Best of Glasgow

And already I see I've missed out Chris "Christian" McClure and his Set but I'm sure we can survive.

Chou Pahrot, natch

No External Menace, no oh I can't bothered...

Easterhouse ftw

Alex Harvey! Blimey, easy choice even though there's some good shit on the list.

Easterhouse were from Manchester. Morrissey liked them.

oh OK then.

No XS Discharge, no credibility

Easterhouse were from Manchester. Morrissey liked them.

Scheme were from Easterhouse, Morrissey had never heard of them

Ah bugger, no XS Discharge...no Danny Street, either...

The reason why I capitalised GLASGOW (yes there was, and most probably still is, a group actually called GLASGOW) and SCHEME was that it's impossible for me to think of them without thinking of TOM RUSSELL announcing them on his ROCK SHOOOOOOW.

Only serious ommissions I can see are the Belle and Sebastian spinoffs Looper and The Gentle Waves and BA 'Bang Bang' Robertson, and they're not going to get many votes when up against the massed forces of Belle and Sebastian.

String Driven Thing!!!

Beggar's Opera!!!

As good as Belle and Sebastian can be I do not think they have written as perfect a pop song as "I Knocked It Off."

I knew that String Driven Thing were a Scots group but I'd forgotten they were Glaswegian. "It's A Game," which gave the Bay City Rollers their last hit.

And indeed Beggars' Opera!

It had to be Orange Juice.

I don't really like any of those bands. I guess I'll vote for Mogwai, as I kind of like the idea of them, but could never get into them properly.

Glasgow has only produced rock bands, plus Jimmy Somerville?

Sheena Easton is a rock band?

She's Bellshill

She's in this poll however

Aztec Camera. Although Supernaturals and Franz Ferdinand are also great.

Toss up between Alex Harvey and Orange Juice for me. Although a special mention for the Fannies (Bellshill), JAMC (although they're from East Kilbride stricltly speaking) and The Pastels (Beardsden via Glasgow) and B&S of course.

But where's the love for these?

Richard Youngs!
Tattie Toes
Gay Against You/Germlin/Yoko Oh No!
Kylie Minoise
Nackt Insecten
Eye Shaking Kingdom
De Rosa
Black Sun
Dananananaykroyd
Anything Alex Neilson related (ie Scatter, Directing Hand, Tight Meat)
Ben Reynolds (now Glasgow based)
Guanoman
Nalle/Family Elan

myspace em up - noise, avant-folk, metal, wonky hardcore, daft poptastic punk rock breakcore and what have you...

Richard Youngs is English, no?

I'm voting for top 40 superstars El Presidente.

no sons and daughters?

Amy Macdonald!

Richard Youngs is English, no?

-- Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:10 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, but he's been based in Glasgow for years, so he's ours! ;)

TTF were from Glasgow weren't they?

voted for John Martyn.

Silly me, I forgot...

Sexy Kids and the late, lamented The Royal We
International Airport
Remember, Remember
Alasdair Crosbie
Mount Vernon Arts Lab
Alisdair Roberts (ok he's from Callander, but lives in Pollockshields)

And if we can have Richard Youngs, we can also have Texan pedal-steel terrorist Heather Leigh Murray.

Yeah, but he's been based in Glasgow for years, so he's ours! ;)

... wouldn't that rule out John Martyn on the basis that he hasn't lived in Glasgow for 40-odd years?

Anyway, bring back that fuckin' Dingbod character to the thread - where the fuck's FRANKIE MILLER, ya cunt?!??!?!?

I haven't lived in Glasgow for 25-odd years but that doesn't rule me out from compiling this poll.

Once again there seems to be a bug on certain ILxors' computers which prevents them from viewing the proviso "(also I am including Lanarkshire, Clyde Valley, Paisley etc. to count as "Glasgow")" at the top of this thread (as well as the voting option which says "Mount Vernon Arts Lab"). Perhaps their Babelfish default is jammed at Estonian.

Frankie Miller, mind, that's a serious omission.

what jed said - no s&d?

anyway, no contest - mr. alex harvey gets the vote.

