Kevin Bronson on November 24th, 2015

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“I feel like this is a high school reunion or something,” Kim Shattuck told a big crowd Sunday night at the Satellite. It sounded like one too. The reunion show of garage-rock quartet the Pandoras — featuring a lineup of Shattuck, Melanie Vammen, Karen Blankfeld and Hillary Burton — gave a fun flashback to the mid-1980s, tearing through 19 songs mostly culled from their 1984 and 1986 albums, “It’s About Time” and “Stop Pretending,” respectively.

Shattuck, who with Vammen went on to form the Muffs after the Pandoras’ 1990 breakup, joked about the perils of re-learning one’s old catalog: “You guys all know these songs? … We do, now.”

After kicking off with “Haunted Beach Party” and “Want Need Love,” the foursome touched on “Let’s Do Right,” “Satisfy” and “”You’re All Talk” from their second album before playing a big highlight from the first, “Hot Generation.” Songs such as “I Want My Caveman,” “That’s Your Way Out” and “The Way It’s Gonna Be” would follow, and the show finished strong with “I Live My Life,” “You Burn Me Up and Down” and “It Felt Alright.”

The Woggles opened the show, their set highlighted by the tune “Baby, I’ll Trust You When You’re Dead.”

Photos by Kelly Elaine