Britains top 40 music acts

[markie]

Guess who is number 1?
 
 ((no Dupek, its no Mary J. Bilge  :p  ))

[PR_GMR]

LOL, Mary J Bilge. By the way, what's that about? I saw a lot of threads yesterday called 'Mary J Bilge' by this person.. Herb is it? What's the deal-o about that?
 
 I gotta check out this list.. The no. 40 top act is called 'Selfish Cunt'. This should be innnterresting.   :cool:

[poorlulu]

i would never have guessed that's who would be no 1......
 thank christ it wasn't radiohead..........and how high up the list was coldplay?  
 
 very bizarre..............

[redsock]

Hmmm...no Oasis, no Idlewild...no Norman Cook...Lists are stupid...especially British ones

[Guiny]

PJ Harvey shoulda been #1  

[markie]

Originally posted by redsock:
  Hmmm...no Oasis, ...no Norman Cook...Lists are stupid...especially British ones

Well there stars have all fallen..... Very far and very fast, from what I can tell.
 
 Idlewild, well the "indie" bads they focused on were all of the new breed, the coral and British Sea Power. Idlewild could be considered Stalwarts now.

[markie]

Originally posted by PR_GMR:
  LOL, Mary J Bilge. By the way, what's that about?  

Dupek (aka, Bombay doors, ellis D fleisch Bach, Herb L emma or any other silly name you find), our board joker likes changing all of his topics to render them incomprehensible.....  Bilge is moderately amusing.

[ggw]

No worse than any other list of this type (except that I knew barely half the artists).
 
 Good to see the Libertines up top.

[mankie]

Load 'o' bollocks!
 
 Although I'm surprised someone on the panel was old enough to know who Bowie is. I'm also surprised Badly Drawn Boy didn't make the list, I thought he was pretty big over there.
 
 All these lists are good for is generating conversation. If they did the poll the following week the list would be different. I'd be interested to see were The Beautiful South would be if they were active at the moment. Top 5 guaranteed.

[markie]

Originally posted by mankie:
  Load 'o' bollocks!
 
  The Beautiful South would be if they were active at the moment. Top 5 guaranteed.

Poormankie, I really dont think so. Where were coldplay? the list was skewed to newer artists, and Blur, Radiohead and Bowie. Although I think The B.S. are a solid band with great tunes, they havent done anything as innovative as almost breaking America like the other three......
 
 I think you would have seen a whole load of bands like idlewild and travis before you got to the beautiful south.

[Bags]

Originally posted by mankie:
  I'd be interested to see were The Beautiful South would be if they were active at the moment. Top 5 guaranteed.

You really are hysterical, Mank.

[mankie]

Originally posted by The Pariah:
 

Poormankie, I really dont think so. Where were coldplay? the list was skewed to newer artists, and Blur, Radiohead and Bowie. Although I think The B.S. are a solid band with great tunes, they havent done anything as innovative as almost breaking America like the other three......
 
 I think you would have seen a whole load of bands like idlewild and travis before you got to the beautiful south. [/b]

First of all, Coldplay are average at best, although I expected them to be higher seeing as they're one of the flavors, or should I say flavours of the moment seeing as were in Britspeak here.
 
 Bags, B.S. are pretty *uckin huge in the UK. Fasting selling album EVER in fact. (Carry on up the charts)

[Yank]

How in the world did Girls Aloud make that list?  They're just a bunch of Pop Idol, no talent, lesbians on crack!  They'll almost as bad as Coldplay.

[mankie]

Originally posted by Yank:
   They're just a bunch of Pop Idol, no talent, lesbians on crack!  

So are Radiohead.

[PR_GMR]

Well, I just finished reading through the list.. and I was surprised by many things. There were also many new names that I will have to check out: I've been hearing some buzz about Goldfrapp lately, and have yet to hear any of their songs. The same goes for The Streets and The Darkness--who the hell are they and what do they sound like? I better take a trip to the record store and find out.
 
 This list finally answers my question: What the hell happened to Portishead? Answer: Beth Gibbons has a solo career. Good--Need to track down her solo record.
 
 I was glad to see my favorites, Spiritualized, Muse, Belle And Sebastian, Blur and The Super Furry Animals on that list (specially the Furries after last night's show). I've so far not been able to care for Coldplay. I read someone somewhere lately call Coldplay 'flu' rock, as if there's something sickly about them. Maybe that's why I don't care for them.
 
 The Coral are astonishing, and deserve to be that high on the list. Haven't been able to track down their second record though.
 
 And I was surprised by No. 1. I was expecting it to be my dearest Radiohead.. but instead, The Libertines! Holy coincidence, Jeebus! I just got 'Up The Bracket' a couple of weeks ago and have been loving the hell out of this record. These boys are cooking something fierce onstage and in the studio. 'Time For Heroes' is a phenomenal song!   :cool: