British Band Tournament ... (Like the Sitcoms)

[cloggypop]

13 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

The only band with a woman involved right?

Is there not a single female fronted British band of any quality?

Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Slits, X Ray Spex, PJ Harvey, Selecter off the top of my head. 

 

Are there any females in this at all apart from various members of The Fall and Gillian Gilbert?

[Pidge]

X Ray Spex, The Banshees, The Raincoats, Skunk Anansie, the Selecter, Martha, Bow Wow Wow, The Slits. 

 

Loads of great bands, not sure how many would get in the bracket though. 

 

Could argue that PJ Harvey was a band at the beginning, I guess. But hasn't been that way for a good while.

 

Edit: cloggy got there while was off double checking PJ's Wikipedia 

[Mook]

I can think of a few punk bands with women singing then Sleeper, Echobelly & Elastica in the 90s.

 

The 'quality' is in the ear of the listener I suppose.

[The Golden Eel]

Just now, Mook said:

He said 'fronted'.

 

I can think of a few punk bands with women singing then Sleeper, Echobelly & Elastica in the 90s.

Well Cocteau Twins is the obvious answer then. 

[PestiRed]

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

X Ray Spex, The Banshees, The Raincoats, Skunk Anansie, the Selecter, Martha, Bow Wow Wow, The Slits. 

 

Loads of great bands, not sure how many would get in the bracket though. 

 

Could argue that PJ Harvey was a band at the beginning, I guess. But hasn't been that way for a good while.

Argument falls apart when you consider Travis, Kasabian, Biffy, and Muse are in the bracket

[Vincent Vega]

PJ Harvey is brilliant but she’s as much a band as David Bowie is. 

[cloggypop]

Made up Wolf Alice didn't make it to be honest. 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Mook said:

I can think of a few punk bands with women singing then Sleeper, Echobelly & Elastica in the 90s.

 

The 'quality' is in the ear of the listener I suppose.

Louise Weener..... hmmmmm 

 

 

 

[cloggypop]

Just now, Vincent Vega said:

PJ Harvey is brilliant but she’s as much a band as David Bowie is. 

Well, apart from starting as a band yeah. 

[Vincent Vega]

Just now, cloggypop said:

Made up Wolf Alice didn't make it to be honest. 

Better than some of the shite that did make the list. Giant Peach is a humdinger of a tune. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

22 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

The only band with a woman involved right?

Is there not a single female fronted British band of any quality?

 

Yazoo is another one you can add to the ever growing list of female fronted bands. 

[cloggypop]

Just now, Vincent Vega said:

Better than some of the shite that did make the list. Giant Peach is a humdinger of a tune. 

It's a load of rock school blerts with an attractive singer brought in to escape the pub circuit. But yeah, better than a load of Stig's stuff. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Not my thing, but The Bay City Rollers should have made the list, they were fucking huge in the 70's. Probably one for another thread but I think I was one of the only kids not to own some sort of clothing with Tartan stripes on them, thankfully. 

[Pidge]

Get Texas in for Travis and we'll call it settled.

[Strontium]

2 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

What about rest of the world excluding the UK and the States? Combined bands and solo artists. They’d have to be artists that were big or rated highly over here though or no one will vote for them. No use putting in a French band who are big in France but unheard of over here. 
 

Few off the top of my head if anyone wants to add on. 
 

U2

Thin Lizzy

Rush
INXS

Rory Gallagher

Neil Young 
Van Morrison

Boomtown Rats
Leonard Cohen
AC/DC

Justin Bieber

The Band

Crowded House

Joni Mitchell

 

Abba

 

[TheHowieLama]

13 minutes ago, The Golden Eel said:

The Human League have women, don't they? 

 

Ar they the Don't you Want Me folks?

[TheHowieLama]

The Cranberries could be in for ROTW

[The Golden Eel]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

Ar they the Don't you Want Me folks?

Yes... There's definitely a couple of female singers. 

[Pidge]

11 minutes ago, PestiRed said:

Argument falls apart when you consider Travis, Kasabian, Biffy, and Muse are in the bracket

Maybe, could be a signifier of how over the years talented women get isolated from their peers and pushed as solo artists more often than not.

 

If it was considered marketable for them to be in bands we'd have the likes of Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse in the mix quite comfortably.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

2 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Maybe, could be a signifier of how over the years talented women get isolated from their peers and pushed as solo artists more often than not.

 

If it was considered marketable for them to be in bands we'd have the likes of Dusty Springfield and Amy Winehouse in the mix quite comfortably.

 

Agree, you can also add Alison Moyet to that list, tremendous voice. I also like that Joss Stone. 

[Bjornebye]

9 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

The Cranberries could be in for ROTW

Absolutely. Great band. 

 

 

Tony is right that no one persons opinion can be classed as better than someone else's. Its down the person. I genuinely think Oasis have some of the greatest songs of all time. Even half their B-Sides are better than most bands best stuff in my opinion yet some on here hate them. They are entitled to that view. 

 

Fucking wrong obviously but they are still entitled... Cunts. 

[KMD7]

Sarah Cracknell from St Etienne

 

6 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

 

Agree, you can also add Alison Moyet to that list, tremendous voice. I also like that Joss Stone. 

 

[TheHowieLama]

5 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

 

Agree, you can also add Alison Moyet to that list, tremendous voice. I also like that Joss Stone. 

Yea, but that is really just putting a girl singer in front of a band to play her stuff.

Bands like Blondie or No Doubt the singer was integral to the band. Then Fleetwood Mac or Heart you had a singer and a player, or The Pretenders, singer/player. Then in bands through the decades like Velvet Underground, Sly and the Family Stone, Talking Heads, The Pixies, integral players. Hell, half the musicians in Prince and the Revolution.

 

 

[KMD7]

Fuck, completely forgot about Portishead with the amazing Beth Gibbons

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Yea, but that is really just putting a girl singer in front of a band to play her stuff.

Bands like Blondie or No Doubt the singer was integral to the band. Then Fleetwood Mac or Heart you had a singer and a player, or The Pretenders, singer/player. Then in bands through the decades like Velvet Underground, Sly and the Family Stone, Talking Heads, The Pixies, integral players. Hell, half the musicians in Prince and the Revolution.

 

 

 

Alison Moyet was lead singer of Yazoo mate.