can anyone name a critically acclaimed band in which every member grew up working class?

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just curious

― signal present, Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

black sabbath.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

maybe i should amend. not critically acclaimed retrospectively, but feted from the outset.

― signal present, Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

oasis?
the stone roses?

― piscesboy, Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

NWA?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

The Strokes

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

the beatles?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of "just curious." Are they any good?

― declan zimmerman, Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

wu-tang clan

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Girls Aloud

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

The Strokes

Tee-hee.

Joy Division, no?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

"just curious" could be a bisexual christian rock bandname

― amon (eman), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

The Just And The Curious

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Ramones. The Fall.

― robertw, Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Ramones, Fall: truly. I'm thinking The Kinks, but they might be solidly lower-middle class. Anyone?

― declan zimmerman, Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

brix weren't no working class

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Happy Mondays, surely. Manchester's produced a lot of these.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, The Smiths as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Hm, I never thought of this before: who/what were Morrissey's parents?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

deeply ashamed

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I always assumed some sort of an "only son in the family of a civil servant and a failed ballerina" scenario.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

...but the Internets say they were both librarians, which is almost too perfect. Working class AND highbrow AND repressed/compulsive.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

clash?

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

(nope, Joe Strummer was the well-off son of an ambassador, and lived a cushy life early on.)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of "deeply ashamed." Are they any good?

― amon (eman), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

g-unit

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

"well-off" = lower-middle class: the only 'cushiness' was that his dad (who was actually something like a clerk in an embassy, not an ambassador) being posted overseas for a while meant the gov't paid for him to be boarded at school.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm...howbout EVERY band that Dave Marsh has ever praised.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 11 September 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

the sex pistols? (glen matlock excluded)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 11 September 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Ramones

unsure about their parents jobs but forest hills is middle class

and in the us, lines bet wkng clss & lower middle are blurry

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

example of above wc/lmc straddle: Minutemen (tho dockfront San Pedro is more working class than leafy apt blocks of outer Queens)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

wkng clss

Smart move; we don't want Communist googlers to show up.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

what is working class really? they had jobs, not family money?

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

The Sex Pistols. Glen was only middle class by comparison.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

The Jam.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

The Specials? Madness? Squeeze?

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/prodriguez/artwork/rick_springfield/working_class_dog.jpg

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

NWA?
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), September 10th, 2005 10:21 AM. (Dom Passantino)

Haha!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Creedence Clearwater Revival

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 12 September 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Joy Division, no?

Ian was middle-class.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 12 September 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Oxide and Neutrino
Roll Deep

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Sham 69

― Thea (Thea), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

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