Good British Rock Bands - Page 2

MellySingsDoom · 08.15.2008, 06:56 AM

^^^Are they still going? I can't work out whether they've split up or not...

blunderbuss · 08.15.2008, 07:03 AM

They released a new CD last month.

MellySingsDoom · 08.15.2008, 07:05 AM

Ah good - must keep an eye out for that, then.

Toilet & Bowels · 08.15.2008, 08:34 AM

Taint

demonrail666 · 08.15.2008, 08:37 AM

Bum Gravy. Still pushing the sonic envelope after all those years.

Toilet & Bowels · 08.15.2008, 08:47 AM

Stereolab
Broadcast (not so much on record, but certainly they're a rock band when they play live)
Ectogram
Electralane
Skill 7 Stamina 12
AMP
The Go! Team
Movietone
The Bevis Frond

-Metal Bands-
Emit
Benighted Leams

Toilet & Bowels · 08.15.2008, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Bum Gravy. Still pushing the sonic envelope after all those years.

Are they still around?

jimbrim · 08.15.2008, 08:56 AM

This Aint Vegas
Part Chimp
The Pastels

jimbrim · 08.15.2008, 08:58 AM

Trencher
Lovvers

demonrail666 · 08.15.2008, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Are they still around?

Yeah, I saw a poster for them a month or so ago, playing at the Walthamstow Standard I think. A double headliner with Dumpy's Rusty Nuts. You can't argue with a bill like that.

SonicBebs · 08.15.2008, 09:12 AM

[quote=blunderbuss]This is a tough one, seeing as I wouldn't consider any of the bands in the original post to be rock.
[quote]

thats fair enough. I meant guitar rather than electronic as the British electronic scene is pretty fucking impressive

Toilet & Bowels · 08.15.2008, 09:16 AM

saying something is indie rock but not rock doesn't make sense. surely indie
rock is just a sub-genre of rock?

blunderbuss · 08.15.2008, 10:25 AM

Yeah, but there's rock and there's RAWK!!!!!!!

More importantly, Demonrail, did you really see a poster advertising a gig for DRN? I saw them in about 1987 - they were brilliant!

batreleaser · 08.15.2008, 10:29 AM

ssuming youre looking for rock bands, and not noise, etc..:

note: how can you have trouble looking for brit bands? theres thousands
hawkwind (possibly the best british band ever)
roxy music
swell maps
big flame
king crimson
the art bears
henry cow
slapp happy
robert wyatt
soft machine
spacemen 3
early pink floyd (piper-unmagumma)
slowdive
mbv
the jesus and mary chain
essential logic
the ceramic hobs
the damned
the fall (well, actually the these guys are the best british band ever, sorry hawkwind)
swervedriver
wire
pil
the pop group ('y' could be the best british album ever)
PRE
joy division
the smiths
t rex
siouxie and the banshees
godflesh
napalm death
the kiling joke
black sabbath
gang of four
the rolling stones
led zeppelin
stereolab
deviants
the stranglers
x ray spex
the slits
XTC
cabaret voltaire (kinda industrial, but to me, not really)
soft cell
the teardrop explodes/julian cope
the homosexuals
loop
yes
emerson lake and palmer
elo

batreleaser · 08.15.2008, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blunderbuss

Yeah, but there's rock and there's RAWK!!!!!!!

so 'express way to yr. skull' does now RAWK!!!!!!!!! because i would beg to differ

Toilet & Bowels · 08.15.2008, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SonicBebs

I'm finding hard to think of good current British Rock bands.
Obviously we've had loads in the past but right now we're looking bleak

help me out? i'm not exactly on the pulse these days so what am i missing

Quote:

Originally Posted by batreleaser

ssuming youre looking for rock bands, and not noise, etc..:

note: how can you have trouble looking for brit bands? theres thousands
hawkwind (possibly the best british band ever)
roxy music
swell maps
big flame
king crimson
the art bears
henry cow
slapp happy
robert wyatt
soft machine
spacemen 3
early pink floyd (piper-unmagumma)
slowdive
mbv
the jesus and mary chain
essential logic
the ceramic hobs
the damned
the fall (well, actually the these guys are the best british band ever, sorry hawkwind)
swervedriver
wire
pil
the pop group ('y' could be the best british album ever)
PRE
joy division
the smiths
t rex
siouxie and the banshees
godflesh
napalm death
the kiling joke
black sabbath
gang of four
the rolling stones
led zeppelin
stereolab
deviants
the stranglers
x ray spex
the slits
XTC
cabaret voltaire (kinda industrial, but to me, not really)
soft cell
the teardrop explodes/julian cope
the homosexuals
loop
yes
emerson lake and palmer
elo

Well done!

batreleaser · 08.15.2008, 11:23 AM

i dont know how, but i forgot these:

crass
discharge (those two are in my top 5 brit bands for sure)
venom
bolt thrower
amebix
iron maiden
motorhead
extreme noise terror
electro hippies
carcass
fairport convention

these bands are not rock in the slightest, but they do indeed RAWK, and there too good not to be mentioned:
whitehouse
throbbing gristle
coil
nihilist spasm band
nurse with wound
current 93
the halfler trio
evan parker
derek bailey

i really love british music. for some reason, even thier most simple straight ahead rock bands, are somehow interesting, creative, and a little more wild than thier peers (the beatles anyone?).

SonicBebs · 08.15.2008, 01:18 PM

we're talking about current bands dude

Quote:

Originally Posted by batreleaser

i really love british music. for some reason, even thier most simple straight ahead rock bands, are somehow interesting, creative, and a little more wild than thier peers (the beatles anyone?).

you need to listen to the pigeondetectives/wombats/mysteryjets seriously theres nothing but shit as far as i can see

sonic sphere · 08.15.2008, 01:59 PM

ten benson

08.15.2008, 02:26 PM

The Sticks

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Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,264	Stereolab Broadcast (not so much on record, but certainly they're a rock band when they play live) Ectogram Electralane Skill 7 Stamina 12 AMP The Go! Team Movietone The Bevis Frond -Metal Bands- Emit Benighted Leams
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08.15.2008, 09:12 AM	#31
SonicBebs expwy. to yr skull Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,680	[quote=blunderbuss]This is a tough one, seeing as I wouldn't consider any of the bands in the original post to be rock. [quote] thats fair enough. I meant guitar rather than electronic as the British electronic scene is pretty fucking impressive
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blunderbuss invito al cielo Join Date: May 2008 Location: UK Posts: 2,526	Yeah, but there's rock and there's RAWK!!!!!!! More importantly, Demonrail, did you really see a poster advertising a gig for DRN? I saw them in about 1987 - they were brilliant!
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08.15.2008, 10:29 AM	#34
batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	ssuming youre looking for rock bands, and not noise, etc..: note: how can you have trouble looking for brit bands? theres thousands hawkwind (possibly the best british band ever) roxy music swell maps big flame king crimson the art bears henry cow slapp happy robert wyatt soft machine spacemen 3 early pink floyd (piper-unmagumma) slowdive mbv the jesus and mary chain essential logic the ceramic hobs the damned the fall (well, actually the these guys are the best british band ever, sorry hawkwind) swervedriver wire pil the pop group ('y' could be the best british album ever) PRE joy division the smiths t rex siouxie and the banshees godflesh napalm death the kiling joke black sabbath gang of four the rolling stones led zeppelin stereolab deviants the stranglers x ray spex the slits XTC cabaret voltaire (kinda industrial, but to me, not really) soft cell the teardrop explodes/julian cope the homosexuals loop yes emerson lake and palmer elo __________________ listen to pink reason
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batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	i dont know how, but i forgot these: crass discharge (those two are in my top 5 brit bands for sure) venom bolt thrower amebix iron maiden motorhead extreme noise terror electro hippies carcass fairport convention these bands are not rock in the slightest, but they do indeed RAWK, and there too good not to be mentioned: whitehouse throbbing gristle coil nihilist spasm band nurse with wound current 93 the halfler trio evan parker derek bailey i really love british music. for some reason, even thier most simple straight ahead rock bands, are somehow interesting, creative, and a little more wild than thier peers (the beatles anyone?). __________________ listen to pink reason
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sarramkrop Posts: n/a	The Sticks
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