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Best Scottish Band Ever
My favourite by a country mile is
The Trash Can Sinatras. Also the most under-rated.
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I've always liked DEACON BLUE.
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deacon blue
wet wet wet the proclaimers |
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The Blue Nile
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Maybe Simple Minds?
Waterfront my favourite of theirs, while Don't You Forget About Me and Belfast Child are just classics. Last edited by The Chief : 27-10-2006 at 23:33. |
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Do Snow Patrol count?
If not I'll go with Texas, then. |
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I've always thought of Snow Patrol as a Northern Irish band, despite the press always calling them a Scottish band.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by carrolls
My favourite by a country mile is
The Trash Can Sinatras. Also the most under-rated. ![]() There are loads of great Scottish Indie Bands: Idlewild, Belle and Sebastian, Ballboy, Astrid (RIP), Cosmic Rough Riders, Teenage Fanclub, etc...........be hard to pick a favourite....... |
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So many to choose from. Probably The Proclaimers. You've gotta love The Proclaimers.
Last edited by Antz : 28-10-2006 at 00:30. |
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It's a long time ago, but I always liked Marmalade
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Some poll last year had these as the ten best Scottish bands:
1 Belle & Sebastian 2 Travis 3 Idlewild 4 Wet Wet Wet 5 Sensational Alex Harvey Band 6 Simple Minds 7 Teenage Fan Club 8 Bay City Rollers 9 Primal Scream 10 The Proclaimers http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4169075.stm |
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Simple Minds, although the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Stone the Crows were also great.
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Hmm, there's lots of good Scottish bands:
1 Simple Minds 2 The Blue Nile 3 Deacon Blue 4 Texas 5 Love and money |
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The Blue Nile were simply sublime.
What about David Byrne of talking heads and Al Stewat (Year of The Cat)? I also like Arab Strap. Albannach live are something else too - four scary looking drummers thumping their way to hell and one piper. An amazing noise! |
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I'll plump for Mogwai
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The Jimmy Shand Band .....
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one no-one's mentioned yet - Goodbye Mr MacKenzie - great band, who were huge in scotland's central belt late 80s/early 90s, but barely known elsewhere.
think the fact they wrote songs about male prostitutes, gang rape and AIDS didn't help - great as the songs were - (the rattler, face to face, goodwill city). must have gone to see them live about ten times while i was at uni in glasgow. shirley manson was in them, who i met once, pre garbage days. Iain |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by carrolls
My favourite by a country mile is
The Trash Can Sinatras. Also the most under-rated. ![]() Bay city rollers.
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That's good that people got Idlewild but there is one they forgot about.
Gun the band that did the cover of Word up. Last edited by Karl Rove : 28-10-2006 at 10:33. |
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Quote:
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one no-one's mentioned yet - Goodbye Mr MacKenzie - great band, who were huge in scotland's central belt late 80s/early 90s, but barely known elsewhere.
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[quote=Terrence Chant]Obscurity Knocks is one of my favourite all time tunes.......really like the opening line: "Always at the food on the photographs......"
QUOTE]I agree that would be a good opening line Sadly it's really' Always at the foot of the photograph' That's me there, snug as a thug in a mugshot pose'. Great band though- one of the most underrated ever. |
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Less mainstream maybe: Orange Juice / Josef K / Blue Nile / Mylo / Fire Engines
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I like Runrig and Franz Ferdinand.
Nobody has mentioned Slik yet? ... I guess I know why not though!
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The Beta Band and Boards Of Canada very trippy.
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1) Travis
2) Primal Scream 3) Simple Minds |
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