the shadow ring (the most english band ever)
broadcast
stereolab
the fall
the pastels
skullflower
the durutti column
aphex twin
boards of canada
belle & sebastian

The Shadow Ring couldn't be from anywhere else other than England really could they?

Yes, because the thread says 'British'.

re previous post, Britain = England, Scotland and Wales.

yeah, their music brings to mind old tea cups, grey skies and men pottering about in their garden sheds.

Joy Division? Didn't Ian Curtis die in 1980?


Anyway:

The Smiths
The Fall
Radiohead
The Cure
Mogwai
The Delgados
Aphex Twin
Roots Manuva
Manic Street Preachers
The Yummy Fur

i should have included them

The Cure sucked!!!!

And technically Mogwai and the Jesus and Mary Chain are Scottish, not British.

wrong. you think they (did?) they are still around man!


Scotland is part of great britain. wrong again, mista' coffee!

Hootie and the Blowfish
The Spin Doctors
Milli Vanilli
MC Hammer

wow, that's the most stupid joke...did it take you hours to think about it?

Hootie and the Blowfish

"rather ripped is the best sonic youth album ever"

Now you're talking.

"...because it sounds like hootie and the blowfish and they are the best band ever!!!!"

my top 11:

super furry animals
hood
mogwai
delgados
smiths
spacemen 3
billy childish and all his incarnations
the fall
the chameleons
current 93
swervedriver

what the fuck do you people think britain is?

I've always thought it was England. I assumed the UK included Scotland and Ireland, so never thought they needed another term for that. Plus, wikipedia makes it even more confusing.

Why is no-one including Northern Ireland in Britain? The IRA haven't got their way yet, you know.

I think Hip Priest put it succinctly enough:

"'Great Britain' is England, Scotland and Wales.

'United Kingdom' is England, Scotland, Wales plus Northern Ireland ('The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' is the full title as it used to appear on passports etc).

Ireland as in the Republic of Ireland is part of the British Isles (the land mass) but not part of either Britain or the UK in the political/nationhood sense."

Loop
Spacemen 3
The Jesus and Mary Chain(since the thread is about british bands)
Felt
Tricky
Portishead
The Smiths
Mogwai(for a certain period of time)
Blur
The Cure
Aphex Twin
Broadcast
Stereolab(for a certain period of time)
MIA
The entire genres of:
1)Jungle
2)Drum n Bass
3)Trip Hop
4)Grime
5)Uk Garage


The endorsement of the following(this applies to England more than the British soil as such):
1)Exotica
2)French House/disco
3)Italian film music,Ennio Morricone etc
4)Whatever is interesting and comes out of Germany
5)Basically,any good band or musical activity worth a mention that happens/operates in Europe/America/The World as a whole.


As i said i could go on for a bit because the '10 only' restriction wont do any justice to the colourful musical tales that unfold on this relatively small island.There's more,there's a lot more.The pop section alone requires another post for itself.

porky,do you consider M.I.A. (if you meant her in your list ) english? i want to hear some albums similar to arular,i dunno where to start,uff.

Her music is certainly english at the heart,no doubt about that.

especially jamaican music

right.(p.s. suggestions for similar albums to get?no?uh?)
my list would be a patchwork of names already mentioned,so i'll go with a "contemporary" band that i think could become a quite strong "music entity"
65daysofstatic (young but great,in my humble opinion)

Not strictly similar(in fact both musically and thematically they differ quite a bit) but check out Lady Sovereign and one of my favourite albums of all time,wich is:
Eve-The Scorpion.

thanks,i'll gather some info about it and i'll have a listen.on a side note, the sinner in me from last depeche mode album is haunting me.

Eve?!

Yes,Eve!

lady sov is the best!!!!

eve isn't the best

I don't care Toilet.Still,that's one of my favourite albums ,like,EVER!!

isn't on the juke box in the joiners?

Funny that you mention that beautiful digital machine they call a jukebox in there.I've once searched for merzbow and put it on.The looks of despair in the eyes of all those hoxtonites,i'll remember for years to come.

there's a pub in whitechapel (the castle) that has one of those, it's great (the pub and the machine).

Yeah they are great machines because you can declare war on people who play the same thing over and over again just like that!

i wonder who it is that thought it would be worth putting merzbow on them? whoever it is deserves a pat on the back.

The thing with them is that they are directly linked to the internet(a kind of instant itunes jukebox in a way) wich means that you can get a lot of more obscure stuff that wouldnt normally find its way into those pubs.It takes an evil mind like mine to use them to the best of their capabilities.