Partisan Blues FanClarkOutYou missed out the best 1 A Flock of Seagulls!!Largely disagree with all of this. Commercial success isn't a marker for how good a cities music scene is. Liverpool has had some great bands that don't get the recognition they deserve: The La's (other than There She Goes), Shack, Teardrop Explodes, Wah, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc, etc.
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Every Liverpool band mentioned are in the link I posted whereas decent many are hardly household names in the Uk yet alone internationally.
Whereby to an extent commercial success is not the be all and end all that and longevity are the best barometer we have. The rest is subjective and personal taste.
I stand by that this area has produced far more well known Artists with bigger catalogs and more popularity.
Not seen Dexys or Joan Armatrading mentioned in this thread (May have missed] but both would easily make that Liverpool list we really have punched our weight.
Getting on a bit now so can’t argue whether the Liverpool scene is better than Brum nowadays wouldn’t surprise me if it was. From the late 60s to mid eighties when I was out and about regularly I would say we had much more going on in our city with more venues and more diversity.
Mister MutleyEvery Liverpool band mentioned are in the link I posted whereas decent many are hardly household names in the Uk yet alone internationally.
Whereby to an extent commercial success is not the be all and end all that and longevity are the best barometer we have. The rest is subjective and personal taste.
I stand by that this area has produced far more well known Artists with bigger catalogs and more popularity.
Not seen Dexys or Joan Armatrading mentioned in this thread (May have missed] but both would easily make that Liverpool list we really have punched our weight.
Getting on a bit now so can’t argue whether the Liverpool scene is better than Brum nowadays wouldn’t surprise me if it was. From the late 60s to mid eighties when I was out and about regularly I would say we had much more going on in our city with more venues and more diversity.
I mentioned Dexys.
CharcyHe was responding to a list of Scouse bands.
Poster said “ thought they were scousers “
And I duly told him they were Scouse
I thought this was all based on sales as opposed to who was better ?
Anyway .. i suppose you have to put Toyah in here
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"In 1981 she alone, sold in the UK more units than the whole of the Warner Bros. put together.
RagsI thought this was all based on sales as opposed to who was better ?
Anyway .. i suppose you have to put Toyah in here
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"In 1981 she alone, sold in the UK more units than the whole of the Warner Bros. put together.
yh thats a mystery
Now you’re taking the piss. UB40 I have a lot of time for but to suggest they made some of those classic Jamaican songs better is an insult to the original artists.
Cherry o Baby, is a master piece in Jamaica how dear you. Kingston Town, is almost identical to the original.
Please stop it.
Just had a quick look to remind myself of what songs they covered on that album.
Many rivers to cross was first done by the legend Jimmy Cliff, you must be the only person alive that would make that claim.
On holiday at moment,talking to some old boy,in the bar,this thread in my mind,asked him what big band’s come out of Nottingham.I said I could only think ov one,paper lace,he said yes😃
Tom TheProject BradyPossibly the worst ever take on this website...
...Manchester had Britpop for a while?
Well done on topping the worst ever take in exactly the same post as calling it out
RagsRagsCofton Hackett in Brum. ive led a shelterd life.
Ive not heard this before but i do think it would make a great terrace song, welcome to the Mowbery house
Is that Cofton down by Dawlish ? ... if so this sort of proves my point about it being massive massive massive in Brum and unknown elsewhere - genuine question that.
Apologies - but happy to introduce it to you.
At places like Snobs and Faces in the 80s they'd play it 3 or 4 or 5 times a night - usually followed by Stephen Tin Tin Duffy's Kiss Me (1982 version - not the Art of Noise remix from 1985) (He was lead vocalist with Duran Duran before Fat Boy Le Bon appeared on the scene)
That's bringing back a load of great memories.