I have a couple Kinks and I expected backlash on their omission but I only had 25 and I needed to mix it up so important group but UK has a crazy amount of great groups
The Police , Depeche Mode , Duran Duran , Tears for Fears , Genesis , Squeeze , Oasis , ABC , The Cure , The Beatles , The Sweet , 10cc , Dire Straits , The Clash , Lindisfarne , Pink Floyd .
What a great list. I have never heard of Lindisfarne, I love to see groups like that on a list. The Sweet and ABC are very cool thoughts, thank you for your list!
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147lindisfarne one of biggest selling* artists in the uk in 71-72 bob Johnson ,Dylan etc produced there major seller fog on the Tyne ,👍
You have quite a few that I don’t know, The Fall came close but I really don’t have a lot of their extensive catalog. UK is busting at the seams with great groups. Thank you for your recommendations, I am going to check out the bands that I don’t know
-Black Sabbath -Joy Division -Godflesh -Led Zeppelin -the Cult -the Smiths -Bauhaus -Massive Attack -Tricky -Tears for fears -Jamiroquai -Depeche Mode Edit: Ooops had to go back to add one
Putting the Stones above the Beatles 'because they're still going' is a baffling move, to say the least! But the whole list is pretty eccentric tbh. Absence of Radiohead is just perverse!
Derek, I have had all the Radiohead on CD and I just could not get into them. I tried and tried. It’s been a few years. Since the flood I never brought any of their music back. I may buy a couple of their albums and give them a serious go again, many albums take me a few decades to warm up to lol
lol, most are very nice but if they aren’t that is okay. A video like this is to create dialogue. We all hope that it will be polite and insightful but sometimes passions get in the way. Thank you for watching and topping a comment.
Steve, I appreciate the time and effort it took to make this list. I know everyone has their own taste in music, but I don’t understand The Zombies not being on this list. They were among the most original, innovative groups of that era. Until Rod Argent had his recent stroke, they still sounded amazing. You talk about influence. The Zombies influenced Oasis, The Jam, Blur, Squeeze, and American bands like The Killers. They were fantastic, as were The Kinks, another puzzling omission.
This was so hard to do Josh just do to the extreme amount of bands that came out of the UK. Some great points about The Zombies. I knew I would get the backlash on The Kinks, I just never could get totally into them but I have tried. That is where the subjective part comes in
Hello Steve, your video made me wish to be part of the thread myself. Thanks for the Stones and for World Party so high in the chart. Obvious for me as well. UK bands are my main section in the collection. See you soon in the VC. Bruno
Bruno, always a pleasure to hear from you my friend. UK has an incredible amount of bands, blows me away. No one has mentioned World Party which surprises me, talk about a band that did not make a bad album.
Paul, I use to have all the Jam albums. After the flood their albums have become so hard to find in the US and expensive so I have not added any to my collection yet. Great band
Love your list! Of course, I'm a bit biased too as someone who lives in the UK. Must be quite hard to decide which 25 make the cut. Great video and very informative. Thank you!
100 people will have 100 different lists. UK was tough to do. For a small island it has so many incredible bands. I tried to mix it up with some new and old bands to keep it a little more interesting
It only took me two weeks to watch this all the way through. There's something odd going on with this video, when i start watching or after the commercial i have a lot of trouble getting it started. Anyway, great list to which i naturally disagree quite a bit, but what really surprises me is that you change your way of rating these from the bands that you personally value to bands who made an impact on music world. Pasi
No kidding Pasi, how strange you had the problem watching this. Obviously it was an omen to just not bother my friend. Of course you disagree with a list, if you agreed I would worry about your sanity, I have watched you for way too many years! I was trying to put in a lot of bands that did make an I,lack but I also wanted to bring in some relatively newer bands otherwise these lists all seem the same
Hi Steve, first time i have seen one of your videos. These lists are obviously subjective but i doubt many people will disagree with a good number of your choices. British bands not on the list who i love who you may want to check are: Elbow, Belle and Sebastian, Public Service Broadcasting, Primal Scream, Elastica. I do love Radiohead also but you have already addressed their omission. Have a good day. Matt
Matthew, thank you for watching and commenting. Last year I got a Public Service Broadcasting album and loved it. I don’t have any other music from them but plan to buy more. Primal Scream and Elastica are essential 90s band
Howdy Steve! Another great video! XTC and The Smiths! Some of my faves! Oranges & Lemons is a great album!! Probably my fave by them as well if not the top 3. Nonsuch is also up there for me as well as English Settlement. The Cure is also a great one! Thanks for sharing Steve!
This is great - loved all the bands but never heard of world party, space 3, wire and the waterboys. Going to check them out. Dont disagree with anything you said but Oasis #1 and Stones #2 and all the rest up there too.
But great list - listen to Street fighting Man by oasis or Jumping Jack Flash by Liam and John Squire... they improved on it in the style of the pistols. Just saying
World Party, try the album Goodbye Jumbo, Waterboys seem to change all the time but I love Fisherman Blues and Spaceman 3, well all their albums are interesting but hard to dance too lol
25 great choices there. I’d choose many of the same (Beatles, Who, Smiths, Cure, Spacemen 3, JMC, etc). As others have replied, The Fall would definitely be in my 25, as too would Aphex Twin.
I recently did a playlist on Spotify Best 500 British Bands. For such a small country, we have produced an insane amount of quality rock and pop. America invented rock but Britain perfected it.
Holy smokes Joe, you did 500 bands. I am stunned by how many groups came from the UK, but you did 500, that is insane. Yes the UK did perfect it, no argument from me Joe
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Don't get me wrong Steve, I love American music. A while back I went on a tour of Southern States paying homage to the roots of Rock n' Roll, soul, blues, country and jazz. Amazing trip. America should be proud of her amazing music as much as we are in Britain 🇬🇧
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Top 25 from my 500 was 1. Pink Floyd. 2. Beatles. 3. Stones. 4. The Who. 5. Sabbath. 6. Zeppelin. 7. Genesis. 8. Queen. 9. Radiohead. 10. The Smiths. 11. The Jam. 12. King Crimson. 13. Yes. 14. Cream. 15. The Specials. 16. The Cure. 17. The Damned. 18. Siouxsie and the Banshees. 19. The Clash. 20. The Stranglers. 21. The Police. 22. Deep Purple. 24. The Kinks . 25. Blur.
Very cool to see Wire on the list and Spacemen 2 and Joy Division. Oh, and The Smiths! I'd have them in the top ten, along with the Cure, the Clash, and XTC. I don't have much to complain about in this video! 🙂
Brian, I have once again had my musical sanity questioned lol. You have many that just want the older groups but I felt there are a lot of great newer groups. It really is an impossible list.
Have to admire people that can put together best of lists, so much fun to view. I can't, no matter how simple the task. Have hard time ranking albums from the same band or songs from an album. Fun video, great bands. People will always be influenced by what they are really into. I can imagine prog lovers, screaming at you: Where is Yes, King Crimson, Genesis others where is Radiohead or The Jam or Depeche Mode.
lol, yes, I am not Mr Prog and to your point our personal influence’s do become part of the lists. I did this and the American bands and I stared at the list of all the bands I wrote down for 5 days not really know where to go with it. Finally you just have to say what the heck and do it. It’s fun to do and there is no right or wrong list. Like you I also enjoy watching them and see what people come up with
Hello Mr. Carlson. Terrific List. Hard to argue with most of those. I might have substituted a few on your list but all together a solid selection. And I completely applaud you for your number one. I think most would feel compelled to have to put The Beatles as one. But you are right. Those dudes are still rockin’ and making solid music. For that alone they deserve that ranking. Their longevity is astronomically amazing. Love The Stones. Have an awesome day my friend.
Victor, my putting the Stones at number 1 has been quite controversial lol. That’s the fun of the list, compelling people to participate. To choose only 25 UK bands is an I,possible task
Personally, along with Radiohead, I would include The Stone Roses (they released 2 albums, the same as Joy Division) Queen (even though I'm not a fan particularly) Arctic Monkeys and New Order over Joy Division, even though I love both. Perhaps Massive Attack 🤔 Having said that, I did enjoy watching your video
I have tried and tried and tried to like Radiohead, I had all their CDs and they never clicked for me. That said it took me 30 years to like The Stone Roses so there is still hope lol
I’m glad you enjoyed this. The purpose is to create conversation and share your picks. I just picked up my first New Order album in vinyl, very enjoyable. Queen, I have a tough time with them, kind of a greatest hits band for me. Arctic Monkeys are great, I need to get some of their music in vinyl.
Fair play, Steve.. at the end of the day, it is, of course, completely subjective. I think 'entry points' to bands often shape how highly regarded they are to us all. The Smiths formed my early teenage years listening. They really spoke to me and are probably very middle of the road in my music taste. The Stone Roses came at the perfect time to combat my loss of The Smiths splitting up. I agree that Radiohead can be a hard listen to some, so I can see why you haven't included them. Keep making the vids, it is always great to hear passionate opinions. Ps, can you (or anyone else) help settle an argument between friends.. is Feeder - Comfort in Sound, any good?
Of course none of us will have a matching list. Virtually impossible. My list would have at least half of Steve's picks. My main criticism of his list is it suffers from a recency bias. If I did a list it would probably have a bias towards older bands. I can't imagine not having the Kinks of any such list. I was also surprised it didn't include some great 70's bands like Deep Purple, Yes, Mott the Hoople, Traffic and Moody Blues. I'd probably exceed the 25 band limitation which makes it even harder. Still, some great picks on Steve's list and some that really look like sleeper picks like Wire, Waterboys and Stone Roses. Also, XTC Lemon and Oranges is a great album from a prolific band that never seems to get the respect they deserve.
Jeff, thanks for watching. This was a tough task, so many good bands to choose from. I was trying to pull from a lot of different decades and not get stuck in a couple of decades. Some bands, Like Deep Purple and Mott I don’t have any albums from them. I use to before the flood but now with a more limited collection I have not brought them back in. It was fun to do and created a lot of conversation
Spacemen 3 has been one of my favourite bands since the 80s. They had 4 people in the live band. I actually was witness to their last ever gig at Reading Festival. By the time of the last album Sonic and J were at odds and recorded each side of the album separately. They both still produce grear music. Go check Darkside.
Yeah I have really enjoyed the music of both Sonic and J. I came into Spacemen 3 late but I have most of their albums now, incredible group that gets overlooked
Thank you Robert, I thought U2 was Ireland proper along with Stiff Little Finger but I never fact checked that. I knew Kinks would be a flashpoint but I had only 25 to choose from and I never could get into the Kinks. Every list has to have some controversy otherwise it would not be fun
Recently I heard some older gentlemen talking about the music that was meaningful to them when they were growing up and whether their children still liked it. The Beatles sometimes came up when the kids sang together, but the Stones hardly played a role anymore. The Police, on the other hand, were a band that still appealed. One of the gentlemen had bought the latest album by the Stones with some embarrassment, because he found it a bit too obvious and there were only a few songs that stood out to him.
I did not buy the new Stones. Generally I don’t buy the albums from the bands that have now gotten old as the music does not offer anything new. I like to focus on new groups as they tend to have a fresh take on music. My kids would not know much about the Beatles or the Stones
Waterboys! I loved Fisherman’s Blues in its day and then lost track. When they came to Vancouver last time (2018 or 2019) I was amazed at the rich body of work I had missed out on. Needless to say, I got caught up.
I have bought some later Waterboys albums and have enjoyed them all but nothing brings me the joy that Fisherman Blues does. That album is magical to me.
