Lesser-known latter period songs by once-loved bands who split then reformed years later (or otherwise dropped off the grid)

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A band gets big (or at least gets well known in specific circles), splits up, then years later reforms.
Post your favourite songs from after they reformed; ones that fans from the first time around might not have heard.

I'll also accept bands who were famous, never actually split up but their fame dwindled to the point that a lot of fans forgot they existed, AS LONG AS the song posted is a largely unknown song from after their fame dwindled.

I'll start us off with:

The Wonder Stuff
Disbanded for years, got back together, split up, one of them died, then they got back together with all new members bar the singer and lead guitarist.

Jane's Addiction
Disbanded, guitarist was in Red Hot Chilli Peppers for a bit, got back together and released an amazing album, Strays, in 2003 (and then a shite one afterwards).

Failure
Disbanded in 1996, the guitarist went on to be in Queens Of The Stone Age and A Perfect Circle and recorded with The Desert Sessions, then they got back together and released a cracking new album, The Heart Is A Monster in 2015.
 
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A band gets big (or at least gets well known in specific circles), splits up, then years later reforms.
Post your favourite songs from after they reformed; ones that fans from the first time around might not have heard.
Don't know if the criteria:
Formed in London in 1969, Help Yourself released four albums. In 1973 they began recording their fifth album. However, these sessions were never completed, the album was never released, and the band split later that year.
In the winter of 2002, the original Help Yourself band members, augmented by drummer Kevin Spacey, gathered once more to finally complete their fifth album.
This one of three tracks they added to finish the album 5.
 
Don't know if the criteria:
Formed in London in 1969, Help Yourself released four albums. In 1973 they began recording their fifth album. However, these sessions were never completed, the album was never released, and the band split later that year.
In the winter of 2002, the original Help Yourself band members, augmented by drummer Kevin Spacey, gathered once more to finally complete their fifth album.
[song]
This one of three tracks they added to finish the album 5.

That's easily within the criteria.

Split up, reformed, new song. :cool:
 
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