# The Bangles: Comeback or copout? (for those of you who care ;-)) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742 "2002-03-12T01:09:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/1 "2002-03-12T01:09:14Z")
Okay, so I’m a nutso '80s Bangles fan. Skipped school to go see them in NY last year and all that. And they’ve been _promising_ a new album for a long long time, and their website ([www.thebangles.com](http://www.thebangles.com)) is not forthcoming with details, other than that they’ve apparently finished recording. But what do you think? Will they come back? Will they disappear again? Do you care? Just curious if anybody has an opinion… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/2 "2002-03-12T01:58:24Z")
The Bangles are planning a comeback? Why was I not informed? I ADORE the Bangles. I love _Everything_-it’s so ahead of its time. I mean, they would really have fit in in the whole early 90s alternative chic. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/3 "2002-03-12T02:05:11Z")
Moving this to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/4 "2002-03-12T02:12:08Z")
Michael should start coloring her hair again. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/5 "2002-03-12T02:20:23Z")
Hey now, _All Over The Place_ was damn good too. They managed to have a sixties influence in their music without sounding like scraggly hippies who soak themselves in petouli oil. Hell, I dug their self-titled EP. And I saw them at Irving Plaza last year too. Magic, I hope you weren’t one of those heavy-set dudes in 10-year-old faded Bangles t-shirts who brought flowers for Susanna. Anyway, if bad band chemistry doesn’t rip them apart again, I can see a new album coming out soon. It sounded like they got a lot of new stuff and they _clearly_ loved playing live again. I mean they thanked the audience so much at the concert it was embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/6 "2002-03-12T03:22:51Z")
When I was 11, I wanted to BE Susannah Hoffs. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/7 "2002-03-12T15:42:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Magickly \* > **Will they come back? Will they disappear again?** Will Susanna Hoffs ever look directly into the camera? –Cliffy, who has nothing to contribute so he decided to be snarky ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/8 "2002-03-12T21:09:29Z")
Hey, **Cliffy** , don’t get snarky on Susannah. I vividly remember walking through the Student Union in college one day in the mid-80s and seeing this captivating woman on the big-screen TV in the lounge, cutting her eyes left and right while singing “Walk Like an Egyptian.” I’d never heard of the Bangles before then, but something about Susannah just made my pituitary gland tingle. Probably the single most powerful effect any woman has ever had on me at first sight. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/9 "2002-03-13T06:12:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alphagene \* > **Hey now, _All Over The Place_ was damn good too. They managed to have a sixties influence in their music without sounding like scraggly hippies who soak themselves in petouli oil. Hell, I dug their self-titled EP.** Those are the only two Bangles releases worth owning, IMHO. The descent from there to “Eternal Flame” is still astounding to me. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/10 "2002-03-13T09:03:31Z")
The Bangles do deserve props for recording a cover of Big Star’s “September Gurls.” ---
**Author:** ![Hemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hemlock)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bangles-comeback-or-copout-for-those-of-you-who-care/97742/11 "2002-03-13T11:41:50Z")
All over the Place was brilliant. Then it was all downhill. Usual story. [runs off to dig it out of CD collection and play it for first time in 5 years]