Amy Macdonald!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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! ;)
― Stew, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
TTF were from Glasgow weren't they?
― onimo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
voted for John Martyn.
― jed_, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Stew, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
... wouldn't that rule out John Martyn on the basis that he hasn't lived in Glasgow for 40-odd years?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, bring back that fuckin' Dingbod character to the thread - where the fuck's FRANKIE MILLER, ya cunt?!??!?!?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Frankie Miller, mind, that's a serious omission.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
what jed said - no s&d?
anyway, no contest - mr. alex harvey gets the vote.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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".
― Stew, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
At least I don't have to choose between Bert Jansch & the Krankies.
― NickB, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, mind.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Not to mention Scots rockers AC/DC
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
From Cranhill!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
And how could I have forgotten Bailleston's finest, Michelle McManus?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
As easily as everybody else has, it seems
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't Average White Band count?
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
No, from Dundee
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
um, Life Without Buildings?
― Garrett Martin, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Hell yeah! Brilliant band, much missed.
― Stew, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
arab strap? lungleg? v twin? 18 wheeler? cosmic rou... maybe not.
― cw, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Arab Strap = Falkirk
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
APB were from aberdeen.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
If you look carefully while walking down Gibson St beside the car park, you can see "Lungleg are ace" etched into the concrete. I really must take a picture of this - although it's lasted a good ten years, chances are it won't be there forever.
― Stew, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
WOT NO MOMUS?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
or his cousin, come to think of it.
momus = embra
― jed_, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
oops, sorry!
― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
momus = born in paisley.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
well, we might as well count Talking Heads on that logic.
― jed_, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Much as I hate to draw attention to this thread, for fear of spoiling it's unanswered prinstineness, where is the love for The Bachelor Pad?
― everything, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I suppose really I should have included the Scotland World Cup Squad.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
And certainly I should have included Al Stewart.
Momus was indeed Paisley-born but since he comes from everywhere and nowhere he probably deserves a poll to himself.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The lack of Sons & Daughters is a shame,.
― Alba, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Thursday, 31 January 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I'll join the pile in on the missing bands,
60s no Beatstalkers? 70s no Beggars Opera, House of Lords? 80s Bourgie Bourgie / Paul Quinn , The Honeymooners! 90s Stretcheads or Dawson
But I wouldn't voted for any of them anyway, maybe the Honeymooners... So mustn't grumble - I did Chou Pahrot for their blinding gigs they played, though they never really got it on record.
― Sandy Blair, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Scotland 1982 World Cup Squad not that Glasgow-based tbh.
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:58 (sixteen years ago) link
This poll did need Momus + Bachelor Pad + Frankie Miller
― Tom D., Thursday, 31 January 2008 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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...)
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Voting for anyone other than Alex Harvey is insane
― Tom D., Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Dick Gaughan was born in Glasgow wasn't he, same as Bert Jansch?
― NickB, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tom D., Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I imagine Dick Gaughan not being too pleased about being a Best of Glasgow poll
― Tom D., Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm voting Mary Chain, mainly for the impact the debut album had on my life.
― onimo, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I meant the best of Edinburgh poll (xp).
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
How many votes will get Eugenius get? I know they nearly got at least one.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 January 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 2 February 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
?????
I thought Belle & Sebastian were on ILM's hatelist....
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 2 February 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
And way too few votes for Aztec Camera. Surely, only one perfect album. But what an album!
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 2 February 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Only the half who didn't come via Sinister
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 2 February 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Are Del Amitri from some hamlet that is not Glasgow?
― the higgs, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
let go, you sad Steps apologist.
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 February 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
EUGENIUS????
― electricsound, Sunday, 3 February 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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 :-)
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 February 2008 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
opaque kylie minoise nackt insecten glasgow improvisers orchestra (recently worked w/ george lewis!) richard youngs (long-time glasgow resident) tight meat duo
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 3 February 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
ah boo, why wasn't I around to give Urusei Yatsura at least one measly vote?
― ledge, Sunday, 3 February 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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(
― NickB, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Edwyn is playing Glasgow in april or may.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― NickB, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― cw, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Teenage Fanclub "an influence on Nirvana and the Pixies" my arse;
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 25 February 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Monday, 14 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
great revive
― NEWS Giant penis frog didn’t have a giant penis after all (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 October 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
(xp) at not as
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Monday, 14 October 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
... and yet you losers voted for Belle & Sebastian.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Monday, 14 October 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
... 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
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
Ivor wins in my heart but also Dawson and Lapsus Linguae.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Can't believe nobody voted for Lonnie D. Or that Vazz weren't nominated
― paolo, Sunday, 17 November 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
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― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 May 2023 04:49 (eleven months ago) link
ABBA? Sweden's answer to Middle of the Road, that's all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm7QnAKeA5E
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 4 March 2024 12:36 (two months ago) link