Ok, this is a bloody tough one. Top 5 Scottish bands of all time. Please note this isn't Will & Ian's choice (I'll get them) this is the Bunnymen burrow teams choice. Try and share this post & usual rules apply. It's for fun and don't overthink it.
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Had the Cocteau's in there but came down to how many albums I have by them compared to Primal Scream. The whole process was a nightmare had loads more great Scottish bands in my long list.
also here are mine:
1.simple minds
2.the wake !!!!!!!
3.strawberry switchblade
4.the associates
5.skids
you people are proper sleeping on the wake !! their sound is the perfect factory powerhouse, it will make you smell and see fossil fuel consuming without pollution
go listen like right now!!!
Only Shirley Manson is a Scot. The rest of the band is from the Midwest of the USA. They formed in Madison Wisconsin, I think. Is that Scot enough for the list?
Tough one, so many great bands/artists but my current top 5 in no particular order would probably be:-
1. Simple Minds (81, 82, 83, 84)
2. Frightened Rabbit
3. Mogwai
4. Young Fathers
5. Cocteau Twins
They are phenomenal. Their social dancing album got me in back in the 90s with euro disco, action and drama and probably my favourite track sale or return
Ooh, that's a challenge 🤔! I'd love to see the Bunnymen burrow team's top 5 Scottish bands of all time - are we talking classics like Franz Ferdinand or Travis, or something a bit more underground? 🎸💬
You sucked me in from Canada. I will be visiting Scotland this May. I will try hard to convince my wife to visit King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut with me while we are in Glasgow.
1 - Jesus and Mary Chain
2 - Belle & Sebastian
3 - Camera Obscura
4 - The Vaselines
5 - Cocteau Twins
Per capita Scotland rules
They weŕe my vry first concert. I was 11 and I had floor seats. Five ft tall stamding on my chair watching young women all around me fainting. It was wild.
Orange Juice
Strawberry Switchblade
Simple Minds
Franz Ferdinand
The Blue Nile/Altered Images (sorry couldn't decide between those two... Orange Juice will always be first in my books though!)
Cocteau Twins may be the basic one but it's my love for the more niche bands like Orange Juice that give me the right to my self righteousness. The people who hate on my roots are the ones that wanna see me cut down 💯💯💯
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Leaving aside the Proclaimers and the Corries and other well-known groups, I'd just like to mention Battlefield Band; saw them twice in Charlottesville Va and they were great
The Jesus & Mary Chain
The Pastels (SO important)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Boards Of Canada
Bon's AC/DC (3/5 Scots born)
Will be different tomorrow...
I dunno but nobody mentioned Texas and aren't the Waterboys also? Does Annie Lennox Eurythmics count. What are the rules? Simple minds def... ACDC- do they count?
Rezillos
Proclaimers
The Waterboys
Orange Juice
Belle & Sebastian
Order may change. If Waterboys are seen as more a North East Atlantic Archipelago band, then The Jesus And Mary Chain can take their place. Eventually, I expect I’ll love The Blue Nile as much as I love Paul Buchanan’s solo album.
I haven't found more than the one CD (I buy physical media),
but of Forget The Night Ahead I really like I Became A Prostitute and The Neighbours Can't Breathe. They're all so good though.
I spent an evening in Bruce's company at The Columbia Hotel with a band I worked with. He was having a bad time personally & hearing Scottish voices cheered him up I think. Nice guy, realised we were broke & bought pretty much all the drinks. Definitely Scottish, & more specifically a Fifer😀
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1) Sensational Alex Harvey Band
2) Mogwai
3) Associates
4) Primal Scream
5) Boards Of Canada
2) Aztec Camera
3) Jesus & Mary Chain
4) Josef K
5) Associates
1.simple minds
2.the wake !!!!!!!
3.strawberry switchblade
4.the associates
5.skids
you people are proper sleeping on the wake !! their sound is the perfect factory powerhouse, it will make you smell and see fossil fuel consuming without pollution
go listen like right now!!!
