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

[mancity1]

Good-looking lead singers of bands make a lot more money than poets, and get more, errr, “attention” too. He was a drunk Navy brat obviously smart and talented enough to become iconic and dead before he could slip into self-parody.

I’ve often expressed my distaste for “poetic” lead singers. I like novels. Narrative. Stories. Observational humo(u)r. Cleverness. Turns of phrase. Or irony. Or satire. Failing that, personal anguish laid bare to which I can relate. Not poetry.

Poetry and rock and roll don’t really mix, not to me anyway. Maybe — MAYBE — Paul Simon? Dylan, but I don’t really like Dylan that much (but see below). We’re back to the same old thing, mate — music to listen to vs. music to move to. You tend to listen to poets, not move to them, unless they’re activists/revolutionaries (which Dylan was, and so often more a storyteller anyhow). Jim Morrison was neither.

I believe music can reach out and inspire and impress when combined with poetry and a good reference to Paul Simon IMO definitely not maybe pardon the pun.

I don't necessarily believe you have to be an activist in order to have credibility to listen and or to move to.

To me that is little more than a cliche.

I am not interested in Jim because of who is was or how he lived because he was not part of my life as such so I am interested in him for how he performed his role in the band.

you might agree with me he had a disconnect to the band which didn't help but was part of who he was I suppose.

 

[mancity1]

Positions #58 – #65

We’ve reached the giddy heights of 8 points now and topping this section are The Buzzcocks, another Manc band (hey, come on, stop groaning at the back).

It’s a colourful section with rockers Deep Purple and The Moody Blues, whilst the sole Jamaican entry in the list is Bob Marley at #59 (I won’t do the obvious doughnut joke, but if you don’t know it, feel free to ask as I’m surely somebody will supply the punchline). There’s a couple of 60s American artists in The Velvet Underground and Captain Beefheart (wasn’t he in Blackadder as well?) and allow me a little celebration as another of my top 3 gets in – Antipodean pop-meisters Crowded House.

Pos	Artist	Total	#Votes
58	The Buzzcocks	8	5
59	Bob Marley	8	4
60	The Velvet Underground	8	4
61	Crowded House	8	3
62	The Stranglers	8	3
63	Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band	8	2
64	Deep Purple	8	2
65	The Moody Blues	8	2

Latest table updated on page #1, videos to follow.

I could listen to Seventh Sojourn for 12 hours straight and often have and never look at the time , answer to my wife and feel comfortable in the fact I have not self indulged.

Masterful ballads , had to play New Horizons at my fathers funeral and could have played it at my wedding but chose For My Lady instead chord progression personified.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

I believe music can reach out and inspire and impress when combined with poetry and a good reference to Paul Simon IMO definitely not maybe pardon the pun.

I don't necessarily believe you have to be an activist in order to have credibility to listen and or to move to.

To me that is little more than a cliche.

I am not interested in Jim because of who is was or how he lived because he was not part of my life as such so I am interested in him for how he performed his role in the band.

you might agree with me he had a disconnect to the band which didn't help but was part of who he was I suppose.

I don’t believe you have to be an activist either but vague imagery doesn’t do anything for me in rock unless purely an adjunct to the music (I.e. My Bloody Valentine) — it can’t “lead”, or it needs to be very, very good. All I’m saying about activist poets is that the rock and roll context suits them better than poets focused on imagery.

Anyway, this is all moot really for me — I like The Doors fine, and I don’t see Morrison as disconnected from the band nor worry that much about him as a poet because almost all the tunes I like by them don’t have Morrison fucking around with his poetry! They were an atmospheric pop band, not the second coming of Wordsworth and The Royal Society. Part of this is conceptual: this adulation-of-the-genius stuff is really not me, and whether it's musical ability or poetry, rock and roll was originally invented to send that shit up or break it down. Does no one remember Elvis?

IMO their first record is far and away their best, though my favo(u)rite song of theirs (not record) is probably “Waiting For The Sun” from Morrison Hotel.

 

[urban genie]

Queen. Live Aid saved their arse.
A band on their knees..... and yesterday's men. Then shown live around the world and their career was salvaged.
And the twats were forgiven for breaking the cultural boycott of South Africa (as were Status fucking Quo).
In fact... if Status Quo are in this list I shall resign as a Mod and delete my account from this forum.

