Best British bands ever

darius

Why are The La's even being mentioned?? Is this some sort of windup reaction prank thread?

munckee

darius said:

Why are The La's even being mentioned?? Is this some sort of windup reaction prank thread?

You could say the same for muse, japan, rocky music, Dave Clark five etc etc. 

it’s all subjective. 

octatonic

In terms of contribution to music, I guess something like this.

1. The Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Black Sabbath
4. Rolling Stones
5. The Who
6. Pink Floyd
7. Queen
8. Radiohead
9. Depeche Mode
10. Sex Pistols

Disregarding any concept of 'contribution to music' `and just going with what I personally like:

1. Porcupine Tree
2. King Crimson
3. Yes
4. Led Zeppelin
5. The Cure
6. Pink Floyd
7. Genesis
8. Frost*
9. Pineapple Thief
10. Haken

Redlester

munckee said:

darius said:

Why are The La's even being mentioned?? Is this some sort of windup reaction prank thread?

You could say the same for muse, japan, rocky music, Dave Clark five etc etc. 

it’s all subjective. 

‘Ere talking of ‘rocky’ music, if you lot don’t want a World Cup of British Bands, then the only way we’re going to settle this is with a punch up. 

Philly_Q

scrumhalf said:

Jimi Hendrix Experience (2/3 of them were English)

On that basis let's include AC/DC.  Most of the people who've ever been in the band were born in Scotland, England or Wales.

octatonic

Philly_Q said:

scrumhalf said:

Jimi Hendrix Experience (2/3 of them were English)

On that basis let's include AC/DC.  Most of the people who've ever been in the band were born in Scotland, England or Wales.

Fuck that!

Redlester

octatonic said:

Philly_Q said:

scrumhalf said:

Jimi Hendrix Experience (2/3 of them were English)

On that basis let's include AC/DC.  Most of the people who've ever been in the band were born in Scotland, England or Wales.

Fuck that!

Bollocks. One of their songs has a bagpipe solo. QED. If ya want jock, ya got it. 

Rocker

Interesting that the following got no mentions:

Rod Stewart

Status Quo

Spice Girls

Chris Rea

The Animals

Bay City Rollers

Slade

JezWynd

Philly_Q said:

It's too difficult to weigh up what I like against what's popular, what's "significant" etc.

But I wouldn't be too different from the 1970s-flavoured suggestions above.  Except I'd include Wishbone Ash.  Maybe Jethro Tull.

and Fairport Convention, Van Der Graff, Free and Pentangle. But apart from them its fine.

JezWynd

Oh yes, and Steeleye Span.

Devil#20

In no particular order except the first one.

Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Wishbone Ash
The Cure
Steely Dan
Deep Purple
Linkin Park
The Charlatans
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

EricTheWeary

Rocker said:

Interesting that the following got no mentions:

Rod Stewart

Status Quo

Spice Girls

Chris Rea

The Animals

Bay City Rollers

Slade

Not that I’m imposing rules but Rod and Chris aren’t actually bands. 

If I dug out the Wikipedia list again Status Quo were on there somewhere, top 20 in terms of sales. I guess that’s a lot to do with longevity which isn’t something many of the bands have had. 

I'd cheerfully add Slade even if just to try increase the number of people from the West Midlands on there ( ooh, ELO, UB40, The Wonderstuff...). 

Cols

A lot of the usual suspects are going to appear over and over again, but in no particular order...

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin 
Cream
Black Sabbath 
Queen
The Police
The Who
Free

Interestingly, Britain doesn’t seem to have produced a band of note for quite some time...

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

I'd cheerfully add Slade even if just to try increase the number of people from the West Midlands on there ( ooh, ELO, UB40, The Wonderstuff...). 

ELO did cross my mind, and presumably they were pretty successful too - but maybe that success was concentrated around the Out of the Blue period, not so much before and after?

If you want West Midlands you could chuck in Judas Priest too.

Philly_Q

Devil#20 said:

In no particular order except the first one.

Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Wishbone Ash
The Cure
Steely Dan
Deep Purple
Linkin Park
The Charlatans
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Just a smattering of non-Brits there I'm afraid, old boy.

Cols

Devil#20 said:

In no particular order except the first one.

Led Zeppelin
The Doors
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Wishbone Ash
The Cure
Steely Dan
Deep Purple
Linkin Park
The Charlatans
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

My geography is a bit wobbly, but I’m reasonably sure a fair few of them aren’t British.

RandallFlagg

Iron Maiden. 

End of thread

Winny_Pooh

Rather than say who should make it I'm gonna be dickish and tell some of you that your choices suck:

Stone Roses
Slade
Muse
Yes
Porcupine Tree
Genesis
The Jam
Sex Pistols
Spice Girls LOLOL

Have a nice evening

Jonathangus

In terms of longevity, sales, cultural significance, etc.:

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

Queen

Black Sabbath

Led Zeppelin

Dire Straits

The La's Iron Maiden

The Sex Pistols

Radiohead

In terms of personal preferences:

Iron Maiden

Dire Straits

Def Leppard

Terrorvision

The Almighty

The Wildhearts

Thunder

Marillion

Queen

Pink Floyd

The Beatles

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

I'd cheerfully add Slade even if just to try increase the number of people from the West Midlands on there ( ooh, ELO, UB40, The Wonderstuff...). 

ELO did cross my mind, and presumably they were pretty successful too - but maybe that success was concentrated around the Out of the Blue period, not so much before and after?

If you want West Midlands you could chuck in Judas Priest too.

Glenn Tipton lives in Romsley so he’s somewhere about three or four miles from my house. Yet to bump into him at the pet store there. 

Loads of West Mids bands - Wizzard, Steel Pulse, The Moody Blues ( took their name from a Birmingham brewery), Diamond Head, Magnum, Traffic, Duran Duran, one third of The Goodies - although I suppose lots of areas can claim bands.