Best Band To Come Out Of Liverpool That Isn't The Beatles

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Harry's Lad said:

Yes. The Icies and McNabb did some great stuff.

Love Small Price of a Bicycle and If you Want to Defeat Your Enemy....

Head Like a Rock is pretty decent too.

We've been spoilt.

 

Icies!

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Gerry and the Pacemakers were the first band to have three number ones with their first three singles and they left us an immortal anthem for our city and an immortal anthem for our club.

 

And they still don't make the list.

 

We have, indeed, been spoiled.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Gerry and the Pacemakers were the first band to have three number ones with their first three singles and they left us an immortal anthem for our city and an immortal anthem for our club.

 

And they still don't make the list.

 

We have, indeed, been spoiled.

Read the op mate 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Read the op mate 

Sloppy work, that.  I've let myself down.

[stringvest]

can't believe you've missed the Pale Fountains off that list.  Who else is representing the fey?

[stringvest]

No Big In Japan, Zutons, or even the Mighty Wah?

 

It's a tricky one, this.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I used to love The Bandits. 
 

A smaller band. Only released one album - And They Walked Away. 
 

Good live too. Although their singer did an amazing (and inadvertent) impression of Charlie Chuck, the comedy character. 
 

 

[Bjornebye]

Digsy and the Sums 

 

 

 

 

Jegsy Dodd and the Original Sinners 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[aws]

The Searchers. 

[an tha]

EATBM

 

Those first 4 albums, Crocodiles, Heaven up Here, Porcupine and Ocean Rain are amongst the best released in that decade for my money.

 

They were not so great after that though for me - but frankly for me most of the bands on that list are not much cop - Liverpool's musical heritage is IMHO over exaggerated, plenty of it like, but for me just not all that good really.  From down the road in manc land Joy Division and New Order for example piss all over anything on this list.

 

Elvis Costello whilst not a scouser did i beklieve come from a scouse family and spent some of his formative years on Merseyside/Liverpool - probably stretching it a bit to put him on list, but he'd top this list easily for my money.

 

As for newer bands from the area who may go on and do well I really like The Mysterines

 

Couple of theirs if not familiar....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, an tha said:

EATBM

 

Those first 4 albums, Crocodiles, Heaven up Here, Porcupine and Ocean Rain are amongst the best released in that decade for my money.

 

They were not so great after that though for me - but frankly for me most of the bands on that list are not much cop - Liverpool's musical heritage is IMHO over exaggerated, plenty of it like, but for me just not all that good really.

 

Elvis Costello whilst not a scouser did i beklieve come from a scouse family and spent some of his formative years on Merseyside/Liverpool - probably stretching it a bit to put him on list, but he'd top this list easily for my money.

 

As for newer bands from the area who may go on and do well I really like The Mysterines

 

Couple of theirs if not familiar....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I like them. 
 

She Drew The Gun is good as well. 

[an tha]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Yeah I like them. 
 

She Drew The Gun is good as well. 

Shout.

 

Zuzu is another i like..

 

She is quirky to say the least but i like her.

[an tha]

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Yeah I like them. 
 

She Drew The Gun is good as well. 

Given your love of Oasis, Hi-Vis is another you'd probably like. Although think it is just lead singer who is from liverpool - not 100% sure.

 

 

 

[SasaS]

Liverpool really put everything into the Beatles it seems. Leeds and Sheffield have stronger lists.

 

 

[red_herring]

12 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Liverpool really put everything into the Beatles it seems. Leeds and Sheffield have stronger lists.

 

 

Leeds doesn't. It's a musical black hole

[SasaS]

22 minutes ago, red_herring said:

Leeds doesn't. It's a musical black hole

 

Gang of Four, The Wedding Present, Soft Cell, Sisters of Mercy / The Mission, Scritti Politti etc.

[an tha]

Yard Act are from Leeds i think too.

[Bjornebye]

48 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

Gang of Four, The Wedding Present, Soft Cell, Sisters of Mercy / The Mission, Scritti Politti etc.

I think you’ve just proved his point….

[razor]

Being responsible for a seminal piece of art, The La's should win this.  That album alone will always stand as a genuine classic.  Nobody comes close.  It's like The Clash's first album or The Velvets' Andy Warhol.

 

But for me, although I still listen to the Icicle Works, Echo and the Bunnymen are the second best band to come out of Liverpool because of the sustained quality.

 

The La's played upstairs at The Picket long after they'd released the album and sounded terrible.  Echo and the Bunnymen would never do that.  But what an album - even better than Ocean Rain.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Deaf School.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The first black British group to have a UK number one.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The first British woman to have a UK number one single.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

18 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I think you’ve just proved his point….

And that's without admitting to the Kaiser Chiefs.

 

Who is on Sheffield's list?  Two Cockers, ABC & The Human League?

[SasaS]

8 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

And that's without admitting to the Kaiser Chiefs.

 

Who is on Sheffield's list?  Two Cockers, ABC & The Human League?

 

Cabaret Voltaire, Arctic Monkeys, Heaven 17 and a bunch of others.

[Harry's Lad]

14 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

And that's without admitting to the Kaiser Chiefs.

 

Who is on Sheffield's list?  Two Cockers, ABC & The Human League?

Heaven 17, Cabaret Voltaire, Def Leppard, Arctic Monkeys, Longpigs...