Great list. A couple I could make an argument for but I'm not going to as I'm so happy you spoke up for The Jam, 10CC and XTC. And you turned me on to The Kinks who I ignored for decades and now love
A wide ranging and superb overview of U.K. bands Mazzy, with some very perceptive insights and true judgement. It worked really well by not trying to shoehorn it into a ranking. You were right - it can't be done. A really enjoyable and interesting video. Many thanks.
Great video - impossible task! For those you didn't include I would have Hawkwind and Talk Talk on mine. The Jam were around for 5 years, not much less than the Beatles (and longer than the Smiths!)
Nice list, but there are a few I think deserves mentioning: Moody Blues; Asia; Yes; Saxon; Genesis; Paul McCartney and Wings; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Magnum; Gerry Rafferty; Alan Parsons Project just to name a few. Great list with a lot of good memories. Enjoyed the video.
Hey Mazzy! In my experience these Top 20 lists are always going to be different than the other guys list so no one’s wrong and everyone’s right as it’s all opinion driven. You didn’t fail my friend You’re a success! LoL! This is an awesome Brit rock list! I just listened to that Depeche Mode record Also love their record Music for the Masses! “I’m taking a ride with my best friend, Hope he never lets me down again” What a jam! My fave track off Violator is World in My Eyes! Wow what a great synthy song! While I know a lot of folks who hate that Moody’s Lp I absolutely love it! One of thee first albums of its kind that I ever bought along with Vanilla Fudge. I’ve really just started diving into XTC and I am loving it! Man I haven’t listened to that Zombies album in a spell You’ve inspired me to pull it for a listen after I get off work! Man so many great albums here! The Who! Roxy Music! Radiohead! Love 10cc! This was great Mazzy! Love ya my friend! ✌️👽
I would have added Mott, Humbke Pie, Squeeze, Traffic, Be Bop Deluxe and Savoy Brown. You are right, it’s impossible to limit it to 40. Once again a very enjoyable video
nice selection Mazzy. I would include Free if you like guitar driven music there is no way around Koss. Then maybe some Trip Hop bands, Massive Attack, Portishead. And in that same category, one of the best live bands, Faithless, not so much for their studio work, that was mainly electronic, but on stage they were a pretty hard hitting almost kinda rock band (drums, guitar, bass, keys, and one of the hardest working percussionist I've seen in my life). In the words of the late Maxi Jazz: For tonight, God is a DJ.
The Jam. Not only did they put out incredibly great albums, they quit while on top. Highly influential and I'm sure you will mention how you saw them. Hahahaa.
I’m very pleased indeed to see you include Super Furry Animals in this list. A fine band and much underrated. Admittedly this is the first video of yours I’ve watched despite the YT algorithm pushing them my way this last week or so, and I’m glad I’ve capitulated as I’m enjoying it immensely. May I make a suggestion? You might have already done so, but if not, how about a few vids on specific record companies? I’d love to see your take on Rough Trade or 4AD or Mute or Drag City and many, many others. I bet your record collection could tell a few longer-form stories and I like your presentation vibe. Nice one.
Thanks for costing and watching. Label centric videos would be good. Search around for a variety of music journeys here. I may try some down the line. I think I’ve only shown Apple Records very early here. ✌🏼
Great list of which I have all. ( I am one month older than you so most if not all are originals.) But I would swap Fairport for early Gabriel Genesis and BeeGees for the Stranglers who don't get the credit due. BTW I loved that you started the list with A Different Kind of Tension. A perfect album in my opinion.
Mazzy I respect your eclecticism and ability to speak extemporaneously on music, but The Jam is Paul Weller, Paul Weller is the Jam, I highly recommend listening to his solo records, they are different than The Jam but great in themself. The band in between is The Style Council which is good as well. Wild Wood, Stanley Road, 22 Dreams, must-haves, and must listen-tos. I would love for you to do a Paul Weller video. Or ask me to do one with you (I will fake my way through it).
Some great choices there. Honourable mentions to The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Blur, Cardiacs, Suede, Pulp, The Verve, Supergrass, Wire, The Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers,, Souxie and the Banshees, David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, The Libertines, Crass, The Fall, Massive Attack, Portishead, The Prodigy.
I love every Procol Harum album that Robin Trower played on. Broken Barricades is the album I pull out most of the time. I saw them in NYC August 1971 at The Schaefer Music Festival in 1971. Robin had left a short time after BBs was released. I was disappointed but Dave Ball was excellent too.