I am a huge fan of Spacemen 3 and I see a lot of groups credit them with their sound. There is a huge resurgence of Shoegaze, all mention JMC Two fantastic groups
It is an impossible task and I do give you credit for yr good selections but they are mostly pretty mainstream 60's, 70's bands. The joy of British rock for me is in it's eclecticism. So many wonderfully creative bands to choose from; The Pouges, Cocteau Twins, Art Bears, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Roxy Music, The Cure, Portishead, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Girl Band etc.
I couldn’t agree more on the amount of bands from the UK. It was so hard to do. There are more UK bands than in the US in my collection. When it comes to solo artist there are more from the US. I tried to mix up the decades with different bands but just too many to them.
Music wise, I am fortunate enough to have hit my teens near the start of the 80's, have a mother that 'stole' my records, to play them LOUD, and showed me why by introducing me to the Blues Rock, garage and psychedelic of her youth which she was hearing echoes of in my developing taste (when you listen, there is a LOT of Psychedelic in Goth), it was for music, the UK was the perfect time, the perfect place, even if the charts were rubbish, there was always something new, interesting and good coming out. I'd struggle to get such a list down to 25 bands active in just the 80's. Respect for XTC, World Party, The Waterboys making your list, though I am looking over the top of my spectacles at you for omitting Talk Talk. 😉
Jon, I have really tried to get into Talk Talk and just have not figured them out. I was in my 20s in the 80s and it’s my favorite decade. US had College Rock, it was not mainstream, I love that music. Also UK was pushing out tremendous music in so many new genres. To me it was a magical decade.
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I'd say that "Its my Life" and "The Colour of Spring" are the most accessible albums. Everything after is only really for the converted and the debut while good was a band finding its feet and even chasing a couple of trends. Here in the UK we had a whole league of artists that would have a top 40 hit (or near miss that still got a good amount of airplay) per album and the albums would get very good reviews and go silver within a year of release. Most featured on the US Collage Rock circuit as well. World Party, XTC and others you mentioned were among them. For some reason it all got killed off mid 90's because making an OK living for all involved and doing critically acclaimed stuff just wasn't big enough for the labels. One of those that led this cull was Simon Cowell (yes that one) so my distaste for him goes way back. John Peel may be a legend but he was on too late for me (and on school nights), his shows didn't start till midnight! But for me, The Annie Nightingale request show on right after the Sunday new chart rundown on Radio 1 was my main gateway to the weird and wonderful. Oh and Tommy Vance for rock and metal.
Interesting! For me, it’s the Beatles! But the Stones are quite impressive. Next, will you do your favorite German bands? Are you into Krautrock bands? You could do favorite International bands. Put some African bands in, Irish, Japanese, German, Jamaican, Brazilian, Peruvian bands, etc!
lol, I would have an easier time with African bands over Krautrock. Someone suggested 25 best bands from non English speaking countries , wow would that be hard to do! I got a ton of albums from groups from around the world but not sure how to do that. It would be interesting though not sure anyone would watch since most people are centered on the US and the UK
@ I think it would be original and exciting! Who knows, it might grab a lot of attention! Maybe wait to get that new psych record from Thailand! They said early November, but no word yet!
Enjoyed that list Steve-the only one on your list that I never considered for mine was Tears for Fears, as I don't have an LP of theirs-I'll have to correct that
I had quite a list I was staring at for a long time, so many bands but I wanted to mix it up some with different decades. I think I’m the only one to do Tears For Fears but they made so many catchy songs
great list..would have put tull higher, but i definitely agree that presence is one of zeppelin's best.. hope you and your family have a wonderful thanksgiving..peace to you always my friend.. rocky
If I do a solo ranking Bowie will then pop in. I’m not sure if I have enough solo English artist though, I will have to think about that. The Band of Holy Joy is completely and The Fall seems to be a popular omission.
What would be interesting video is to see the vinyl channels people but together list of the greatest non-English speaking countries solo artist/bands. Not saying that the songs must be with non-English lyrics, but not from countries were the English is the main language. It would be very interesting to see such lists and would they be similar from a person to person or would there be a lot of a difference. Because it seems that in every country people listen to their native bands (and some from their neighboring countries) and then just music from UK/USA/ and some from other English speaking countries. And you mainly get to know music from other countries if the artist breaks through to the UK/USA market. So viewing lists from outside the "english" countries would possible bring new music to many viewers or the list would just be the usual suspects (the big break through artist in UK/USA) and that would also be interesting to know.
Anna, I have really considered this. I have a large selection of music from Europe, South American, Latin America and Africa. I guess I even have a nice selection of Japanese bands. This would be hard as there are so many countries to choose from. Still I will think about this. Great thought
I do have the very first Killing Joke and several other of their album, I group that I like since I’m into more punk and post punk. Sadly on 25 could be picked and I tried to give a broad spectrum as far as time frame.
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I understand of course, brave but subjective tho...just trying to spread the (Killing Joke) word ! Best live band on the planet, until losing Geordie the guitarist last year - 15 albums, five of which defined music over 4 decades...encourage everyone to seek them out, enough from me x
@ yes mate it’s all about personnel choice Very difficult to choose I think if I did one I would take into account album sales and playing live influences and numbers of people that have seen them over the years and how long the careers lasted ! Just thought of another band Muse lol Impossible really
I started this vid, thinking great but the Waterboys won’t be in it! How pleasantly wrong I was. I got to meet Mike Scott a year ago. They are fantastic.
lol, well a lot of people have questioned me putting the Waterboys on it but like you I believe they have made some incredible music that will stand the test of time!
Hi Steve - My Top 5 British Bands # 1 The Cure # 2 The Clash # 3 Joy Division / New Order # 4 The Psychedelic Furs # 5 Oasis. Bubbling 🫧 under - Radiohead , Blur , Suede , The Jam & The Comsat Angels. Lions 🦁 now Super Bowl 🏈 favorites in Vegas over The Chiefs.
My fingers are crossed on The Lions. It was a shame we lost Hutchinson for the season. I have tried to like Radiohead but just can’t not get into their music. I do love your Top 5 picks David
I have tried very hard to get into Radiohead, I use to have all their CDs but just couldn’t get into them. I need to try them again, maybe this time they will click with me.
What planet are you on? You failed to mention the jam, a band that defined its generation & was a catalyst for bands to come but you give house room to tears for fears & the waterboys (a band that made zero impact during their original outing) & joy division!! A drab monotone band with one real album. C'mon, you probably got about 5 right. To pick the best they have to have left a lasting legacy.
I have no Jam albums. I use to have all their albums but lost them in a flood a couple years ago. They are now hard to find and a lot more expensive. Definitely agree they are important. As you know any list is highly subjective which is what makes it fun. If we all had the same list how boring would that be. Thanks for watching and commenting, these videos are about dialog.
In no particular order. Suede, the smiths, the stone roses, manic street preachers, oasis, iron maiden, UFO, led zeppelin, whitesnake, the Beatles, dire straits, Jethro tull, Roxy music, Duran Duran, the charlatans, Depeche mode, the dogs d'amour, tears for fears, the jam, the cure, pulp, echo and the bunneymen, (early)queen, the pogues, the stones. Ask me next week and it'll be different.
lol, yeah list change a lot don’t they. It took me a month to do mine because it kept changing. I finally said screw it and just did that darn video lol. I like your list of bands as you are not stuck in a particular decade that happens with too many people.
So pleased to see Spaceman 3 in there. I was lucky enough to see them a few times and there were brilliant live. However, significant omissions are: the Stranglers, Crass, Deep Purple, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, PIL, Kate Bush....I could go on and on.
With a choice of just 25 bands this was near impossible to do. So many fantastic bands came out of the UK. I do enjoy seeing what other people would put on their lists
Yeah I appreciate that 25 is a relatively small number. I did enjoy your commentary and these lists are always good reminders to check out music I have listened to in a while. However, during your commentary you alluded to the impact and influence of bands to make it on to the list. Now, even though World Party and Tears for Fears created classic pop songs, I have never met anyone who has said that they pick up an instrument or form a band because of these 2 bands. However, a legion of bass players have started by listening to the Stranglers for instance or many youngsters have picked the guitar as an instrument of choice because Blackmore in Deep Purple....
Here's a controversial one: The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Obviously their main creative force was not of UK origin and did go on to be creative and influential in other 'vehicles' based outside the UK. However the band that first took him to prominence and helped him produce 3 albums in its circa 2 year existence was UK recruited, managed and produced, 2/3rds of UK origin and, most pertinently, was very much born in and from out of the pervading London culture (even if the latter itself reflected significant transatlantic influence). I suppose whether you can accept JHE as being from the UK is linked to whether you regard CSN, or indeed CSN&Y, as American ; )
When this thread was started they laid out some ground rules lol. Jimi Hendrix would be treated as a solo artist so I kept to that so when I do US solo artists guess who will be toward the top. I consider him a group but I followed the rules haha.
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 TBH, I think I would probably rate him a 'solo act' too rather than a band for these purposes despite the importance of his Experience colleagues.
Joe, it is always interesting to hear what others really like. So many thought I was nuts with Tears For Fears and World Party. We all hear things differently don’t we. Thanks for watching and commenting
I agree on your #1 choice, the Beatles were awesome, but the Stones stayed the course and became the world's greatest rock and roll band. I like your other choices too, ELO, Waterboys (great album), Buzzcocks, Joy Division and all the rest. I thought about doing these, but I know I would have a hard time choosing the LPs. Anyway, great list Steve, you'll receive no beating from me!
Michael, I stared at my list for five days not sure what to do. It was very hard, so many great bands to choose from. I just wanted to make sure I mixed it up some
good list the ranking can be debated, i would have put Deep Purple +The Kinks in there, but hey. it's your list.do the solo list, don't let vinyl Ritchie get the best of you! cheers.
I love Vinyl Richie! I don’t own any Deep Purple and just 2 Kinks albums. Somehow I survive Ron lol. I should get a Deep Purple Lists are very subjective and prone to our own personal tastes though I did try to push on some groups that I don’t listen to that often. They are fun to do.
Very good! You gained a new subsriber. You have the Cure and Waterboys there - so happy. No Porcupine tree though 😞. TALK TALK is probably a top 5 Brtish Band...Give them time and many listens....
Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I have no Porcupine Tree, I know them but I need to find an entry point to that band I have tried to like Talk Talk and understand them but still struggle with them. My sweet spot for music is the 80s college rock scene.
That's a good list. However I would say from the 'Britpop' era there is one album that is head and shoulders above anything by Blur and Oasis and that is Different Class by Pulp. It's a bona fide 10/10 album.
I only had one Pulp CD, they never made it big in the States. I will check this out. That is what I like about these lists, people like you enlighten me to music that I have not listened to before
All the things you said that made me wince, and there were many lol, is negated by the OG disintegration album. Side note shouldn’t it be called OP instead. I guess OG just comes out from all the 90’s references?
Yeah I just picked that Cure album up. I had an original that I bought when it came out but I got washed away in the flood. A couple of months ago I walk into a little record store and bam, there it was, a lot more then I paid for it haha. Still I love that album so I grabbed it Sorry for making you wince so much ! Thanks for watching
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Nothing but a flesh wound. Lists are like that no one will 100% agree with them. Great vid as usual. Very entertaining.
I do like most of the bands you mention, but forgetting Queen, Genesis, Stones and Depeche Mode is quite insane in my opinion. Anyway, you (UK) have so many great bands... I guess it would be easier for me to make a best 25 bands from France... LOL (yeah, I'm French)...
I’m from the US but yes the UK is loaded with bands. I did put the Stones at #1 but the others I did not. I was trying to balance it more and also many bands that I truly love came later. Steve very tuff to do. I have some French bands, to your point it would be easier lol
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I thought you were from UK... My bad... US have some great stuff too... I think there are more "singers" than bands (MJ, Prince, and so on) but I could be wrong. Anyway, I'd like to hear about your French bands.... I'm amazed you got some in the US (Well, outside of Daft Punk of course... lol). On a personal note, I'm a huge football fan for more than 35 years (Broncos are my team) ! May be we could make a top 25 superbowl or QB or whatever... LOL Take care...