Apologies, I missed the MVAL option.

Not having lived in Scotland for 30+ years has never stopped the Scottish media as claiming somebody as their own. Hence the classic Daily Record (?) line about "Scots rocker David Byrne".

At least I don't have to choose between Bert Jansch & the Krankies.

David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, mind.

Not to mention Scots rockers AC/DC

From Cranhill!

And how could I have forgotten Bailleston's finest, Michelle McManus?

As easily as everybody else has, it seems

Don't Average White Band count?

No, from Dundee

um, Life Without Buildings?

Hell yeah! Brilliant band, much missed.

arab strap? lungleg? v twin? 18 wheeler? cosmic rou... maybe not.

Arab Strap = Falkirk

Fannies. Lulu and Pastels tough call for second.

APB were from Glasgow, weren't they? not that they would be best or anything. Jus sayin...

At least no one has said "lock thread" yet. I can't stand that.

Scotland 1982 World Cup Squad not that Glasgow-based tbh.

This poll did need Momus + Bachelor Pad + Frankie Miller

No 6000 Marcia Blaine School For Girls spinoffs, no credi-oh sod it. Would've voted for Life Without Buildings, will probably go for Mogwai or, ahem, Urusei Yatsura, though it's about time I dug out my Mount Vernon Arts Lab and Long Fin Killie records again.

(If I say often enough that AC Acoustics had two really good songs will anyone be tricked into thinking they're cool? I accidentally have 2 copies of the album...)

Voting for anyone other than Alex Harvey is insane

Dick Gaughan was born in Glasgow wasn't he, same as Bert Jansch?

He's about as Edinburgh as you can get! I don't know if either of them were born in Glasgow, but they're both Edinburgh as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah and I should have put both of them in the poll...

(next time, MC, take a weekend to think it over and THEN post the poll)

I imagine Dick Gaughan not being too pleased about being a Best of Glasgow poll

I'm voting Mary Chain, mainly for the impact the debut album had on my life.

I meant the best of Edinburgh poll (xp).

"Chou Pahrot, natch"

I have never knowingly heard any Chou Pahrot, but based on what I've read / been told about them, if I had then I reckon I'd probably be voting for them instead of being torn between Aztec Camera and Orange Juice.

How many votes will get Eugenius get? I know they nearly got at least one.

Glasvegas? (Seeing them tonight, hence sudden interest)
The Twilight Sad (from Kilsyth)?

no glasvegas, no cre...

Stewart, The Chou were rather odd, looking like drug crazed recovering hippies but playing the gig circuit in 78 and 79 meant that they often supported bands I go see fledgling punk basically in the Fife and Edinburgh circuits. They were very keen on weird beefheartian sqronking and very loud very quite dynamics, the lyrics would be shouted gibberish... Occasionally they would do bits of traditional Scottish songs though and they had a violin player.

Oh Oh, do you know who they were really like, and I've never thought of this before, but it fits nicely, World Domination Enterprises.

The gig I most remember was Supporting The Rezillos on the last two gigs they did before they Split into Revillos / Shake.

Oh and I know this is for Edinburgh and not glasgow, but some nice vintage posters here

http://www.edinburghgigarchive.com/index.htm

I voted for Eugenius!

I almost voted for B&S but I ended up voting for JB.

i feel bad for voting for positive noise :(

just bores me NAOWWWWWWWwwwwwww

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

does nobody in glasgow dance? were q-tex from glasgow? surely some other rave stuff or even just dance stuff (ahem optimo, soma etc) stuff was from glasgow. rubbish poll, worse than the manchester one.

i mean m8 magazine, all that stuff. you may not like it but give it a shout.

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CS%5CSlam%20-%20Fabric%2009%5CSlam%20-%20Fabric%2009.jpg

Time Frequency definitely should have been in there.

If you don't like the poll then do one of your own. They're very easy to set up you know.

