Which band epitomises best the city of Manchester?

Which band epitomises best the city of Manchester?

  • Stone Roses

    Votes: 41 53.9%

  • Joy Division

    Votes: 8 10.5%

  • The Smiths

    Votes: 11 14.5%

  • Oasis

    Votes: 12 15.8%

  • The Verve

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other - name them.

    Votes: 4 5.3%

  • 10 CC

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sad Cafe

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    76
  • Poll closed .

Nani Nana

Full Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2009
Messages
6,289
Supports
Whoever won the game
Good evening



I wanted to make a poll in the entertainment forum. How do I do ? Or, is it impossible for simple human beings like me ?
 
A poll that would ask caftards which band epitomises best the city of Manchester,

Stone Roses
Joy Division
The Smiths
Oasis
The Verve



If anyone as concerned as me and having the superpowers could do it then..
 
Nani Nana said:
A poll that would ask caftards which band epitomises best the city of Manchester,

Stone Roses
Joy Division
The Smiths
Oasis
The Verve



If anyone as concerned as me and having the superpowers could do it then..
Click to expand...

start a thread about it - its not really such a great subject for a poll to be honest
 
roodboy said:
start a thread about it - its not really such a great subject for a poll to be honest
Click to expand...


Really ? Maybe from the inside but as a foreigner I find it interesting to know if people in Manchester relate more in terms of attitude to the sensitive Smiths, red blooded Oasis, depressed Joy Division..

I don't get your point, it's not worth making a poll but worth making a thread ? :confused:


Anyway I don't understand this "pollution control" point, anyone can create a thread but nobody a poll ? A poll is a tad more difficult to develop so it should not be made up out of nothing, contrary to many threads in times of transfer market.
 
Nani Nana said:
Really ? Maybe from the inside but as a foreigner I find it interesting to know if people in Manchester relate more in terms of attitude to the sensitive Smiths, red blooded Oasis, depressed Joy Division..

I don't get your point, it's not worth making a poll but worth making a thread ? :confused:


Anyway I don't understand this "pollution control" point, anyone can create a thread but nobody a poll ? A poll is a tad more difficult to develop so it should not be made up out of nothing, contrary to many threads in times of transfer market.
Click to expand...

Well you have your wish of a poll!
the reason I didnt think it was worth a poll was because a lot of people on here are not from Manchester (or even England!) - I think people will probably just vote for their favorite band rather than answering the question.

For me it is a bit of a strange question anyway - you have more or less picked one band from each decade from 70s to 00s - Manchester of today is very different from 30 years ago so in reality each band represents different eras in the history of Manchester.

Personally, I voted for The Stone Roses.
 
I voted Roses almost purely on the basis that at almost every United match I attend, I end up in the vicinity of Manny...Almost without fail. I saw him at least 6 times in Rome
 
Yeah its the roses.

Although the smiths is a good shout, i think they captured the feeling of the time they were about. The whole 80's spiral of decline in gloomy manchester, your dad coming home from the steelworks round irlam way losing his job.

Roses for me all the way though, love that northern swagger.
 
MockneyRevil said:
I voted Roses almost purely on the basis that at almost every United match I attend, I end up in the vicinity of Manny...Almost without fail. I saw him at least 6 times in Rome
Click to expand...

Ye the Roses do have a strong United connection which may skew the voting on here and obviously Oasis are the band of Citeh (although I also like early Oasis stuff)
 
since the glazers and the arabs have gotten all business model on things i'd say Take That.
 
^ I took that post very personally, and were you the second person to vote for them in the poll ? ;)
 
If the Rose's are the people of Manchester, Joy Division are the body and structure of the city.

'The worlds first industrialised city' is epitomised by the Hook's mechanical riffs while Ian Curtis is the perfect foil - giving a darker perspective of this industrialism (although not always directly). I might have lifted that last part from 'Touching from a Distance' by the way.
 
Younited.7 said:
If the Rose's are the people of Manchester, Joy Division are the body and structure of the city.

'The worlds first industrialised city' is epitomised by the Hook's mechanical riffs while Ian Curtis is the perfect foil - giving a darker perspective of this industrialism (although not always directly). I might have lifted that last part from 'Touching from a Distance' by the way.
Click to expand...



Agreed, at least from the outside, Joy Division's music seems to suit well the idea I make myself of Manchester, a dark working-class city, in a steady decline.

But I did not expect such a supremacy from the Stone Roses, it is the less known band abroad from those I listed, even myself who is very fond of British rock bands know very little about them, and still they seem to be influent.

I read a Noel Gallagher interview in the Guardian the other day in which he placed Oasis in front of the Stone Roses and the Smiths alike though :

guardian said:
Noel Gallagher is listing the world's 10 greatest bands on his fingers, and working out where Oasis sit among this lot. "The Beatles, Stones, Who, Sex Pistols, Kinks, Jam, Smiths, Stone Roses, Bee Gees." He pauses. "I'm putting us at seven ahead of the Smiths cos we've done more.
Click to expand...

Apparently he is a bit arrogant toward the elderly isn't he.
 
