TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM

[Jimster]

New Order - Blue Monday.





Good call on the Human League. Sheffield Electronica got massive props in Detroit.





Sabbath/Zep a shoe in. Might The-Brits.com also entertain a Lizzy/Maiden bid? (the latter surely as big as any 'Meriman Rawk act BITDs of spandex and ant-snorting).

 

[Duderonomy]

J i m s t e r said:Songs







I'll second Penny Lane, and London Calling never did much for me but I understand it's place in the cannon.

Stones ... always chasing an "American" sound

Why I chose Paint It Black as it's got a character of it's own imo. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a US act had done something similar first, and if so, I'd like to hear it. Top tune.

Queen

Considered Killer Queen.

Fleetwood Mac

Two thirds of the Jimi Hendrix Experience were Brit, can we claim them?

Winehouse

Also thought about Dusty doing Preacher Man, but wasn't that a period of Brit acts shamelessly covering black American music that wasn't being imported?

 

[Jimster]

Speaking of Britishness, I replied once to something somewhere :

I have it on a picture disc, done as an RAF Roundel. It has a spoken-word intro by Liam Gallagher over the Thunderbirds march, namechecking British institutions such as "ahRrrry-beee-noh" and "The Aven-jozzz" before merging into a pounding house tune made from out-takes from "Born Slippy" w. piano from Jools Holland and rappse from So Solid Crew members, talmbout "We red white and blue, but nevah f*ckin' yellah, Gylles Brandreth kick your head in, Jamie Oliver salmo-nellaaahhh"

Hendrix band was 2/3 Brit, but Hendrix's (I think the "'s" is correct) next-level Braggadocio-bluesmanship made all the difference (like, the difference between watching [cough]Frankie Vaughn with one bird and 2 blokes, or Frankie Vaughn with 3 blokes). Yeah? You betcha, no-one is wretching and looking for the exit while Jimi's Voodoo act is in full effect.





Dusty was like a swaggerless Winehouse to me. Winehouse had a Fred Perry hookup. If Winehouse was a Top Trump, we are taking "Britishnessness : 92"





Can we all agree Gary Glitter has blown club membership doe?

 

[PATX]

Splodgenessabounds - 2 pints of Lager





XTC - Love on a Farmboy's Wages





Ian Dury & The Blockheads - What A Waste





and of course Smiley Culture (RIP)





And to round it off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_gTLwexhN4

 

[Jimster]

I believe some Weller must be present up in here too. Skel will be repping "English Rose" whist tapping one of them Ramones baseball bats gently at his feet. I have rosy glaucoma from my schooldays for the work of The Jam. Weller one of those artists whose Britishness cannot be measured by the standards of a non-colonised mind, like, them lot over there. Shit, you ask them to compile this list, they will be heckles of "Phil Collins" up in here. "A Flawk of Seagulls"...





:shudder:





Does damage done to the US chart add gravitas to the nominees here?

 

[neil_something]

Are we talking canonical British artists/albums, or can we head into private mindgardens?





Should probably add something by The Fall. Live at the Witch Trials? Hex Enduction Hour?





I'd add something from Dudley Moore. Great music, but mainly because his work with Peter Cook was quintessential Brit fodder.





Maybe John Martyn also. Should really represent more of the folk tradition.

 

[skel]

We need a mission statement here.





In my PMG it's about a cross section of undeniably astounding tracks that carry authentic briddish attitude all the way through like a stick of rock, regardless of any yawnfest over musical root authenticity.





In this regard it's Anarchy in the UK over London Calling, it's Ace of Spades over Maiden, and it's Kirsty MacColl over Amy and them.





Define the aim and I'll add on after some hot chin stroking action.

 

[djwaxon]

Surely if you're going for brit music you'd include something from the early 80s jazz funk era with the resonant fretless bass sound, like Mariposa by Freeez or something? Its an approach to American music, but a very British sound.

 

[Duderonomy]

Mmm, mission statement ??? British and good (if that???s not asking too much)?





Or just what would you play for the jubilee? Maybe choosing tunes with historical significance or something? Tunes that reflect our sceptered isle and all that...? I'm open to suggestions really*.























* inc private mindgardenraer

 

[skel]

I'll propose that it's Songs From Inside Our Trench





Outsiders can listen, appreciate, but it wasn't made for you and you can't get the 100%. YMD

 

[PATX]

So that means TO-TO-TO-TOP BUZZ


HIGHLANDER! WE'RE IN THA MOVIES RELATED (Speaking of which have the Home Nations signed off on their appropriation for this auspicious event?





plus This Town Needs a Sheriff.





I could go on, but don't worry I won't

 

[Duderonomy]

J i m s t e r said:


Can we all agree Gary Glitter has blown club membership doe?




I don't want to know what Glitter has blown :lalala:











Where do Dire Straits fall?





Police could be in there.

 

[skel]

Beatnick is to blame for this idea.


Whatever, state the criteria and let's roll.





Rest assured there's no Rolling Stones in whatever selection I make.





Can't think of any overtly Scottish or Welsh entries, unless I take it totally PMG and do a power pop list.


NI might make it in with Van and SLF.





Lizzy is a difficult call. One meriman and a bona fide Dubliner; but one golden era Scot and the main man was technically English.





Speak definitively on the subject at hand and let's start the thread. Queenie's 60 years is imminent.

 

[Duderonomy]

skel said:





Scottish




With a weird '80s Brit commercials themed video, mindgarden material:

 

[Flomotion]

I'm not sure what your criteria are here but having just excavated The The's Infected from the rubble in my desk I'll add that. Piss stinking shopping centres and all.

 

[neil_something]

skel said:Welsh




John Cale would be the perfect choice were it not for the fact that he is 100% more New York than Newport.

 

[Jimster]

Duderonomy said:Scottish




Risk of Proclaimers precludes any Albannach activity, yo.





"Rip it Up" might come hard but "Love Plus One" sees it off like it's Haircut's Hadrian.





Their secret weapon might be a PMG Sheena Easton or Jesse Rae but he'd rather be out of it, IIRC (His vinyls had "Import" on them if they were going South of the Border. 100% true).

 

[Jimster]

neil_something said:skel said:Welsh




John Cale would be the perfect choice were it not for the fact that he is 100% more New York than Newport.




Manics have a valid claim to something. I will ride for the Nicky stuff, they sold it to me.





I will add Sir Tom and Dame Shirley have valid claims to membership here too.





The Alarm to fall back doe.

 

[neil_something]

J i m s t e r said:Manics have a valid claim to something. I will ride for the Nicky stuff, they sold it to me.





I will add Sir Tom and Dame Shirley have valid claims to membership here too.




I have a lot of time for "The Holy Bible", but not much time for anything else Manics related.





As for Tom and Shirley, it's 99% garbage. Only the Johnny Harris tunes are worth repeated listens. I'd take Gorky's Zygotic Mynci over both of them.

 

[skel]

And I'd take SFA 'Juxtaposed' over all of them.





There is some bottom feeding creeping in now.


The Police? Duder? DUDER?





Anyways, It's Not Unusual is a great song, and has the virtue of capturing both Tom and the boy Page (although there are so many versions of that story, the truth is now a blur). But Tom is way too Vegas to fit my model.





Likewise, choose Teh Fall's 'Victoria' and capture them and the Kinks in one swoop.





If we have no mutually agreed spec by Monday, just start a thread, throw as much at the wall as you want and see how it goes.





And Neil: New York / Newport


I saw what you did there





::heartily approve::