Interesting subjective list that you made the case well for and which had only one omission which is verging on the criminal - if this wasn’t just a bit of fun which of course it is! Who? The Kinks obviously! They and The Jam and should have been included considering some of the bands who did make it (I’m thinking in particular of the Brit pop bands who were poor copies of them and The Beatles). The Kinks also should have been in because not only did they arguably produce the finest pop song of all time (Waterloo Sunset) they also invented both Heavy Rock/metal and punk three years earlier with ‘You Really Got Me. So that’s three reasons! Also Gang of Four are worth considering too while both The Clash and Beatles should have been higher and that the Stones are still going is a reason why they shouldn’t even be in the top 25 in my opinion. What an embarrassment they have become! But I really enjoyed the video!
Thank you for your thoughts I forgot about Gang of Four, a group that I do really like. I know a lot of people had Kinks in the list but I just really never got into them though I do love Really Got a me Now. Since the Flood I have not been able to get any Jam back into my collection, I use to have all of their albums but now they are hard to find and a lot more expensive. This was difficult with only 25 bands to choose but I tried to give s mix of newer and older bands as my taste really does fall into the 80s forward. Great points on my omissions
@ as I said it’s a great video because you make your case for each inclusion really well and you can’t do more than with what is a subjective list! I find it amusing how exercised people get on TH-cam when they disagree with lists like yours! It’s only a bit of fun. Hence my joke about the exclusion of The Kinks being ‘criminal’! It may be that they are too English for some palettes across the Atlantic although that could also apply to The Jam, Stranglers and Brit Pop so who knows?
The list should be 25 best bands AND musicians, as restricting the list to only bands, you're excluding a helluva lot of great music! My choices: - Bauhaus - Brian Eno - Cabaret Voltaire - Cockney Rebel - The Damned - Danielle Dax - David Bowie - Echo & The Bunnymen - Eric Burdon & The New Animals - The Fall - Gang Of Four - The Jesus & Mary Chain - John Cale - Joy Division - The Kinks - The Libertines - Linton Kwesi Johnson - Magazine - Public Image Limited - Roxy Music - Sex Pistols - Siouxsie & The Banshees - T. Rex - The Troggs - Wire
I think the plan was then to do a list of individual artist, that way more can be showed Danielle Dax, I am totally unfamiliar with that artist. Fantastic list. We all have those artist who truly inspired us and the music scene
Yeah and that’s a bad thing? ELO were designed to take over where The Beatles left off. Without The Beatles we wouldn’t have popular music we’d have Perry Como and Dean Martin reinvented. They are the greediest band in history, they wrote everything and everyone else rewrote their music.
@@richardsteele3272 I agree but, imho their most "Beatle-esque" album would have to be _'Everybody Loves A Happy Ending', which was the first album to reunite Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith together again after that long separation and Orzabal's solo stint as TFF...
You missed Genesis. Arctic Monkeys. Deep Purple, Van De Graaf Generator, The Jam, King Crimson, The The, Roxy Music, Talk Talk, Bauhaus & Iron Maiden if you deem any of them worth considering.And now... very new but will be the biggest band of the future - The Last Dinner Party.
Alexander, I could only pick 25 and as you know the amount of bands out of the UK is crazy big. I think the UK had more bands than the US honestly. Now I do need to check out The Last Dinner Party, I love listening to something new!
1. Rolling Stones 2. Beatles 3. Pink Floyd 4. Black Sabbath 5. The Who 6. PJ Harvey 7. Killing Joke 8. Rudimentary Peni 9. Discharge 10. G.B.H. 11. The Cure 12. Sisters Of Mercy 13. Judas Priest 14. Iron Maiden 15. Buzzcocks 16. Massive Attack 17. Motörhead 18. Amebix 19. The Damned 20. Sex Pistols 21. Leatherface 22. Rainbow 23. The Clash 24. Queen 25. Joy Division Not the most educated answer and now when I look at my list I forgot Depeche Mode, Chumbawamba, Portishead, Crass, The Only Ones, Primal Scream, Duran Duran, Wire, Adverts and U.K. Subs. Probably many more comes to mind as soon I post this, but can't win all the time. Now I'm going to check your best US bands. Great video and list. Cheers from Finland!
lol, this is hard to do isn’t it. You are the second person to mention Leatherface. I have no idea about that group so I need to look them up. Thank you for taking the time to put down your picks, excellent stuff. I hope to visit your wonderful country some day
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Leatherface: Mush is amazing album and it just got reissued 2021 Stormy Petrel is good also. I noticed that I left Zeppelin out. Just shows that when I do these lists on the top of my head, super obvious bands gets left behind. You're always welcome to Finland. Would be an honor to have you here
Talk about a prolific band, The Fall has put out so many albums. I have a few from them but by no means an expert on their music. They are a great band, good call
Depeche Mode? The Kinks? The Police? Radiohead???????????????????????????? Deep Purple? New order? Massive attack? The Pogues? (technically) the fall? Radiohead?????????????????????????????...really?
I have tried hard to like Radiohead. I had all their music on CD before the flood but since then I have not brought them back. One of these days I need to try them again, maybe do a whole video of listening to the keys albums and sharing my thoughts.
Hi Steve. The name 'Joy Division' comes from the German concentration camps in World War II - it was what they called the brothels they had in the camps to reward the inmates' good behaviour. Great list, a few there that I considered for both of my videos. Ironically, I'd put the Stones under the Beatles because they're still going.
So long as the inmates were non-Jewish they could use the brothel (to avoid racial mixing of course) and the women forced to work in the brothels came from other concentration camps. I have never quite understood why a band would select such a thing for their name.
I had not heard that before James. Wow is that dark. I agree with gab99, why choose that but maybe it was for shock value. This was difficult list to do and you also mentioned. Incredible the music that has come out of the UK Thanks for keeping me inspired to do this
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Though the jewish women forced into prostitution were really called The Joy Division, the band actually took their name from a novel. The name Joy Division was taken from a brothel containing Jewish women forced into sexual labour by Nazi concentration camp officers in the novel House of Dolls by camp survivor Ka-Tzetnik 135633. They also reference the book in one of their songs. I do think it was for shock value, a bit like the Pistols wearing Swastikas or other punk bands wearing nazi parafenelia. It was called 'Nazi Chic', to shock or break taboos, not to genuinely support Nazism.
The band simply thought the name sounded good and cool. They were briefly called Stiff Kittens at the very start, then they changed the name to Warsaw and then, finally settled on Joy Division. They were kids that grew up surrounded by WW II memorabilia, with relatives who lived through that time and regularly heard war stories, they saw various war-torn areas that never got rebuilt and were demolished. So the war and it's after effects was part of their growing up. It was right at their doorstep. It was a different time. They lived a different reality to what we live now. Nowadays, everything is sterilized, sanitized and scrutinized so as to not offend those with "sensitive sensibilities". There was none of that back then. People lived reality as it was - real. They didn't enclose themselves in honogenized, pasteurized "safe space bubbles". Many wrongfully associated the band with fascist groups not just for the name but, for their clothing as well but, they had nothing to do with that at all...
lol, I missed all the good ones This was such a difficult task, worse than doing the American version but I enjoy the abuse in the comments so here it it is lol.
Dave Clark Five,Kinks,SmallFaces,The WHO, Slade,Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones,The Jam,The Clash, The Specials, Madness,The Stone Roses, Oasis,The Enemy.Depeche Mode.
Not sure Blur were inspired by The Stone Roses, and Suede kick started the Britpop scene, check the band out if you don’t know them. Otherwise a cool list and video.
You are one of those Johnny Marr solo albums are better than Morrissey solo albums. Give me a break. The Cure are great snd they looked so cool in the 80s. Now he looks downright frightening. I’m not sure many bands started because of the Sex Pistols. Tons started after the Ramones or Black Flag played your town.
The UK a lot of bands started after seeing the Sex Pistols but probably not near as many as The Ramones. Yes I’m a Marr fan Richie. Tone Scott sent me some Marr albums and I really got to appreciate his guitar playing. This was tough to do and everyone has a different list. Not sure if I will do the solo artist list though it is intriguing Richie
Sadly I have no Depeche Mode. My collection before the flood I had a lot of their albums. Since then their prices have jumped so I have not added any back in yet. I hope to have that corrected next year
@ : I have a similar situation with Judas priest. For reasons beyond my control , I’ve lost the 6 albums from Killing machine to Turbo I had from my youth. But I’m aiming to get them again , eventually.
Sam, great list, great pick with the Eurythmics. I know Kinks and Queen have been frequently mentioned for their omission but that is what makes list fun, they are subjective. I hope to do one on individual artists, hopefully it will be easier than the bands
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Thanks. I hope you will do something on great albums that didn't sell well. If you get round to this please include 'Dog Man Star'. That's the album that got me into rock music in the 90s. Btw Meat Loaf was supposed to be a joke. Not that funny I know but I loved the guy in my childhood.
@@samrosengard9889 that would be very interesting , I will give that a thought , great albums that did not sell well. The one you mentioned I have no idea about, guess I will look it up
Lots of great selections, but there are so many more. ELP, The Moody Blues, Badfinger (since you love power pop), Deep Purple, The Kinks, The Dave Clark Five, The Move, Wishbone Ash, The Zombies, and on and on.
Yeah, it was tough with just 25. I still have not listened to Wishbone Ash. I see their albums but often but I just have not picked one up. Since the flood I have not picked up a Badfinger album, I do need to at least get their greatest hits album. Some great bands David, thank you
Totally agree with friend below, can't omit the Kinks, U2, and the Jam--if you're talking influences. No one is more quintessentially British than the Kinks. The Buzzcocks, XTC, Jesus & Mary Chain all followed others. Could put Squeeze in that camp. I love em all. Mad fer Oasis! Ditch Blur. Only American band I love as much as all my UK bands is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I'll have to watch your top 25 Americans. I hope TP is up there!
@@LisaBarstowMusek Lisa, spoiler alert, Tom Petty is being saved when I do solo artist. He had a band but when this was started people like him and Elvis Costello were going to be out in the solo category. Never could really get into the Kinks, love U2 but they are from Ireland. Impossible to choose 25 from the UK which I feel has more bands than American. America has more solo artists
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Steve.... TP was never really a solo artist. Always had Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, lead guitar and keys, respectively, by him in solo projects. TP and the Heartbreakers are an amazing band. If you never saw them live, you missed something magical. Thanks for the spoiler! ❤️ PS my bad on U2, always think of Dublin as UK. The Irish would not approve!
I use to have every Jam album but after the flood I lost y whole collection. Now I have no Jam as they have become hard to find in the US and have become expensive. Great band but I had nothing to show
Tricky one this..i guess it all depends what angle your taste is coming from, so ultimately subjective. You picked a good overview of great bands from different genres Steve. 30+ years later and i still don't get the Stone Roses. I saw Tears For Fears on the Seeds of Love tour, it was the last time i ever went to the NEC in Birmingham ( and large concert venues period).. I think Blur were more influenced by UK 60s bands like the Kinks. Joy Division i appreciate more than enjoy. Waterboys were fantastic live, i saw them at Glastonbury in 1990. My brother loves Wire..that debut album was really interesting. The less said about Oasis the better.. Spaceman 3 is definitely a sonic experience, i probably preferred Spiritualised. Karl Wallanger ( RIP)..very clever arranger and songwriter..better than most acts from that era and highly underrated. Ah, love me some Tull..for me anything up until the early 80s is my sweet spot.. Ian Anderson is a terrific acoustic guitar player, i wish he still plays it when he performs). XTC are a great band, perfect blend of 60s psychedelia and new wave and folk..yet totally original. I'm not a metal fan, but i can't deny Black Sabbath produced some stellar work in the early 70s. ' Never Mind...is so nostalgic for me, my mate blasting it on a cassette on his dads' equipment and then the tape got chewed..the destruction seemed apt for the music... Led Zep III is my favourite because it's quite acoustic. I think Floyd up to Animals i really enjoy..Richard Wright for one of the most underrated songwriters. Beatles and Stones, i guess influence wise they have to be top 2. I'll always prefer them over the Stones. Great effort 👌.
