Best bands to come from england?

Raymond Lin said:
Oasis shouldn't be in it, it's too new (even thou is more than a decade), but it's music isn't ground breaking. Nor does muse or anything after 1980, i am not saying that are not good but they wouldn't be here if not for bands that came before them. Which to me had to be a step above other bands to break new grounds.
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I guess all those people who went to Knebworth had nothing better to do then.
The Rolling Stones and the Beatles were only recycling stuff that they heard.
What do you think of The Prodigy or Napalm Death then, both pretty much genre pioneers?
 
Lets make 1 thing clear, I am not against Oasis, I am an Oasis fan. How many people here have Whatever single on 12" Vinyl ? I do, I love their music, I said they should've release Masterplan as a single soon I heard it on B-sides. Now Noel is talking about regretting it as a B-side! However, although its good, it's not in the league of Zeppelin, if anything, Oasis never broke into America.
 
Oldies:

Rolling Stones
Fleetwood Mac
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Depeche Mode (Not a huge fan, but they deserve recognition)
Madness
The Beatles

New kids:

Funeral For A Friend (Welsh band, but I figure we're talking about Britain rather than England now.)
Muse
Snow Patrol
Radiohead
Bloc Party
 
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Raymond Lin said:
if anything, Oasis never broke into America.
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Neither did the Roses, but that didn't stop people going to Spike Island, and didn't stop Liam Gallagher forming a rock band because they never produced a decent follow up to their debut album. ;)
 
Phnom_Penh said:
Neither did the Roses, but that didn't stop people going to Spike Island, and didn't stop Liam Gallagher forming a rock band because they never produced a decent follow up to their debut album. ;)
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I never said the Roses was my top 5 either, nor Liam's part time band. :p
 
Blokey57 said:
The Beatles.
Black Sabbath.
Motorhead.
Pink Floyd.
The Kinks.
Queen.
The Who.
The Jam.
Mogwai (Scottish, but meh)
David Bowie (Fine he's an individual, but had to! )
Deep Purple.
Radiohead.
Anaal Nathrakh. (Recent metal, very good at it)
Napalm Death.
Joy Division (Can't believe no one said this :eek: )
Led Zeppelin.
The Smiths.
Muse.
Carcass.
The Rolling Stones.
Portishead. (I'd say they were a band, live anyways)
The Prodigy (Live too)
The Stone Roses.
Sex Pistols.
The Meads of Asphodel.
Iron Monkey.
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would agree with most of these but also add coldplay. Chris Martin used to listen to my dad perform in and around exeter before he joined Coldplay and really like Muse's music, something I can listen to when im in any mood, my cousins friend used to be in Muse. Don't ask me who he was though :confused: lol
 
The Who
Massive Attack
The Beatles
Radiohead
Queen

Edit: The 'best bands' is a poorly defined term. So I've chosen ones I believe to be among the most important.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Lets make 1 thing clear, I am not against Oasis, I am an Oasis fan. How many people here have Whatever single on 12" Vinyl ? I do, I love their music, I said they should've release Masterplan as a single soon I heard it on B-sides. Now Noel is talking about regretting it as a B-side! However, although its good, it's not in the league of Zeppelin, if anything, Oasis never broke into America.
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Fair enough. Boils down to personal taste/choice / how you measure success/musicianship. ''Best' band' is open to interpretation, as someone else has pointed out...
 
Robosapien said:
Fair enough. Boils down to personal taste/choice / how you measure success/musicianship. ''Best' band' is open to interpretation, as someone else has pointed out...
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Very true, if you talk about 'best' then many would say oasis due to the massive success, personally i cant give them the time of day after the first two albums.

In the 70/80's it took record sales of millions to equate to success, now a group only needs to sell 1000 copies to be deemed 'no1' :rolleyes:
 
Castor said:
In the 70/80's it took record sales of millions to equate to success, now a group only needs to sell 1000 copies to be deemed 'no1' :rolleyes:
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I always remember a story by Rick Wakeman.
He said that in the early 70's one of the YES albums went to GOLD and they waited for the royalties to come flooding in. With the money he was able to buy a nice big house, a Rolls Royce and some other luxury items. Several years later he was rang to be told his Six Wives Of Henry VIII had gone GOLD so he went out and bought a few things before his royalties came and when they did he had to take a lot of the items back. Just a few years later the status of Gold was a lot less album sales and now you can get a Gold with very few sales.
 
I think in terms of influence:

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Smiths
The Who
David Bowie

But there are far more than 5 though, and that's in no particular order.
 
Castor said:
Very true, if you talk about 'best' then many would say oasis due to the massive success, personally i cant give them the time of day after the first two albums.

In the 70/80's it took record sales of millions to equate to success, now a group only needs to sell 1000 copies to be deemed 'no1' :rolleyes:
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Personally I'd rather listen to Be Here Now than Robert Plant crooning "Gonna give you all my love" like some big girl. And Oasis haven't been as succesful. Nor is the music as technically proficient. Just great songs delivered with great attitude. On paper it doesn't make sense, i guess they have the x-factor or something. :confused:
 
I explained below my reasoning, I'm not going to list queen, stone roses, beatles blah blah, for one, it has been said by 99% of the other posts, and two - I never listen to them, and for me, the best bands are the ones that I listen to the most, and enjoy the most.
Feel free to laugh at me though : [
 
I'm astounded, and confused, to be the only person in the whole thread who has mentioned Genesis. Is there something obvious I'm missing, such as them not being English? (Though not that; I know they are English!)

They have well over ten albums, so they've released more than enough to qualify, and the quality of the music, especially such albums as Nursery Crime ('71), Selling England By The Pound ('73), The Lamb Dies Down on Broadway ('74), Trick of The Tail ('76) and Wind & Wuthering ('77) is readily apparent, or at least it is to me! Amazing combination of intelligent lyrics and wonderful sound. (Listen to Fly on a Windshield, which is the perfect example.) Some of the tunes are actually short, musical storytellings! (Listen to The Return of The Giant Hogweed or The Battle of Epping Forest for stunning examples of this.)

I think of Duke ('80) as their last good album, though there are many tunes after that which I like in their own right. As someone who has listened to everything they've ever done, a great many times, and being critical of much of the later stuff, I would vehemently argue that they have six strong albums (the ones I've named) which make them one of the best English bands!
 
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