I started pondering this recently having seen two programes that I recored recently And he answer to who arethe Bes UK-Band ever isnot quite as simple as the Beatles!! \we all havepersnal tastess but Iwatched the Whoat the Albert Hall playing Tommy and they are a great candidate a swell? Pus, the next obvious option surely has to be htose kids, the Rolling Stones!? MaybeZepelin shouldbeon he list??Whaddyall think?
A very surprising choivce is because of lerning that this blokehas outsold allartists in his lifetimeexcept for the Beates ad for Elvis!!So who is he? Errm, actually it is Cliff \richard! Amazing?? Outselling Elvis who'd hav thuk it?/
o who gets your votes please?
TIA!!
The Best UK Band???
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Re: The Best UK Band???
Ian Dury and the Blockheads (or the Rolling Stones, but Felix got there first).
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Re: The Best UK Band???
The only band, UK or otherwise, I can listen to for a long period is Echo and the Bunnymen, but I think the Cult, Hawkwind and New Model Army have produced better songs.
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Re: The Best UK Band???
There was a poll in 2005 to determine the best "dream" supergroup asking people to vote for the best singer, the best guitarist, the best bassist, and the best drummer of all time.
Best bassist - John Paul Jones
Best singer - Robert Plant
Best guitarist - Jimmy Paige
(can you see where this is going ?)
Best drummer John Bonham
Best bassist - John Paul Jones
Best singer - Robert Plant
Best guitarist - Jimmy Paige
(can you see where this is going ?)
Best drummer John Bonham
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Re: The Best UK Band???
For me, The Wildhearts. Hands down over every other band on the planet ever. But that's the thing taste is in the eye of the beholder.
Beatles, Stones etc wouldn't even come in my top 20 UK bands I reckon. Off the top of my head ahead of them would be
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
The Almighty
The Cult
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Black Spiders
Enter Shikari
Etc,Etc...
Beatles, Stones etc wouldn't even come in my top 20 UK bands I reckon. Off the top of my head ahead of them would be
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
The Almighty
The Cult
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Black Spiders
Enter Shikari
Etc,Etc...
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Re: The Best UK Band???
The Beatles,
The Stones
and Queen are always on my list.
also Cream
(I'm honestly surprised nobody's mentioned Queen so far.)
Was Spinal Tap a UK band?
Edited to add Cream and Spinal Tap
The Stones
and Queen are always on my list.
also Cream
(I'm honestly surprised nobody's mentioned Queen so far.)
Was Spinal Tap a UK band?
Edited to add Cream and Spinal Tap