Rob, I stared at a list of bands for 5 days and finally said just do it! It is always subjective, 100 people would have 100 different lists. We all have our perspective don’t we. I guess that is what I like about watching these , seeing what clicks with other people. We all hear things so differently I did try to add bands I don’t really listen to a lot but thought they were important like Sabbath and Priest. Fun to do but not easy
The best band from the UK, since we invaded you in 793? The Stranglers!! Crazy with a list with the 25 best bands, and no Stranglers??? What is wrong with you Brits???? Greetings from the vikings in Norway!!!!!
I love Norway, visited there, wonderful place. I’m from the US so don’t blame the Brits with the Stranglers. I have some of their albums and especially love their early stuff. A must have group
You would enjoy Black Sabbath Master Of Reality and a good best of We Sold Our Soul For Rock And Roll. I highly recommend that you get these two albums. Master Of Reality just flows nicely and you can chill out and appreciate how well it was sequenced. There Are songs on the album that you never heard but you will be glad you found them. Steve give it a try, trust me you will not be disappointed and you might want to spark up a blunt, Lol. I know you probably don't do that but I know you like some stoner rock and this album has some. The drums in jazz style, the bass and guitar and Ozzy are top notch. One of my favorite Sabbath songs is "Into The Void". An old friend turned me on to this album and I prefer this album really.
lol Richard, I may be one of the only lover of stoner music that has never smoked a joint haha. I just love the groove the music has. I will have to try those two Sabbath albums. I use to have them on CD but I had so much music I never really listened to it
It's a good, versatile selection. Although I disagree with the number 1 pick. The Stones keep playing the same tunes, longevity doesn't mean quality. I miss The Jam. I'm not a Queen fan but they're a top 25 UK band for sure. Deep Purple as well.
I have no Jam, I lost all those albums in the flood and they are now hard to find in the states sadly, great band. I also have no Deep Purple , same thing. UK just has too many incredible bands making 25 very tough to do
Ehhhhh,,,this is why I don't do this kind of list....no Queen or Def Leppard, and some stuff I'm just not a fan of...quite a few actually...but then again, that's normal for a pop guy like me...I would have picked Herman's Hermits over a number of the ones you did include, they're important to ME, but apparently not to anyone else...oh well...whatever floats your boat, right Professor? Cheers, have a good week...
So what you’re saying TC is my list was not a surprise at all. I have no Def Leppard, just never got into them. Don’t own any Herman Hermits. The lists are fun to do TC as everyone is so different but they are hard
Some of my favorite UK bands (aside from some you already named like Tears For Fears, The Smiths, Joy Division, The Cure etc.), in no particular order: The Chameleons Siouxsie & The Banshees Bauhaus The Police Gary Numan/Tubeway Army A Flock Of Seagulls The Psychedelic Furs The Sisters Of Mercy Flesh For Lulu Modern English The Bolshoi The Fixx Southern Death Cult/Death Cult/The Cult Duran Duran The Comsat Angels Killing Joke Echo & The Bunnymen Kitchens Of Distinction Orchestral Maneouvers In The Dark Sex Gang Children Talk Talk P.I.L The March Violets The Human League and many, many more. (P.S. I think The Jesus & Mary Chain were from Scotland, not the UK)
Wow, what a fantastic mix of bands. Most I have but there are a number of them I have never heard of like Comsat Angel and Bolshoi. Thanks for taking time to share your selection
Can't really fault most of your choices but it seems wrong to omit The Kinks, The Fall, Yes, The Stranglers and The Police. I know there's only so much space so maybe kick out World Party, The Waterboys, The Cure, The Clash and maybe even The Rolling Stones!
lol, no Stones, ow that would have gotten people excited lol. I am a big fan of the Fall and The Stranglers, they both fall in my wheel house. This was tough to do
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 it was a good list and really the only ommission that jumped out at me was that one. If I could recommend one album to check out (again?) it's Muswell Hillbillies. I like the 1998 remaster on Konk. Great job though 👍
I'm a Brit and not arguing with this list,but Motörhead and rather than Spacemen 3 I'd included Spiritualised. J.Pierce's best work for me. Gad to see Stone Roses get a mention.🇬🇧
I love your YT handle! I have no Motörhead. Spiritualized almost made the list. Your island has had many incredible bands that ranking them is next to impossible.
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I totally agree. I miss the days of pub music arguments with your friends before you could whip out your phone to prove a point! My "handle" Is from your side of the pond!( Punk In Drublic is a fantastic NOFX album!)🏴
@ I know that NOFX album, I use to have that on CD , great stuff. Yeah, now it’s all about using your phone, who needs a brain or a memory when we have a phone!
Had not thought about Dire Straits, great guitar playing. I could only choose 25. So many of the new shoegaze bands talk about the importance of Spacemen 3 and JMC. I guess what makes these fun is that they are all different and subjective but they do create dialogue, that is what I enjoy
@@Ken_Dodds_Tickling_Stick Ken, those are not really mainstream bands, they are shoegaze and I guess noise bands. Really great albums but not everyone’s cup of tea
Yeah, I only had 25 to pick, I do struggle with Queen some. Last year I did a whole video about me and Queen. Some of their music I love and some I just don’t enjoy. They are a great band that many people truly enjoy Kenneth
Mike, I must suffer from the same mental instability because I thought you were spot on with your US picks. I agree Stone Roses need to be shown & shown instead of Tears For Fears😂 The Priest!! I never would've picked that coming from the punk rock kid. I love how Rob Halford convinced straight white America to dress like gay leather bondage boys. He's a genius! Nice one with Wire Mike. GBV take the cake with release output for sure. Buzzcocks...yep that is a fun name to say & fun to listen to as well. What are you talking about Mike? I often hum and even whistle Spaceman 3 tunes all the time. They are the earworm band. The Tull you old proghead! Do you think the Cure will make a lot of lists now that they've released a pretty fine new album? Wow a total classic rock ending Mike. I'm glad you put someone before the someone that everyone else would put first. Always swimming upstream 👍Cheers...Mike
lol Mike, yeah, I figured everyone would put the Beatles first but they couldn’t get along and the Stones have made so many great albums. Yeah, this was tough to do but I figured we needed some newer groups Mike,mit can’t all be dinosaurs being represented. I would love to hear you humming to Spacemen 3. You just don’t see their songs in Karakoe bars. Tull is about heavy metal Mike, they got a Grammy for a reason!
Nice list. Mine would skew more prog, hard rock and metal. I have given up on the Huskers this season. I haven't watched the last 3 games and probably won't watch again this year. They aren't worth it.
Heart break after heartbreak. Last two games are not in our favor. WI played Oregon hard. I wonder how many people will leave the team to try to find a winning team ? Very frustrating. At least my Lions look good
Tony, I knew omitting the Kinks would get people questioning my sanity along with the Stones. I spent 5 days looking at all huge list of groups and finally said what the hell and ranked them on my feelings that day. Subjective but a lot of fun to do and a great way to create dialogue.
Gives you a copy of the Village Green Preservation Society. You forgot this fella.
I have a couple Kinks and I expected backlash on their omission but I only had 25 and I needed to mix it up so important group but UK has a crazy amount of great groups
The Police , Depeche Mode , Duran Duran , Tears for Fears , Genesis , Squeeze , Oasis , ABC , The Cure , The Beatles , The Sweet , 10cc , Dire Straits , The Clash , Lindisfarne , Pink Floyd .
What a great list. I have never heard of Lindisfarne, I love to see groups like that on a list. The Sweet and ABC are very cool thoughts, thank you for your list!
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147lindisfarne one of biggest selling* artists in the uk in 71-72 bob Johnson ,Dylan etc produced there major seller fog on the Tyne ,👍
Magazine, The Fall, Doctors of Madness, Nightingales, Roxy Music, Crass, Band of Holy Joy, Portishead, Pop Group etc etc
with you on Magazine and the Fall my friend
You have quite a few that I don’t know, The Fall came close but I really don’t have a lot of their extensive catalog. UK is busting at the seams with great groups. Thank you for your recommendations, I am going to check out the bands that I don’t know
Magazine, another great post punk group I have a couple albums from but not enough to rank them
It's impossible to limit to 25!! Great adds!
Appreciate the respect this fella shows for British music.
Thank you very much for that, the UK has so many great bands, hard to do it justice
-Black Sabbath
-Joy Division
-Godflesh
-Led Zeppelin
-the Cult
-the Smiths
-Bauhaus
-Massive Attack
-Tricky
-Tears for fears
-Jamiroquai
-Depeche Mode
Edit: Ooops had to go back to add one
Tricky isn't a band
Very interesting list, leaving off all the big boys except Sabbath and Zep. Massive Attack came close to hitting my list
That Pistols album bring back so many memories . I remember mum saying hey boys think you better hide that just incase your granny sees it LOL.
lol, that is great Hide the damn Sex Pistols!
Putting the Stones above the Beatles 'because they're still going' is a baffling move, to say the least! But the whole list is pretty eccentric tbh. Absence of Radiohead is just perverse!
Derek, I have had all the Radiohead on CD and I just could not get into them. I tried and tried. It’s been a few years. Since the flood I never brought any of their music back. I may buy a couple of their albums and give them a serious go again, many albums take me a few decades to warm up to lol
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Fair enough, one can't be into everything!
I love how polite everyone's comments are. It's so much better than people being mean and arguing.
lol, most are very nice but if they aren’t that is okay. A video like this is to create dialogue. We all hope that it will be polite and insightful but sometimes passions get in the way. Thank you for watching and topping a comment.
...Depeche Mode...Japan....The House of Love...The Stranglers... Talk Talk... Echo & the Bunny men...Furs...
@@MrsFish7 all great
@@MrsFish7 all killers
Now I tried to like Talk Talk, I still find that confusing lol. I do not know House of Love, something I need to check out. Great bands
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 don't like talk talk? I'm intrigued...
Echo & the Bunnymen, and Verve absolute no brainer. House of Love definitely in my top 25 too.
Steve, I appreciate the time and effort it took to make this list. I know everyone has their own taste in music, but I don’t understand The Zombies not being on this list. They were among the most original, innovative groups of that era. Until Rod Argent had his recent stroke, they still sounded amazing.
You talk about influence. The Zombies influenced Oasis, The Jam, Blur, Squeeze, and American bands like The Killers. They were fantastic, as were The Kinks, another puzzling omission.
This was so hard to do Josh just do to the extreme amount of bands that came out of the UK. Some great points about The Zombies. I knew I would get the backlash on The Kinks, I just never could get totally into them but I have tried. That is where the subjective part comes in
The small faces
Hello Steve, your video made me wish to be part of the thread myself. Thanks for the Stones and for World Party so high in the chart. Obvious for me as well. UK bands are my main section in the collection. See you soon in the VC. Bruno
Bruno, always a pleasure to hear from you my friend. UK has an incredible amount of bands, blows me away. No one has mentioned World Party which surprises me, talk about a band that did not make a bad album.
The Jam split up when they were the biggest band in 1982 not many bands do that, Weller is up there with Lennon & McCartney 👌
Paul, I use to have all the Jam albums. After the flood their albums have become so hard to find in the US and expensive so I have not added any to my collection yet. Great band
What drugs you on mate ?.
