Radio 1 in the UK are running the Best Manchester Band competition as part of Five Decades of Radio 1. The final is this Friday, and in today's heats The Smiths were pipped of a place in the final by the Stone Roses. Oasis and Joy Division have already made the final. The listeners vote in and decide which bands can compete in the heats, so I think the Smiths may get another chance tomorrow.
TODAY'S RESULTS
1. The Stone Roses
2. The Smiths
3. James
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The Smiths Miss Out In BBC Radio 1 Competition (Score:0)
Everyone in Manchester must of been asleep
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well... (Score:2, Informative)
id say The Smiths should easily hav topped The Stone Roses- who were a fine band, but not as great and influential as The Smiths nor do they hava catalogue that can honestly rival that of The Smiths.
the only real competition to The Smiths should really be Joy Division/New Order. if you seperate the two id say The Smiths should take it without question, but combined it gets rather closer to call. even if you combine Moz's solo work to The Smiths catalogue to compare to Joy Division/New Order it's still a well run race. still, ithink any way you cut it, The Smiths or The Smiths/Moz shouldve taken this title by a clear margin, therefore whatever the results of the final they are surely wrong.
id say this order would suit me:
The Smiths [or The Smiths/Moz]
Joy Division [or Joy Division/New Order]
Oasis
The Stone Roses [or The Stone Roses/Ian Brown]
New Order*
*if you seperate out New Order from Joy Division
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Re:No (Score:2, Insightful)
Check out b-side "Swallows In The Heatwave" where they actually out-Oasis Oasis... in fact even Ride managed to do a better Oasis-type sound in 1994 before Noel et Liam had got huge on their cover of "How Does It Feel To Feel?", as found on the excellent "Carnival Of Light" album. The same goes for the Charlatans circa 96, although their attempt was less fantastic... but it's still more worthy than anything in Oasis' back catalogue.
I myself almost fell for it with "Live Forever" back in 94 and nearly bought the album but before I made the mistake countless millions did I saw through the hype and realised there was no depth to it.
So they released one mediocre album that people say "is untouchable" just because they associate it with being pissed up and young, a second album that proved they only knew one trick (Sunsheeeiiiine *jangly guitar/overblown production*) and then after that countless more where they actually became a cover band of themselves. But of course, by then the millions were devoted and did not want to admit they were fooled, and so continued to compound their original error.
It's indie music for people who don't like indie music. Just like Mouldplay, Crevis, The Stereomanics et AL.
"Leyla" sounds like "Blockbuster" by The Sweet. I don't need to say anything else.
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Odds on favourite? (Score:1)
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Oasis' "Turn Up The Sun" (Score:1)
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Manchester Bands (Score:2, Insightful)
1. The Smiths
2. Joy Division
3. The Fall
4. New Order
5. The Buzzcocks
6. Happy Mondays
7. James
8. Doves
9. The Stone Roses
10. The Charlatans
Oasis oh please.........
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