A great selection and there are so many to choose from . I would have picked Aqualung from Jethro Tull and Genesis with Foxtrot and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway along with the Mick Taylor era Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Ya's Out with the incredible version of Sympathy for the Devil aand Street Fighting Man. So much great music.. it's not easy.
Always makes me happy when you mention Super Furry Animals. Yes, that was the first surround sound album. They repeated this on their next album. Released on DVD back in the day, and not difficult to find in your discogs and such. The rest of the band now records as Das Koolies, which you showed a while back if I remember correctly?
@ Yeah they are not nearly big enough. Been a fan for decades now, even seen them here in Oslo and in Copenhagen. Couple of their vinyls are among my biggest Whales. Their b-side collestion starts at 500 £ on discogs.
I love the Bee Gees as well Mazzy. I am happy to see that you included them. Please Read Me is such a great song. Beach Boys inspired harmonies on that song.
I think that Topographic isn't even half as bad as it has often been made out to be, but come on, it isn't in the same league as Fragile, Close to the Edge or Relayer.
I saw Joe Boyd give a talk recently and he told a funny story about the first time he heard Sgt Pepper. He was bribed by Sandy Denny into giving her a lift home, with the promise of hearing an advance cassette of the record which she'd got hold of. When they got back to her house in the small hours she didn't want to wake her sleeping mother, so the two of them went into her walk-in wardrobe and sat on the floor listening to the album very quietly on a cassette player.
Joy Division had captured something really unique and existential. Their drum sound coupled with bass lines driving the songs, and Ian Curtis’s angst ridden lyrics and baritone, were hugely influential in the 80s.
Great list and an impossible task, there are so many amazing English bands! The Pretty Things rule tho! I always go back to that PT/Pink Fairies/Deviants UFO club/OZ mag movement that kicked off the early UK psych scene.
@@mazzysmusic They were phenomenal right up to the end. Peep some of those later shows online like Rockpalast 2007 for example, they aged like a fine wine and some of those songs are absolutely timeless.
My video started as a 25 Band list, and Oasis were at number 25. I ended up cutting them along with Cream, The Faces, Mott the Hoople and T-Rex. I also love Violator by Depeche Mode without being a fan of them. Enjoyed the show, you're right it is kind of impossible. I think I played it very safe with all the classic rock. I'm going to do a follow-up of my favourite 20 bands, and there'll be a bit of overlap.
Let's not forget Public Image Ltd. Their first 3 albums (particularly the innovative "Metal Box") featured bass-heavy, brooding and cavernous soundscapes that owed more to Can and dub reggae than traditional rock.
I agree with "I Can See For Miles" being the best Who-song ... if it wasn't for "Dogs" (no. 1, that is); that one is slightly ahead of "ICSFM" for me. Pure pop for pop people!
My adds: Wishbone Ash, Gentle Giant, the Tom Robinson Band, The Yardbirds/ Jeff Beck bands/ Soft Machine, Blur/Gorillaz, Humble Pie, Squeeze, the Move, Badfinger, Ultravox, 801, Matching Mole, Traffic, Camel, the Fall, Queen, ....and more!
Britain has been an absolute’ powerhouse of music. It just shows how incredible the Brit music legacy is that Norman couldn’t find room for icons such as Queen and The Stone Roses.
In my opinion and I think you’ll agree the Sex Pistols NMtB has to be on the list as it was such an influential LP It’s one of those albums that rises above its genre and era so having said that it deserves a place in the British music pantheon 😎
thanks for your thoughtful post. On the punk tip, better big up the Clash, Sex Pistols, Generation X, the Damned, the Stranglers, the Ruts, Cockney Rejects, Sham 69, GBH, Discharge, and Leatherface, the best punk band of the last 30 years. And oh yeah, check Basement 5. They only dropped one album but that LP sounds like nothing else and is a true masterpiece. Take it from me, the punk professor.
That Basement 5 lp is absolutely incredible! That contains one of the best Christmas 🎄 songs!! I get the impression Mazzy is not into punk but was around and in the biz.
@@birdy1numnum Right on about Basement 5. So cool you dig them. Don't forget to hear their Peel session with a great, slower more sinister Last White Christmas. And their live Groningen concert is a must hear also. Both are on TH-cam.
The Incredible String Band/ The Fall/ Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band/ Brinsley Schwarz/ Gorky's Zygotic Mynci/ Blue Aeroplanes/ Soft Machine and early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett........
