Reply With QuoteYoung Marble Giants. Boy Azooga.Originally Posted by City123
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New York City:
Talking Heads.
Neil Diamond.
Billy Joel.
Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta).
The Ramones.
50 Cent (Arthur Dollar).
Simon & Garfunkel.
The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed.
New York Dolls
...and others to numerous to Google.
Young Marble Giants. Boy Azooga.
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard are supporting Noel Gallagher as well. Its hardly on the scale of Manchester, but South Wales has plenty to be proud of
Half of those are in the where are they now file to be fair
Nice guitar sound
You are right though , it's no manchester
I mean are these bands influential on a world scale ?
Considering the size of the population and our supposed culture of music , it's not really a lot
Feeder did a couple of smashing pumpkins inspired albums , bullet for my valentine are just metal by numbers
No. But they're bands that people outside of Cardiff and people outside of the UK have heard of. Good on them.
Gene Loves Jezebel. 80s Goth from Porthcawl
For a long time, if you were a band living in Wales you barely had a chance. So if you change the criteria to "since the 90s", I think Cardiff and its suburbs are doing OK.
Still touring separately with different JLJ related names.
Young marble giants are hardly influential bands on the uk scene never mind outside of the uk
Manic street preachers I dont like but they are big hitters
Got roped into going to see them once , quite fancied one of them till I was told he was a bloke
Alcohol
Well let's be honest most bands with any talent head to london as quick as they can
And to be fair that holds true for Coventry, cardiff , Sunderland, stoke etc
We have one of the worlds most famous bassist
Very good session musician
Why hasn't he ever been in one band ?
They're not influential though. They're not even interesting.
Right on both counts
And the stereophonics , dreadful band
Not so much these days. You can record anywhere. You can stay in touch with your record company/agent/manager via email. I'd argue it's actually more beneficial for a band to stay where they can live/practice/record in comfort without working whatever part-time job they can fit around their band schedule just to make rent.
You'll get no argument form me there. Still, they do the work, so well-done to both bands.
Young Marble Giants released Colossal Youth in 1980 which was critically well received by the music press and since then has been much lauded by indie type rock bands.
Kurt Cobain said in a Melody Maker interview that Colossal Youth was one of the five most influential records he had ever heard.
Birmingham:
Moody Blues
ELO
Sabbath
The Move
Wizzard
UB40
Traffic
Duran Duran
Pointless threads, this one
I think it's interesting how a city like seattle for example was the home for so many influential bands in the early nineties like nirvana , soundgarden , pearl jam , etc
Also why Boston produced so many good bands like the pixies , lemonheads , Aerosmith etc
And why a scene called straight edge .....no drink , no drugs ....sprang out of Washington DC through the music of bad brains , black flag , minor threat , henry rollins , fugazi etc
I think that's interesting and far from pointless but you disagree
I can live with that
Peace and love
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