Music: Please rank these British bands on how much you like them

[Perennial]

Rank them based on what?

 

[frisco]

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, The Who, David Bowie, The Specials, XTC, Queen, Roxy Music, T. Rex, The Jam, Radiohead, The Smiths, Oasis, The Cure, The Stone Roses, Blur, Joy Division

Please rank these British bands on how much you like them. U2 is an Irish band.

Queen

The Kinks
Roxy Music
The Cure
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie

The Smiths
The Rolling Stones
The Who

Joy Division
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
T-Rex
Oasis
The Clash
The Jam
Radiohead

Black Sabbath
The Specials
XTC
Blur
The Stone Roses

My Best-Carey

 

[Teemu]

The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Who
Radiohead
The Clash
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths
David Bowie
The Kinks
The Cure
Joy Division
Oasis
XTC
Roxy Music
Queen
Black Sabbath

 

[Shareefruck]

The Who is a very strange one for me to rank. I love their style, acumen, and attitude when live, but I don't find their actual songs very interesting/memorable and I find their concepts for albums to be pretty lame in general. I'd consider them better if their albums were more about showing off their more raw and manic side (the way Live at Leeds sounds) rather than this theatrical rock opera stuff (which I don't think has aged well at all), in my opinion.

I also dislike the idea of rating how good something is based on influence, because that's basically just another version of deferring to (cultural) popularity (which is still more or less dictated by the average sensibilities of the masses rather than the most fully developed sensibilities possible), and it doesn't really allow for re-evaluation of these things with the benefit of hindsight.

Millennials.

You realize Millenials are people between 26 and 40 years old, right?

 

[peate]

The Who is a very strange one for me to rank. I love their style, acumen, and attitude when live, but I don't find their actual songs very interesting/memorable and I find their concepts for albums to be pretty lame in general. I'd consider them better if their albums were more about showing off their more raw and manic side (the way Live at Leeds sounds) rather than this theatrical rock opera stuff (which I don't think has aged well at all), in my opinion.

I also DESPISE the idea of rating how good something is based on influence, because that's basically just another version of deferring to (cultural) popularity (which is still more or less dictated by the average sensibilities of the masses rather than the most fully developed sensibilities possible), and it doesn't really allow for re-evaluation of these things with the benefit of hindsight.

You realize Millenials are people between 26 and 40 years old, right?

Not included.

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Queen
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
The Kinks
The Clash
T-Rex

Don't give a shit about the rest.

 

[plank]

My favourite English bands

1. The Who
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Beatles
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Pink Floyd
6. The Kinks
7. The Moody Blues
8. Faces
9. Cream
10. Dire Straits
11. Bad Company
12. Free
13. Badfinger
14. Supertramp
15. Black Sabbath
16. The Police
17. The Pretenders
18. Fairport Convention
19. The Animals
20. Traffic
21. The Yardbirds
22. The Hollies
23. Gomez
24. Yes
25. Genesis

 

[plank]

For anyone not familiar with the Faces

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Bowie
Stones
Queen
Zeppelin
Joy Division
Sabbath
Beatles

Then a big gap to the rest of the pack

 

[Perennial]

The Beatles
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Cream
Black Sabbath
Queen

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Pink Floyd
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Queen
Bowie

The Rest

Oasis might be the worst band in history. One of, anyway.

 

[Ozz]

1. Black Sabbath



_______

2. whatever

 

[McDeepika]

1. The Kinks

2. Pink Floyd
3. Radiohead

4. Joy Division
5. Bowie

6. The Beatles
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Rolling Stones

Haven't got into the rest

 

[Xelebes]

Start off with this. Will fill in the gaps later.

British Murder Boys
Greater Than One
Nitzer Ebb
Opus III
Malcolm Maclaren
Throbbing Gristle
Eurythmics
Aphex Twin
Paul Hardcastle
Prodigy
Pet Shop Boys
Utah Saints
Art Of Noise
Orbital
Bronski Beat
The Comunards
Freeez
New Order
The Clash
Kate Bush
Pink Floyd
Siouxzie & The Banshees
Cocteau Twins
M.A.R.R.S.
The Specials
White Noise
The Sex Pistols
Massive Attack
David Bowie
Fat Boy Slim
Erasure
Insomnia
Faithless
KLF
T. Rex
Chumbawumba
The Sisters of Mercy
Tubeway Army
The Buggles
Queen
The Wurzels
Happy Mondays
Joy Division
The Cure
Madness
Radiohead
Oasis
The Beatles
The Who
Killing Joke
A Flock of Seagulls
Sailor
The Smiths
Mungo Jerry
Black Sabbath
The Rolling Stones
Roxy Music
The Kinks
The Jam
The Yardbirds
The Animals,
The Stone Roses
Blur
Led Zeppelin

 

[Know Your Enemy]

