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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:15 PM
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Poll question: Best British Invasion Band?
Edited on Wed Aug-20-03 10:45 PM by SweetZombieJesus
I'm not including the Stones, The Who or the Beatles in this, because they all managed to outlive and outdo all their British Invasion colleagues.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:17 PM
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1. Good Thread!
Edited on Wed Aug-20-03 10:19 PM by FlashHarry
But I've gotta give it to the Kinks. Especially for the mid-period 'Arthur' and 'Village Green' stuff.
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caribmon Donating Member (258 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:18 PM
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2. Oasis?
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:21 PM
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6. Funny!
Why not Freddie and the Dreamers?
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DieboldMustDie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:30 PM
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21. Don't forget Herman's Hermits.
;)
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Kenneth ken Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:44 PM
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24. 2nd that n/t
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:18 PM
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3. I'm surprised anybody remembers The Move.
Besides me, that is. Actually, they're before my time, but I'm a big ELO fan, and my research led me to know what came before. Interesting band. I have the original 1972 version of Do Ya someplace in my LP collection.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:20 PM
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5. ....'Goodbye Blackberry Way'....
I love The Move. (My old band used to cover 'Brontosaurus.') But I've gotta say that Cheap Trick's version of 'California Man' beats theirs to shreds!
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:19 PM
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4. I went with The Kinks
but in actuality it's such a tough call. The Kinks did remain musically active at least into the early 90's but they never had the same level of success that they did early on.

So much good music has come out of the UK in the last 40 years it's actually kinda scary.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:26 PM
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7. Hollies
Very underrated, among that group.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:38 PM
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8. Yardbirds!
I picked "Other"
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Kenneth ken Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:45 PM
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25. ooh yeah
I want a 2nd vote
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:42 PM
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9. I agree its a good thread
doesn't it belong in the lounge?

no offense SZJ..
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:44 PM
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11. Yeah, I forgot what forum I was in
I've been alerting like crazy since I realized it, but still no action.
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:43 PM
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10. Duran Duran
:evilgrin:
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:27 PM
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20. All Hail DD
If nothing else, for the videos! lol
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:49 PM
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12. Yardbirds.
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Ein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 10:57 PM
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13. THE CLASH!!!!
Clash Clas Clash... maybe it doesn't meet the criteria, but what the hell.
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:04 PM
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14. Dave Clark 5
8 top 10 records in 3 years.
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DieboldMustDie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:33 PM
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23. But would you really want to listen to any of them today?
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:04 PM
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15. the who...
n/t
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:06 PM
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16. Ok, for some reason it won't let me edit it now
But just pretend "The Searchers" is Yardbirds from now on. I should just stop making these polls if I can't remember obvious ones like that.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:10 PM
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17. i know my ignorance knows few bounds
but weren't the fab four a british invasion band??
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:26 PM
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18. Yes, but as I said in the first post...
...they managed to transcend the whole British Invasion thing and go on to be, well, the best band ever, so I thought it would be pretty unfair to put them up against bands like The Pretty Things and The Zombies.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:32 PM
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22. good thing i qualified my post
by noting my ignorance. reading is a skill that has slipped from my grasp tonight, apparently.
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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:26 PM
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19. I voted Kinks, but I want to know who voted for the Pretty Things
I just recently got into them, and I'm nuts about them.
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