Just a pity that you didn't pick up your CD-collection of Prefab Sprout. Let's see if there is anyone else here who think they belong up there, just below The Beatles, together with Genesis (with Steve Hackett/Anthony Phillips) and 10cc, followed by My Bloody Valentine, The Rolling Stones, Yes, The Kinks, Deep Purple, The Who , Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, Jethro Tull, The Police, for my top tier. 😀
I’d have to add the Happy Mondays they were like the cavalry that rescued us from the mid 80’s and spread a new vibe.Watch them live in New York 1990 .Pills n thrills album is great Love the Beatles,Kinks,Stones ,Bowie etc but we’d heard them to death ,the Damned first is still great and them and early Jam were better than the Clash live.
Yeah, you missed a few big ones: Deep Purple, Nice and ELP, Free, Family, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Soft Machine, Taste, Spooky Tooth, Traffic, Uriah Heep, Troggs, Spencer Davis Group, Wishbone Ash, T. Rex (Sweet, Slade), Pretenders, Wire, and so many more. Queen you mentioned, but did not showcase. Some of these bands you may not have followed or liked as much, which leads to the question: What's the purpose of this list? UK Bands that you liked or a listing of influential bands? Thanks anyway. Always enjoyable to watch!
Kid A is an album that I listen to and think to myself… the band knew they needed to make an album but had no idea what to do, so they just made a bunch of sounds and called it good.
Difficult list; I agree with most of your selections, but I definitely would not include Oasis and would have found room for Squeeze and XTC. Good to see Fairport Convention and Tull get some deserved love.
We love making lists don’t we??. Teenage Fanclub,John Mayall, Rory Gallagher, Humble Pie, Slade, Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance, Joe Cocker w Grease Band, Jess Roden Band, Frankie Miller Bamd, Robert Wyatt/ Soft Machine ,Nick Lowe, Rod Stewart ( first 4 albums) , Hawkwind, Family, the great Terry Reid w David Lindley in his b Did we miss Tin Machine !! Now for your US list- Spirit, Creedence, CSN ( best debut album?), Little Feat, Byrds, Airplane , Commander Cody, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Doors …..
@@brentcunliffe745 English or Anglo-Irish. Shane MacGowan was born in the UK to Irish parents and spent his early childhood in Tipperary, Ireland, before moving back to England with his family at age six. I don't know anything about the other band members. Ireland (by that I mean the republic) was long regarded as part of the UK by the English even after they got their independence a century ago.
Top 25 best UK bands. 1) Kinks 2) Who 3) Beatles 4) Roxy Music 5) T. Rex 6) The Fall 7) The Cure 8) The Smiths 9) Black Sabbath 10) the Zombies 11) Joy Division 12) New Order 13) the Damned 14) Motörhead 15) King Crimson 16) Deep Purple 17) Led Zeppelin 18) Pink Fairies 19) Hawkwind 20) The Jam 21) the Buzzcoks 22) Radiohead 23) Gang Of Four 24) the Chameleons 25) Rolling Stones
I haven't yet read any of the previous comments left, so some (or many) of my nominations may be redundant. As Mazzy acknowledged in the post's title, "It's impossible." One of the first that came to mind was The Yardbirds, along with The Jeff Beck Group. But the very first was Rockpile, imo the very best group the UK has produced. Also missing were Squeeze (no Squeeze?!), Badfinger (you have GOT to be kidding!), The Searchers (certainly better than The Hollies), The Records, ABC, The Brinsley Schwarz Band, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Dave Clark Five, and of course The Rutles ;-). And if The Ventures are included in the USA list, The Shadows should be in the UK one. That's just off the top of my head.
Mazzy, great video, UK so many great albums, I remember them all, for me Mazzy, Sgt. Pepper a masterpiece each song , fantastic thank you for this it brought the memories, Takecare Mazzy, Steve
Hi, mine 25: Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, ELP, Jethro Tull, Roxy Music, Supertramp, The Police, The Cure, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Echo & Bunnymen, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, The Cult, Oasis, Blur.
The Pogues members were English with the exception of Shane, who considered himself Irish but was born and raised in southern England. You can't call a band Irish because of their sound.
It's impossible for almost everybody to squeeze your favourite bands into a top 25. I would never tell a friend you should have included X, you should have left out Y. I can only inform him (or her) what my favourite are. So what's the problem? Mine would have around 20 similarities with yours, by coincidence that is. In other words: full respect for your choices.
