Best British Band of all time
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- Horp0
I can't fucking BELIEVE this thread opened with The Clash. FUCK OFF whoever you are. The Clash were a bunch of buck-toothed public schoolboy tosspots who had a crush on working class esthetics and grass roots anarchy. They were about as important to British music as that fucking Johnny Borrel cunt from Razorlight.
Some fucking people have no fucking idea at all.
I used to have a friend who was uttery convinced the greatest living writer was Ben Fucking Elton. He also thought The Clush were the best band in the world. Just because the only book you've ever managed to drag yourself through is by Ben Fucking Elton, doesn't mean he's the best fucking writer in the world, it just means his writing is on a par with your shitty little brain. Likewise The Clash. Fucking aggro-pop bollocks for chinless wonders to get excited about. Plastic Punks. Cunts.
QBN, kindly remove The Clash from the top of this list before I have a pulmonary embolism.
- HAHAHijoDMaite
- I really wouldn't let it get to you mateset
- The Clash get to me every time. I can't help myself. How are you Set? Orlroight?Horp
- 'orlroight' = 'alright' in BrummyHorp
- Im orlrioght thamkyoop. How's you?set
- ahhh, yeah, never understood why everybody seems to love the clash. they’re simply annoyingpressplay
- HijoDMaite0
- nawkingsteven
- Well, I do not consider sales. However, The Beatles win anyway. These guys are up there though.CyBrainX
- Horp0
^ So utterly incensed by this was I, that I just went to check out your profile Dobre, and it seems you live in Bahrain. You are possibly not British then, in which case I can understand that from a distance... certainly a cultural distance, the bouncy, wobbly bobbly tough guy music of The Clatch might appear to be a jolly good bit of British punk rock. I can see how its accessible nature, its "Lets all pretend to be like those tough kids we see on the street through the window when daddy drives us to our sword fencing lessons in the volvo" might lead a Bahranian to think its very good stuff indeed.
But please be advised. It isn't. Its about as credible and representitive of the punk scene as a plastic beefeater doll from a tourist kiosk is of the British military.
- Horp0
Anyway, here's my entries...
- Miesfan0
- ahem MBV!?kingsteven
- TBF a 'best irish band of all time' thread would just blow yr minds.kingsteven
- Did you read the thread title? It said best, not 'most over rated'Chimp
- < hahahaqTime
- 3030
This thread should actually say "Best British Bands":
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Queen
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
- kingkong0
I have recently rediscovered a band I used to like, but now I'm older I think are amazing. Weird how that happens.
- here, totes... Orange Juice and JMC, two of my favourite bands. just couldn't bring myself to call them british.kingsteven
- (niche trolling)kingsteven
- http://www.youtube.c…drgs
- love that mankingsteven
- moth0
I'm glad it so long for someone to mention the Beatles. Dullest, most unnecessarily over-exposed, twee, boring shit-pop bullshit I've ever been required to like by society.
- WhiteFace0
Can't forget these guys
- BaskerviIle0
On the point about the Clash.
Rolling Stones were even worse.
Terrible, terrible musicians. Posh white boys trying to play blues and failing miserably.
Other bands at the time did it much better...Led Zep: posh white boys playing blues very well. Likewise Cream. But not the Stones. I hate the Stones. And don't get me started on keith richards' non existent guitar skills.Why people even put them in the same sentence as the Beatles (amazing song writers and so influential) will always puzzle me
- Why does the social class of a band matter unless they are pretending to be something different?qTime
- "failing miserably." Oh year those Stone were such a failure.qTime
- *yeahqTime
- social class is irrelevant was just re-using Horp's phrase. I'm a posh white boy who plays bluesBaskerviIle
- Morning_star0
To dismiss the Stones like that is either
ignorant or arrogant or maybe both.- the stones did blatantly rip many old blues musicians riffs and melodiessine
- heh, but to praise zepkingsteven
- both bands ripped off old, original bluesmen. Ledzep did it well is my point!BaskerviIle
- detritus0
Technically I guess it should be The Beatles, although I've disliked them since I was about 12.
Given my age, I can't help but answer ‘Radiohead’.
Or Duran Duran, maybe.
Depends upon where you're coming from, I guess..
- utopian0
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy...
- Fax_Benson1
- yeskingsteven
- renders age / class / musical training arguments redundantFax_Benson
- Morning_star0
Also, when posting your nominees could you say which colour is the best?
- British colour?Fax_Benson
- Simply Red?Morning_star
- Deacon Blue?Fax_Benson
- Black BoxMorning_star
- Jason Orange?Fax_Benson