Your top 5 Manchester bands/ solo artists are?

[Stoned Rose]

Roses
Mondays
Northside
Inspirals
Smiths

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Bee Gees
Herman’s Hermits

 

[Lancet Fluke]

The Smiths
James
Morrissey
The Stone Roses
The Fall

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

After careful consideration I've demoted New Fads to 6th place, Buzzcocks in at 5. I don't know what possessed me to leave them out: /

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Big shout for the Chameleons. Loved Doves and from further back, The Railway Children. Of current crop Slow Readers Club are very good. Anyone remember the short-lived Wu Lyf? (Saw them live at the Roxy, I think it was.) The Ting Tings? (Yes, I’d rather not, as well!)

The Railway Children almost sneaked into my top 5 purely on the basis of Brighter which is in my top three or four favourite songs of all time.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Bee Gees
Herman’s Hermits

The early Bee Gees had some cracking songs:
In My Own Time
The Earnest Of Being George
The Change Is Made
Indian Gin And Whisky Dry
Idea

 

[Nightmare Walking]

Stone Roses
Oasis
Charlatans
James
Northern Uproar

special mention to my lads band, The Sights

That first Northern Uproar album was pretty good. They did a single a few years ago that was pretty good as well.

Utterly tragic what happened to the original guitar player.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Joy Division
New Order
Oasis
Morrissey
Happy Monday’s

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

What about "Embers" ?
Not a mention of them in nine pages.
Outrageous.

 

[allblackcitizen]

And one for the kids, i give you Aitch.