Aren't you a Manc? My experience here for umpteen years on a variety of music threads on BM is that Manc bands always wear big lifts in their shoes regardless of genre. I'm one to talk given given I fell in love with the city because of its music (and then its people, and then its football club). But there are plenty of people on BM who think Stone Roses is one of the greatest bands of all time even though their output consists of little more than one (admittedly terrific IMO) record. If they were from Coventry I doubt we'd see such Mancunian adulation. Now this is no criticism: I find such fierce devotion quite heartwarming, but maybe lacking a touch of objectivity. That's probably especially because other than New Jerseyites and Springsteen/Bon Jovi/They Might Be Giants, you see comparatively little of that locals-only connectivity over here IMO. Even San Francisco's own Grateful Dead is considered a national treasure by their devotees, not a San Francisco one.
Ooh. er, good question.
Some would say yes, some would say no. I'm from the 'burbs, but my family were (all dead now) from Clayton so i grew up in a Mancunian nest at the very least.
I had to read your comment a few times, i didn't quite get the twist of it but then it hit me, i think, you think, my comment about the album being so Mancunian was a reference to the musical footprint of the region generally (?)
Er, no. I'm, er, i dunno, i, it just whisks me straight back to my early days in life being around Mancunians.
There is a certain "brutal absolutism" about the inner core of Mancunians which is unmistakable. The Gallagher brothers have some of it (and butter it up poorly), but this Mark fella absolutely nails it. The band's manner, how it plays the instruments, the sounds, all of it. It is Mancunian on a stick.
Being honest, i actively avoided Mancunian bands in my formative years.
I always thought they had a whiff of elitist unmusicality about them. James could sit down and fuck off for all i cared, The Charlatans i never listened either, they went in the same bin. Primal scream as well. Indie shite.
I blame The Smiths. I fucking hated them. Droning murderous, self depreciating durge which every champagne socialist arse would use as a their passport for acceptance and kinsmanship with the plebs.
"I used to be a poverty stricken, miserable student once, you know, so ya, rock on fellow hip brother!".
Wankers.
Stone roses were great for the one album they did but not a band i would "follow".
Googling says that the Bee gees were Mancunian. Best of the lot in my opinion.
