Secret...you need educating......Folk/punk-rock In the 90s the were the most successful British band, as judged by album sales. Their 1994 gig at Glastonbury was/is the largest ever stagefront crowd attracted at Glastonbury. They wrote some really iconic songs...which even a someone like you (young and innocent) will have heard...Hope Street, Julie, Beautiful Day, Carry Me, 15 years..... Run there own festival "Beautiful Days" in Devon each August...constantly voted "Best small/medium size festival....as the Levs are voted resgularly best live band on the festival circuit To see the levellers live...is really to live. Pure excitement, dance and sing the whole night.... Oh yes...and their songs are played at Cup finals...enough info Secret...or do you want more
Errrrrrrrr Beth my dear........... where did you get your information? All I remember is Oasis VS Blur and that from the 90's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_of_the_1990s_(UK) Levellers were an indie/folk band that never quite made it to the mainstream, they were too dark at the beginning of their career during the heyday of Madchester which eclipsed them.
Keep educating the masses Beth But I'm afraid Cerny is beyond education as i think his level is listening to 'Bronski Beat' ......... Can't beat 'Battle Of The Beanfield'........
Yappy my darling....I get my facts from various places including Wiki, Levs Biography and album charts.. .I quote # "It is a little known fact that The Levellers had more gold and platinum selling albums in the 1990s than any other UK band in that decade." Levs had 9 albums that achieved gold/platinum status 2000 Hello Pig (China) platinium 1998 One Way of Life: The Very Best of The Levellers (China) multiplatinium 1997 Mouth to Mouth (China)multiplatinium 1996 Headlights, White Lines, Black Tar Rivers (Best Live) (China) gold 1995 Zeitgeist (China) platinium 1993 Levellers (China) multiplatinium 1992 See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Do Something: UK Singles and Live Collection 1991 Levelling The Land (China) multiplatimum 1990 A Weapon Called the Word (Musidisc) platinium Oasis only three albums released, Blur 6 albums, So dear Yappy do not "errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Beth" me, thank you They are still too dark now...because they still sing about the unfairness of the criminal justice system, about basic civil rights, about soldiers dying in wars we do not want....check them out. ....because you may not want to stay in your pink filled middle-of the road pop loving lifestyle for ever. They never "made" it into the mainstream....because they sang/sing about stuff people do not/are too afraid to hear. That is why I love them.
Seen them a few times but sorry i have never liked their sound and sadly the new agers nabbed them and that was them proper ****ed. They were soon disowned by Brighton as I can tell you that
Errrrrrrrrr Beth, dear. You are making TWO different points, and, initially, as quoted above, you lost meaning in your generalization about album sales. Gold is only 100,000. Platinum is only 300,000. So, therefore, regardless of whether the Levellers may have had more TOTAL number of albums (9) RELEASED that reached their own platinum or gold statuses, the Levellers were NOT, and I quote your quote from above, "In the 90s the were the most successful British band, as judged by album sales", which is a completely and utterly incorrect statement. Oasis clearly were the MOST successful British band, if you want to count the actual total number of albums sold. The Levellers just happened to release 9 albums. That did not make them the most successful British band. Nobody knows them across the pond. The whole planet knows Oasis - clearly an indication of their success as the most successful British band in the world in the 90's. Oasis sold more than the total sum of all of the Levellers albums combined, and Oasis did it, as you rightly said, in only 3 albums. Sorry!
Yappy, I do not have time to add up total number...and you maybe right.. You are certainly right about the whole world knowing about Oasis...the whole world and their brother-in-law...know about Onedirection...who are even more successful worldwide than Oasis! I was simply responding to the "who!" comments. The Levellers had more successful (as judged by the benchmark of gold/platinum sales) albums (9) than any other band...end of stories...they are not the best, the most successful in global terms, the awardwinning-est", just from that single standpoint....Like we boast about being the best London team in the premiership in the 90s For a non-mainstream band, that was phenomenal...for a band no-one has heard of/no-one likes/Brighton has disowned that is phenomenal!
Not doubt they sold a few however simply put they were never ever cool and got stuck in the whole Glastonbury festival mess which as we know is really not the place to be seen at. They were always mainstream but sadly not the right sort to leave anything that will be remembered
Again wrong....The have already left a legacy of the protypic model for the middle-sized non-branded festival. Before "Beautiful Days" it did not exist....all carlsberg weekend/V festival...O2 branded.... They created a genera of punk folk...that even Frank Turner, Mumford and Sons owe their roots too They have given songs that people know and love even if they have no idea where they came from Even in your Brighton, they have created the Medway Studios, that gives so much more back in to the community. And I thought cool was an anathema to you anyway Oddball...don't we want the antithesis of cool
I do not believe the Levellers "sample"...but certainly they stand on the shoulders of giants We all stand on the shoulders of giants...even the beloved Oasis "copied" the Beatles. Re Beautiful Day being a copy of U2s Beautiful Day...of course it ...and here is the evidence[video=youtube;hfDfntthVpk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDfntthVpk[/video]
when I saw the OP "Levellers played at Cup Final" I thought it was going to be about Bradford and Swansea playing an even game eleven a side
No offence to any Levellers fans but ... anyone who saw the early Pogues in 85 (Kentish Town Bull and Gate) knows his Tinkers from his Tonkers maybe why they seems a bit watered down to me
K Beth baby....... we get that you luv 'em, aight? But you have to move on...... it's been a long time since the early 90's. And they still sound ****e compared to their contemporaries
Oddball was that the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town...yes I saw them, were you there too...probably pogoed into you then..... F+++ fantastic agreed...Have seen the Pogues 20-30-50 times in total, The Waterboys slightly less times. Have seen both in the last year too, growing old ungracefully The Waterboys never quite did it for me. Mike Scott was a bit stuck up his own....too sure that you were just gonna love him and his ideals. I am stuck into the ideals of the Levellers...the whole "Carry me and I will carry you" philosophy. I know everyone has there own likes and dislikes...and this thread is even boring me now...so lets give it a reat You are right, I am right......I have had a **** day (it was not a beautiful day at all)..but I will carry you
