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The 5 greatest british bands
KXL Portland ^ | 5/9/25 | Markley, Van Camp & Robbins Show Podcast

Posted on 05/09/2025 3:08:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff

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To: JerseyDvl

Well, heaven knows I’m miserable now.


161 posted on 05/09/2025 6:19:44 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: dfwgator

That one doesn’t grab me for some reason, but different strokes and all that.

I’ll toss this one in for an obscure ‘90’s song with interesting male vocal and funky backward slomo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELQSv0PjA8A


162 posted on 05/09/2025 6:28:17 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Sirius Lee

Marillion (with Fish)


163 posted on 05/09/2025 6:30:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

We’re doing this again?


164 posted on 05/09/2025 6:31:39 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: dfwgator

Wow. Love XTC. Most of my music buds don’t even know about them.


165 posted on 05/09/2025 6:34:35 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: subterfuge

Wow. Love XTC. Most of my music buds don’t even know about them.


I blame that on Richard Branson, he didn’t want to support them once they stopped touring.


166 posted on 05/09/2025 6:47:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

In the song Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits, the verse “Check out guitar George, he knows all the cords “ is Angus’ brother.


167 posted on 05/09/2025 6:48:50 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: KevinB

Wow, Def Leppard higher than the Kinks? And in terms of impact, influence and popularity the Beatles are untouchable.
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168 posted on 05/09/2025 6:53:42 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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To: DallasBiff

I know he is not a band, but no one mentioned David Bowie. He had more influence than most of the bands mentioned.


169 posted on 05/09/2025 6:55:38 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: mfish13

I know he is not a band, but no one mentioned David Bowie. He had more influence than most of the bands mentioned.


The Spiders-era Bowie was for all intents and purposes a band, with Mick Ronson.


170 posted on 05/09/2025 6:57:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I’ll go back to Saucerful of Secrets & Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Too bad the hangers on melted Syd’s brain.


171 posted on 05/09/2025 7:57:32 PM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: stanne; wardaddy

Ten Years After
Yardbirds
Blind Faith
Kinks


172 posted on 05/09/2025 7:57:49 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: DallasBiff

The Beatles are really in a class by themselves. Especially after they stopped touring.

A well-rounded band needs studio time and at least some touring later in their career.


173 posted on 05/09/2025 8:00:21 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dfwgator; wardaddy

“But if it wasn’t for The Beatles, you wouldn’t have all those other bands.”

That’s very true. They launched the British Invasion.

In DC where I lived we were listening to them for a few months before they appeared on Ed Sullivan. Some girl had come back from London with a stack of Beatle records and gave them to our local rock station.

The other heavy hitter of the British Invasion was the Rolling Stones. The Beatles and Stones were in a league of their own. They aren’t my favorite British bands but they were certainly the most influential.

Beatles music, I like the early stuff up to Beatles For Sale, Revolver, Rubber Soul. The later albums just never appealed to me.

What came as a surprise to me is that when the Beatles called it quits in 1969 they were all still under 30 yrs old. It seemed like I’d been listening to them forever by then.


174 posted on 05/09/2025 8:22:44 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: dfwgator

Swindon? Am I get there? Roads Girdle the Globe!


175 posted on 05/09/2025 8:38:34 PM PDT by philled
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To: mykroar

That would be the Correct Order. With Stones far, far ahead of the rest.


176 posted on 05/09/2025 8:56:40 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: philled

Just take the English Roundabout.


177 posted on 05/09/2025 9:02:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: crusty old prospector
Good point... According to this source:

"Before moving to Australia, Barry, Robin and Maurice were born and spent their earliest years on Ellan Vannin, also known as the Isle of Man, a British Crown dependency."

178 posted on 05/09/2025 9:11:04 PM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: dfwgator

Imho, Hendrix did more to inspire rock. Just about every guitar player wanted to sound like Hendrix. But let the Brits have their glory, even though Rock N Roll is an American form of music.


179 posted on 05/10/2025 3:49:26 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan ( )
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To: mitch5501

Stars occupy minute quantities of space. They are clustered a few billion here, a few billion there as if seeking safety in numbers

Space does not care.


180 posted on 05/10/2025 7:46:13 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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