10 favourite British bands?/10 favourite American bands?

Revol

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My lists:

British

1) Manics
2) The Stone Roses
3) The Clash
4) The Smiths
5) Happy Mondays
6) Queen
7) Joy Division
8) Blur
9) New Order
10) Primal Scream

American

1) Smashing Pumpkins
2) Nirvana
3) R.E.M.
4) RATM
5) Foo Fighters
6) Weezer
7) QOTSA
8) Pavement
9) Dinosaur Jr
10) Soundgarden
 
British:
The Smiths
Stone Roses
Suede
Joy Division
The Clash
The Cure
Siouxsie and The Banshees
Wedding Present
Gene
New Order

US:
REM
Talking Heads
The Byrds
New York Dolls
Death Cab For Cutie
Tegan and Sara
Guided By Voices
Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan
Modest Mouse

Love PTxx.
 
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^^
I have to agree with your list more so PT, sorry.

Depeche Mode needs to be on there though. Just saying
 
British:

1. Smiths
2. The Beatles
3. Depeche Mode
4. New Order
5. Pink Floyd
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees
7. The Sex Pistols


U.S. (for this week anyway) :

1. Dredg
2. Failure/On/Year of the Rabbit/Ken Andrews
3. Steely Dan
4. REM
5. Talking Heads
6. Hanson
7. Hall and Oates
8. Against Me!
9. NY Dolls
10. Avenged Sevenfold
 
The smiths
new order
jesus and the mary chain
my bloody valentine
the sex pistols
the jam
joy division
the cure
primal scream
the stone roses

sonic youth
pavement
rem
mudhoney
the ramones
the pixies
the breeders
iggy pop
velvet underground
nirvana
 
British:
1. The Smiths
2. Crass
3. Radical Dance Faction
4. Conflict
5. Oi Polloi
6. Flux of Pink Indians
7. Active Slaughter
8. Pulp
9. The Specials
10. The Jesus & Mary Chain

American:
1. Husker Du
2. Ryan Harvey
3. Dead Kennedys
4. Tom Frampton
5. Minutemen
6. Adolescents
7. Black Flag
8. Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains
9. Mission of Burma
10. Aus-Rotten

My British list makes it seem like all I listen to is anarcho...
 
British bands:
1. Depeche Mode (I love all their albums, except for the first 2!)
2. The Smiths (perfection)
3. The Cure (no, I'm not a goth, but I love anything dark and scary)
4. Queen (poor Freddie! I honestly miss you!)
5. The Beatles (I like fluffy - puffy stuff sometimes)
6. Siouxsie and The Banshees (here comes my goth side again!)
7. Radiohead (lovely band)
8. Muse (Supermassive Black Hole rocks!)
9. Joy Division (I simply love Ian's voice)
10. The Clash (London Calling, Moz likes this song!)

American Bands
1.The Ramones (for sure the best!)
2. Nirvana (simply grunge)
3. R.E.M. (is there any person who can hate Michael Stipe? It's impossible!)
4. Red Hot Chilli Peppers (I simply like them!)
5. Green Day (punk rock always drives me mad)
6. The Doors (Jim Morrisson, I miss you too!)
7. Marilyn Manson (my love-for-freaky-bands comes out with them!!!)
8. Nine Inch Nails (I loved them from the 1st time I just saw their name)
9. Metallica (I'm not very much into hard rock and heavy metal, but I like them a lot. Black Album=masterpiece)
10. Bon Jovi (last, but still one of my faves!)
That's all. It took me a lot of time to see the American bands, because I more tend to British music. No offence to the American bands, I just love the British music...:D
 
Silence said:
9. Metallica (I'm not very much into hard rock and heavy metal, but I like them a lot. Black Album=masterpiece)
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Yeah, same, I'm not into much metal but Metallica are great. It's good to listen to a metal band where the singer is ACTUALLY singing as opposed to shrieking down the mike.:p But yeah, they were the best band at Leeds festival, better than RATM and the Manics, and that's saying something as those are two of my favourite bands ever, although they were both really amazing too. A massive screen, pyrotechnics and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_ogB2ybn0

And yeah, The Black Album is pretty immense.
 
British

1) The Smiths
2) Bloc Party
3) Radiohead
4) The Cribs
5) Joy Division
6) Cajun Dance Party
7) Editors
8) The Cure
9) Fields
10) The Horrors

American

1) R.E.M
2) The Doors
3) Rage Against The Machine
4) The Killers
5) We Are Scientists
6) Interpol
7) Avenged Sevenfold
8) Slipknot
9) Unearth
10) Lamb Of God
 
British

1. The Smiths
2. Duran Duran
3. The Cure
4. Depeche Mode
5. New Order
6. Radiohead
7. The Police
8. The Happy Mondays

American

1. Nirvana
2. R.E.M
3. Sonic Youth
4. The Pixies
5. Smashing Pumpkins
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers (nothing after Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
7. Weezer
8. B-52'S
9. Nine Inch Nails
10. Beastie Boys
 
smiths
cure
joy division
beatles
stones
china crisis
kinks
manics
jam
floyd

steely dan
rem
doors
ramones
ny dolls
blondie
byrds
v underground
lynyrd skynrd
allman bros
 
Revol said:
Yeah, same, I'm not into much metal but Metallica are great. It's good to listen to a metal band where the singer is ACTUALLY singing as opposed to shrieking down the mike.:p But yeah, they were the best band at Leeds festival, better than RATM and the Manics, and that's saying something as those are two of my favourite bands ever, although they were both really amazing too. A massive screen, pyrotechnics and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_ogB2ybn0

And yeah, The Black Album is pretty immense.
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I totally agree with you.
Black Album is one of my 10 top favourite albums ever. I had been to one of their concerts in Greece, particularly in the Rockwave Festival, and there was Enter Sandman (one of my 5 most fave songs ever!) live, it was better than the album version! I was lucky to be able to record it, and it sounds great!!!:guitar::guitar:
Metallica is most well-known than RATM and The Manics, I suppose that's what you actually mean:D
At the moment I'm thinking about something a bit off-topic. I think that if Moz would co-operate with Depeche Mode, it would be perfection! I mean, Dave Gahan is my second fave singer (after we all know who!), and I'd love to hear these two beautiful voices together!!!:D DM with Moz. That's a dream...:o
 
This is a lot toughter then I expected. A lot of my favorite American bands are from the are in the States I live in. I could have gone on and on and on about UK bands.

British
The Stone Roses
The Verve
The Smiths / Morrissey
The Charlatans
Joy Division/New Order
The Cure
James
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Who
Radiohead

American
Jeff Buckley
The National
R.E.M.
Interpol
Laguardia / Eastern Conference Champions
Dinosaur Jr.
The Doors
Motel Creeps
The Situation
Schroeder
 
British

Smiths are a given

The Beatles
The Who
The Clash/BAD/Joe
Duran Duran
The The
David Gray
David Bowie
Genesis/Phil/Peter
The Kinks
New Order
Coldplay

American

Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins
The Killers
White Stripes/Raconteurs
REM
B-52's
Poi Dog Pondering
Prince
Grateful Dead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
 
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British

The Smiths
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Cocteau Twins
Bauhaus
Lush
Ladytron
Stereolab
Coldplay



American

The Pixies
Hole
The Go-Go's
My Chemical Romance
Missing Persons
Le Tigre/Bikini Kill
The Cars
Modest Mouse (Johnny Marr)
Heart
Blondie
 
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