The 5 greatest british bands

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

[DallasBiff]

Pirro in Power: The Left Can’t Even Right Now May 9, 2025

[dfwgator]

Face The Music is my favorite ELO album.

Nightrider, Poker, One Summer Dream should have been huge songs for them.

[sjm_888]

These 5, Beatles, Zep, Stones, Who and Floyd.

[Chipper]

/New Order absolutely should be on this list over at least 4 others.

[dfwgator]

The Cure, Depeche Mode. Still selling out concerts to this day.

[DouglasKC]

Never knew Zepellin and Def Leopard were British. The Beatles though should be number 1. There’s a lot of revisionism about them.

[dfwgator]

Anyone who dismisses The Beatles, is just being a contrarian.

[DouglasKC]

Oh yeah...forgot all about Pink Floyd. I’d put them above the Stones as well.

[Dr.Deth]

The verses of Hung Up On A Dream are almost interchangeable with A Day In The Life. I’d still like to see that movie, and the Zeppelin one.

[Yardstick]

+1 on Radiohead

[dfwgator]

When I think of the 90s, this is IMHO the best song, Thom’s vocals are fantastic.

Street Spirit (Fade Out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCJblaUkkfc

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

Best lyrics - Ian Drury
Best what the ‘ell she saying - Cocteau Twins
Best music video - Close to the Edit
Best Pink Floyd - Meddle
Best too many pints at midnight - Madness
Best song never played on 1st wave radio - Sister Europe
Best cover of Alone Again Or - The Stranglers
Best UK band what never made it big in US - Stone Roses (followed closely by The The)
Best band that’s always playing on my mind’s jukebox - The Jam

[Dr.Deth]

What! No Hawkwind!!
Can’t take this list seriesly hugh.

You mean Huw?

[dfwgator]

Love me some Ian Dury!

Also Dr. Feelgood with Wilko.

[dfwgator]

Where’s Stacia?

[dfwgator]

No Cradle Of Filth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRoSL0kdQFk

[kosciusko51]

Yes

[dfwgator]

Yes

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Especially “Close To The Edge”.

[Charles Martel]

ELP or The Moody Blues should be 5.

Yeah, or possibly Tull.

[Fiji Hill]

My choices for the five greatest British bands, with a representative recording for each one:

1. Bert Firman & His Carlton Hotel Dance Orchestra
   Charleston Charley

2. Al Benny's Broadway Boys
   Blue Hills of Pasadena

3. Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra
   The Clouds Will Soon Roll By

4. Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orchestra
   Love Is the Sweetest Thing (the first British recording to reach #1 in the US--and one of the greatest songs to come out of the UK)

5. Roy Fox & His Band
   Under a Blanket of Blue

[dfwgator]

The Shadows - Apache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TwULx_wDiI

For 1960 this was pretty bad-a$$