Love your list! Of course, I'm a bit biased too as someone who lives in the UK. Must be quite hard to decide which 25 make the cut. Great video and very informative. Thank you!
100 people will have 100 different lists. UK was tough to do. For a small island it has so many incredible bands. I tried to mix it up with some new and old bands to keep it a little more interesting
It only took me two weeks to watch this all the way through. There's something odd going on with this video, when i start watching or after the commercial i have a lot of trouble getting it started. Anyway, great list to which i naturally disagree quite a bit, but what really surprises me is that you change your way of rating these from the bands that you personally value to bands who made an impact on music world.
Pasi
No kidding Pasi, how strange you had the problem watching this. Obviously it was an omen to just not bother my friend. Of course you disagree with a list, if you agreed I would worry about your sanity, I have watched you for way too many years! I was trying to put in a lot of bands that did make an I,lack but I also wanted to bring in some relatively newer bands otherwise these lists all seem the same
Hi Steve, great video and cool list. Nice to see some different bands mentioned. Have a good weekend.
Steve, I tried to spread it out with groups from different decades. This was next to impossible to do but fun
ELO ..A New World Record, was the first album i was truly nuts about. I played it over and over. I would have been around 16 at the time.
I was 15 when ELO came out with that record and like you I played the heck out of it. It was so different and exciting
Hi Steve, first time i have seen one of your videos. These lists are obviously subjective but i doubt many people will disagree with a good number of your choices. British bands not on the list who i love who you may want to check are: Elbow, Belle and Sebastian, Public Service Broadcasting, Primal Scream, Elastica. I do love Radiohead also but you have already addressed their omission. Have a good day. Matt
Matthew, thank you for watching and commenting. Last year I got a Public Service Broadcasting album and loved it. I don’t have any other music from them but plan to buy more. Primal Scream and Elastica are essential 90s band
Howdy Steve! Another great video! XTC and The Smiths! Some of my faves! Oranges & Lemons is a great album!! Probably my fave by them as well if not the top 3. Nonsuch is also up there for me as well as English Settlement. The Cure is also a great one! Thanks for sharing Steve!
Thanks for dropping by Todd. This was extremely hard to do, so many great bands from that small island.
This is great - loved all the bands but never heard of world party, space 3, wire and the waterboys. Going to check them out. Dont disagree with anything you said but Oasis #1 and Stones #2 and all the rest up there too.
But great list - listen to Street fighting Man by oasis or Jumping Jack Flash by Liam and John Squire... they improved on it in the style of the pistols. Just saying
No kidding, that sounds fantastic. I will check that out, thank you
World Party, try the album Goodbye Jumbo, Waterboys seem to change all the time but I love Fisherman Blues and Spaceman 3, well all their albums are interesting but hard to dance too lol
The fall ! No need for the other 24 !
lol Robert, your list is a whole lot simpler. The Fall has put out a ton of great material , great band for sure
I’m English from the north and I obviously like other English bands but nothing beats the mighty fall !!!
25 great choices there. I’d choose many of the same (Beatles, Who, Smiths, Cure, Spacemen 3, JMC, etc). As others have replied, The Fall would definitely be in my 25, as too would Aphex Twin.
The Fall made a ton of great albums, I did forget your them Stephen.
I recently did a playlist on Spotify Best 500 British Bands. For such a small country, we have produced an insane amount of quality rock and pop. America invented rock but Britain perfected it.
Holy smokes Joe, you did 500 bands. I am stunned by how many groups came from the UK, but you did 500, that is insane. Yes the UK did perfect it, no argument from me Joe
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Don't get me wrong Steve, I love American music. A while back I went on a tour of Southern States paying homage to the roots of Rock n' Roll, soul, blues, country and jazz. Amazing trip. America should be proud of her amazing music as much as we are in Britain 🇬🇧
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Top 25 from my 500 was 1. Pink Floyd. 2. Beatles. 3. Stones. 4. The Who. 5. Sabbath. 6. Zeppelin. 7. Genesis. 8. Queen. 9. Radiohead. 10. The Smiths. 11. The Jam. 12. King Crimson. 13. Yes. 14. Cream. 15. The Specials. 16. The Cure. 17. The Damned. 18. Siouxsie and the Banshees. 19. The Clash. 20. The Stranglers. 21. The Police. 22. Deep Purple. 24. The Kinks . 25. Blur.
Cocteau Twins.... again underrated. Same with My Bloody Valentine
Kevin, 2 great choices that I really love. Both were in my Top 100 list I did about 4 years ago.
Very cool to see Wire on the list and Spacemen 2 and Joy Division. Oh, and The Smiths! I'd have them in the top ten, along with the Cure, the Clash, and XTC. I don't have much to complain about in this video! 🙂
Brian, I have once again had my musical sanity questioned lol. You have many that just want the older groups but I felt there are a lot of great newer groups. It really is an impossible list.
Have to admire people that can put together best of lists, so much fun to view. I can't, no matter how simple the task. Have hard time ranking albums from the same band or songs from an album. Fun video, great bands. People will always be influenced by what they are really into. I can imagine prog lovers, screaming at you: Where is Yes, King Crimson, Genesis others where is Radiohead or The Jam or Depeche Mode.
lol, yes, I am not Mr Prog and to your point our personal influence’s do become part of the lists. I did this and the American bands and I stared at the list of all the bands I wrote down for 5 days not really know where to go with it. Finally you just have to say what the heck and do it. It’s fun to do and there is no right or wrong list. Like you I also enjoy watching them and see what people come up with
Hello Mr. Carlson. Terrific List. Hard to argue with most of those. I might have substituted a few on your list but all together a solid selection. And I completely applaud you for your number one. I think most would feel compelled to have to put The Beatles as one. But you are right. Those dudes are still rockin’ and making solid music. For that alone they deserve that ranking. Their longevity is astronomically amazing. Love The Stones. Have an awesome day my friend.
Victor, my putting the Stones at number 1 has been quite controversial lol. That’s the fun of the list, compelling people to participate. To choose only 25 UK bands is an I,possible task
Look, I agree with quite a bit of this, but how you can include World Party, TFF, or XTC and not have Radiohead is flipping ridiculous
Personally, along with Radiohead, I would include The Stone Roses (they released 2 albums, the same as Joy Division) Queen (even though I'm not a fan particularly) Arctic Monkeys and New Order over Joy Division, even though I love both.
Perhaps Massive Attack 🤔
Having said that, I did enjoy watching your video
I have tried and tried and tried to like Radiohead, I had all their CDs and they never clicked for me. That said it took me 30 years to like The Stone Roses so there is still hope lol
I’m glad you enjoyed this. The purpose is to create conversation and share your picks. I just picked up my first New Order album in vinyl, very enjoyable. Queen, I have a tough time with them, kind of a greatest hits band for me. Arctic Monkeys are great, I need to get some of their music in vinyl.
Fair play, Steve.. at the end of the day, it is, of course, completely subjective. I think 'entry points' to bands often shape how highly regarded they are to us all.
The Smiths formed my early teenage years listening. They really spoke to me and are probably very middle of the road in my music taste. The Stone Roses came at the perfect time to combat my loss of The Smiths splitting up.
I agree that Radiohead can be a hard listen to some, so I can see why you haven't included them.
Keep making the vids, it is always great to hear passionate opinions.
Ps, can you (or anyone else) help settle an argument between friends.. is Feeder - Comfort in Sound, any good?
Of course none of us will have a matching list. Virtually impossible. My list would have at least half of Steve's picks. My main criticism of his list is it suffers from a recency bias. If I did a list it would probably have a bias towards older bands. I can't imagine not having the Kinks of any such list. I was also surprised it didn't include some great 70's bands like Deep Purple, Yes, Mott the Hoople, Traffic and Moody Blues. I'd probably exceed the 25 band limitation which makes it even harder. Still, some great picks on Steve's list and some that really look like sleeper picks like Wire, Waterboys and Stone Roses. Also, XTC Lemon and Oranges is a great album from a prolific band that never seems to get the respect they deserve.
Jeff, thanks for watching. This was a tough task, so many good bands to choose from. I was trying to pull from a lot of different decades and not get stuck in a couple of decades. Some bands, Like Deep Purple and Mott I don’t have any albums from them. I use to before the flood but now with a more limited collection I have not brought them back in. It was fun to do and created a lot of conversation
Spacemen 3 has been one of my favourite bands since the 80s. They had 4 people in the live band. I actually was witness to their last ever gig at Reading Festival. By the time of the last album Sonic and J were at odds and recorded each side of the album separately. They both still produce grear music. Go check Darkside.
Yeah I have really enjoyed the music of both Sonic and J. I came into Spacemen 3 late but I have most of their albums now, incredible group that gets overlooked
big surprise no kinks- U2 Queen and my favourite the jam.
still enjoyed your list
Thank you Robert, I thought U2 was Ireland proper along with Stiff Little Finger but I never fact checked that. I knew Kinks would be a flashpoint but I had only 25 to choose from and I never could get into the Kinks. Every list has to have some controversy otherwise it would not be fun
OMG---was literally going he missed the Kinks and U2 then saw your comment! LOL
U2 are Irish
U2 Irish ta very much
Recently I heard some older gentlemen talking about the music that was meaningful to them when they were growing up and whether their children still liked it. The Beatles sometimes came up when the kids sang together, but the Stones hardly played a role anymore. The Police, on the other hand, were a band that still appealed. One of the gentlemen had bought the latest album by the Stones with some embarrassment, because he found it a bit too obvious and there were only a few songs that stood out to him.
I did not buy the new Stones. Generally I don’t buy the albums from the bands that have now gotten old as the music does not offer anything new. I like to focus on new groups as they tend to have a fresh take on music. My kids would not know much about the Beatles or the Stones
That little island is a juggernaut of exceptional music!
It sure was, something unexpected. I have found a lot of high priced shops, this was more reasonable
Waterboys! I loved Fisherman’s Blues in its day and then lost track. When they came to Vancouver last time (2018 or 2019) I was amazed at the rich body of work I had missed out on. Needless to say, I got caught up.
I have bought some later Waterboys albums and have enjoyed them all but nothing brings me the joy that Fisherman Blues does. That album is magical to me.
@ I get that. Great album. I also really like Modern Blues, and Universal Hall is another favourite.
Great list, you almost never see bands like Spacemen 3 and Jesus and Mary Chain getting mentioned in these kind of lists
I am a huge fan of Spacemen 3 and I see a lot of groups credit them with their sound. There is a huge resurgence of Shoegaze, all mention JMC Two fantastic groups
It is an impossible task and I do give you credit for yr good selections but they are mostly pretty mainstream 60's, 70's bands. The joy of British rock for me is in it's eclecticism. So many wonderfully creative bands to choose from; The Pouges, Cocteau Twins, Art Bears, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Roxy Music, The Cure, Portishead, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Girl Band etc.
I couldn’t agree more on the amount of bands from the UK. It was so hard to do. There are more UK bands than in the US in my collection. When it comes to solo artist there are more from the US. I tried to mix up the decades with different bands but just too many to them.
Music wise, I am fortunate enough to have hit my teens near the start of the 80's, have a mother that 'stole' my records, to play them LOUD, and showed me why by introducing me to the Blues Rock, garage and psychedelic of her youth which she was hearing echoes of in my developing taste (when you listen, there is a LOT of Psychedelic in Goth), it was for music, the UK was the perfect time, the perfect place, even if the charts were rubbish, there was always something new, interesting and good coming out. I'd struggle to get such a list down to 25 bands active in just the 80's. Respect for XTC, World Party, The Waterboys making your list, though I am looking over the top of my spectacles at you for omitting Talk Talk. 😉
Jon, I have really tried to get into Talk Talk and just have not figured them out. I was in my 20s in the 80s and it’s my favorite decade. US had College Rock, it was not mainstream, I love that music. Also UK was pushing out tremendous music in so many new genres. To me it was a magical decade.
