Best of Edinburgh

Frankly I'm not sure why I put Momus in there since he's from Paisley...

A considerably weaker lineup than Glasgow. But Fish it is.

Fuck off and die, Geir. Keep off my threads.

A fine list, a difficult choice...

Though feel free to bypass Arab Strap who actually come from Falkirk...*sssssssiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhh MC drink your coffee before starting to compile polls*...

(this is also an obvious cue for Best Of Falkirk/Stirlingshire [though that might be a two-horse race between the Strap and the Cocteaus] and Best Of Fife polls but I'll leave those to others...)

fish is from dalkeith.

(a) it's close enough
(b) if it was good enough for the SCE board it's good enough for me
(c) Fish's sister worked in the same hospital as me back in the eighties

the answer is probably khaya. fucking hell, this reminds me why i moved to glasgow.

i like the rezillos and finitribe!

jesse garon & the desperadoes!

and therefore also the Fizzbombs? I like them better than JG & D.

EXPLOITED BARMY ARMY!

Which reminds me - one of the great TOTP performances.

Shop Assistants, for Safety Net alone

went for Josef K. Wendys come close tho. Their second album, Sixfoot Wingpsan on Starshaped Records, deserves a listen, not least coz they do a passable cover of Can's You Doo Right.

The Thanes should be up there.

Voted for Win, though ISB and Finitribe were in contention too.

I will always rep shoppies.

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Josef K or ISB.

Khaya seconded! Hi dere grimly. Gilded Lil had their moments, I seem to remember.

Rezillos, for me. Classic singles and a great LP.

Fire Engines, of course.

Though if I didn't have anything invested in it I'd probably say Josef K.

Rezillos for me!

fire engines pip josef k to the post. shame about missing out the prats.

I voted scars.

Would have thought idlewild would have been on the poll.

Oh and Boards of Canada maybe?

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exploited - ha ha ha!

BARMY ARMY!!!!

Idlewild should have been in but Boards Of Canada are a borderline case since the Pentland Hills have equal claim to Lothian and Lanarkshire status.

PUNK'S NOT DEAD, I KNOW IT'S NOT

I recall that Tony Blackburn really enjoyed having to play "Dead Cities" for weeks on end when he did the Top 40 show.

"weeks on end" mmmm...

It was in the Fun 40 for three weeks. To Blackburn that was equivalent to a lifetime - cf. "Flowers Of Romance" which was on the Top 40 for two months earlier the same year.

Curiously neither has yet surfaced in any of Dale's in-depth looks at 1981 on POTP.

PETITION!

Boards of Canada are from penicuik, aren't they? Which is a damned sight closer to Edinburgh than Falkirk, for one. (Arab Strap on an Edinburgh list?)
No Idlewild, Ballboy, Khaya, Desc or Saint Jude's Infirmary on the list?
I dunno.

"No place like Penicuik - for double or triple gla-ZING! (yeah)"

I know my Radio Clyde adverts.

Official response from Mr Winton:
"Hmm - Dead Cities and Flowers Of Romance...they were a bit unusual, but we all loved them!"

Maybe Wattie will google this one day

UK82 lurkers represent

And yet, when WORLD CHANGING KURT needed a hand, to whom did he turn? BIG JOHN THAT'S WHO! Thus The Exploited changed the face of music far more markedly than their late 1981 chart mates, e.g. B.A. Robertson featuring Maggie Bell.

Nice that theres one vote for Linlithgow's finest, cindytalk. If we'd had proportional voting I'd have maybe given The Freeze a 3rd or 4th vote.

Gordon Sharp is a top bloke right enough.

Was there no other pre punk Edinburgh bands?

<i>Boards of Canada are from penicuik, aren't they?</i>

they're from balerno. as am i.

I thought we talked about this Dingbod?

BERT JANSCH!!!!!!!!

DICK GAUGHAN!!!!!!!

ISB would have got my vote, if this poll had been up for more than 30 minutes.

It's all gone Leith-shaped.

stir, would Mount Florida be counting as Edinburgh or Glasgow then?

Obviously I would have voted for them...

mount florida would definitely count as glasgow.

i've lived more than half my life in glasgow and think of myself as glaswegian even if my fellow glaswegians still think of me as an east coast interloper.