Best of Liverpool

It'd be very typical of ILM to vote for somebody else than The Beatles, but not me, I'm not doing that.....

The Teardrop Explodes
Wah!
The La's
Shack
Billy J. Kramer
The Zutons
The Coral
Space

lol at importance of Atomic Kitten

(also KLF? wtf sort of weird definition of "Merseyside acts" are you using here?)

I wanted to vote Shack :(

The Farm
China Crisis
The Christians
Icicle Works
Pale Fountains

The Scaffold
Ladytron
Deaf School
Swinging Blue Jeans

I did search for Billy J. Kramer and he was defined by Allmusic as from elsewhere. Probably goes for most of the others too - most likely from various suburbs just outside of Liverpool.

KLF=Bill Drummond

Guess I could have used RYM instead, but then the poll would have been very large: http://rateyourmusic.com/location/Liverpool/England/United%20Kingdom/_/artists/

Bill Drummond isn't from Liverpool, or even a suburb just outside it.

I mean, it's a bit like including blur in a best of iceland poll or something.

Spice Girls

Anyway, if you're including people from merseyside rather than liverpool itself, then I vote for Half Man Half Biscuit. Except I can't because they aren't there. Yet somehow Elvis Costello is.

No Ricky Tomlinson?

poll, my, arse

Why is Costello in this, exactly? He was born in Twickenham (his dad still lives here), and went to school in Isleworth. He worked at the Elizabeth Arden factory in Acton after leaving school. The Liverpool connection is that he lived up there with his mother for a few years in his mid-teens, is it?

Anyway, where's Frankie Vaughan?

Elvis Costello is defined as from Liverpool by both AMG and RYM.

And himself, I believe.

Still, some shocking omissions, The La's is a big miss. In fact all of MikeTDiv's first post OTM.

Scrap this poll, too many omissions

I vote that too. Too many significant omissions.

Mind you the Manchester one was just as bad

No, this is the worst poll ever.

Worse than the 1992 General Election?

Can the last one to play There She Goes turn the lights off?

The Manchester one lacked the best band (10cc), this one has the best band (Beatles). So the Manchester one was worse. AMG needs to do something about their geography feature though.

AMG has defined the LA's as from Liverpool, but without putting them in the "bands from Liverpool" category.

probably put them in the Los Angeles category!

lololololol julian lennon

Where are CARCASS?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

went with Echo, though OMD were tempting

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

One happy geir?

Well, I take those votes for Billy Fury and Ken Dodd as mock votes.

The Beatles are so obviously and undeniably not only the best of Liverpool but the best of the entire world. And that's a part of rock history, really.

ha.
and there was me thinking i was going to be alone re @440.
come out come out whoever you are.

The real surprise is that Frankie got none. And I don't mean Mr Vaughan.