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I'd say that "Its my Life" and "The Colour of Spring" are the most accessible albums. Everything after is only really for the converted and the debut while good was a band finding its feet and even chasing a couple of trends. Here in the UK we had a whole league of artists that would have a top 40 hit (or near miss that still got a good amount of airplay) per album and the albums would get very good reviews and go silver within a year of release. Most featured on the US Collage Rock circuit as well. World Party, XTC and others you mentioned were among them. For some reason it all got killed off mid 90's because making an OK living for all involved and doing critically acclaimed stuff just wasn't big enough for the labels. One of those that led this cull was Simon Cowell (yes that one) so my distaste for him goes way back.
John Peel may be a legend but he was on too late for me (and on school nights), his shows didn't start till midnight! But for me, The Annie Nightingale request show on right after the Sunday new chart rundown on Radio 1 was my main gateway to the weird and wonderful. Oh and Tommy Vance for rock and metal.
There were many familiar faces in that list and some strangers. I loved the video. Well done.
Thanks Tony, I’m always trying to give you something different so you question my judgement lol
@ i think you have fantastic taste in music.
Interesting! For me, it’s the Beatles! But the Stones are quite impressive. Next, will you do your favorite German bands? Are you into Krautrock bands? You could do favorite International bands. Put some African bands in, Irish, Japanese, German, Jamaican, Brazilian, Peruvian bands, etc!
lol, I would have an easier time with African bands over Krautrock. Someone suggested 25 best bands from non English speaking countries , wow would that be hard to do! I got a ton of albums from groups from around the world but not sure how to do that. It would be interesting though not sure anyone would watch since most people are centered on the US and the UK
@ I think it would be original and exciting! Who knows, it might grab a lot of attention! Maybe wait to get that new psych record from Thailand! They said early November, but no word yet!
Enjoyed that list Steve-the only one on your list that I never considered for mine was Tears for Fears, as I don't have an LP of theirs-I'll have to correct that
I had quite a list I was staring at for a long time, so many bands but I wanted to mix it up some with different decades. I think I’m the only one to do Tears For Fears but they made so many catchy songs
great list..would have put tull higher, but i definitely agree that presence is one of zeppelin's best..
hope you and your family have a wonderful thanksgiving..peace to you always my friend..
rocky
Thank you Rocky, I wish the same to you. This was a hard list to do and I have a lot of people in an uproar which is half the fun of it haha
Love your choices Steve. The UK gave so many great bands and music to enjoy 🎉
Thanks Greg, I got a ton of comments where people don’t agree with the list lol. That is what makes it fun
🪄✨️ The Cure.✨️ BEST ROCK BAND IN THE WORLD !!!!!!
MASTERPIECE !!!!
You are really working on pushing them to the top lol
Sorry, you forgot some of the best ones: Bowie, The Fall, The Sound, Chameleons, The The, The Band of Holy Joy, Bauhaus....
If I do a solo ranking Bowie will then pop in. I’m not sure if I have enough solo English artist though, I will have to think about that. The Band of Holy Joy is completely and The Fall seems to be a popular omission.
What would be interesting video is to see the vinyl channels people but together list of the greatest non-English speaking countries solo artist/bands. Not saying that the songs must be with non-English lyrics, but not from countries were the English is the main language. It would be very interesting to see such lists and would they be similar from a person to person or would there be a lot of a difference. Because it seems that in every country people listen to their native bands (and some from their neighboring countries) and then just music from UK/USA/ and some from other English speaking countries. And you mainly get to know music from other countries if the artist breaks through to the UK/USA market. So viewing lists from outside the "english" countries would possible bring new music to many viewers or the list would just be the usual suspects (the big break through artist in UK/USA) and that would also be interesting to know.
Anna, I have really considered this. I have a large selection of music from Europe, South American, Latin America and Africa. I guess I even have a nice selection of Japanese bands. This would be hard as there are so many countries to choose from. Still I will think about this. Great thought
Never mind freddie, no mention of Killing Joke? now that's a crime...
I do have the very first Killing Joke and several other of their album, I group that I like since I’m into more punk and post punk. Sadly on 25 could be picked and I tried to give a broad spectrum as far as time frame.
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I understand of course, brave but subjective tho...just trying to spread the (Killing Joke) word !
Best live band on the planet, until losing Geordie the guitarist last year - 15 albums, five of which defined music over 4 decades...encourage everyone to seek them out, enough from me x
Wow how many great British bands not on the list
Genesis Yes Depeche Mode Madness kinks ELP The Jam to name but a few
With a choice of only 25 this was an I,possible task due to the sheer volume of great UK bands. I had less to choose from when I did a UK ranking
@ yes mate it’s all about personnel choice
Very difficult to choose I think if I did one I would take into account album sales and playing live influences and numbers of people that have seen them over the years and how long the careers lasted ! Just thought of another band Muse lol Impossible really
I started this vid, thinking great but the Waterboys won’t be in it! How pleasantly wrong I was. I got to meet Mike Scott a year ago. They are fantastic.
lol, well a lot of people have questioned me putting the Waterboys on it but like you I believe they have made some incredible music that will stand the test of time!
Hi Steve - My Top 5 British Bands # 1 The Cure # 2 The Clash # 3 Joy Division / New Order # 4 The Psychedelic Furs # 5 Oasis. Bubbling 🫧 under - Radiohead , Blur , Suede , The Jam & The Comsat Angels. Lions 🦁 now Super Bowl 🏈 favorites in Vegas over The Chiefs.
My fingers are crossed on The Lions. It was a shame we lost Hutchinson for the season. I have tried to like Radiohead but just can’t not get into their music. I do love your Top 5 picks David
Just realized, no Radiohead?
I have tried very hard to get into Radiohead, I use to have all their CDs but just couldn’t get into them. I need to try them again, maybe this time they will click with me.
What planet are you on? You failed to mention the jam, a band that defined its generation & was a catalyst for bands to come but you give house room to tears for fears & the waterboys (a band that made zero impact during their original outing) & joy division!! A drab monotone band with one real album. C'mon, you probably got about 5 right. To pick the best they have to have left a lasting legacy.
I have no Jam albums. I use to have all their albums but lost them in a flood a couple years ago. They are now hard to find and a lot more expensive. Definitely agree they are important. As you know any list is highly subjective which is what makes it fun. If we all had the same list how boring would that be. Thanks for watching and commenting, these videos are about dialog.
In no particular order. Suede, the smiths, the stone roses, manic street preachers, oasis, iron maiden, UFO, led zeppelin, whitesnake, the Beatles, dire straits, Jethro tull, Roxy music, Duran Duran, the charlatans, Depeche mode, the dogs d'amour, tears for fears, the jam, the cure, pulp, echo and the bunneymen, (early)queen, the pogues, the stones. Ask me next week and it'll be different.
lol, yeah list change a lot don’t they. It took me a month to do mine because it kept changing. I finally said screw it and just did that darn video lol. I like your list of bands as you are not stuck in a particular decade that happens with too many people.
So pleased to see Spaceman 3 in there. I was lucky enough to see them a few times and there were brilliant live. However, significant omissions are: the Stranglers, Crass, Deep Purple, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, PIL, Kate Bush....I could go on and on.
With a choice of just 25 bands this was near impossible to do. So many fantastic bands came out of the UK. I do enjoy seeing what other people would put on their lists
Yeah I appreciate that 25 is a relatively small number. I did enjoy your commentary and these lists are always good reminders to check out music I have listened to in a while. However, during your commentary you alluded to the impact and influence of bands to make it on to the list. Now, even though World Party and Tears for Fears created classic pop songs, I have never met anyone who has said that they pick up an instrument or form a band because of these 2 bands. However, a legion of bass players have started by listening to the Stranglers for instance or many youngsters have picked the guitar as an instrument of choice because Blackmore in Deep Purple....
Here's a controversial one: The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Obviously their main creative force was not of UK origin and did go on to be creative and influential in other 'vehicles' based outside the UK. However the band that first took him to prominence and helped him produce 3 albums in its circa 2 year existence was UK recruited, managed and produced, 2/3rds of UK origin and, most pertinently, was very much born in and from out of the pervading London culture (even if the latter itself reflected significant transatlantic influence). I suppose whether you can accept JHE as being from the UK is linked to whether you regard CSN, or indeed CSN&Y, as American ; )
When this thread was started they laid out some ground rules lol. Jimi Hendrix would be treated as a solo artist so I kept to that so when I do US solo artists guess who will be toward the top. I consider him a group but I followed the rules haha.
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 TBH, I think I would probably rate him a 'solo act' too rather than a band for these purposes despite the importance of his Experience colleagues.
Hi steve great 25 and some of my favourites including world party, xtc , tears for fears and electric light orchestra. Take care joe
Joe, it is always interesting to hear what others really like. So many thought I was nuts with Tears For Fears and World Party. We all hear things differently don’t we. Thanks for watching and commenting
I agree on your #1 choice, the Beatles were awesome, but the Stones stayed the course and became the world's greatest rock and roll band. I like your other choices too, ELO, Waterboys (great album), Buzzcocks, Joy Division and all the rest. I thought about doing these, but I know I would have a hard time choosing the LPs. Anyway, great list Steve, you'll receive no beating from me!
Michael, I stared at my list for five days not sure what to do. It was very hard, so many great bands to choose from. I just wanted to make sure I mixed it up some
good list the ranking can be debated, i would have put Deep Purple +The Kinks in there, but hey. it's your list.do the solo list, don't let vinyl Ritchie get the best of you! cheers.
I love Vinyl Richie! I don’t own any Deep Purple and just 2 Kinks albums. Somehow I survive Ron lol. I should get a Deep Purple Lists are very subjective and prone to our own personal tastes though I did try to push on some groups that I don’t listen to that often. They are fun to do.
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 my desert island deep purple is " in rock ". From, 70.
Very good! You gained a new subsriber. You have the Cure and Waterboys there - so happy. No Porcupine tree though 😞. TALK TALK is probably a top 5 Brtish Band...Give them time and many listens....
Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I have no Porcupine Tree, I know them but I need to find an entry point to that band I have tried to like Talk Talk and understand them but still struggle with them. My sweet spot for music is the 80s college rock scene.
Dare, Asia, Uriah Heep, 10cc, Dire Straits, Queen, Supertramp, Strangeways, Sad Cafe, Whitesnake, Tears For Fears, Lonestar, Magnum, UFO.
Darren, that is a wonderful eclectic list of bands. Sad Cafe, cool choice I do not know Magnum or Dare
That's a good list. However I would say from the 'Britpop' era there is one album that is head and shoulders above anything by Blur and Oasis and that is Different Class by Pulp. It's a bona fide 10/10 album.
I only had one Pulp CD, they never made it big in the States. I will check this out. That is what I like about these lists, people like you enlighten me to music that I have not listened to before
All the things you said that made me wince, and there were many lol, is negated by the OG disintegration album. Side note shouldn’t it be called OP instead. I guess OG just comes out from all the 90’s references?
Yeah I just picked that Cure album up. I had an original that I bought when it came out but I got washed away in the flood. A couple of months ago I walk into a little record store and bam, there it was, a lot more then I paid for it haha. Still I love that album so I grabbed it Sorry for making you wince so much ! Thanks for watching
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Nothing but a flesh wound. Lists are like that no one will 100% agree with them. Great vid as usual. Very entertaining.
Might be the only one of these lists that included Blur.