@@mazzysmusic Next time Lord Maslov visits Rob and Jimmy in England, he should take a little boat to Belfast and ask people on the Shankill Road what country Belfast is in.
Oh man, seeing your copy of Beggars Banquet makes me sad. My aunt got me that version (with Let It Bleed) back in the early 80s and I promptly sold all my records in the 90s when the CD tsunami came and my bandmates said it was dumb to have vinyl. I want that version again. I hate that toilet cover. BB is my favourite Stones album by far.
Hi, I like your videos Norman, but I have to criticize this one. Putting a list like this together and not including Genesis is sacrilege. Genesis were one of the early pioneers of prog. They were formed in 1966-´67 and released their first records in 1968. By 1970 when they released their 2nd album Trespass, they´d invented the type of music that later became known as Prog Rock, among a few other bands that were around at the same time. In the 1980´s Genesis became one of the biggest bands around, selling records in ten´s of millions. They even had 5 top ten hits from just ONE album, Invisible Touch. Whether you like Prog Genesis or the 1980´s Pop Genesis, either way, they should have been on this list. And, btw, Deep Purple is also missing from this list. But keep those videos coming, they are always entertaining to watch :)
Top notch video Mazzy. Some great choices there and a fairly broad swathe of genres covered too.
Great list. A couple I could make an argument for but I'm not going to as I'm so happy you spoke up for The Jam, 10CC and XTC. And you turned me on to The Kinks who I ignored for decades and now love
A wide ranging and superb overview of U.K. bands Mazzy, with some very perceptive insights and true judgement. It worked really well by not trying to shoehorn it into a ranking. You were right - it can't be done. A really enjoyable and interesting video. Many thanks.
Thanks for including the Cure Mazzy! The new album is a masterpiece!
Cracking video Mazzy, cheers!
Hello Mazzy Greetings from Scotland good stuff. The Move and T rex were Ace as well.
A couple are included in part two ✌🏼
Great video - impossible task! For those you didn't include I would have Hawkwind and Talk Talk on mine.
The Jam were around for 5 years, not much less than the Beatles (and longer than the Smiths!)
Thank you for adding Kid A. Radiohead can get overlooked sometimes. Another good video. Keep dem comin
@@ChuckTea You said Dem 😇🤠🤓✌🏼
James. The band from Manchester are worth listening to.........used to love them back in the day.
Nice list, but there are a few I think deserves mentioning: Moody Blues; Asia; Yes; Saxon; Genesis; Paul McCartney and Wings; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Magnum; Gerry Rafferty; Alan Parsons Project just to name a few. Great list with a lot of good memories. Enjoyed the video.
I really enjoyed watching this video - thanks
Hey Mazzy! In my experience these Top 20 lists are always going to be different than the other guys list so no one’s wrong and everyone’s right as it’s all opinion driven. You didn’t fail my friend You’re a success! LoL! This is an awesome Brit rock list! I just listened to that Depeche Mode record Also love their record Music for the Masses! “I’m taking a ride with my best friend, Hope he never lets me down again” What a jam! My fave track off Violator is World in My Eyes! Wow what a great synthy song!
While I know a lot of folks who hate that Moody’s Lp I absolutely love it! One of thee first albums of its kind that I ever bought along with Vanilla Fudge.
I’ve really just started diving into XTC and I am loving it!
Man I haven’t listened to that Zombies album in a spell You’ve inspired me to pull it for a listen after I get off work!
Man so many great albums here! The Who! Roxy Music! Radiohead! Love 10cc! This was great Mazzy! Love ya my friend! ✌️👽
I would have added Mott, Humbke Pie, Squeeze, Traffic, Be Bop Deluxe and Savoy Brown. You are right, it’s impossible to limit it to 40. Once again a very enjoyable video
The follow up video I added a few of your suggestions.
which albums by them?
Fun one today. All great bands. I enjoy how semi-obscure facts and history flow out of your head.
As long as it never stops flowing 🤠
Great job! The list could easily go over 100.
I’ll make a list of 100 bands tomorrow! 🎸. No I won’t 😂🤠
Great list Mazzy. I'd add Genesis, Madness Squeeze
nice selection Mazzy. I would include Free if you like guitar driven music there is no way around Koss.
