Me, typing that brief-ass headline after letting that news simmer for a few days.
Last spring, I wrote a fabulous blog entitled "Top 10 Bands That Need to Grow Up, Reunite, and Tour Again."
Since its publishing, Blink-182 officially reunited, Noel Gallagher (Oasis) beefed with Matty Healy about being too childish to reconcile with his brother, and Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) died. Those three situations perfectly encapsulate the highs and lows of exactly why I wrote that blog in May '22. I'm a big "we're all gonna die someday, so we might as well make life as great as possible" guy, so the current state of apathy and, dare I say, admiration of fascism in the United States by way too many (primarily unintelligent) people is a major bummer. It blows my mind how many people are into making the world shittier, and that laundry list of people includes whoever tf made this post for Spin Magazine's IG. This misleading headline is straight out of Fox News.
Now if you click on the link in their bio, you'll see they're just doing a Q and A during the 40th anniversary of Stop Making Sense, but that function is still not super user-friendly, plus it's easy to assume that means the band would, idk...play music, isn't exactly the most wild, wild leap.
Unless my aunt is playing an evil prank on me, I've got tickets to see Steely Dan and Eagles at the Garden next month, and I'm soooo fucking pumped. Over the last few years, I've grown to love Steely Dan to the point where I listen to them daily, and my personal IG is now @steelydoz. My love for the Dan deserves its own blog, but unfortunately, founding member Walter Becker passed away in 2017. Donald Fagan keeps the legacy alive today. I saw Steely Dan last summer, and it was phenomenal. But the truth is, you can replicate the sound, but it's never the same without the true member(s). The same can be said with Eagles after Glenn Frey died in 2016. Eagles infamously had one of the nastiest break-ups in music history and were able to reunite and play with their core lineup for years (same with Steely Dan), but the sad truth about life is that it doesn't last forever. Like Hayley Williams says, "We're always running out of time." I don't know how much time we have left, and while I'm only like 48% serious when I say that because it feels like half the country is fast-forwarding to armageddon, the fact of the matter is the average age of a member of Talking Heads is a few months past 72. That's not like, "You're gonna drop dead any moment old," but it certainly is "If you died, it'd be sad, but it definitely wouldn't be that shocking" territory. It's super encouraging that David Byrne admitted he was an ass-hole and to stick with the underlying theme of this blog, a "tyrant," but the fact remains this "reunion" is just some crummy Q and A. I guess it's something, but it just doesn't move the needle for me. That ain't no Mudd Club or C.B.G.B.'s, I ain't got time for it now. I'm a simple guy. I want the legendary musicians that are getting up there to put the past behind them and play together again for the betterment of humanity. I don't know if age is a factor in the sense of musicians being worried they lost their fastball, but age is a part of life. I don't expect to see a 72-year-old David Byrne bouncing around like he's done all the cocaine in Manhattan. Nobody is expecting that anymore. We just wanna hear our favorites play live again before it's too late. Admittedly, I didn't do as much research on this six-day-old topic as I should've; I just wanted to get a blog out again because I've missed it so much (ya boi's been busy, but I'm gonna be back the way I should be real soon). In short, fuck clickbait, fuck fascists, and hopefully, this reunion question and answer won't be a road to nowhere and leads to at least one song.
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