I noticed that Brandon, I think Blur has produced some great albums, they were one of my favorite groups of the 90s. Very hard list to make.
How can you leave Queen out.
Sadly it was very hard to do just 25 UK bands as the island is packed with so many outstanding bands
I do like most of the bands you mention, but forgetting Queen, Genesis, Stones and Depeche Mode is quite insane in my opinion. Anyway, you (UK) have so many great bands... I guess it would be easier for me to make a best 25 bands from France... LOL (yeah, I'm French)...
I’m from the US but yes the UK is loaded with bands. I did put the Stones at #1 but the others I did not. I was trying to balance it more and also many bands that I truly love came later. Steve very tuff to do. I have some French bands, to your point it would be easier lol
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I thought you were from UK... My bad... US have some great stuff too... I think there are more "singers" than bands (MJ, Prince, and so on) but I could be wrong. Anyway, I'd like to hear about your French bands.... I'm amazed you got some in the US (Well, outside of Daft Punk of course... lol).
On a personal note, I'm a huge football fan for more than 35 years (Broncos are my team) ! May be we could make a top 25 superbowl or QB or whatever... LOL
Take care...
Blur were more influenced by the kinks and xtc than the roses.
I did omit the Kinks, could only pick 25, but good points on their influence Dean. UK is so loaded with great bands which was almost overwhelming
Interesting subjective list that you made the case well for and which had only one omission which is verging on the criminal - if this wasn’t just a bit of fun which of course it is! Who? The Kinks obviously! They and The Jam and should have been included considering some of the bands who did make it (I’m thinking in particular of the Brit pop bands who were poor copies of them and The Beatles). The Kinks also should have been in because not only did they arguably produce the finest pop song of all time (Waterloo Sunset) they also invented both Heavy Rock/metal and punk three years earlier with ‘You Really Got Me. So that’s three reasons! Also Gang of Four are worth considering too while both The Clash and Beatles should have been higher and that the Stones are still going is a reason why they shouldn’t even be in the top 25 in my opinion. What an embarrassment they have become! But I really enjoyed the video!
Thank you for your thoughts I forgot about Gang of Four, a group that I do really like. I know a lot of people had Kinks in the list but I just really never got into them though I do love Really Got a me Now. Since the Flood I have not been able to get any Jam back into my collection, I use to have all of their albums but now they are hard to find and a lot more expensive. This was difficult with only 25 bands to choose but I tried to give s mix of newer and older bands as my taste really does fall into the 80s forward. Great points on my omissions
@ as I said it’s a great video because you make your case for each inclusion really well and you can’t do more than with what is a subjective list! I find it amusing how exercised people get on TH-cam when they disagree with lists like yours! It’s only a bit of fun. Hence my joke about the exclusion of The Kinks being ‘criminal’! It may be that they are too English for some palettes across the Atlantic although that could also apply to The Jam, Stranglers and Brit Pop so who knows?
The list should be 25 best bands AND musicians, as restricting the list to only bands, you're excluding a helluva lot of great music!
My choices:
- Bauhaus
- Brian Eno
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Cockney Rebel
- The Damned
- Danielle Dax
- David Bowie
- Echo & The Bunnymen
- Eric Burdon & The New Animals
- The Fall
- Gang Of Four
- The Jesus & Mary Chain
- John Cale
- Joy Division
- The Kinks
- The Libertines
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Magazine
- Public Image Limited
- Roxy Music
- Sex Pistols
- Siouxsie & The Banshees
- T. Rex
- The Troggs
- Wire
I think the plan was then to do a list of individual artist, that way more can be showed Danielle Dax, I am totally unfamiliar with that artist. Fantastic list. We all have those artist who truly inspired us and the music scene
Tears for fears sowing in the seeds of love is so Beatlesque
Richard it sure is along with XTC Oranges and Lemons. Both of those albums have a lot of Joy in them.
Yeah and that’s a bad thing?
ELO were designed to take over where The Beatles left off. Without The Beatles we wouldn’t have popular music
we’d have Perry Como and Dean Martin reinvented. They are the greediest band in history, they wrote everything and everyone else rewrote their music.
Classy compositions Electric light orchestra 🎸
@@richardsteele3272 I agree but, imho their most "Beatle-esque" album would have to be _'Everybody Loves A Happy Ending', which was the first album to reunite Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith together again after that long separation and Orzabal's solo stint as TFF...
You missed Genesis. Arctic Monkeys. Deep Purple, Van De Graaf Generator, The Jam, King Crimson, The The, Roxy Music, Talk Talk, Bauhaus & Iron Maiden if you deem any of them worth considering.And now... very new but will be the biggest band of the future - The Last Dinner Party.
Alexander, I could only pick 25 and as you know the amount of bands out of the UK is crazy big. I think the UK had more bands than the US honestly. Now I do need to check out The Last Dinner Party, I love listening to something new!
No Queen?! But a couple of bands I’ve never heard of (and I’m British) 😮
I tried to put newer and older bands in there, obviously it was highly subjective like all lists. Thanks for watching and commenting
1. Rolling Stones
2. Beatles
3. Pink Floyd
4. Black Sabbath
5. The Who
6. PJ Harvey
7. Killing Joke
8. Rudimentary Peni
9. Discharge
10. G.B.H.
11. The Cure
12. Sisters Of Mercy
13. Judas Priest
14. Iron Maiden
15. Buzzcocks
16. Massive Attack
17. Motörhead
18. Amebix
19. The Damned
20. Sex Pistols
21. Leatherface
22. Rainbow
23. The Clash
24. Queen
25. Joy Division
Not the most educated answer and now when I look at my list I forgot Depeche Mode, Chumbawamba, Portishead, Crass, The Only Ones, Primal Scream, Duran Duran, Wire, Adverts and U.K. Subs. Probably many more comes to mind as soon I post this, but can't win all the time. Now I'm going to check your best US bands. Great video and list. Cheers from Finland!
lol, this is hard to do isn’t it. You are the second person to mention Leatherface. I have no idea about that group so I need to look them up. Thank you for taking the time to put down your picks, excellent stuff. I hope to visit your wonderful country some day
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Leatherface: Mush is amazing album and it just got reissued 2021 Stormy Petrel is good also. I noticed that I left Zeppelin out. Just shows that when I do these lists on the top of my head, super obvious bands gets left behind. You're always welcome to Finland. Would be an honor to have you here
1. The CURE
2. The Beatles
3. Depech Mode
4. Pink Floyd
I thought The Fall were going to be #1.
Talk about a prolific band, The Fall has put out so many albums. I have a few from them but by no means an expert on their music. They are a great band, good call
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 They're a group that divides opinion.People either love or hate them.
Depeche Mode?
The Kinks?
The Police?
Radiohead????????????????????????????
Deep Purple?
New order?
Massive attack?
The Pogues? (technically)
the fall?
Radiohead?????????????????????????????...really?
I have tried hard to like Radiohead. I had all their music on CD before the flood but since then I have not brought them back. One of these days I need to try them again, maybe do a whole video of listening to the keys albums and sharing my thoughts.
Hi Steve. The name 'Joy Division' comes from the German concentration camps in World War II - it was what they called the brothels they had in the camps to reward the inmates' good behaviour. Great list, a few there that I considered for both of my videos. Ironically, I'd put the Stones under the Beatles because they're still going.
So long as the inmates were non-Jewish they could use the brothel (to avoid racial mixing of course) and the women forced to work in the brothels came from other concentration camps. I have never quite understood why a band would select such a thing for their name.
I had not heard that before James. Wow is that dark. I agree with gab99, why choose that but maybe it was for shock value. This was difficult list to do and you also mentioned. Incredible the music that has come out of the UK Thanks for keeping me inspired to do this
@@gab99 irony?
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Though the jewish women forced into prostitution were really called The Joy Division, the band actually took their name from a novel. The name Joy Division was taken from a brothel containing Jewish women forced into sexual labour by Nazi concentration camp officers in the novel House of Dolls by camp survivor Ka-Tzetnik 135633. They also reference the book in one of their songs.
I do think it was for shock value, a bit like the Pistols wearing Swastikas or other punk bands wearing nazi parafenelia. It was called 'Nazi Chic', to shock or break taboos, not to genuinely support Nazism.
The band simply thought the name sounded good and cool. They were briefly called Stiff Kittens at the very start, then they changed the name to Warsaw and then, finally settled on Joy Division. They were kids that grew up surrounded by WW II memorabilia, with relatives who lived through that time and regularly heard war stories, they saw various war-torn areas that never got rebuilt and were demolished. So the war and it's after effects was part of their growing up. It was right at their doorstep.
It was a different time. They lived a different reality to what we live now. Nowadays, everything is sterilized, sanitized and scrutinized so as to not offend those with "sensitive sensibilities". There was none of that back then. People lived reality as it was - real. They didn't enclose themselves in honogenized, pasteurized "safe space bubbles". Many wrongfully associated the band with fascist groups not just for the name but, for their clothing as well but, they had nothing to do with that at all...
Hey Steve this is impossible but you gave it a go. You missed out most of the best bands then included the Beatles 😀
Come on, Rob. Do the tag!
lol, I missed all the good ones This was such a difficult task, worse than doing the American version but I enjoy the abuse in the comments so here it it is lol.
Dave Clark Five,Kinks,SmallFaces,The WHO, Slade,Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones,The Jam,The Clash, The Specials, Madness,The Stone Roses, Oasis,The Enemy.Depeche Mode.
That’s a nice list , thank you for sharing it but I did not know The Enemy. You did have a nice mix of bands and decades
Not sure Blur were inspired by The Stone Roses, and Suede kick started the Britpop scene, check the band out if you don’t know them. Otherwise a cool list and video.
I use to have some Suede CDs, I need to give them another listen, thank you for mentioning them
You are one of those Johnny Marr solo albums are better than Morrissey solo albums. Give me a break. The Cure are great snd they looked so cool in the 80s. Now he looks downright frightening. I’m not sure many bands started because of the Sex Pistols. Tons started after the Ramones or Black Flag played your town.
The UK a lot of bands started after seeing the Sex Pistols but probably not near as many as The Ramones. Yes I’m a Marr fan Richie. Tone Scott sent me some Marr albums and I really got to appreciate his guitar playing. This was tough to do and everyone has a different list. Not sure if I will do the solo artist list though it is intriguing Richie
Great list ! Can I add one ?
#27 : Depeche mode.
Sadly I have no Depeche Mode. My collection before the flood I had a lot of their albums. Since then their prices have jumped so I have not added any back in yet. I hope to have that corrected next year
@ : I have a similar situation with Judas priest. For reasons beyond my control , I’ve lost the 6 albums from Killing machine to Turbo I had from my youth. But I’m aiming to get them again , eventually.
It is not easy to bring back those old albums anymore.
1. Beatles
2. Stones
3. Kinks
4. Pink Floyd
5. Queen
6. Led Zeplin
7. David Bowie
8. Madness
9. Kate Bush
10. Eric Clapton
11. Eurythmics
12. The Who
13. Amy Winehouse
14. Proclaimers
15. Suede
16. Radiohead
17. Oasis
18 Blur
19 Pulp
20 Massive Attack
21 Supergrass
22 Smiths
23 The Jam
24 Meat Loaf - I couldn't leave out Meat Loaf
25 Sex Pistols
Meat Loaf was American and Amy Whitehouse, Kate Bush and David Bowie were not bands. Eric Clapton was part of Cream who he did mention
True, it was just bands
Sam, great list, great pick with the Eurythmics. I know Kinks and Queen have been frequently mentioned for their omission but that is what makes list fun, they are subjective. I hope to do one on individual artists, hopefully it will be easier than the bands
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Thanks. I hope you will do something on great albums that didn't sell well. If you get round to this please include 'Dog Man Star'. That's the album that got me into rock music in the 90s. Btw Meat Loaf was supposed to be a joke. Not that funny I know but I loved the guy in my childhood.
