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The cream of Manchester, 2006 vintage

More lists I'm afraid (well, it is the start of a new year): Terry Christian and Conrad Murray announced their top Manchester-born songs of 2005 on BBC GMR on Monday night, and the top 20 includes faces both familiar and not so.

1 Elbow - 'Forget Myself'
2 Nine Black Alps - 'Unsatisfied'
3 Oasis - 'The Importance Of Being Idle'
4 Doves - 'Black And White Town'
5 Lovefreekz - 'Shine'
6 Stephen Fretwell - 'Run'
7 Happy Mondays - 'Playground Superstar'
8 Ian Brown - 'All Ablaze'
9 I Am Kloot - 'Over My Shoulder'
10 Jim Noir - 'My Patch'
11 New Order - 'Waiting For The Sirens Call'
12 Ironweed - 'Down To My Grave'
13 Fear Of Music - 'Skin And Bones'
14 My Computer - 'Stumble'
15 The Longcut - 'Quiet Life'
16 The Fall - 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow'
17 Broke n English - 'Squeeze'
18 The Earlies - 'Bring It Back Again'
19 Raw T - 'Where We Live'
20 The Pioneers - 'So Long'

No word on Southampton's finest yet I'm afraid. Best tap up Wave 105...

i'll do it

1. FLeeing New York - Eyeballs
2. Birdpen - Fake Kid
3. The Sways - Euan
4. Objects - Spies
5. Tri-City President - They Went Insane
6. Dead! Dead! Dead! - Sex At Gunpoint
7. Cathode Ray Mission - Stendhal Syndrome

etc.

And the Fall at only 16? BELOW IAN BROWN?!?!? Something is amiss.

oh and

songs of 2005 surely? As there's only been one Monday's lot of releases in 2006.

terry christain

is a cock

'Appen

Blindess was the best Fall song from last year - and that whole NEw ROder album was worse than terrible

what?..

no Land Ahoy? or Former Bullies? or Beecher? this is a bad list. top 20 manchester somnambulist songs.

I hate myself

We

love yourself.

Elbow

Are fucking ace, and so is that song. Speaking of lists, have DiS abandoned the idea of a best of 2005 album list then?

dunno

it's lingering in the editorial queue whilst the staff argue about how predictable it is (guess where 'Funeral' came...)

why in lords name

is RAW T in the lisssssstttttt? In ANY list?!!

Where's omerta? Where's Lisa Brown? Where's Former Bullies? JIM bloody, i can sing like the next bloke in the 60s, crapper than RAM (ram are gooooood) NOIR????? The Longcut under IRONWEED, JIM NOIR and my BLODDY computerrrrrrrr?????

Uggh, i'm tired...

9 black alps

why are these called a manchester band when their singer and songwriter person - Sam is from York in wait for it, Yorkshire....

Hmm

I'd agree with the first, ninth and sixteenth. The rest can all jump off Urbis as far as I'm concerned.

^^^

Re Thommo's list: Aren't Fleeing New York from Southampton?

I may be wrong however, but I'm sure I read that somewhere

Wha?

No Studio Monkeys?

i believe he was referring to...

......the last of Mr Diver's article.
fleeing new york are still ace though, no matter where they come from! 'here i stand' by them could also be a standout southampton track from 2005. lovely little acoustic number, which is not at all like them.

that should've said last line

up there

!

No Oceansize? No Amplifier? shocked!

Though kudos on Elbow at number yes, tis correct.

Help! She Can't Swim are from Southampton right? And Scarlett Letter Union? And They Don't Sleep? All good...

Broke n English

is the worst band name I've ever heard.

Yes they are

and yes they're good. i didn't say i'd finished, hehe...

worse than

my computer? because thats the name of that icon on your desktop right now. they're named after a computer icon. and also that oasis song is just awful. but that elbow song is tops.

stephen fretwell

is from Scunthorpe, isn't he? Coming from there I really don't blame him for denying (if he ever has) this fact, even if my local indie record place happily overstocks his singles.

Liam Frost

Lisa Brown are slightly amiss and i think an honourable mention should be made for Liam Frost... perhaps he'll be in there this year.

Nine Black Alps

shouldnt be called a manchester band cos they're shite and look like faggots

Sad bastard computer nerds.

Some of you lot are pathetic-sat behind ya computer in ya camel skin mochasins and ya fucked up greasy mullet with the tram lines.
Blinded by your complete lack of talent and general worthlesness, youd rather slag people off from the comfort of your own home. (when your not sat in night and day pulling your plonkers under the table over a copy of nme)
Not one of you would have the balls to stand up and be counted if it came to the crunch which is why you do it on webpages that dont mean shit to anybody else but yourself.
I personally think that there is a decent cross section of mancunian music in the chart.
I havent heard of every band and dont like every song but there aint nuthin wrong with that.
I know half of you still live with your mum-come off the internet, she needs to use the phone and your blocking the line.
Geeks!

You are joking .. right?

..

Foo'!

good point

well put.

Re.

That's why I asked.

My Southampton top whatever...

1. Birdpen - A round of applause for a great disaster
2. The Sways - The call of the bear
3. Rival Joustas - Clarity
4. Tri-City President - They went insane
5. Cathode-Ray Mission - Stendhal Syndrome

raw shit

the only reason raw t are on this list is because twatty tony wilson manages them. They're meant to be the 'hottest' manc hip hop group, but even saying manc hip hop doesn't sound right.

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