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Sara Odom and Lindsay Pendleton show off their New Kids swag.

If all else fails in the music world, have a reunion tour.

The Pixies did it. The Police did it. Heck, even The Stooges did it. And what about those late 1980s teenagers who grew up on New Kids on the Block, who knew every word of the career-defining Hangin’ Tough, who had every inch of every wall in their rooms covered with Teen Beat posters?

It’s true. Even those fans will have their day this month when the reunited New Kids on the Block wheel through New Orleans Arena Oct. 18, singing the golden oldies and new jams from their latest effort The Block.

And Lindsay Pendleton, a 29-year-old leasing and sales agent, is ready to yell as loudly as she did in junior high.

“I figured it was over,” Pendleton says, but when she heard the news of the boy band’s return she immediately purchased a ticket for the upcoming show.

Though she scans the radio dial and listens to everything, she is still “stuck on New Kids,” she says. “I knew all their songs, word for word, even the Christmas album.”

Pendleton grew up with parents who were quite religious, restricting her New Kids posters to the back of her bedroom door. But this didn’t stop her craze. She thought she would marry Joey McIntyre and tour with him. She had the denim jacket and the buttons. She had the New Kids watch and the sleeping bag. If it had to do with Joey, Danny, Donnie, Jordan and Jon, she had it.

“I had my own little videotape and watched it every day when I got home from school,” she says.

Now, with that excitement retained, she can’t wait for the big day.

“We’re going to tear the club up,” says Pendleton. “I don’t know who’s playing before them, but I don’t care. I want to get there right when they start.”

A word to McIntyre: You better have the riot police at the ready.