their “final” show. “Sell outs!” they bellowed at the Sex Pistols two decades after they’d been manufactured by a fashion svengali. People like to throw their rattles out of the stroller whenever a vintage band reunites. ![]()
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