I don't mind Flash just because of my love of the film and fat bottoms girls, all the rest I could happily never hear again, I put them in the same bracket as meatloaf, can listen to them if they are played and they are not so unlistenable to make me want to turn them off but never gonna be a go to band/musician as I ain't that mithered about their stuff

Quo, shite music and rag tossers, incidently they stayed at a hotel I worked and I had the mispleasure of cooking for them, of all the musicians and famous people I have cooked for they were the biggest, up their own arse, arrogant, rude and offensively twattish people I have come across, well until our nonce of a prince andrew got outed.

(Neil Sedaka was the nicest btw)

 

[urban genie]

Still waiting for Dr Hook to appear :-)

 

[peter.evans]

Still waiting for Dr Hook to appear :-)

I think there will be more chance Captain Hook might appear !

 

[mancity1]

I think there will be more chance Captain Hook might appear !

Maybe a chance if we extended it to top 1M.

 

[RobMCFC]

Queen. Live Aid saved their arse.
A band on their knees..... and yesterday's men. Then shown live around the world and their career was salvaged.
And the twats were forgiven for breaking the cultural boycott of South Africa (as were Status fucking Quo).
In fact... if Status Quo are in this list I shall resign as a Mod and delete my account from this forum.

I that case, I can confirm that your position as a mod is safe.

Status Quo got the same number of votes as Madonna - the big fat zero.

I do like a few of their tunes and they were quite good live - I saw them at GMEX in 1990.

 

[RobMCFC]

Positions #22 – #27

Pos	Artist	Total	#Votes
22	The Clash	19	6
23	The Fall	19	6
24	Morrissey	19	5
25	Simon and Garfunkel	18	10
26	Marvin Gaye	18	8
27	Yes	18	5

All together now:

Breaking rocks in the hot sun,
BennyBoy’s happy ‘cos he’s got one,
BennyBoy’s happy ‘cos he’s got one

Yes, @bennyboy roars onto the scoreboard as he picked the top artist in this section: Combat rockers, The Clash. As far as I can see, there’s only two voters who haven’t had one of their picks appear yet: @denislawsbackheel and @KnaresboroughBlue.

The last batch of artists before we hit the top 20 (well, the Top 21) and I can already hear the cheering in some quarters.

Another couple of Mancs with The Fall and Morrissey. Say what you want about Morrissey, but for somebody with a voice that sounds like Bobcat Goldthwaite (Zed from the Police Academy films), he’s done alright for himself.

I know I joked earlier in the thread about discarding all votes for The Smiths, but I wouldn’t do that. I thought that it was fairer to round all the points up for The Smiths and Morrissey and put them here. I wonder how fans of The Smiths are feeling? Heaven knows they’re miserable now.

Marvin Gaye is the top soul artist in the list and is joined by 60s folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. Prog rockers Yes saw strong enough support to lift them to 27th place.

 

[urban genie]

Positions #22 – #27

Pos	Artist	Total	#Votes
22	The Clash	19	6
23	The Fall	19	6
24	Morrissey	19	5
25	Simon and Garfunkel	18	10
26	Marvin Gaye	18	8
27	Yes	18	5

All together now:

Breaking rocks in the hot sun,
BennyBoy’s happy ‘cos he’s got one,
BennyBoy’s happy ‘cos he’s got one

Yes, @bennyboy roars onto the scoreboard as he picked the top artist in this section: Combat rockers, The Clash. As far as I can see, there’s only two voters who haven’t had one of their picks appear yet: @denislawsbackheel and @KnaresboroughBlue.

The last batch of artists before we hit the top 20 (well, the Top 21) and I can already hear the cheering in some quarters.

Another couple of Mancs with The Fall and Morrissey. Say what you want about Morrissey, but for somebody with a voice that sounds like Bobcat Goldthwaite (Zed from the Police Academy films), he’s done alright for himself.

I know I joked earlier in the thread about discarding all votes for The Smiths, but I wouldn’t do that. I thought that it was fairer to round all the points up for The Smiths and Morrissey and put them here. I wonder how fans of The Smiths are feeling? Heaven knows they’re miserable now.

Marvin Gaye is the top soul artist in the list and is joined by 60s folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. Prog rockers Yes saw strong enough support to lift them to 27th place.

Good list bar Morrissey (post 2001)