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No.1 The Smiths
No.3 The Sex Pistols
No.10 Take That????
What happened?
Best British Bands
by outsmartthesystem 45 Replies latest jw friends
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simon17
According to acclaimedmusic.net which actually ranks these by a formula that takes into account all 'best of' lists of critics, year end lists, sales, airplay, and a bunch of other variables here is the top 50:
Actually I think it looks pretty good but I think Black Sabbath is too low personally.
1 The Beatles 2 The Rolling Stones 3 David Bowie 4 Radiohead 5 Led Zeppelin 6 The Who 7 The Clash 8 Pink Floyd 9 Elvis Costello 10 The Smiths 11 Van Morrison 12 The Kinks 13 John Lennon 14 Sex Pistols 15 Roxy Music 16 Joy Division 17 Blur 18 New Order 19 Oasis 20 PJ Harvey 21 The Cure 22 The Police 23 Massive Attack 24 The Jam 25 Portishead 26 Black Sabbath 27 Brian Eno 28 Primal Scream 29 Fleetwood Mac 30 Nick Drake 31 Elton John 32 Pulp 33 Queen 34 Kate Bush 35 Pet Shop Boys 36 T. Rex 37 The Specials 38 The Jesus and Mary Chain 39 The Stone Roses 40 Peter Gabriel 41 Deep Purple 42 Cream 43 The Chemical Brothers 44 Rod Stewart 45 Depeche Mode 46 Coldplay 47 King Crimson 48 Pretenders 49 The Verve 50 Belle and Sebastian -
outsmartthesystem
Holy McMoly!
The Doors were British?
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Splash
@jamesmahon,
The wife loves TakeThat, and after having to listen to them for years (decades?) and seeing them in concert, it kinda rubs off on you.
Its only a matter of time before Gary Barlow gets knighted.
Maybe i should swap them out for Sham 69.
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Nika Bee
Mumford & Sons
I think they are British, no?
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Mickey mouse
I won't go over everyone else's choices but Queen, the Beatles, the Stone Roses, Joy Division and Fleetwood Mac would be in my top choices. More recent important bands would have to include Coldplay and Keane.
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Mickey mouse
Oh but then there's Radiohead.
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minimus
The Monkees with Davey Jones.
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mrsjones5
The Beat/General Public
UB40
The Police
Bronski Beat
The Eurythmics
Haircut One Hundred
Simply Red
Nik Kershaw
The Rolling Stones
Squeeze
Erasure
Def Leppard
David Bowie (coolest man in the word)
My favs anyway...
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flipper
My top 5 are as follows : 1. The Beatles
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Pink Floyd
4. Rolling Stones
5. Jethro Tull
Peace out, Mr. Flipper