Then maybe some Trip Hop bands, Massive Attack, Portishead. And in that same category, one of the best live bands, Faithless, not so much for their studio work, that was mainly electronic, but on stage they were a pretty hard hitting almost kinda rock band (drums, guitar, bass, keys, and one of the hardest working percussionist I've seen in my life). In the words of the late Maxi Jazz: For tonight, God is a DJ.
The Jam. Not only did they put out incredibly great albums, they quit while on top. Highly influential and I'm sure you will mention how you saw them. Hahahaa.
I’m very pleased indeed to see you include Super Furry Animals in this list. A fine band and much underrated. Admittedly this is the first video of yours I’ve watched despite the YT algorithm pushing them my way this last week or so, and I’m glad I’ve capitulated as I’m enjoying it immensely. May I make a suggestion? You might have already done so, but if not, how about a few vids on specific record companies? I’d love to see your take on Rough Trade or 4AD or Mute or Drag City and many, many others. I bet your record collection could tell a few longer-form stories and I like your presentation vibe. Nice one.
Thanks for costing and watching. Label centric videos would be good. Search around for a variety of music journeys here. I may try some down the line. I think I’ve only shown Apple Records very early here. ✌🏼
Great list of which I have all. ( I am one month older than you so most if not all are originals.) But I would swap Fairport for early Gabriel Genesis and BeeGees for the Stranglers who don't get the credit due. BTW I loved that you started the list with A Different Kind of Tension. A perfect album in my opinion.
Great stuff Mazzy. So pleased you're an Anglophile.
Mazzy I respect your eclecticism and ability to speak extemporaneously on music, but The Jam is Paul Weller, Paul Weller is the Jam, I highly recommend listening to his solo records, they are different than The Jam but great in themself. The band in between is The Style Council which is good as well. Wild Wood, Stanley Road, 22 Dreams, must-haves, and must listen-tos. I would love for you to do a Paul Weller video. Or ask me to do one with you (I will fake my way through it).
Some great choices there. Honourable mentions to The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Blur, Cardiacs, Suede, Pulp, The Verve, Supergrass, Wire, The Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers,, Souxie and the Banshees, David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, The Libertines, Crass, The Fall, Massive Attack, Portishead, The Prodigy.
I love every Procol Harum album that Robin Trower played on. Broken Barricades is the album I pull out most of the time. I saw them in NYC August 1971 at The Schaefer Music Festival in 1971. Robin had left a short time after BBs was released. I was disappointed but Dave Ball was excellent too.
XTC, Swindon's finest
A great selection and there are so many to choose from . I would have picked Aqualung from Jethro Tull and Genesis with Foxtrot and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway along with the Mick Taylor era Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Ya's Out with the incredible version of Sympathy for the Devil aand Street Fighting Man. So much great music.. it's not easy.
Always makes me happy when you mention Super Furry Animals. Yes, that was the first surround sound album. They repeated this on their next album. Released on DVD back in the day, and not difficult to find in your discogs and such.
The rest of the band now records as Das Koolies, which you showed a while back if I remember correctly?
I love sfa too and nice to hear at least one welsh band was included on this list.
@ Wonder if Norman likes the Manics? I’ll assume he hasn’t heard Yws Gwynedd 😄
@ yes just the band id wonder about too. They always seem to fly under the radar. James Dean Bradfield really should be more well known.
@ Yeah they are not nearly big enough. Been a fan for decades now, even seen them here in Oslo and in Copenhagen. Couple of their vinyls are among my biggest Whales. Their b-side collestion starts at 500 £ on discogs.
I love the Bee Gees as well Mazzy. I am happy to see that you included them. Please Read Me is such a great song. Beach Boys inspired harmonies on that song.
I think they might be classified as Australian. You'd have to ask them. 😂
"Tale from the topographic ocean" is my favorite Yes album...
😵💫🥹
I think that Topographic isn't even half as bad as it has often been made out to be, but come on, it isn't in the same league as Fragile, Close to the Edge or Relayer.
@@staggerlee6794 Well it is for me ...
I saw Joe Boyd give a talk recently and he told a funny story about the first time he heard Sgt Pepper. He was bribed by Sandy Denny into giving her a lift home, with the promise of hearing an advance cassette of the record which she'd got hold of. When they got back to her house in the small hours she didn't want to wake her sleeping mother, so the two of them went into her walk-in wardrobe and sat on the floor listening to the album very quietly on a cassette player.
