CockneyRebel
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02 Jun 2006, 12:05 am
Chas n Dave
The Beatles
The Kinks
The Hollies
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Count 5
Gerry and the Pacemakers
The Animals
The Searchers
The Seekers
Herman's Hermits
The Small Faces
Dusty Springfield
Cilla Black
Lulu
Peter and Gordon
Cream
The Yardbirds
Procol Harum
The Dave Clark 5
Petula Clarke
Queen
Cockney Rebel
The Specials
Cliff Richards
The Shadows
Peter and Gordon
Chad and Jeremy
Wings
The Plastic Ono Band
Pink Floyd
Supertramp
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
Towers of London
The Cure
I love British Rock.
AH COME ON! You forgot The Zombies!! ! Time of the Season!! ! They're like on of my favorite groups.
I knew that I've forgotten a group, but I couldn't put my finger on which one it was. I also like The Zombies.
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02 Dec 2009, 6:12 pm
Chas n Dave
The Beatles
The Kinks
The Hollies
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Count 5
Gerry and the Pacemakers
The Animals
The Searchers
The Seekers
Herman's Hermits
The Small Faces
Dusty Springfield
Cilla Black
Lulu
Peter and Gordon
Cream
The Yardbirds
Procol Harum
The Dave Clark 5
Petula Clarke
Queen
Cockney Rebel
The Specials
Cliff Richards
The Shadows
Peter and Gordon
Chad and Jeremy
Wings
The Plastic Ono Band
Pink Floyd
Supertramp
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
Towers of London
The Cure
I love British Rock.
I am! I'm in my 50's. I was a little young to appreciate it at the time, but I had older siblings who were the right age to enjoy the British Invasion. They were playing the music and I heard it. PBS (here in the US) might still be broadcasting a special about music of that era on the Ed Sullivan show. I do remember seeing the Beatles live on his "really big shew." Rolling Stone magazine's web site now has a list of (their opinion) the top 100 "guitar songs" with justification and links to audio and video of the performances. Many are from that era. So far, I checked out the Yardbirds. Early electric guitar wizardry at its finest!
02 Dec 2009, 9:31 pm
I recently realized that roughly 90% of the albums I own were made by British musicians! 
(Just to add - I'm more of an album person than a song person, so physical products all the way.) I swear I had no idea while I was collecting them. It may have something to do with my prog leanings. Anyway, these are my favourite British rock bands:
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
Porcupine Tree
Muse
Camel
Gong (well, half French)
Coldplay (their early stuff, emphatically)
The Police
King Crimson
Newton Faulkner (not really rock? more accoustic)
CockneyRebel
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03 Dec 2009, 8:25 am
I'm right back into the British Rock again, after being in a black area for two and a half years. 
04 Dec 2009, 6:45 pm
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05 Dec 2009, 12:48 pm
I guess mine are roughly 50% British, 40% American, 10% everywhere else. I'm more a fan of othergenre-rock than straight rock.
Don't think anyone mentioned The Pretty Things yet, they're from that time period.
SF Sorrow is a very strange album!Do tell!
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07 Dec 2009, 5:31 am
Nice taste in music SquishypuffDave 
My favourite british bands are-
King Crimson
Porcupine Tree
Pink Floyd
Camel
Jethro Tull
Black Sabbath
07 Dec 2009, 7:35 am
07 Dec 2009, 7:36 am
09 Dec 2009, 8:06 am
Thanks for reminding me. Add to my list-
Electric Light Orchestra
Elton John (early stuff)
Jethro Tull ("")
Oh yeah, add
Police (Thanks, squishypuffdave)
Sting
Thunderclap Newman (Thanks, skysaw)
Roy Wood
I am also a fan of the following who are not British.
Captain Beefheart,who is not from this planet at all.
(Thanks, skysaw)
Frank Zappa
Todd Rundgren
Steely Dan
more...
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09 Dec 2009, 9:08 am
The Zombies are indeed a fantastic group. Rod Argent was the Jon Lord of his day, just simply a badass keyboardist. Blunstone's vocals are cool too. It's a shame they didn't stay together for very long, and when it comes to Brit rock groups of the sixties, one of my top favorites.
As with the Beatles, it's obvious how many lists they're gonna appear on. But I'm huge Beatles fan, so I'm down wit dat.
I also admire Cockney's becoming a Kinks fan. I need to get me some more of their music, I'm lacking in that department. The Lola Vs. Powerman And The Moneygoround album is great, though. And in my opinion One For The Road is one of the best live albums out there.
Obviously the thread isn't going decade or Invasion specific, so I'm gonna agree with that list on the previous thread full of the metal. As with recent years, I'm gonna mention Oasis (shame, shame... 
), and definitely The Answer (I know they're Irish, but isn't Ireland part of the UK? Still don't know if the UK as a whole counts in this thread).
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09 Dec 2009, 10:49 am
The Republic of Ireland is an independent state and emphatically not part of the UK (though relations between the British and Irish governments are generally good), Northern Ireland is part of the UK. Ireland, Britain and the various other islands are collectively part of the British Isles, although some people believe that the geographical term implies ownership in some way (which perhaps it did - two or three thousand years ago when the name was made!
) and so don't like it.
There are lots of bands which are mixed British/Irish both in composition and in musical style/influences, they're hardly British Invasion but surely British rock.
09 Dec 2009, 11:58 pm