2) Garbage
3) Cocteau Twins
4) Altered Images
5) Primal Scream
OK
1) TV21
2) Idlewild
3) Spare Snare
4) STOOR
5) De Rosa
Aztec Camera
Orange Juice
The Proclaimers
Simple Minds
1. Simple Minds (81, 82, 83, 84)
2. Frightened Rabbit
3. Mogwai
4. Young Fathers
5. Cocteau Twins
Aztec Camera
Orange Juice
Del Amitri
Cocteau Twins
Camera Obscura
JMC
Which I thought was never nout baby
1 - Teenage Fanclub
2 - Arab Strap
3- Cocteau Twins
4- Jesus & Mary Chain
5- Mogwai
2 - Orange Juice
3 - Fire Engines
4 - Josef K
5 - Aztec Camera
Blue Nile
Simple Minds
Texas
Teenage Fanclub
2. Primal Scream
3. Simple Minds
4. Big Country
5. Hue and Cry
2. Simple Minds
3. Orange Juice
4. H20 (my choice)
5. Hue and Cry
Jesus & Mary chain
Cocteau twins
Teenage fanclub
Mogwai
And a shout out for Captain America (eugenius)
2/ The Blue Nile
3/ Danny Wilson
4/ Orange Juice
5/ James King and The Lone Wolves.
Teenage Fanclub
Cocteau Twins
Jesus and Mary Chain
Belle & Sebastian
2) Dean & Dawn
3) Mafia
4) St Andrew & The Woollen Mill
5) The Penny Dainties
2) The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3) Cosmic Rough Riders
4) The Rezillos
5) Big Country
Runrig
Peat and Diesel
Peatbog Fairies
Nazareth
I'm really enjoying my education.
Tony is aptly named.
2. Simple Minds
3. Jesus & Mary Chain
4. Orange Juice
5. Average White Band
2. Slick
3. BA Robertson
4. Hipsway
5. Andy Stewart
2. JAMC
3. Arab strap
4. Uresei Yatsura
5. Ganger
Blue Nile.
Teenage Fanclub
Mogwai
The Shamen
Belle & Sebastian
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Bay City Rollers
Average White Band
Nazareth
Franz Ferdinand
All come to mind, but here's a playlist of Scottish bands:
https://polinatewtc.blogspot.com/2022/11/scottish-pick.html?m=1
The Delgados
Belle and Sebastian
Jesus and Mary Chain
The Shop Assistants
aztec camera
bell & sebastian
simple minds
teenage fanclub
2. Memorial Device
3. Memorial Device
4. Memorial Device
5. Memorial Device
Errors
Prolapse
Phantom Band
Yummy Fur
2. Mogwai
3. Boards of Canada
4. Delgados
5. Twilight Sad
Teenage Fanclub
Lungleg
Aztec Camera
Peatbog Faeries
Simple minds
Deacon blue
Biffy clyro
Waterboys
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Primal Scream
AC DC (claiming them...)
Proclaimers
Teenage Fanclub
Fire Engines
Cocteau Twins
Simple Minds (early)
Boards Of Canada
The Corrs
London beat
😂 sorry wanted to raise a few ires
Bis
Simple minds
Proclaimers
Alestorm
Garbage
Cocteau Twins
Jesus & Mary Chain
Teenage Fanclub
Belle & Sebastian
Fire Engines
Aztec Camera
Paul Quinn & The Independent Group
Scars
2. The Delganos
3. Orange Juice / Edwyn
4. Blue Nile
5. Cocteau Twins
1 - Jesus and Mary Chain
2 - Belle & Sebastian
3 - Camera Obscura
4 - The Vaselines
5 - Cocteau Twins
Per capita Scotland rules
Fire Engines
Boards of Canada
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Scars
Belle & Sebastian
Primal Scream
Teenage Fanclub
Mogwai
Runrig
The Skids
Big Country
The Proclaimers
and probably a gazillion others which had just dropped my mind
Big Country
Gerry Rafferty
Annie Lennox
Average White Band
Gerry Rafferty
Cado Belle
Del Amitri
Hue & Cry
Peat and Diesel
Big Country
Simple Minds
The Water Boys
2. Simple Minds
3. Mogwai
4. Beta Band
5. Ganger
The Exploited.