Nani Nana said:
Agreed, at least from the outside, Joy Division's music seems to suit well the idea I make myself of Manchester, a dark working-class city, in a steady decline.

But I did not expect such a supremacy from the Stone Roses, it is the less known band abroad from those I listed, even myself who is very fond of British rock bands know very little about them, and still they seem to be influent.

I read a Noel Gallagher interview in the Guardian the other day in which he placed Oasis in front of the Stone Roses and the Smiths alike though :



Apparently he is a bit arrogant toward the elderly isn't he.
Click to expand...

This is a joke ,right?
A city in steady decline?

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Obviously never visited our wonderful City then!
 
Man Utd Mrs said:
This is a joke ,right?
A city in steady decline?

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Obviously never visited our wonderful City then!
Click to expand...

Most UK cities were in decline post-war. And the 80s were shit. However since the IRA bombing the city has completely changed. More than 10billion must've been spent on the centre. Even the BBC's decided to move up here.

You'd think United fans would know more about Manchester.
 
Redevelopment of Manchester

Spurred by the investment after the 1996 bomb, and aided by the XVII Commonwealth Games, Manchester's city centre has undergone extensive regeneration. New and renovated complexes such as The Printworks and the Triangle have become popular shopping and entertainment destinations. The Manchester Arndale is the UK's largest city centre shopping mall.

Large sections of the city dating from the 1960s have been either demolished and re-developed or modernised with the use of glass and steel. Old mills have been converted into modern apartments, Hulme has undergone extensive regeneration programmes, and million-pound lofthouse apartments have since been developed. The 169-metre tall, 47-storey Beetham Tower, completed in 2006, is the tallest building in the UK outside London and the highest residential accommodation in western Europe. The lower 23 floors form the Hilton Hotel, featuring a "sky bar" on the 23rd floor. Its upper 24 floors are apartments.


Manchester is not the second largest city in size or population, but it is argued that cultural and historical criteria are more important. The BBC reports that redevelopment of recent years has heightened claims that Manchester is the second city of the UK.
 
I don't mean to be offensive, I would love to visit Manchester one day. Some newspapers here claim Manchester is the new London although I don't really know what this means. However the imagery of Manchester remains vastly inspired from what it was in the 1980s, with small red brick houses and rats coming out on the sidewalk.


Remember that Arsenal game where a rat crossed the pitch ? :lol:


Anyhow I thought much of what is Manchester today, regardless of its development, remains deeply in touch with its gloomy past. Thus I reckoned Joy Division caught all that pretty well.

This is a shoddy vision I admit.
 
Man Utd Mrs said:
Redevelopment of Manchester

Spurred by the investment after the 1996 bomb, and aided by the XVII Commonwealth Games, Manchester's city centre has undergone extensive regeneration. New and renovated complexes such as The Printworks and the Triangle have become popular shopping and entertainment destinations. The Manchester Arndale is the UK's largest city centre shopping mall.

Large sections of the city dating from the 1960s have been either demolished and re-developed or modernised with the use of glass and steel. Old mills have been converted into modern apartments, Hulme has undergone extensive regeneration programmes, and million-pound lofthouse apartments have since been developed. The 169-metre tall, 47-storey Beetham Tower, completed in 2006, is the tallest building in the UK outside London and the highest residential accommodation in western Europe. The lower 23 floors form the Hilton Hotel, featuring a "sky bar" on the 23rd floor. Its upper 24 floors are apartments.


Manchester is not the second largest city in size or population, but it is argued that cultural and historical criteria are more important. The BBC reports that redevelopment of recent years has heightened claims that Manchester is the second city of the UK.
Click to expand...

It is very cosmopolitan.

But there is obviously a dark underbelly to all of this, as is true of London. Lot's of crime and poverty. A tale of two cities etc.

That is what i'm getting at, and i think the poster is as well.
 
Nani Nana said:
I don't mean to be offensive, I would love to visit Manchester one day. Some newspapers here claim Manchester is the new London although I don't really know what this means. However the imagery of Manchester remains vastly inspired from what it was in the 1980s, with small red brick houses and rats coming out on the sidewalk.


Remember that Arsenal game where a rat crossed the pitch ? :lol:


Anyhow I thought much of what is Manchester today, regardless of its development, remains deeply in touch with its gloomy past. Thus I reckoned Joy Division caught all that pretty well.

This is a shoddy vision I admit.
Click to expand...

There are rats everywhere. can't remember the exact figure but it's a hell of a lot more than you would expect.

the gloominess aspect is exaggerated in my experience of manchester and mancunians.
 
I just started to browse through the Stone Roses' discography.


Their videos are clearly into some sort of psychedelia, totally different to what I expected and from Joy Division's down-to-earth music.









This is legendary !
 
Nani Nana said:
I just started to browse through the Stone Roses' discography.

Their videos are clearly into some sort of psychedelia, totally different to what I expected and from Joy Division's down-to-earth music.

This is legendary !
Click to expand...

Keep browsing mate - then you will realise why they trounced this poll!
When you are done with the Roses stuff then starting listening to Ian Brown (the lead singer) solo albums as well
 
You must log in or register to reply here.