Blue Moon Top 100 Bands Artists - Full List of Artists (pg 287)

[Protein Junkie]

Listen to the first 4 albums in order.....however, its a different sound to their much more accessible recent output

Cheers Alex -sounds good to me. I will do that.

 

[urban genie]

Chameleons, a great band, who I shall be seeing live this saturday at the ritz

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Positions #66 – #77

Just a reminder that the top 100 so far is updated daily on page #1.

Today, everybody with 7 points is added in.

You know how it is, you wait a long time for a Welsh band to appear and then you get two at once! Stereophonics and Manic Street Preachers both make the top 70. The prog fans will be breaking out the bunting with the appearance of King Crimson. Scratch that, they’ll probably be retreating to their man cave and composing a celebratory symphony on their vintage analogue keyboard. Their wife will call them in for tea and they’ll respond that they won’t be long as they are just finishing their moog solo. Of course, by the time they return to the house, the lights are out and their tea’s in the dog.

Anyway, back on Sanity FM, Soundgarden make it two for the grungies, Glady Knight should keep the soul fans happy and it’s nice to see John Mellencamp, my 2nd favourite artist, in the mix. Well, obviously he’s miles off the lead, but he probably won’t lose too much sleep over that.

Midwestern punk pioneers, Husker Du are in 73rd place, but I’ll leave if for our North American correspondent @FogBlueInSanFran to explain which of the Wikipedia labels I should trust (post-hardcore, noise pop, post-punk or just plain old noisy bastards – OK, I made that last one up).

The Chameleons are the ubiquitous Manc band in this section, and they’re from my hometown of Middleton, so that’s nice.

Pos	Artist	Total	#Votes
66	Stereophonics	7	5
67	King Crimson	7	4
68	Lynyrd Skynyrd	7	4
69	Manic Street Preachers	7	4
70	Blue Oyster Cult	7	3
71	Gladys Knight and the Pips	7	3
72	Biffy Clyro	7	2
73	Husker Du	7	2
74	John Mellencamp	7	2
75	Soundgarden	7	2
76	The Chameleons	7	2
77	XTC	7	2

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I am puzzled (but in a good way -- a lot of diversity!) by this list recognizing we are still early on. Absolutely no clue who Biffy Clyro is. Shocked that someone else besides me voted for Husker Du. Surprised at how low XTC is. Nice to see three folks for Gladys Knight!

As for the Huskers, you included an early tune of theirs -- it's their later stuff that was very post-punk/pop that made them influential IMO.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Don't worry, I just discarded anything to do with Morrissey on the grounds of poor taste.

*bans RobMCFC for the next 15 days*

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Chameleons, a great band, who I shall be seeing live this saturday at the ritz

Yes...... but did you vote for them?

 

[urban genie]

Yes...... but did you vote for them?

No, it was them or the smiths so I went with the latter ;-)


Honestly I cannot believe I missed them off, I have all there stuff and must have seen them, vox or burges over a dozen times live

 

[Protein Junkie]

I am puzzled (but in a good way -- a lot of diversity!) by this list recognizing we are still early on. Absolutely no clue who Biffy Clyro is. Shocked that someone else besides me voted for Husker Du. Surprised at how low XTC is. Nice to see three folks for Gladys Knight!

As for the Huskers, you included an early tune of theirs -- it's their later stuff that was very post-punk/pop that made them influential IMO.

Tut tut Mr Fog - Biffy Clyro are good,very good:-)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

No, it was them or the smiths so I went with the latter ;-)


Honestly ucannot believe I missed them off, I have all tgere stuff and must have seen them, vox or burges over a dozen times live

Will be seeing them next year in Tampa with The Mission

 

[PragueBlue]

Still nothing of mine. I'm pretty sure I'll have at least one though.

 

[journolud]

Chameleons, a great band, who I shall be seeing live this saturday at the ritz

Will be seeing them in March in Peak Tavern, Buxton, held over from god knows when in the pandemic