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Has any band split up, then reunited and then gone on to make the best music of their career?
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by guyofthelondonzoo
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Umm
Mission of Burma maybe? Though I don't have all of their early stuff.
Hot Water Music
No Division
"Nothing Ever Lasts Forever" is up there with Echo & The Bunnymen's best songs.
Not sure they really sustained it over the album though (and obviously it wasn't so much "best" as "as good")
Leatherface
didn't surpass Mush, but Horsebox and the Hot Water Music split were both incredible. No dip in form anyway
Re Bunnymen
Oh, how I wish that were true! They're reformed stuff isn't bad, but nowhere near the genius of early 80s.
Dino Jr.s new album is pretty good
but probably still not as good as the early ones
Janes Addiction?
Strays was pretty awesome.
^
SO WRONG
guided by voices split up and then reunited when people started getting interested in the propeller album
Did they actually split up
or were they just planning to? Although Propeller was their best album anyway, so it doesn't really make a difference either way.
Agreed - Just Because rules!
lies
it was pretty cack when compared to Ritual and the Nothing's Shocking.
are QI style sirens going to off if anyone says
The Verve?
Yes
Take That.
(not a joke)
TAKE THAT!
7 MINUTES TOO LATE!
Presidents of the United States Of America
maybe...
The Diviosn Bell by Pink Flloyd is pretty cooland that was kinda after a break up
but it's not as good as darkside or wish you were here
Only one which could be true is Mission of Burma
I don't know about better, but their new stuff is certainly as good.
2wice and Nancy Reagan's Head are both up there with their best songs.
Simon & Garfunkel
Split after their 1st album (Wednesday Morning 3am) and then reformed about a year later. So all their famous stuff (bar the song Sounds of Silence) is technically post-reunion.
Mission of Burma and Dinosaur Jr both get honourable mentions for producing stuff that ranks alongside their original incarnations, but neither have recorded their best stuff after reuniting.
Not necessarily split up but replaced
prominent members or added to their line-up...
My Bloody Valentine - got rid of the old singer and co-songwriter, brought in Kevin Shields' girlfriend at the time Bilinda Butcher and went on to record 'You Made Me Realise', 'Isn't Anything' and 'Loveless'.
The Cure - numerous line-up changes before 'Head On The Door' and 'Disintegration', which many people argue for different reasons are their finest works.
Didn't radiohead kind of split after Pablo Honey?
no?
they
i just thought i'd throw that 'they' out there for you
.
Turbonegro
some would say Cursive
as people tend to prefer domestica onwards, not me though nothing tops their first album.
didn't weezer split up after pinkerton? ...MAKE BELIEVE!!!
^ winner of everything ^
^ best joke ever ^
^ gets funnier with every read ^
^ this joke has been itterated to perfection ^
janes addiction
^ this,
as it was above as well, is nonsense.
Take That
Duh.
The Wrens, Portishead
though I dunno if they "officially" broke-up...but the length of time between Meadowlands, Third respectively constitutes a break-up for all intents and purposes.
Did The Wrens break up?
I didn't know that.
Well
you probably heard they got into it with their record company after Secaucus and then they were on hiatus for 7 or 8 years ...but now it's been like 4 years since The Meadowlands, so maybe they just move ultra slow...
Oh right
Yeah, there was a huge gap between Secaucus and The Meadowlands. I think they were recording during that time, but as you say they just move really slow.
They're supposedly making a new album at the moment.
The Stooges.
arf!
The Verve
Can't agree with The Verve
sorry.
They were so much better as Verve.
I don't think
this is that controversial. Many would argue that 'Urban Hymns' is their best work.
^You're right...
In terms of THEIR career, it's the best music they ever made, in my humble little opinion.
Sales wise yes
so I suppose the "If sales = quality" argument were in place you'd be spot on.
To these ears though, 'A Storm In Heaven', 'Gravity Grave' and 'She's A Superstar' will always usurp the likes of 'Urban Hymns', 'Lucky Man' and 'Sonnet' by a country mile or three.
^
and I started this thread so my points count for double.
Sure thing
Although i'm more of A Northern Soul kind of guy
Though Slide Away makes me happy.
Duran Duran
Haven't heard all the album... but the Ordinary World song was better than any of the 80s 'classics', imo.
I'm holding out for Wham,
I reckon George and Andrew have unfinished business.