Best British Bands

[Svelter]

What are your favourite British bands, singers or artists?

Hmm, I feel as though I should write more here but it'd all be arbitrary nonsense anyway.

[Lewiji]

Currently, Sikth. Not that their music is characteristically British. They're just amazingly talented.

[allfalldown]

I say this in every damn Best Band thread, but Biffy Clyro are both awesome and British :p

Other favourite British bands of mine are Editors, Tales of Jenny, and Maximo Park.

[BlueberryMuffin]

I'm sure logically there are hundreds of British artists I like yet for some reason the only ones I can think of are Roots Manuva, Braintax, Mystro and Led Zeppelin

[gruff]

The Beatles and Catatonia.

[allfalldown]

Ah yeah, Catatonia. I knew there was one I'd forgotten.

[Svelter]

Wow, I'm ashamed at how few of these bands I've heard of. I suppose it's why I started the thread though.

I'm a big fan of the original punk bands - things like The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Adicts but I also love The Cure, The Specials, ELO and Adam & the Ants.

[mrsnuffles]

muse

no really

[BlueIncaPilot]

Basement Jaxx :)

Chicane :)

[hmmmmmmm...]

Queen for me.

[allfalldown]

museFor some reason I thought they were American. Or not British at any rate.

Also, I second ELO. My favourite ELO tracks: Mr Blue Sky and The Diary of Horace Wimp.

[Wigpat]

Porcupine Tree
The Who
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Queen
Feeder
Manic Street Preachers
Theres probably more but I can't really think atm.

[edit]: Madness! :D

[Disgruntledgoat]

Well my favourites according to last.fm are:

Blur
Boards of Canada
Muse
British Sea Power
Radiohead

[Midget]

radiohead easily

possibly the cribs second for me

[Oi Scout]

The Exploited, Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer.

[mrsnuffles]

radiohead easily


christ

i forgot about radiohead

eurgh what's wrong with me

[El Fisho]

Right now: Sonic Boom Six, of all time: The Clash

[Oi Scout]

of all time: The Clash

I recon thats about right.

[Irvine Black]

Radiohead
Porcupine Tree
Pink Floyd
Boards Of Canada
Mogwai
Yndi Halda
Jesu
65daysofstatic
Bark Psychosis
The Cure

[Kanden]

Iron Maiden, Pink Flyod and Queen

[Beef Magic]

I found SikTh's last album dull dull dull.

Reuben
Hell Is For Heroes
Porcupine Tree
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Barclay James Harvest
Camel
Engerica
Johnny Truant
The Broken Family Band

And many many more.

[Svelter]

Ahh yeah, 65daysofstatic. I like them enough to have used '24twelve' as a score to a film I was making (and might make properly in the future.)

[Shwee]

Queen :D

[GorillaBearBear]

I think for me the best british band has to be a dance act. Dance music is like, one of the very few genres where britain really leads the way, I think (excepting Trance which is all dutch). So for me it comes down to Leftfield, who created the only genre that manages to walk equidistant between "intelligent" dance music and club stompers (progressive house), or Way Out West, who take that sort of thing and make it even better by throwing in breakbeats and synth pads.

However, I think really it's no contest for me. Faithless will always be my favourite band, so them being british, it's a bit of a no-brainer.

[rubber spoon]

Well, if I was to choose beteen effing james blunt and effing razorlight I wouldnt because they both suck. John lennon was shite until he got shot, basically for britain silence is the sweetest music of all.

[mooatr]

Cinematic Orchestra are British-based according to wikipedia, and they're awesome. I'd add The Beatles, Muse, and Catatonia too, with dressing of The Zutons and The Go! Team. Bonobo is pretty good too. Not the monkeys. The musician.

[BluTacshrooms]

Radiohead
Faithless
Beatles

^^ In no particular order

There are many other British bands that are really good but if we are going for best

[Soapie]

Cinematic Orchestra are British-based according to wikipedia, and they're awesome.Good choice!

Would have to agree with Boards of Canada and Radiohead (duh).

Also like Reuben, Acoustic Ladyland, The Go! Team and Blur.

[bionic sheep]

Radiohead, Boards of Canada, Jehst (buh solo artist rly but whatev), The Beatles, 65daysofstatic.

buh buh buh

[Mittwoch]

Deep Purple. They're so incredibly British.

Also Orange Goblin, who're also incredibly British in the sense that they're perpetually drunk.

Oh and they both make really really good music.

[Zenym]

Led Zeppelin
The Clash
Pinkfloyd (or Pink Floyd, I forget which)
Radiohead.

It took me a while to think of some.

