Best of British..
 

Beatles hailed 'best of British'

A Day In The Life featured on the iconic Sgt Pepper album
The 1967 Beatles track, A Day In The Life, has been hailed the best British song of all time.
The song, which featured on the classic Beatles album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, topped a survey of music experts by Q magazine.

The magazine called the track "the ultimate sonic rendition of what it means to be British".

The Kinks' song Waterloo Sunset came second in the poll, ahead of Oasis' Wonderwall in third place.

Earlier this year, in a survey to find the greatest tune between 1955 and 1964 BBC Radio 2 listeners overlooked two Beatles singles in favour of The Kinks' You Really Got Me.

BEST BRITISH SONG
1. A Day In The Life - The Beatles
2. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
3. Wonderwall - Oasis
4. God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
5. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
6. My Generation - The Who
7. Angels - Robbie Williams
8. Life on Mars? - David Bowie
9. Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
10. Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack

A Day In The Life, the Beatles' most ambitious work to date, featured what Lennon described as "a sound building up from nothing to the end of the world".

In fourth place in the Q poll was the Sex Pistols' controversial hit God Save The Queen, with Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody rounding out the top five.

Robbie Williams' Angels, described by the magazine as "virtually our alternative national anthem" polled at number seven - two places ahead of British rockers the Rolling Stones, with Sympathy For The Devil at number nine.

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Not being British but

Can I substitute Changes for Life on Mars?, remove Oasis (Slade would fit there nicely) and move God Save the Queen up to #2

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A yank thats heard of Slade.

Jeez , thats rarer than a Republican accepting responsibility.

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Thats a fucked up poll .. the beatles/oasis ?? :blink:

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Think of "Q" Mags demographic.

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wheres roy wood, pink floyd, madness, the jam, the stranglers, the clash ..

Yeah true Nick they are targetting muppets ...

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Fuck Paul Weller!!

;-)

Roy wood LOL

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Paul Weller was cool in The jam and Roy wood .. I wish it could be Christmas everyday .. thats an institution here and you know it lol

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Hey I didn't ask for Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (which is only marginally less gay the anything by Oasis)


"Mama Weer All Crazee Now"
Don't stop now a-c'mon
Another drop now a-c'mon
I wanna lot now so c'mon
That's right, that's right
I said mama but we're all crazy now


and I didn't ask for Genesis (even with Peter Gabriel) or Yes

Not being from there somehow I have to think Mama Weer All Crazee Now fits the British (drinking) spirit much better than Wonderwall

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Sham 69 ...

Hurry up harry , come on!
We're going down the pub!


LOL

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Paul Weller gets quite cunty if you throw him down a flight of stairs for being a fucking dopey cunt espousing his socialist views whilst wearing a Rolex Presidential :)

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That is fucking classic!

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I was young , hot headed and we could also play some of there shit better live.

:)

The Absolute BEST , nicest coolest , and fun British Band I ever got the chance to hang with was Staus Quo.Those guys were really cool. Seriously. LOL

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Who the hell did they have casting votes??

It certainly wasn't anyone under 50 years of age :huh:

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is that list chav approved? ;)

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As Oprano’s resident chav-type, I can say that it most definitely isn't! :)

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I am still not apologising to quo for calling them a minor band with no talent barring 3 chords and asking Francis Rossi if he was wearing a syrup in the First Class lounge, i was the cunt suited and booted drinking starbucks ;)

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I remember a story on the radio saying that the lead singer of Oasis claimed they they would be 'bigger than the beatles'....I hate arrogance...I haven't listened to them since...

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LOL

the Beatles claimed to be bigger than Jesus.

Do you still listen to them?

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Wha, I've heard "Run Runaway" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" true classics. But then again, I'm not Republican either. :)

Not sure about Waterloo Sunset, I really like the song, but if it's Kinks, I prefer "All Day And All Of The Night" even though it sounds exactly like umpteen million other Kinks songs. Really, they've only written about 8 songs, and they just keep rewriting them, right?

Robbie Williams ended up doing pretty well on that list with an awful song that he admits he wrote while falling-down drunk.

As for Paul Weller, frankly, call me a git and a poofter, but I liked Style Council.

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You're a git and a poofter! :D

(I have absolutely NO idea what that means, but damn, it was fun to say!) :lol:

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Git = dravyk
poofta = Technick

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Don't you dare call Technick names! :mad:


Dravyk, get in here and call Nick names right back! (Preferably polysyllabic ones he won't understand.) :okthumb:

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I wanna be the judge of best british women!! :okthumb:

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I knew what those meant. You need to watch more BBC programming. I learn all sorts of interesting terminology. :lol:

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I have to admit I only heard of Slade due to Quiet Riot covering a couple of their songs in the early 80's...

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I would replace God Save The Queen with Pretty Vacant personally..but that's just me...

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Bleeding wanker = Nick :wankit:


Am I the only one here who is wondering how the hell Queen's ode to Italian opera is "positively British"??? :idontknow

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Queen was a British group, they also made the first pop video which was released in 1975, i think that gives them relevance. They did some fecking good songs ..

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I thought Mike Nesmith made the very first pop video in the '60's? :unsure:

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It's not like he's wrong. :huh:

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Well, crumpet, since we're being technical here...read my post. :p

I just said "don't you dare..." and "...call Nick names right back...."

I didn't tell him he was wrong. :p

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It seems he did dare and Drav was a no show. :p

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So how does that Queen song about Italian opera become British?

I love Queen. Is that their most British song? If so, I want whatever you (and the rest of the survey voters) are smoking! http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/tongue.gif

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Read five posts above your post, Puss. :rolleyes:

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You can only say "don't you dare" *after* someone does something. Otherwise, it's a nonsequitor and I try and avoid those.

How 'bout them Yankees?

(OK, I don't always avoid them.) :p


And as far as Dravyk being a "no show," I'm afraid he's gotcha, Puss. :p


(You're still my crumpet! :wub: )

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So Madonna singing "like a virgin" means her hymen was intact? :p

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Of course it was!




She had it in a jar.


:p

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Why do you think it's called Like A Virgin as opposed to Am A Virgin? http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/sm...monkeymoon.gif

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Madonna picks up the rice in the church
Where a wedding has been,
Lives in a dream,
Waits at the window, wearing a hymen
That she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for?

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Exacly due to her remembering something fondly .. it was only natural with Freddie Mercury's vocal range/background and love of classical/opera to do Bohemian Rhapsody and because he sang it doesnt mean he is Italian lol He sang 'Barcelona' with Monserrat Caballe and that doesnt make him Spanish .... step away from those mushrooms :p Get your own decent singers :D

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LOL. Hell all of Elvis's movies were pop videos. but how about magical mystery tour or strawberry fields forever.

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OK, the first pop video on MTV???





Video killed the radio star.

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Nothing by floyd, led zep or the tull!

Stange list anyway, didn't the stone roses get voted the best album of all time a while back?

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You trying to go for the Carrie Stubborn Award here?

One last try, cementhead, and maybe you'll get it. (Not holding my breath though!) http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/smile.gif

If Billy Joel's lesser known song "Leningrad" was on the list of top 10 "most American" songs, wouldn't you go "WTF?" Well, same thing here.

Let me try it another way -- LOL -- Queen doing "Fat Bottomed Girls" would have been much more appropriately Brit.

http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/rasp.gif

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I really need to take a look into the board cookies, I'm missing posts :scratchin

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Nope .. :p

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Queen fans are gay.

well known fact. :)

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Bugger .. thats one xmas gift for you written off then .. lol

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If any Billy Joel song were anywhere within striking distance, I'd say WTF. :barfon: