Musical Comebacks: The Good, The Bad, and The (Very) Ugly
Musical Comebacks: The Good, The Bad, and The (Very) Ugly Reunion albums are often quite a divisive concept it seems. Sure, on paper it sounds great: a band you loved, perhaps from your childhood, have risen back from the dead, with the promise of brand new, original material. Hooray! What’s not to love? Well, the only snag is that in a lot of cases, these albums come from incredibly well established groups, who, upon putting new stuff out into the world, perhaps don’t realise that, no matter how hard they try, the new material will undoubtedly be scrutinised in comparison to their often legendary back catalogues, and fairly often, seem to come up short. Prime recent example would perhaps be The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’, which, while being about as hyped up as the second coming, and seeming to be generally well received by the public, certainly doesn’t land very high in critical circles at all, with NME putting it at #153 of all 188 existing Beatles songs. That said, some of their other