Great story ✌🏼
Nice video! You should do a video about your all time top 5 favourite bands! 😊
Excellent video.
I would personally start with XTC, and go from there.
Echo and the Bunnymen?
Watch part 2
Joy Division had captured something really unique and existential. Their drum sound coupled with bass lines driving the songs, and Ian Curtis’s angst ridden lyrics and baritone, were hugely influential in the 80s.
I love the Procol Harum pick. My personal favorite.
Great list and an impossible task, there are so many amazing English bands! The Pretty Things rule tho! I always go back to that PT/Pink Fairies/Deviants UFO club/OZ mag movement that kicked off the early UK psych scene.
Pretty Things should have been included
@@mazzysmusic They were phenomenal right up to the end. Peep some of those later shows online like Rockpalast 2007 for example, they aged like a fine wine and some of those songs are absolutely timeless.
My video started as a 25 Band list, and Oasis were at number 25. I ended up cutting them along with Cream, The Faces, Mott the Hoople and T-Rex. I also love Violator by Depeche Mode without being a fan of them. Enjoyed the show, you're right it is kind of impossible. I think I played it very safe with all the classic rock. I'm going to do a follow-up of my favourite 20 bands, and there'll be a bit of overlap.
"Playing Sting records is a little like playing Don Henley records. There's a certain thing. The personality gets in the way." Well put!
The first Dire Straits album is my favorite too. Best song on that album is Six Blade Knife (in my opinion). Great stuff!
Let's not forget Public Image Ltd. Their first 3 albums (particularly the innovative "Metal Box") featured bass-heavy, brooding and cavernous soundscapes that owed more to Can and dub reggae than traditional rock.
PiL is way better than the Sex Pistols. It’s really not even close.
Great stories!
The working class towns and cities in the UK produce incredible music.
Apparently 💫
Thank you for including Depeche Mode , The Cure … and Oasis 😉
I agree with "I Can See For Miles" being the best Who-song ... if it wasn't for "Dogs" (no. 1, that is); that one is slightly ahead of "ICSFM" for me. Pure pop for pop people!
My adds: Wishbone Ash, Gentle Giant, the Tom Robinson Band, The Yardbirds/ Jeff Beck bands/ Soft Machine, Blur/Gorillaz, Humble Pie, Squeeze, the Move, Badfinger, Ultravox, 801, Matching Mole, Traffic, Camel, the Fall, Queen, ....and more!
Part 2 has a few of those
Procol Harum is an excellent choice! Never recognized by Rock Hall of Fame!
The Stranglers.
Britain has been an absolute’ powerhouse of music. It just shows how incredible the Brit music legacy is that Norman couldn’t find room for icons such as Queen and The Stone Roses.
The Stone Roses
Halfway thru. Will he list Graham Parker and The Rumour?
Massive respect for including The Super Furry Animals. Saw them live many times. Great band.
In my opinion and I think you’ll agree the Sex Pistols NMtB has to be on the list as it was such an influential LP It’s one of those albums that rises above its genre and era so having said that it deserves a place in the British music pantheon 😎
thanks for your thoughtful post.
On the punk tip, better big up the Clash, Sex Pistols, Generation X, the Damned, the Stranglers, the Ruts, Cockney Rejects, Sham 69, GBH, Discharge, and Leatherface, the best punk band of the last 30 years. And oh yeah, check Basement 5. They only dropped one album but that LP sounds like nothing else and is a true masterpiece. Take it from me, the punk professor.
That Basement 5 lp is absolutely incredible! That contains one of the best Christmas 🎄 songs!! I get the impression Mazzy is not into punk but was around and in the biz.
@@birdy1numnum Right on about Basement 5. So cool you dig them. Don't forget to hear their Peel session with a great, slower more sinister Last White Christmas. And their live Groningen concert is a must hear also. Both are on TH-cam.
Them, Deep Purple, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Kula Shaker, Pretty Things, Chumbawamba, Nick Drake, Arthur Brown...
Bands not solo centric artists. But yes, good ones.
@@mazzysmusic The Specials, Skunk Anansie, UB40, Stereophonics?
@@bobbyg7458ub40? 😂
The Incredible String Band/ The Fall/ Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band/ Brinsley Schwarz/ Gorky's Zygotic Mynci/ Blue Aeroplanes/ Soft Machine and early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett........
Gorky’s ❤
Hey Mazzy,
Did you mention RollingStones or was I asleep by then.