@@samrosengard9889 that would be very interesting , I will give that a thought , great albums that did not sell well. The one you mentioned I have no idea about, guess I will look it up
Lots of great selections, but there are so many more. ELP, The Moody Blues, Badfinger (since you love power pop), Deep Purple, The Kinks, The Dave Clark Five, The Move, Wishbone Ash, The Zombies, and on and on.
Yeah, it was tough with just 25. I still have not listened to Wishbone Ash. I see their albums but often but I just have not picked one up. Since the flood I have not picked up a Badfinger album, I do need to at least get their greatest hits album. Some great bands David, thank you
Talk Talk, The Kinks, Magazine, Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Pentangle, The Beatles, Queen (pre-'77) - for starters.
I like that pre 77 Queen lol. I get that. Nice list of band, eclectic.
Totally agree with friend below, can't omit the Kinks, U2, and the Jam--if you're talking influences. No one is more quintessentially British than the Kinks. The Buzzcocks, XTC, Jesus & Mary Chain all followed others. Could put Squeeze in that camp. I love em all. Mad fer Oasis! Ditch Blur. Only American band I love as much as all my UK bands is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I'll have to watch your top 25 Americans. I hope TP is up there!
@@LisaBarstowMusek Lisa, spoiler alert, Tom Petty is being saved when I do solo artist. He had a band but when this was started people like him and Elvis Costello were going to be out in the solo category. Never could really get into the Kinks, love U2 but they are from Ireland. Impossible to choose 25 from the UK which I feel has more bands than American. America has more solo artists
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 Steve.... TP was never really a solo artist. Always had Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, lead guitar and keys, respectively, by him in solo projects. TP and the Heartbreakers are an amazing band. If you never saw them live, you missed something magical. Thanks for the spoiler! ❤️ PS my bad on U2, always think of Dublin as UK. The Irish would not approve!
No The Jam?? Are you well?
I use to have every Jam album but after the flood I lost y whole collection. Now I have no Jam as they have become hard to find in the US and have become expensive. Great band but I had nothing to show
Wow .. the jam are considered among the greatest and they didn’t make the list
Sadly after The Flood I have not found any decent Jam albums in good shape. I use to have all their albums
Stones are a corporation more than a band
Good point Steve, you could drop Kiss into that category also
Tricky one this..i guess it all depends what angle your taste is coming from, so ultimately subjective.
You picked a good overview of great bands from different genres Steve.
30+ years later and i still don't get the Stone Roses.
I saw Tears For Fears on the Seeds of Love tour, it was the last time i ever went to the NEC in Birmingham ( and large concert venues period)..
I think Blur were more influenced by UK 60s bands like the Kinks.
Joy Division i appreciate more than enjoy.
Waterboys were fantastic live, i saw them at Glastonbury in 1990.
My brother loves Wire..that debut album was really interesting.
The less said about Oasis the better..
Spaceman 3 is definitely a sonic experience, i probably preferred Spiritualised.
Karl Wallanger ( RIP)..very clever arranger and songwriter..better than most acts from that era and highly underrated.
Ah, love me some Tull..for me anything up until the early 80s is my sweet spot.. Ian Anderson is a terrific acoustic guitar player, i wish he still plays it when he performs).
XTC are a great band, perfect blend of 60s psychedelia and new wave and folk..yet totally original.
I'm not a metal fan, but i can't deny Black Sabbath produced some stellar work in the early 70s.
' Never Mind...is so nostalgic for me, my mate blasting it on a cassette on his dads' equipment and then the tape got chewed..the destruction seemed apt for the music...
Led Zep III is my favourite because it's quite acoustic.
I think Floyd up to Animals i really enjoy..Richard Wright for one of the most underrated songwriters.
Beatles and Stones, i guess influence wise they have to be top 2.
I'll always prefer them over the Stones.
Great effort 👌.
Rob, I stared at a list of bands for 5 days and finally said just do it! It is always subjective, 100 people would have 100 different lists. We all have our perspective don’t we. I guess that is what I like about watching these , seeing what clicks with other people. We all hear things so differently I did try to add bands I don’t really listen to a lot but thought they were important like Sabbath and Priest. Fun to do but not easy
The best band from the UK, since we invaded you in 793? The Stranglers!! Crazy with a list with the 25 best bands, and no Stranglers??? What is wrong with you Brits???? Greetings from the vikings in Norway!!!!!
I love Norway, visited there, wonderful place. I’m from the US so don’t blame the Brits with the Stranglers. I have some of their albums and especially love their early stuff. A must have group
You would enjoy Black Sabbath Master Of Reality and a good best of We Sold Our Soul For Rock And Roll. I highly recommend that you get these two albums. Master Of Reality just flows nicely and you can chill out and appreciate how well it was sequenced. There Are songs on the album that you never heard but you will be glad you found them. Steve give it a try, trust me you will not be disappointed and you might want to spark up a blunt, Lol. I know you probably don't do that but I know you like some stoner rock and this album has some. The drums in jazz style, the bass and guitar and Ozzy are top notch. One of my favorite Sabbath songs is "Into The Void". An old friend turned me on to this album and I prefer this album really.
lol Richard, I may be one of the only lover of stoner music that has never smoked a joint haha. I just love the groove the music has. I will have to try those two Sabbath albums. I use to have them on CD but I had so much music I never really listened to it
It's a good, versatile selection. Although I disagree with the number 1 pick. The Stones keep playing the same tunes, longevity doesn't mean quality.
I miss The Jam.
I'm not a Queen fan but they're a top 25 UK band for sure. Deep Purple as well.
I have no Jam, I lost all those albums in the flood and they are now hard to find in the states sadly, great band. I also have no Deep Purple , same thing. UK just has too many incredible bands making 25 very tough to do
Ehhhhh,,,this is why I don't do this kind of list....no Queen or Def Leppard, and some stuff I'm just not a fan of...quite a few actually...but then again, that's normal for a pop guy like me...I would have picked Herman's Hermits over a number of the ones you did include, they're important to ME, but apparently not to anyone else...oh well...whatever floats your boat, right Professor? Cheers, have a good week...
So what you’re saying TC is my list was not a surprise at all. I have no Def Leppard, just never got into them. Don’t own any Herman Hermits. The lists are fun to do TC as everyone is so different but they are hard
I see you only did one album from all groups I would have mentioned Joy Division with the syn waves in the cover
My tastes run all over the place, could easily put 100 bands on this list
Some of my favorite UK bands (aside from some you already named like Tears For Fears, The Smiths, Joy Division, The Cure etc.), in no particular order:
The Chameleons
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Bauhaus
The Police
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army
A Flock Of Seagulls
The Psychedelic Furs
The Sisters Of Mercy
Flesh For Lulu
Modern English
The Bolshoi
The Fixx
Southern Death Cult/Death Cult/The Cult
Duran Duran
The Comsat Angels
Killing Joke
Echo & The Bunnymen
Kitchens Of Distinction
Orchestral Maneouvers In The Dark
Sex Gang Children
Talk Talk
P.I.L
The March Violets
The Human League
and many, many more.
(P.S. I think The Jesus & Mary Chain were from Scotland, not the UK)
Wow, what a fantastic mix of bands. Most I have but there are a number of them I have never heard of like Comsat Angel and Bolshoi. Thanks for taking time to share your selection
Can't really fault most of your choices but it seems wrong to omit The Kinks, The Fall, Yes, The Stranglers and The Police.
I know there's only so much space so maybe kick out World Party, The Waterboys, The Cure, The Clash and maybe even The Rolling Stones!
lol, no Stones, ow that would have gotten people excited lol. I am a big fan of the Fall and The Stranglers, they both fall in my wheel house. This was tough to do
Wow, the Kinks are nowhere to be found here
A lot of people have mentioned. Could only do 25 and I wanted to show some of the newer bands. Definitely a band that made some great albums
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 it was a good list and really the only ommission that jumped out at me was that one. If I could recommend one album to check out (again?) it's Muswell Hillbillies. I like the 1998 remaster on Konk. Great job though 👍
Sacrilege!
Absolutely ludicrous. I rate Ray Davies as the finest songsmith that England has ever produced.
I'm a Brit and not arguing with this list,but Motörhead and rather than Spacemen 3 I'd included Spiritualised. J.Pierce's best work for me. Gad to see Stone Roses get a mention.🇬🇧
I love your YT handle! I have no Motörhead. Spiritualized almost made the list. Your island has had many incredible bands that ranking them is next to impossible.
@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 I totally agree. I miss the days of pub music arguments with your friends before you could whip out your phone to prove a point! My "handle" Is from your side of the pond!( Punk In Drublic is a fantastic NOFX album!)🏴
@ I know that NOFX album, I use to have that on CD , great stuff. Yeah, now it’s all about using your phone, who needs a brain or a memory when we have a phone!
WIRE.......who????
SPACEMEN 3.......who????
No Queen or Dire Straits????
Wire 😮Pink flag one of the greatest records ever made 👍
Pink Flag is essential
Had not thought about Dire Straits, great guitar playing. I could only choose 25. So many of the new shoegaze bands talk about the importance of Spacemen 3 and JMC. I guess what makes these fun is that they are all different and subjective but they do create dialogue, that is what I enjoy
Sorry guys, I've honestly never heard of both bands
@@Ken_Dodds_Tickling_Stick Ken, those are not really mainstream bands, they are shoegaze and I guess noise bands. Really great albums but not everyone’s cup of tea
Queen?
Yeah, I only had 25 to pick, I do struggle with Queen some. Last year I did a whole video about me and Queen. Some of their music I love and some I just don’t enjoy. They are a great band that many people truly enjoy Kenneth
Mike, I must suffer from the same mental instability because I thought you were spot on with your US picks. I agree Stone Roses need to be shown & shown instead of Tears For Fears😂 The Priest!! I never would've picked that coming from the punk rock kid. I love how Rob Halford convinced straight white America to dress like gay leather bondage boys. He's a genius! Nice one with Wire Mike. GBV take the cake with release output for sure. Buzzcocks...yep that is a fun name to say & fun to listen to as well. What are you talking about Mike? I often hum and even whistle Spaceman 3 tunes all the time. They are the earworm band. The Tull you old proghead! Do you think the Cure will make a lot of lists now that they've released a pretty fine new album? Wow a total classic rock ending Mike. I'm glad you put someone before the someone that everyone else would put first. Always swimming upstream 👍Cheers...Mike
lol Mike, yeah, I figured everyone would put the Beatles first but they couldn’t get along and the Stones have made so many great albums. Yeah, this was tough to do but I figured we needed some newer groups Mike,mit can’t all be dinosaurs being represented. I would love to hear you humming to Spacemen 3. You just don’t see their songs in Karakoe bars. Tull is about heavy metal Mike, they got a Grammy for a reason!
@@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147 😂Yes true I forgot the Tull won a metal Grammy. It's always been an awards show that has it's finger on the pulse.
Nice list. Mine would skew more prog, hard rock and metal. I have given up on the Huskers this season. I haven't watched the last 3 games and probably won't watch again this year. They aren't worth it.
Heart break after heartbreak. Last two games are not in our favor. WI played Oregon hard. I wonder how many people will leave the team to try to find a winning team ? Very frustrating. At least my Lions look good
Can’t get onboard with the Stones being No 1 over the Beatles. Just because they stayed together longer ? Kinks is also a major omission.
Tony, I knew omitting the Kinks would get people questioning my sanity along with the Stones. I spent 5 days looking at all huge list of groups and finally said what the hell and ranked them on my feelings that day. Subjective but a lot of fun to do and a great way to create dialogue.