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134 posts & 32 voices | Started 8 months ago by Rusty Spanner | Latest reply from trailmonkey

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Rusty Spanner - Member

Forget Seattle & Detroit.
Liverpool had it's moments, As did Los Angeles.
Sheffield or London? Please.....

Greatest musical city of all time?

It's beautiful, sunny Manchester, all the way....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8AA1sNFDT0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbauu27ZIUs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FsA3zDZNWk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-fluGRu4z8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEbIiWjJMUA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5bDI_kkBzU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfRYGVWZilU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=swZMBbhyx7A

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ADoBW0c-18

Barely scratched the surface......

Any more contenders for greatest musical city?
Thought not.

Posted 8 months ago #
Harry_the_Spider - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X5ekIFIazg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeJGATZ8Yx4

Posted 8 months ago #
binners - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2yK-NUyAIY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVG0b6IMmQo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWGyqDeWs4

Posted 8 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

London? Please.....

Are you serious? Really???

You're having a laugh really, aren't you?

You don't want me to start with you, do you?

Because you know that I will toy with you, then destroy you....

Posted 8 months ago #
camo16 - Member

Musical parochialism misses the point, IMO.

Everyone's really crazy about musical heritage here in Beatles-land. We even have an over priced museum and a children's play area called the Yellow Submarine to prove it.

But so what?

Alice in Chains - my pick for best band ever - came from Seattle.

Quality over quantity in my book.

(I do like the Smiths, though).

Posted 8 months ago #
Rusty Spanner - Member

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
~ ~ ~ George S. Patton, Jr.

London?
Pretty boys in flouncy shirts?
Sham 69?

ppppfffffffffffft.

But so what?

Very good point, makes sod all difference really.
But Manchester IS the greatest musical city on Earth.
Just saying like.

Posted 8 months ago #
binners - Member

Come on then Fred. Lets be havin' ya?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQDYH0KexvI

Anyway... yoooz iz a closet scouser laaaaaaaaa

Posted 8 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

Don't start Binners, or I will grind you into the dirt like the scum you truly are...

No don't. I'm warning you.

Now be sensible and stop this nonsense.

Posted 8 months ago #
Rusty Spanner - Member

Elf, don't talk such a load of

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ZCywkPtBQ

there's a good lad.

Posted 8 months ago #
M6TTF - Member

love will tear us apart and control in there too

Posted 8 months ago #
Rusty Spanner - Member

But of course M6TTF.
Think of this merely as an opening skirmish.

We can bring the big guns out later, when Elf has exhausted his supply of Jess Conrad and Lady Sovereign.

Anyway, off to work, laters!

Posted 8 months ago #
trailmonkey - Member

all well and good but it's hardly a legacy to the world is it ? just a bunch of navel gazers that the rest of the world scratches their heads at.

we on the other hand, gave the world a whole genre that still lives today.....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_6jagv_D4yeah that's

Posted 8 months ago #
chakaping - Member

Musical parochialism misses the point, IMO.

Not for the type of Mancunian who will miss no opportuinity to insist that his (it's usually a he) city is the greatest in the world and was the first to do everything.

I wouldn't want to provoke that type of Mancunian by asking why most of their musical heroes moved to London when they got a whiff of success.

Posted 8 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

Right. You asked for it. Prepare yourselves for the onslaught.

You do know that this is going to be really, really painful for you, don't you?

Ah. I am so going to enjoy this....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ekOdUZDs4c
(Lyrics by a Londopner, btw...)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohyggxxmtUY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXFWLJ4p6Q

www.youtube.com/watch?v=40VHWM1dUbU

Just a brief opening salvo. Don't think I've stopped though, oh no. Much much more to come. By this evening, you will be begging for mercy...

Posted 8 months ago #
uplink - Member

London

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOSseI1hao8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDE22TEY5kI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3DYFJv9xM

Posted 8 months ago #
loddrik - Member

If you're not a mancunian or a hackett wearing oasis fan then no, Manchester is bollox for music. Liverpool is certainly better but not much. This scouser prefers music that comes outta Bristol by a long shot.

Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead, Roni Size etc. Nuff said.

Posted 8 months ago #
mike_p - Member

Just got back from a buisiness trip to Manchester, my first visit. From what I saw it's just a sort of overblown northern Croydon as opposed to some kind of edgy, trend-setting 2nd city

Posted 8 months ago #
trailmonkey - Member

opposed to some kind of edgy, trend-setting 2nd city

that's because it's not the second city

Posted 8 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvDoDaCYrEY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcawnRIyeok

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ARuoSFflc

Posted 8 months ago #
nbt - Member

How many of the LSO are from London, Fred? HOw many of them songs you posted were written by members of the LSO? In fact, how many "london" bands are actually from other parts of the country...

Covers bands don't count, anyway, so that's LSO out.

(although not many people realise "step on" is a cover)

Posted 8 months ago #
camo16 - Member

Who's winning?

Who's judging?

I'm freakin' pumped up now...

Posted 8 months ago #
wwaswas - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHvzybkqfo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCl25RJQPbA

Posted 8 months ago #
binners - Member

Especially for Fred. The most scouse song in the world

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wU5ff2sXms

Posted 8 months ago #
binners - Member

Oooooooooh more london stuff

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTzmhFQt2o

Posted 8 months ago #
PJM1974 - Member

I'm a complete and utter Southerner, but even I would agree that Manchester beats London for music and culture.

The only innovative sound that sprung from London that I can think of is Two Tone.

Posted 8 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh8CY7V0JPs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0iihjANPc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmueYJ0VhA

Posted 8 months ago #
trailmonkey - Member

The only innovative sound that sprung from London that I can think of is Two Tone.

would that be the london suburb of coventry ?

Posted 8 months ago #
binners - Member

Erm.... Fred..... Led Zep are about as cock-er-ney as Haggis. Which London Borough does West Brom come under?

Posted 8 months ago #
PJM1974 - Member

@trailmonkey

You're absolutely right. D'oh.

Posted 8 months ago #
wwaswas - Member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUBsB2T2SSM

Posted 8 months ago #
Elfinsafety - Member

How many of the LSO are from London, Fred? HOw many of them songs you posted were written by members of the LSO? In fact, how many "london" bands are actually from other parts of the country...

Oh, so every single member of the baynds posted by the Mancs on here are from Manchester then are they? Hmm? And did all those baynds become successful/exposure by staying and performing just in Manchester, did they? hmm?

Thought not. LSO = London baynd. Simple as. Clue's in the name.

Erm.... Fred..... Led Zep are about as cock-er-ney as Haggis. Which London Borough does West Brom come under?

This is about where the baynds were formed/originated. Where they appeared on the music scene, where they recorded, all that. Most of the members of the baynds mentioned so far aren't even originally from Manchester itself, but from all the satellite towns like Oldham and all those other places. Are we talking about the scene, or the actual places of birth of the artists?

I see the Mancs are wounded. Nick Berry, Binners? Ha ha! You sillly boy!

(Is enjoying inflicting pain upon the Great Unwashed hordes of the Uncultured North....)

I din't start this. But I am going to finish it.

Posted 8 months ago #
trailmonkey - Member

Led Zep are about as cock-er-ney as Haggis

yup, plant's from the black country.

the midlands invented heavy metal so you might as well just give it up now.

so far fred's dished up a triumph of quantity over quality

Posted 8 months ago #
coffeeking - Member

I'm from half way between Manc and Liverpool and while not specifically a fan of any one band/group/person I find myself finding "local" music far preferable to music from other places like that there london. I guess it comes from growing up in similar areas with similar backgrounds etc. I'd have to say Manchester wins on musical production but I can't stand the city - horrible place.

Posted 8 months ago #
binners - Member

Gertcha!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4L5Bbm5BNw

Posted 8 months ago #
wwaswas - Member

I find myself finding "local" music far preferable to music from other places like that there london

London is "local" for quite a large number of people

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