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."