Puressence - Failsworths finest!
The music of Manchester
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Puressence - Failsworths finest!
Manchester has had and always will have a buzzing music scene. The list is endless and goes way deeper than the obvious success stories. Talent is rife in town.
Only forever is one of the best albums I own
But feck failsworth, its just a tin pot town in oldham lol
Manchester......
Greatest place on earth
a passion and emotion to rival any city in the world. a city of culture, a city of rivalry, a city of great music, a great football club, a great race of people
anyone who lives there, you dunno how lucky you are.....Manchester is the greatest place on earth to me.....a second home.....love it
anyways yeah music, smiths, oasis, stone roses etc etc, had status quo record a single for united.....magic!!
Greatest place on earth
a passion and emotion to rival any city in the world. a city of culture, a city of rivalry, a city of great music, a great football club, a great race of people
anyone who lives there, you dunno how lucky you are.....Manchester is the greatest place on earth to me.....a second home.....love it
anyways yeah music, smiths, oasis, stone roses etc etc, had status quo record a single for united.....magic!!
best city in the world for music, always make laugh when livepool try to compare them selves with us..............
Thanks to Manchester, we have Oasis! I really love the music of them.
I think it's because the Gallaghers hate Utd.
I think it's because the Gallaghers hate Utd.
Some of you for some reason forget the older stuff that was produced around the time that Liverpool claimed to be the music capital of the world, yet really wasn't.
My mother knew Allan Clarke, she went to school with him.
Peter Noone I've sure she shagged on several occasions.
My mother knew Allan Clarke, she went to school with him.
Peter Noone I've sure she shagged on several occasions.
the first time i've been to manchester i met a chap and these were his first words..
"Rule number 1: you're not in england..you're in Manchester
Rule number 2: we don't speak english..we speak Manchester"
the people in Manchester are very proud of their identity..and they should be.. they're the best in the things that matter most..football and music..
"Rule number 1: you're not in england..you're in Manchester
Rule number 2: we don't speak english..we speak Manchester"
the people in Manchester are very proud of their identity..and they should be.. they're the best in the things that matter most..football and music..
Am not really to sure on that, try living here especially somewhere in the north/east of the city and your opinion would change
No ones mentioned John Cooper Clark yet by the way
Fixed
no actually that is exactly what he said..Manchester
Oasis for me are the best band ever, but. . . . .
i think Liam lost his voice in the later years, compare this video to some of his earlier performances.
if I'm honest, it's the music of Manchester that brought me to United in the first place.
if I'm honest, of all the bands mentioned in this thread I quite like two (Buzzcocks and The Smiths), the rest I really couldn't care less about.
I don't even particularly like The Smiths either!
Yeah, no mention of Elbow.
Doves, for me, are quite underrated.
I moved it from the newbie forum.
have the courteeners been mentioned yet?
That'll be it! How come? Not that I'm complaining or anything
Late 80s Manchester techno classic ...
Manchester bands that are shit:
Doves
Puressence
Simply Red
James
M People
Oceansize
There are lots more too. We've produced some great bands up here, by=ut we've unleashed an awful lot of crap too.
Edit: How did I forget Oasis?
Doves
Puressence
Simply Red
James
M People
Oceansize
There are lots more too. We've produced some great bands up here, by=ut we've unleashed an awful lot of crap too.
Edit: How did I forget Oasis?
Can't agree with you there...
Doves first album was very good, not too fussed about the stuff after that.
James have some worthy tracks - enough to make a decent greatest hits CD - maybe not any great album though.
I even like this Puressence track - I think that might be the only one from them though!
and I dont care what anyone says, Oasis were quality once upon a time
Doves first album was very good, not too fussed about the stuff after that.
James have some worthy tracks - enough to make a decent greatest hits CD - maybe not any great album though.
I even like this Puressence track - I think that might be the only one from them though!
and I dont care what anyone says, Oasis were quality once upon a time
I just can't stand Tim Booth. Hate his songs, his voice, everything about him.
