Best of Glasgow

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.

APB were from aberdeen.

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.

WOT NO MOMUS?

or his cousin, come to think of it.

momus = embra

APB were from aberdeen.

oops, sorry!

momus = born in paisley.

well, we might as well count Talking Heads on that logic.

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?

I suppose really I should have included the Scotland World Cup Squad.

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.

The lack of Sons & Daughters is a shame,.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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.

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.

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