Bands you miss

[Shakey]

Soundgarden

[lithium]

Operation Ivy

Good call, forgot about them. Rancid sucks.

[Spent]

Hell yes Soundgarden, Kim was an awesome guitarist and the music they all made together rocked. STP are definitely done for good I heard there were fist fights the last concert.

[station82o]

Another vote for an At The Gates reunion... but their legacy is untarnished right now, as is Emperor's, so as much as I'd like a new album, perhaps its better for both those bands to be left alone.

[usagi]

Jawbreaker!!! saw em open for Nirvana when I was like 14, been into indie music ever since.

Crimpshrine. There is just something about drums that sound like you are hitting a garbage can. Punk is just to clean sounding now.

Operation Ivy. That one album(not counting bootlegs) was such a tease and the bands that formed afterwards don't come close. Well Downfall was good, but their cd was never released

Cap n' Jazz. Man does joan of arc suck

Braid. It's too bad emo gets grouped with shit like a simple plan and yellow card. Cause bands like Braid and Christie Front Drive deserve better.

Another vote for At the Drive In. While I enjoy some Mars Volta and Sparta songs, I think it just enoys me more cause I know they could be so much better together.

[Eirikur]

Cibo Matto
The Sugarcubes
The Causey Way
Portishead (They never officially broke up, but they haven't been heard from in over five years)

[Satsuki]

I miss The Police. Sting sucks balls.

He's not *that* bad on his own, but I really miss the Police sound. Because they had some of the best lyrics in history.

[Rtificial]

I didn't know Cibo Matto broke up.
Portishead are supposedly working on a new album. Their tour Dj put out a mix cd last year.

Here's my list

Psychopomps- German industrial band that would rip to shreads and make a song about it. I loved their we don't care attitude and songs about the most taboo things possible.

Klute/leatherstrip- Klaus larson was an electro/industrial world wind, but a flood took out his studio and he kinda quit afterwards.

Orbital- Yea they just now called it quits, but I miss em already. My heart hurts

Underworld- I wish Darren Emerson would get back in the group, cause you can tell he's gone.

Eric B and Rakim- Rakim just isn't the same without Eric B.

Pharcyde- They are still around but its like only 2 or 3 of the original guys. They are wack without the others.

Leftfield- They put out some classic electronic music back in the day.

The Revolting Cocks- I heard they are coming back with a new lineup. I'd rather have the whole original crew back. Al Jourgansen, Bill Rieflin, Luc Van Acker, Levi and a whole slew of other who's who of 90's industrial.

I'll think up more later.

[OGcritic]

Refused
Give up the Ghost/American Nightmare
At the Drive In
Operation Ivy
Faith No More
At the Gates
Coalesce

... and besides At the Drive In, none of their member's new projects live up to the original.

Another Vote for Operation Ivy.

[Dolemite]

He's not *that* bad on his own, but I really miss the Police sound. Because they had some of the best lyrics in history.

Let me expound on my original comment.

Loved the Police. LOVED 'EM. Own all the CDs, including the Box Set. My cousin actually found me an original nylon wall tapestry from the Ghost in the Machine album that I proudly display on my wall to this day.

Loved Sting's first 3 solo albums- Dream of the Blue Turtles, the live double CD Bring On the Night, and Nothing Like the Sun. I kept tabs on what Andy and Stewart were doing too, but I was a HUGE Sting fan...I even tracked down and watched all his movies...even really obscure stuff like Brimstone & Treacle and Julia & Julia.

Then, he took a break for a while and finally put out The Soul Cages in 1991. Something seemed different with that album...he was distancing himself from the Jazz Fusion that was the trademark on his first 2 albums. The musical arrangements were less lush and complex, the lyrics slightly less poignant. The whole thing seemed a bit more commercial and plain. Still a good album, mind you, but it had lost something compared to his earlier stuff.

Ten Summoner's Tales came out in 1993, and it continued the commercial trend, while mixing in horrific attempts at country(!) music. Actually, Sting was starting to come across more of a pop star wannabe at this point, which was an ill-fitting role for him. His lyrics likewise reflected this (de)evolution of his character...while he used to do work inspired by the writings of Carl Jung, introspective character studies, intelligent books and the worldwide human rights struggle, he was now writing goofy songs about cowboys. It was this point that he started popping up in Jaguar and Mac commercials.

The Demolition Man EP he released in the same year was decent, because it was mostly live preformances of old Police stuff and an okay cover of the Beatles' A Day in the Life, in addition to a totally shitty remake of Demolition Man for the Stallone/Snipes movie.

He released a Greatest Hits CD and some more live stuff. His next studio album was 1996's Mercury Falling. This was the album that killed it for me. The songs and lyrics were nearly braindead at this point. I really couldn't believe this was the guy that had done a song as beautiful, richly composed, and complexly layered as Children's Crusade. Everything was slow and bland sounding, but the biggest crime to me was the cliché-ridden lyrics. That man used to know how to write lyrical poetry...

I didn't pick up Brand New Day. Desert Rose was a cool song, but otherwise I ain't biting. I think he released something else recently but who knows.