Four of Five get overexcited

As boy band Five re-form for "another crack at the madness", Caroline Sullivan wants your nominations for band reunions you'd most/least like to see.

Back to rock you... (from left) Abs (Richard Breen), Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Jason "J" Brown. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Were Five the most forgettable boy band ever? I only ask because the baggy-jeaned hunks, who had 11 Top 10 singles between 1997and 2001, are back together. But how many people, other than fans, can remember any of their songs, possibly apart from the Queen cover, We Will Rock You?

A question worth asking, because what is the point of a group reforming if they barely made inroads on the collective consciousness in the first place? The nation was never on first-name terms with them, so how many of us will now remember that they were called Ritchie, Sean, Abs, J and Scott? At the time, they were simply "the one who goes out with Billie Piper", "the one with the pierced eyebrow", and so forth.

Nor was there the kind of schoolyard rivalry that enlivened the atmosphere around Take That and East 17, whose fans cordially detested each other. Five were just another gang of gym-toned, close-harmony sexpots, adored by fans but not especially noticed by anyone else.

The quality that was meant to distinguish them from contemporaries such as Boyzone and S Club 7 was their relative funkiness, as demonstrated in singles along the lines of Slam Dunk (Da Funk). It was a cunning ploy, manifested in accompanying haircuts and hand signals, and it won them the grudging respect of papers such as the NME.

But their 11 singles have found little play beyond their couple of months on the charts; certainly none has found immortality in best-song polls. And after they split up, a decision they announced on MTV, it soon felt as if they had never existed.

Yet here they are again, although Five are now four as Sean has opted out. They don't need the money, claims J; they just want "another crack at the madness". Apparently, 50,000 fans had implored them, via the website, to come back. A new record is planned. A nation holds its breath.

While they're having that crack, how about if you Vultures nominate the band reunions you'd most/least like to see?