Wishbone Ash, Argus a great album.
Squeeze, otherwise pretty good choices.
Asleep. I showed Beggar’s Banquet
You needed Colloseum, Humble Pie, and Free in their Mazzy
Just a pity that you didn't pick up your CD-collection of Prefab Sprout. Let's see if there is anyone else here who think they belong up there, just below The Beatles, together with Genesis (with Steve Hackett/Anthony Phillips) and 10cc, followed by My Bloody Valentine, The Rolling Stones, Yes, The Kinks, Deep Purple, The Who , Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, Jethro Tull, The Police, for my top tier. 😀
I love the steve mcqueen album.
I’d have to add the Happy Mondays they were like the cavalry that rescued us from the mid 80’s and spread a new vibe.Watch them live in New York 1990 .Pills n thrills album is great
Love the Beatles,Kinks,Stones ,Bowie etc but we’d heard them to death ,the Damned first is still great and them and early Jam were better than the Clash live.
yeah! Buzzcocks & magazine...well done mazzy
Belfast is in UK (Northern Ireland)
More than good enough for me.
You should do a Paul Weller review. What a catalogue.
Yeah, you missed a few big ones: Deep Purple, Nice and ELP, Free, Family, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Soft Machine, Taste, Spooky Tooth, Traffic, Uriah Heep, Troggs, Spencer Davis Group, Wishbone Ash, T. Rex (Sweet, Slade), Pretenders, Wire, and so many more. Queen you mentioned, but did not showcase. Some of these bands you may not have followed or liked as much, which leads to the question: What's the purpose of this list? UK Bands that you liked or a listing of influential bands?
Thanks anyway. Always enjoyable to watch!
@@ronfeenstra3659 several are in part two. But it never can be complete ✌🏼✌🏼
If you haven’t done so already, you should check out The Prodigy’s LP The Fat of the Land if you like Kid A.
cool history, wish i was there.
Kid A is an album that I listen to and think to myself… the band knew they needed to make an album but had no idea what to do, so they just made a bunch of sounds and called it good.
Hahahaha. But it’s great.
Difficult list; I agree with most of your selections, but I definitely would not include Oasis and would have found room for Squeeze and XTC. Good to see Fairport Convention and Tull get some deserved love.
We love making lists don’t we??.
Teenage Fanclub,John Mayall, Rory Gallagher, Humble Pie, Slade, Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance, Joe Cocker w Grease Band, Jess Roden Band, Frankie Miller Bamd, Robert Wyatt/ Soft Machine ,Nick Lowe, Rod Stewart ( first 4 albums) , Hawkwind, Family, the great Terry Reid w David Lindley in his b
Did we miss Tin Machine !!
Now for your US list- Spirit, Creedence, CSN ( best debut album?), Little Feat, Byrds, Airplane , Commander Cody, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Doors …..
Rory Gallagher is Irish.
@ indeed he is . An absolute treasure.Saw him perform several times and never less than 100%. What would we class The Pogues nationality as?
@@brentcunliffe745 English or Anglo-Irish. Shane MacGowan was born in the UK to Irish parents and spent his early childhood in Tipperary, Ireland, before moving back to England with his family at age six. I don't know anything about the other band members. Ireland (by that I mean the republic) was long regarded as part of the UK by the English even after they got their independence a century ago.
Top 25 best UK bands.
1) Kinks
2) Who
3) Beatles
4) Roxy Music
5) T. Rex
6) The Fall
7) The Cure
8) The Smiths
9) Black Sabbath
10) the Zombies
11) Joy Division
12) New Order
13) the Damned
14) Motörhead
15) King Crimson
16) Deep Purple
17) Led Zeppelin
18) Pink Fairies
19) Hawkwind
20) The Jam
21) the Buzzcoks
22) Radiohead
23) Gang Of Four
24) the Chameleons
25) Rolling Stones
Mazzy, the 🐐 of the vinyl community! 😮 😯 😲 😮 😯 😲
Bloody hell, Mazzy!
The Optometrist said I had a Cataract. I said “I don’t have cataract, I have Rincoln Continental! 😮 😮😮😮😮🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I couldn't agree more about Fleetwood Mac.