[LeoZ]

The Beatles are like the definition of British pop music.

[Beef Magic]

I can't fucking stand Faithless. I don't get why people like them.

Other bands I need to add to Best British bands -

- Massive Attack
- Portishead
- Genesis
- Kinesis.

[Alex¿?]

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin

[Darkscull]

the ultimate epitome of everything british, plus their songs are excellent: the kinks.

not my favourite, but i tend not to have favourites in a ranked order, but a smörgåsbord of favourite things.

anyway, others are:

muse, black sabbath, mike oldfield (artist, not band), pink floyd, the cure, the damned, the shadows, the who, david bowie (again, not a band), the clash, joy division/new order...

i should really stop listing now.

[5thTime]

Mogwai, (older) Idlewild, Biffy Clyro, Aereogramme, Mogwai again.

There are no good English bands.

[LeoZ]

also in terms of musicness it doesn't get much more British than The Kinks.

[pebble_rebel]

Mogwai, (older) Idlewild, Biffy Clyro, Aereogramme, Mogwai again.

There are no good English bands.
British Sea Power? Iliketrains? Fields?

[5thTime]

British Sea Power? Iliketrains? Fields?

http://alexking.org/wp-photos/2003/2003-08-06/IMG_8882.jpg

[Rhiyo]

The Cure.

Edit: and queen.

[ACobraNamedSall]

I think for me the best british band has to be a dance act. Dance music is like, one of the very few genres where britain really leads the way.

I dunno if that's quite true. We have led the way in many other genres and played an important part in the development of many more.

Anywah, after seeing them at Wembley MUSE are probably my favourite band. But best of all time? Probably the Beatles or the Kinks.

[pebble_rebel]

http://alexking.org/wp-photos/2003/2003-08-06/IMG_8882.jpg
wtf does that mean? British Sea Power kick major arse.

[Dr_nwa]

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[Steak]

Half Man Half Biscuit - so British it's untrue. A hidden gem of a band
Placebo
Muse
Captain Everything - v underrated
The Specials

[MasterMoogle]

Radiohead.

I like others as well;

Placebo
The Gorillaz
The Young Knives
Klaxons
etc, etc, etc,


Am I the only person who thinks Biffy Clyro are really overrated?

[Lyricaus]

Bands and singers (So long as i don't mix americans with british)
I'd say: (in no order)
Queen
David Bowie
Electric Light Orchestra
Status Quo

[5thTime]

wtf does that mean? British Sea Power kick major arse.

Swing and a miss!

Contrariness aside though, BSP are pretty good. As are Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Oceansize, 65daysofstatic, and a load of other English bands. What can I say, I'm a patriot.

People in Planes and Mclusky are also good. Even if they are welsh.

[pebble_rebel]

Swing and a miss!

Contrariness aside though, BSP are pretty good. As are Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Oceansize, 65daysofstatic, and a load of other English bands. What can I say, I'm a patriot.

People in Planes and Mclusky are also good. Even if they are welsh.
I think your contradicting yourself there. And earlier someone said placebo. There as english as dollars and hot dogs.

[Rhiyo]

Radiohead.

I like others as well;

Placebo
The Gorillaz
The Young Knives
Klaxons
etc, etc, etc,


Am I the only person who thinks Biffy Clyro are really overrated?
The Gorillaz are british?! :S Never knew that, always saw them on american things.

[Beef Magic]

Placebo are british based, and despite Brian's mother being like French and Dad being American (probably wrong, it's been a long time since I read their FAQ), his band is based in Britain and this is where they started playing. Technically, you could argue that Jimi Hendrex is a British artist too as he moved to Britain to get famous.

[5thTime]

I think your contradicting yourself there. And earlier someone said placebo. There as english as dollars and hot dogs.

Eh?

[Soapie]

The Gorillaz are british?! :S Never knew that, always saw them on american things.Damon Albarn of Blur is the main person behind the music side of Gorillaz.

[tatulo]

Beatles

[MeatwagonAction]

Pink Floyd
Yes
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Manic Street Preachers
David Gilmour
Syd Barrett
Jon Anderson
T.Rex
Queen
Pete Townshend
Black Sabbath
Muse
The Beatles

[faragher]

I think for me the best british band has to be a dance act. Dance music is like, one of the very few genres where britain really leads the way, I think True. The british stole dance music from detroit and made it their own. Personally I am a big fan of Roni Size - especially in his Reprezent years. It still sounds pretty fresh, but at the time, it was revolutionary

[BekyLou]

I'm liking Yungun, Braintax, Roots and Foreign Beggars at the moment.

[WoodyBoyd]

Queen by a mile.