> On May 26, 5:06 pm, poisoned rose definitive.com> wrote:
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>> All right, I made an effort at compiling the opposite, more indulgent
>> sort of list: my own 100 "personal faves" among British artists. Much
>> easier to do, because it doesn't require having any perspective on the
>> surrounding culture.

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>> I don't know what's funniest. Either...

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>> a) Raja protesting me having no "balls" to give a personal opinion, when
>> in fact the preceding list *was* a personal opinion (a personal opinion
>> on the overall stature of British artists). Especially given that his
>> own typical post has no "balls" whatsoever, and is simply a pasting of
>> some outside list which someone else worked on (either that, or a mere
>> counting-on-his-fingers tally *based* on some outside list).

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>> or...

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>> b) That after pressing me for a personal opinion, Raja will now go
>> through this list and take shallow shots at acts because "no one else
>> knows them," "they aren't as overall-important as these other bands,"
>> etc. Suddenly, he will reverse his focus and emphasize the Big Picture
>> again.

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>> or...

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>> c) That I recurrently get criticized both for being too absorbed in my
>> own insular self-righteousness *and* for paying too much attention to
>> what others think.

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>> In any case, below is what I came up with. I would need to take several
>> passes through the list to feel confident about the order, and I just
>> don't have the time or patience. Especially since I know the list will
>> draw no more serious contemplation than the previous one did. Anyway,
>> there are fundamental problems with comparing the catalogs of different
>> artists. Who do I like more, George Harrison with his one fantastic
>> album amidst a huge pile of tripe, or some other act which has a stack
>> of consistently good albums -- but none of them are as great as All
>> Things Must Pass? Issues like that. And I wearily included Queen based
>> on individual, cherrypicked songs, even though they don't have one full
>> album which I can comfortably sit through. Blah.

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>> I must attach a bit of a disclaimer: The jury is still somewhat out on
>> the Jam and Damned for me. I need to hear a few more albums by these
>> groups to be fully sure how much I enjoy them.

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>> I dropped a few honorable-mention acts at the end, so if someone is
>> compelled to indignantly declare any of these artists "ineligible," they
>> can just append one of the extra names.

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>> 1. The Beatles
>> 2. The Who
>> 3. Elvis Costello
>> 4. The Rolling Stones
>> 5. David Bowie
>> 6. Led Zeppelin
>> 7. The Kinks
>> 8. Genesis
>> 9. Pink Floyd
>> 10.   Peter Gabriel
>> 11.   Roxy Music
>> 12.   Brian Eno
>> 13.   XTC
>> 14.   King Crimson
>> 15.   Robyn Hitchcock
>> 16.   John Lennon
>> 17.   Wire
>> 18.   The Clash
>> 19.   Yes
>> 20.   Richard Thompson
>> 21.   Public Image Limited
>> 22.   The Sex Pistols
>> 23.   Syd Barrett
>> 24.   Kate Bush
>> 25.   P J Harvey
>> 26.   Jethro Tull
>> 27.   Traffic
>> 28.   The Soft Boys
>> 29.   Spiritualized
>> 30.   The Move
>> 31.   The Zombies
>> 32.   Gang of Four
>> 33.   Nick Drake
>> 34.   Ed Harcourt
>> 35.   Squeeze
>> 36.   The Buzzcocks
>> 37.   Fairport Convention
>> 38.   Phil Manzanera/801
>> 39.   Blur
>> 40.   The Rutles
>> 41.   Supergrass
>> 42.   The Wedding Present
>> 43.   This Mortal Coil
>> 44.   Magazine
>> 45.   Paul McCartney
>> 46.   Billy Bragg
>> 47.   Emerson, Lake & Palmer
>> 48.   The Moody Blues
>> 49.   The Yardbirds
>> 50.   Richard & Linda Thompson
>> 51.   Kirsty Maccoll
>> 52.   Queen
>> 53.   Robert Wyatt
>> 54.   Marianne Faithfull
>> 55.   Beth Orton
>> 56.   The Jazz Butcher
>> 57.   The Woodentops
>> 58.   The Jam
>> 59.   The Fall
>> 60.   Colin Newman
>> 61.   Fripp & Eno
>> 62.   The Sundays
>> 63.   Cat Stevens
>> 64.   Love and Rockets
>> 65.   Henry Cow
>> 66.   Graham Parker
>> 67.   Mott the Hoople
>> 68.   Cream
>> 69.   Robert Fripp
>> 70.   Pale Saints
>> 71.   Arctic Monkeys
>> 72.   George Harrison
>> 73.   Oasis
>> 74.   Tricky
>> 75.   Art Brut
>> 76.   The Pretty Things
>> 77.   The Futureheads
>> 78.   Procol Harum
>> 79.   Laika
>> 80.   Portishead
>> 81.   Lush
>> 82.   Black Box Recorder
>> 83.   Andy Summers & Robert Fripp
>> 84.   The High Llamas
>> 85.   The Damned
>> 86.   David Sylvian & Robert Fripp
>> 87.   The Animals
>> 88.   Bryan Ferry
>> 89.   Tyrannosaurus Rex/T. Rex
>> 90.   David Sylvian
>> 91.   Maximo Park
>> 92.   Penguin Cafe Orchestra
>> 93.   Cinerama
>> 94.   Roy Wood
>> 95.   Joe Cocker
>> 96.   Tones on Tail
>> 97.   Swervedriver
>> 98.   Blind Faith
>> 99.   Thunderclap Newman
>> 100.  Th¹ Faith Healers

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>> HM: Swell Maps, Kitchens of Distinction, Badly Drawn Boy

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> This list is a lot better, even though you ridiculously have The Who
> at #2. Still dont understand the sellout Genesis and the totally
> inconsistent King Crimson better than Yes.  And you have a lot of
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