"The Chou were rather odd, looking like drug crazed recovering hippies but playing the gig circuit in 78 and 79 meant that they often supported bands I go see fledgling punk basically in the Fife and Edinburgh circuits. They were very keen on weird beefheartian sqronking and very loud very quite dynamics, the lyrics would be shouted gibberish... Occasionally they would do bits of traditional Scottish songs though and they had a violin player.

Oh Oh, do you know who they were really like, and I've never thought of this before, but it fits nicely, World Domination Enterprises."

I have heard similar comparisons (he has certainly mentioned Beefheart and I think Ornette Coleman in this context but not World Domination Enterprises as far as I can remember) from a mate of mine called Marco Rossi (ex Kevin McDermott Orchestra, now Cheese, 50% of Itchy & Scratchy and 25% of Gothic Chicken) who you may have come across?

What a fucking embarrassment, you bunch of dickless wimps. Still, at least Alex Harvey beat the Pastels, be grateful for small mercies I suppose.

lol. You should know by now that it's ILX and if B&S are in a poll, their fans turn out to vote regardless of who else is in it.

?????

I thought Belle & Sebastian were on ILM's hatelist....

And way too few votes for Aztec Camera. Surely, only one perfect album. But what an album!

I thought Belle & Sebastian were on ILM's hatelist....

Only the half who didn't come via Sinister

Are Del Amitri from some hamlet that is not Glasgow?

lol. You should know by now that it's ILX and if B&S are in a poll, their fans turn out to vote regardless of who else is in it.

let go, you sad Steps apologist.

EUGENIUS????

also you're picking on ELEVEN people out of several thousand ILM readers voting for Belle and Sebastian when there's one person out there who voted for paolo fucking nutini?

lol people who think poll results matter :-)

opaque
kylie minoise
nackt insecten
glasgow improvisers orchestra (recently worked w/ george lewis!)
richard youngs (long-time glasgow resident)
tight meat duo

ah boo, why wasn't I around to give Urusei Yatsura at least one measly vote?

Maybe this was mentioned elsewhere, but did anyone else watch that documentary 'Caledonia Dreaming' on BBC4 on Friday? As a history of Postcard Records it was a bit flimsy, as a history of Scottish pop since then it was a total travesty I thought.

Random bits of annoyance: Fran Healey; Teenage Fanclub "an influence on Nirvana and the Pixies" my arse; No JAMC!; No Pastels!; I'm not a fan or anything but, um, no Big Country?; err lots of other stuff too probably

Also - total shocker seeing Edwyn Collins in that programme that followed :o(

Edwyn is playing Glasgow in april or may.

Well good luck to him, it did look like he had got a lot better than he was to start with. Wonder if he's got his right arm back yet or not.

Also re 'Caledonia Dreaming' - I hate that thing they do in music documentaries where they run out of footage and keep doing close up shots of the label of the same one record over and over again. Buy another single you stingy bastards or something.

it was dreadful. they didn't even mention aztec camera! there were only four bands on postcard, c'mon. wall to wall hue and cry. i even glimpsed fish on screen for about a second. the footage of alan horne and edwyn in their pomp was great though. the edwyn documentary that followed was heartbreaking.

Teenage Fanclub "an influence on Nirvana and the Pixies" my arse;

Chou Pahrot, performing as Kelvingrove Park Bandstand & Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Free Festival, 1978.

http://kelvingrovebandstand.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1978-kelvingrovefestival-chou-pahrot-marco-rossi-via-jimbrady-426682_10150560484011513_718141512_9387223_1042274986_n2.jpg

great revive

(xp) at not as

... and yet you losers voted for Belle & Sebastian.

... and it was here, in the bogs of the Variety Bar, in 1994, Stuart Murdoch had a particularly satisfying shit having lately consumed a sausage supper from the chippy across the road...

https://amp.theguardian.com/travel/2019/nov/17/why-glasgow-is-britain-best-city-for-music-lovers

Ivor wins in my heart but also Dawson and Lapsus Linguae.

Can't believe nobody voted for Lonnie D. Or that Vazz weren't nominated

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ABBA? Sweden's answer to Middle of the Road, that's all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm7QnAKeA5E