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Redline wrote:Horsewhip wrote:

Crap if they decide to do a new record.

How crap? It would be a major bonus to hear a new record, regardless if it lives up to someone's preconceived hype or not. Who cares? What are you leaving space in your record collection for, a new Sugar Ray cd?

Lemme get this straight: you're all for Slint sullying their legacy with a shitty reunion album? If the album is good, that's one thing, but post-reunion albums rarely are. Okay, so the new Misson Of Burma is pretty good, and Wire's last couple of records were pretty okay.

Still: Most reunion albums are CRAP. It's an undebatable fact. I would love for Slint to prove me wrong, but they'd still be the exception and not the rule. I don't want to produce a list right now, but if you'd like one, I'd be more than happy to deliver one.

As excited as I am at the possibilty of seeing Slint live, does this move strike anyone else as a bit calculated? Slint are one of those bands that I always knew would reuinte, just like the Pixies.

Hmm. If cards are played right, and the mystery remains....
Why the hell did they break up anyway?

I think, on a selfish level, I never saw them live, so I'm willing to 'ruin the legacy' to see them actually play. Rumour has it, they're just going to play old songs.

It's also been FIFTEEN years roughly.
Listen, these guys are obviously responsible enough to know exactly what to do. If they orchastrated the mystery up till now so evenly, they'll take care.

Pajo wont play?

What they need to do is an ATP that really slays here in the US. The ones in LA so far have been lame. It'd be hard enough for me to scrape together $$ just to go to that, not to mention London? Fuck that! I hate saving money! And then the four Shellac dates. I am in deep despair. I do hope that Slint are planning to play in the US.

I'm far more interested in seeing a reunited Slint than I was at the prospect of the Pixies reuniting.

If they were to make a new album though, I'd give it a better chance of being at least somewhat good, based on all the projects Pajo and McMahan have been involved with.

Maybe someone out there has a enough money to get Mould, Hart, and Norton in the same room again.

Did they ever really "break up" does it really have to be a "reunion" this is the kind of thinking that killed Barry White you know.

i dont really need to see this band live, i see them every other weekend in some boring opening band. (half joking) theyre pioneers, spiderland is great, but this is a fucking cheap deal man.

CRAP

I guess it all depends on the quality, but I'm fucking geeked. Not crap.

The only time I could ever give credence on a band reforming (“On Reformingâ€

who gives a flying fuck whether or not they live up to a "legacy"?

really, 8 crap votes? for what? because you're scared that they won't be as good as an album you really like (which, by the way, they wrote)? if you don't like the band, that's reasonable. but to treat a band like you know what's best for them, or to hold them to some standard that you invented for them, is idiotic.



-noah

ahem...

it should be _7_ crap and _12_ not crap, my bad.

the gigantic waffle of legendary preportions remains on my vote though.

usually, in my limited experience, when bands get back together its either extremely not crap, or extremely crap, its all up in the air. usually theres a good reason they broke up and moved on, never to return (the exception being mission of burma).

but i agree, its not our places to dictate what sort of legacy they should live up to. but i think it is our role, as fans, to have an opinion on the matter.