Love the 1st Dire Straits album! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😊😊😊😊😊
James-listen to them
I love Laid
Blind Faith! 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😊😊😊😊😊
I haven't yet read any of the previous comments left, so some (or many) of my nominations may be redundant. As Mazzy acknowledged in the post's title, "It's impossible." One of the first that came to mind was The Yardbirds, along with The Jeff Beck Group. But the very first was Rockpile, imo the very best group the UK has produced. Also missing were Squeeze (no Squeeze?!), Badfinger (you have GOT to be kidding!), The Searchers (certainly better than The Hollies), The Records, ABC, The Brinsley Schwarz Band, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Dave Clark Five, and of course The Rutles ;-). And if The Ventures are included in the USA list, The Shadows should be in the UK one. That's just off the top of my head.
Where was queen in the video?
They weren’t there. They are briefly shown in part 2 ✌🏼
Mazzy, great video, UK so many great albums, I remember them all, for me Mazzy, Sgt. Pepper a masterpiece each song , fantastic thank you for this it brought the memories, Takecare Mazzy, Steve
Omg, just starting but I wonder if he will include Simple Minds. I know he will do XTC and Roxy.
No U2 and that plonker Bono that I spotted - a blessed relief, though Sting nowadays runs him close.
U2 is an Irish band. Don't think they'd be happy about being called British...not that here's anything wrong with that.....
Yeah I get flak for including the Irish. Like the boomtiwn rats 🤓
Supergrass.
Would definately have Muse in there. Very underrated
Hi, mine 25: Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, ELP, Jethro Tull, Roxy Music, Supertramp, The Police, The Cure, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Echo & Bunnymen, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, The Cult, Oasis, Blur.
Good list ✌🏼
Love Phantom Power by Super Furry Animals
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Hi
You're definitely right about Dire Straits. Their first album is their best, in my opinion.
Take care
Hi Mazzy, no sure how the Pogues would feel about being considered a UK band 🤔. Andy
Even though they are Irish , the band started and were centered in London.
@ Hi Mazzy, enjoyed the follow up video…..but….the Boomtown Rats? Do you enjoy annoying the Irish? 🙂
The Pogues members were English with the exception of Shane, who considered himself Irish but was born and raised in southern England. You can't call a band Irish because of their sound.
Teenage Fanclub/Blue Nile/ Orange Juice
Orange Juice!!!
Mazzy, bee fees are Manx. Born in the isle of man.
and prog: Van der graaf generator and Peter hammill
When did you leave SF?
…and did you ever get into Shoegaze bands like My Bloody Valentine?
Ten years ago yes on MBV
@ I’m sure your heart is still here though ☺️
It's impossible for almost everybody to squeeze your favourite bands into a top 25. I would never tell a friend you should have included X, you should have left out Y. I can only inform him (or her) what my favourite are. So what's the problem? Mine would have around 20 similarities with yours, by coincidence that is. In other words: full respect for your choices.
THEM...
@@timothymorgan4441 sort of. From Belfast Ireland.
@@mazzysmusic Next time Lord Maslov visits Rob and Jimmy in England, he should take a little boat to Belfast and ask people on the Shankill Road what country Belfast is in.
Oh man, seeing your copy of Beggars Banquet makes me sad. My aunt got me that version (with Let It Bleed) back in the early 80s and I promptly sold all my records in the 90s when the CD tsunami came and my bandmates said it was dumb to have vinyl. I want that version again. I hate that toilet cover. BB is my favourite Stones album by far.
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Agreed! Tales From A Topographic Ocean 🌊 bites! 😮😮😮😮😮 😂😂😂😂😂
Hi, I like your videos Norman, but I have to criticize this one. Putting a list like this together and not including Genesis is sacrilege. Genesis were one of the early pioneers of prog. They were formed in 1966-´67 and released their first records in 1968. By 1970 when they released their 2nd album Trespass, they´d invented the type of music that later became known as Prog Rock, among a few other bands that were around at the same time. In the 1980´s Genesis became one of the biggest bands around, selling records in ten´s of millions. They even had 5 top ten hits from just ONE album, Invisible Touch. Whether you like Prog Genesis or the 1980´s Pop Genesis, either way, they should have been on this list. And, btw, Deep Purple is also missing from this list. But keep those videos coming, they are always entertaining to watch :)
Watch part two. But still no Genesis 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
It's amazing to me how the United Kingdom is the birthplace of so many amazing bands. You definitely made that clear.
Nice video, some belters there maz, but no Free albums oh man . Tons of sobs !
Obvious and good choices. Incomplete? Yes but who cares? Yours are yours, and mine are mine. Many thanks!