1. Elbow – Forget Myself2. Nine Black Alps – Unsatisfied3. Oasis – The Importance of Being Idle4. Doves – Black and White Town5. Lovefreekz - Shine6. Stephen Fretwell – Run7. Happy Mondays – Playground Superstar8. Ian Brown – All Ablaze9. I Am Kloot – Over My Shoulder10. Jim Noir – My Patch
11-20
11. New Order – Waiting For The Sirens' Call12. Ironweed – Down to My Grave13. Fear of Music – Skin and Bones14. My Computer – Stumble15. The Longcut – Quiet Life16. The Fall – I Can Hear The Grass Grow17. Broke n English – Squeeze18. The Earlies – Bring It Back Again19. Raw T – Where We Live20. Pioneers – So Long
21-30
21. Aidan Smith – Song For Manchester22. Starsailor – Caught in the Crossfire23. Mint Royale – The Effect on Me24. Omerta – Everyone is Frozen25. Morrissey – Redondo Beach26. Ghostlyman – Hundred Heart Attacks27. Performance – Surrender28. Young Offenders Institute – We’re The Young Offenders29. Autokat – The Driver30. Loose Canon – Altercation
31-40
31. Rowetta – Stop Crying Your Heart Out32. Lisa Brown – What’s That Sound?33. Long-View – Coming Down34. Former Bullies – The World Ended35. Jackie O – I Found Out36. Hanky Park – Come On, Come On37. RSL – Magic Of Spain38. Alfie – Your Own Religion39. Keith – Hold That Gun40. Nancy Cuncliffe – Place to Shelter
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)
Good to see the wonderful Jim Noir in the top 10, but a lot of it seems to be "posthumous" sympathy voting (Happy Mondays, New Order) and plain old "they're rubbish, but at least they're Mancunian rubbish" (Fear Of Music, The Longcut, Keith, Longview).
So, C/D, RFI (Lovefreekz, Ironweed, Broke N English, Raw T etc), S/D?
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)
― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)
― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)
Who was this list for? And why?
Isn't it about time Manchester forgot that it was Manchester?
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)
Whatever happend to Tony Wilson's grime singing?
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)
― Niall, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)
Hear hear! Such a depressingly boring beige yesteryear list. Couple of nice things in the lower reaches but Manchester will never ever move on as long as we have people with such unexciting lad-centric tastes in control of our radio, Tv, press, etc. For fucks sake, Elbow at number one! The whole thing screams of "Eeee arr, best help me mates out a bit innit."
Me, I'm waiting for Manchester's Fashionable Gays to take over. Oh, and Clique.
(Stevem (and Barima if you're about), did you get my email?)
― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)
I think we should just pause, here, and reflect on this one.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)
New Order don't need any sympathy! WFTSC is a blindingly brilliant record from a still magificent band.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)
I am slowly coming round to Dr C's position regarding WFTSC.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)