People are always banging on about how influential Manchester has been in popular music. I can barely get in and out of the office kitchen to make coffee without getting into an argument about whether The Charlatans were better than The Farm. So, as Grove is sadly no longer here to create half a dozen new threads per day I thought I'd ask the question myself: "Which Manchester popular music act was/is the most influential?".
All terrible examples of banal muzak with plippy ploppy lyrics. I don't like to be too negative but all of these god awful bands are in the same ****e league as The Beatles and Sonia.
You stick to conspiracy theories sunshine because you know **** all about music. Oasis for ****s sake. Poor man's version of Slade. And Slade were ****ing rank, although still marginally better than boyband The Beetles.
Patchy but mother had some good stuff: Elton John, 10CC, Queen, Tyrannosaurus Rex, lots of pop singles 60s 70s.
I think you had to be there, to appreciate the impact punk had in the early days. A lot of the bands weren't great though, but the energy at the gigs was off the scale. That was the last time it felt like rock n roll was more than just music, it was a revolutionary force. When the corporate world could still be threatened, or at least it seemed like that for a while. Factory Records was probably the last label to still embody that outsider ethos.
