most relevant british bands/musicians
 

can you compile a small list out of your personal taste? thanks.

What do you mean by british, and what do you mean by relevant?

i mean what they mean. check a dictionary.

Elvis Fucking Presley

...was a lame turd.

crass (and some other bands that were on their label) were the only relevant british punk band. even though i like discharge too.

radiohead is my favorite british band of the last 13 or so years. so them, i guess.

man...would you like something more extensive?

Joy Division
The Cure
The Smiths
Cocteau Twins
Kitchens of Distinction
Hood
Roxy Music
Bowie
Nick Drake
Talk Talk
Tindersticks
Radiohead

wire i guess too

The Smiths
Public Image Ltd
Sex Pistols
The Cure
The Clash
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Echo & the Bunnymen
My Bloody Valentine

Every band I start to list has either done something rather disgraceful at a later date (like the Beatles playing behind that dismal Lennon demo "Real Love" and calling it a new song, or the last few decades of the Rolling Stones, or Echo and the Bunnymen since 1986 on) or just been a shadow of themselves for so long that any question of relevance is shot (Motorhead, The Jesus & Mary Chain).

A couple have come back from their transgressions (Gang of Four, Wire) but I still don't feel comfortable with listing them as exceptionally relevant even though I'd go see them in a heartbeat.

One Brit band that is coming to mind who broke up before they ever sucked and who's reunion seems rather credible is Throbbing Gristle. So, I guess they're on my list. And I suppose My Bloody Valentine if the constant threat of reunions is overlooked (or if by some miracle it happens and they are surprisingly good). And I have yet to not love any records by Autechre.

So, I'm looking at a standpoint of conintued relevance. If I were to list historical relevance, the list would be so long as to be ridiculous.

I can think of a handful of American groups that meet that continued relevance criteria (Mission of Burma, Rocket from the Tombs...), and Sonic Youth who pulled it off without even breaking up.

Are we talking historically relevant, or currently? Hang on, that's a dumb question, isn't it? If you used to be good, but aren't any more, then you're not relevant...

So do you mean "recommend me some current good British bands"?

Assuming you do, I'll start the ball rolling with:

Rameses III
65daysofstatic

Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd.

Radiohead and Blur. But if you're including electronica then:
µ-Ziq
Aphex Twin
Squarepusher
Autechre
Chemical Brothers
Fatboy Slim
The Prodigy

Sorry, man, but those last three haven't been relevant for a very very very long time.

Hmm...true. None of them have had great albums as of recent, but their old albums are great.

The Beatles

Love em or hate em, they have been very relevant for a long time.

Sorry, mate, but I think you were meaning to post that on the Paul Weller messageboard.

However I speak relatively as all British music is irrelevant. :p

THE JAM! i forgot them. pulp too.

i guess most of the british post punk bands are relevant. i don't know though and i don't really care.

the kinks!
the animals
the smiths
biff bang pow
section 25
the cult
the cure
kingmaker
the wonderstuff
big country
the pop group
blur
the adverts
wire
the fall
the mighty wah!
felt
the jesus and mary chain
sex pistols
cocteau twins
talulah gosh
heavenly
the wedding present
the sea urchins
lush
artic monkeys (like it or not, kidz are listening)
pulp
the vaselines
mc carthy
the field mice
huggy bear
linus
skinned teen
the pastels
happy mondays
menswear
s*m*a*s*h*
these animal men
carter the unstoppable sex machine
pop will eat itself
the pooh sticks
young marble giants
bis
dressy bessy
crass
generation x
the damned
public image ltd
joy division
new order
mclusky
suede
space
spiritualized
spacemen 3
loop
slowdive
blurt
the beatles
orbital

im uncertain what the exact point of the thread is so delete where appropiate!

JAMC are Scottish, people.
Oh yes, how could I forget Pulp?

[quote=ZEROpumpkins]JAMC are Scottish, people.
quote]

Scottish = British :D

Blood Stereo
Pre
Greenmist
Mogwai

Okay, look, you're definitely going to have clarify here. To what are the bands/musicians supposed to be relevant? This board, current music, or the readership of Q magazine?

Spice Girls ;)

Irish!

Sir Malcolm Arnold
Benjamin Britten
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Gerald Finzi
Aloys Fleischmann
Michael Nyman
Henry Purcell
George Lloyd
Thomas Tallis
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Ralph Vaughan Williams


I can't abide many of those, the British tend to make turgid composers, but they are certainly relevent to British classical music. Which is to say that we're shit at it and should stick to other things.

We're shit at reggae as well, with the exception of a few two-tone records and of course early UB40.

PJ Harvey

I'm going to assume that by 'relevant' you mean 'influential'.

Joy Division
The Clash
Throbbing Gristle
Nurse With Wound
Pink Floyd
The Sex Pistols

yeah, relevant to what?


maybe you need a dictionary.

rel·e·vant /ˈrɛləvənt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rel-uh-vuhnt] bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent: a relevant remark.

I checked a dictionary and found out that a relevant is not an animal with tusks and trunk.

So I guess my reading of the thread as must they be in British bands with musicians is irrelephant.

(No offense meant)

pale saints
the fall
the nightingales
throbbing gristle
cabaret voltaire
david bowie
the damned
elvis costello
the police
mogwai
slowdive
ride
my bloody valentine
joy division
the wedding present

my bloody valentine are irish. formed in dublin by dubliners....... yeah i know 2 of em were english but they were formed in ireland!!!!

i cant believe the amount of times ive corrected that. there was a competition on q or nme tv channel and the question was what country was mbv from... the multiple choice answers were. 1. england, 2. scotland or 3. wales!!! the answer was wales!!!!!!! dumbfucking people!

ireland is not british. it is called the republic of ireland!!!!

britain is made up of england, scotland, wales and NORTHERN ireland!!!!!

anyway...

has anyone mentioned the who or pink floyd yet?

What a stupid and ignorant thing to say.

As has already been mentioned I am reticent to mention The Jesus And Mary Chain. It's sad how they crashed. So I cannot credit them as relevant anymore. Influencial, yes. But no longer relevant in the contemporary sense.

Many people have already mentioned some of the greats.

I would also mention The Spacemen 3 as an important indie band of the late eighties/early nineties.

But I think music on both sides of the Atlantic is somewhat languishing at the moment. We are in one of those vacuous periods when no one seems to be breaking new ground creatively.

There has been a resurgence of good guitar based music over the last few years. People who can play.

But as far as something really shattering and earth shaking is concerned - well, I might be wrong, but I can't think of anyone generating the kind of excitement that even Sigue Sigue Sputnik did in the eighties - I mean they were short lived but they made a real splash at the time.

It's not always about the music. Some substitute virtuosity for inspiration. Real music is about IDEAS! New and exciting ideas.

Sorry. I went off on one. But I'm sure you music lovers understand.

hell yeah!!!!!!



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manic street preachers

dumb thread topic

piss off then

oh, you have already i see