Doves songs all sound exactly the same. Jimmy whatsit can't hold a tune to save his life either.
Oasis had one decent album that was a derivitive tribute album to two or three good bands that were around 30 years earlier and have plowed the same field over and over to lesser effect ever since.
Doves songs all sound exactly the same. Jimmy whatsit can't hold a tune to save his life either.
Oasis had one decent album that was a derivitive tribute album to two or three good bands that were around 30 years earlier and have plowed the same field over and over to lesser effect ever since.
I was going to post something else about not liking many Manchester bands, but realised Last.FM can do it for me;
I basically listen to American artists/bands, with a small bunch of British and Canadian bands filling in the gaps.
I basically listen to American artists/bands, with a small bunch of British and Canadian bands filling in the gaps.
fair enough on Booth - sounds similar to my hatred of all things Morrisey!
I still listen to Lost Souls quite often - ditto Def Maybe and even Morning Glory from time to time.
I dont think anyone will claim there is much original about Oasis but I think the same can be said of a lot of rock music.
Anyway I've always felt a bit protective of Manchester music heritage - happy to admit I probably over rate some of our bands!
So you are a traitor and a blasphemer
Quite possibly my favorite RN. Absolutely love em and would have to put em at the very top of my fave live shows. Can't wait for their new album.
To the ones that don't rate James
feck the lot of you. Awesome band, excellent live. Pre-Goldmother they were even better and more diverse.
feck the lot of you. Awesome band, excellent live. Pre-Goldmother they were even better and more diverse.
Gonna go see James next Thursday Dave, lookin forward to it. Used to love watchin Tim Booth dance and then he had that car accident and had to stop his flailin. Manchester was buzzin for me right around the release of Gold mother and that show at the gmex. They were an integral part of the movement in the 90s.
I went and saw the Charlatans the other night here in Ga on the first date of their U.S tour.They're touring their latest album "Who we Touch". I have to say Im an avid Charlies fan and really enjoy a great chunk out of every album they present. They always seem to adapt a definitive change of direction on every album. This albums is a cracka ! Got some soul tunes and some quality organ grinders.
madhed, the thread starter, requested it. we're not all fire and brimstone in the mod room.
The fact the Smiths didn't spring to mind just shows how clueless you are on the subject.. Let me guess.. You're a Queen fan?
Probably not. Because they're shite.
Bands worth a mention:
The Smiths
The Stone Roses
Oasis
Joy Division
New Order
Doves
Elbow
Buzzcocks
Chameleons
Happy Mondays
John Cooper Clarke (not a band but worth a mention)
Extend this subject to the North west and you can include the staggering list of Liverpudlian and other North-west bands.
The area is the the greatest producer of musical talent in the world and has shaped the culture of English clothes, music and football for generations..
The Smiths
The Stone Roses
Oasis
Joy Division
New Order
Doves
Elbow
Buzzcocks
Chameleons
Happy Mondays
John Cooper Clarke (not a band but worth a mention)
Extend this subject to the North west and you can include the staggering list of Liverpudlian and other North-west bands.
The area is the the greatest producer of musical talent in the world and has shaped the culture of English clothes, music and football for generations..
Let me guess.. You're a Queen fan?
What's the problem there?
Each to their own,I say.
Every band has its lovers and haters.
QUEEN rule BTW
To you perhaps but not to many.
Good choice, I'm just hoping to talk Tim into playing Skullduggery live again at some point. James have if anything come back better live since they reformed, and once again are prepared to improvise which was what they did best back in the late 80's early 90's. I'm off to see them later in the year once more, as I saw them earlier this year a few times.
They're hated by most people in Manchester that aren't students or fourteen years old.
Their second album's as dire a second album i've heard by any big british band in decades and word has it they've only sold 7000 tickets for their big December homecoming gig.
I refuse to mention them in the same breath as the likes of Joy division or the Smiths. It would be criminal.