1. The Beatles
2. The Smiths
3. Radiohead
4. Black Sabbath
5. Led Zeppelin
6. The Clash
7. David Bowie
8. Pink Floyd
9. The Kinks
10. Joy Division
11. The Rolling Stones
12. The Who
13. Oasis
14. The Jam
15. Roxy Music
16. Queen
17. The Cure
18. The Stone Roses
19. T. Rex
20. The Animals
21. The Yardbirds
22. Blur

 

[Hatfield]

Stones
Clash
Cure
FACES
Kinks
Who
Beatles
CREAM
Bowie
Zeppelin
Smiths
Black Sabbath
T Rex
Animals
Yardbirds
Jam
Oasis
Pink Floyd
Queen
Joy Division
Roxy Music
Stone Roses
Radiohead
Blur

 

[Saturated Fats]

I get that Britpop had its day in the sun and that day decidedly isn't now - but I'm surprised at the level of dislike for Blur in here. Parklife is a classic. Do people like Damon Albarn's other project, Gorillaz?

 

[Pilky01]

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, The Who, David Bowie, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Queen, Roxy Music, T. Rex, The Jam, Radiohead, The Smiths, Oasis, The Cure, The Stone Roses, Blur, Joy Division

Please rank these British bands on how much you like them. U2 is an Irish band.

1. The Beatles

2. The Smiths

3. Led Zeppelin

4. Radiohead

5. Blur

6. Queen

7. The Rolling Stones

8. The Clash

9. Oasis

Never listened to much else on the list.

And I hate U2.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

1. Keane
2. Radiohead
3. Idlewild
4. Blur
5. Arctic Monkeys
6. Puressence
7. Travis
8. The Sundays
9. Manic Street Preachers
10. Talk Talk
11. The Smiths
12. Franz Ferdinand
13. Supergrass
14. Oasis
15. Echo & ...
16. Wolf Alice (recency bias)
17. Suede
18. Coldplay (first three albums only)
19. XTC
20. Muse

Tbh it's a wash after the first 3 or 4 for me, I wouldn't put too much stock in it.

edit: I've gone and forgotten The Slowdive, Portishead, PJ, The Joy Formidable, and Cocteau Twins. shit this is hard

edit 2: I can't believe I've gone and forgotten all the prog rock bands, Oceansize and Porcupine Tree mainly.

edit 3: I can't believe I included multiple Britpop bands on here but forgot Pulp and also The Verve. And I've forgotten Teenage Fanclub and The Twilight Sad, they're two of my favourite Scottish bands. This is hard.

 

[zombie kopitar]

GOAT
The Beatles
Favorites
Amy Winehouse
David Bowie
Dire Straits
Nick Drake
The Smiths
Cream
The xx
Iron Maiden
Kate Bush
The Staves


Classics
Pink Floyd
The Yardbirds
The Clash
Led Zeppelin
Queen
The Rolling Stones
The Who
The Kinks
Black Sabbath
The Faces

Sometimes Enjoyable
Radiohead
The Sex Pistols
Genesis
Yes
Joy Division
Portishead
Coldplay
Oasis
Muse
Depeche Mode
Tears for Fears
The Police
The Stone Roses
Gorillaz

Don't Care About
T-Rex
Blur
The Cure!
Arctic Monkeys!

 

[Shareefruck]

I get that Britpop had its day in the sun and that day decidedly isn't now - but I'm surprised at the level of dislike for Blur in here. Parklife is a classic. Do people like Damon Albarn's other project, Gorillaz?

I consider them better than Blur but still not very good, personally. I actually didn't realize they were connected, so that's interesting.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

1 - I can't believe nobody even mentioned Cardiacs in their listings......
2 - Tim Smith died yesterday. That sucks.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/22/cardiacs-tim-smith-a-one-man-subculture-who-inspired-total-devotion



Respect.

 

[its josh]

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Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Queen
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles

The Kinks
The Yardbirds

The Animals
Oasis
Radiohead
Black Sabbath
The Clash

Blur
The Smiths
Roxy Music
The JamDavid Bowie, , , , c, T. Rex, , , , The Cure, The Stone Roses,, Joy Division - dont care about these

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Clash
The Kinks
Black Sabbath
The Who
David Bowie

The Yardbirds, The Animals, Queen, Roxy Music, T. Rex, The Jam, Radiohead, The Smiths, Oasis, The Cure, The Stone Roses, Blur, Joy Division

Please rank these British bands on how much you like them. U2 is an Irish band.

How much I like them is pretty easy - or at least how much I've liked them averaged over time... but stopping at a top-8 since I'm not sure I've ever listened to a full album of any of the others, so I don't feel like I know much about them outside of possibly some radio hits... the first 7 anyway are the only ones I've ever owned albums from... the Beatles it is more a case of there just being a large enough collection of "radio hits" that I feel more familiar with them than the others I don't rank:

1. Black Sabbath


2. Led Zeppelin


3. Pink Floyd
4. Queen
5. T. Rex

6. The Who
7. The Clash

8. The Beatles

 

[ItsFineImFine]

So um looking at these rankings, am I the only person who's bothered to listen to any newer British bands since the late-90s lol outside of the sixth guy to reply?