Big Country
Simple Minds
Fairground Attraction
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Amy MacDonald
The Simple Minds
Mogwai
and Ian McCulloch sounds like a Scottish name.
Simple Minds
A Davy band, any Davy band; Win, Fire Engines, Sexual Objects, Nectarine No. 9, take yer pick!
Spare Snare
Ballboy
Geneva might have had a shout but I'm protective of my street cred.
2. Big Country
3. Aztec Camera
4. Love and Money
5. Orange Juice
Tough though
Belle & Sebastian
Cocteau Twins
Mogwai
Jesus and Marychain
Boards of Canada
Proclaimers
Orange Juice
Altered Images
Average White Band
Lulu
Annie Lennox
Tommy Smith (jazz saxophonist)
Frightened Rabbit
Mogwai
Biffy Clyro
Jesus and Mary Chain
Strawberry Switchblade
Simple Minds
Franz Ferdinand
The Blue Nile/Altered Images (sorry couldn't decide between those two... Orange Juice will always be first in my books though!)
Primal Scream
King Creosote
Mogwai
Cocteau Twins
The Associates,
Mogwai,
Cindytalk,
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2. Also Cocteau Twins
3. Cocteau Twins
4. Yes them again
5. Did I mention I like Cocteau Twins?
2. The Cocteau Twins
3. The Pastels
4. Belle & Sebastian
5. The Vaselines
2. Simple Minds
3. Strawberry Switchblade
4. The Bluebells
5. Cocteau Twins
https://strawberryswitchblade.net
The Incredible String Band! <3 !
2. Biffy Clyro
3. Frightened Rabbit
4. Simple Minds
5. We Were Promised Jetpacks
Orange Juice
Josef K
The Associates
Jesus and Mary Chain
James King and the Lone Wolves
Orange Juice
Jesus and Mary Chain
Associates
Shooglenifty
Jack Bruce
Incredible String Band
Simple Minds
2 - Simple Minds
3 - Aztec Camera
4 - Deacon Blue
5 - Altered Images
Teenage Fanclub
Primal Scream
Big country
Belle and Sebastian
The Blue Nile
Cocteau Twins
The Jesus and Mary Chain
+ either Teenage Sinatras or Trashcan Fanclub
The Incredible String Band.
(Hint. I may take about 45 min to kick in)
https://youtu.be/9hGcJA8fXvU?si=H2dIrkfynSe51Py1
Altered Images
The Associates
Blue Nile
Strawberry Switchblade
2. Nazareth
3. Average white band
4. Jethro Tull
5. Stone the crows
And yes, I am an old fart
MBV
Orange Juice
Glasvegas
Belle and Sebastian
Swap them for Twilight Sad then
The Pastels (SO important)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Boards Of Canada
Bon's AC/DC (3/5 Scots born)
Will be different tomorrow...
2. Aztec Camera
3. Teenage Fanclub
4. The Pearlfishers
5. Dropkick
Trash Can Sinatras
Belle & Sebastian
Orange Juice
Mogwai
Hipsway
The Big Dish
The silencers
The Bathers
Others?
Boards of Canada
Teenage Fanclub
Jesus & Mary Chain
The Blue Nile
2. Blue Nile
3. Belle and Sebastian
Belle & Sebastian
Blue Nile
Simple Minds
Josef K
Big Dish
Mànran
Honeyblood
Secession
The Associates
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Josef K
Orange Juice
Mogwai
We We’re Promised Jetpacks
Frightened Rabbit
Garbage (assuming Garbage counts as being from Scotland)
Simple Minds
Orange Juice
Cocteau Twins
Mogwai
Garbage
Simple minds
Big country
The shamen
The Beta Band
Boards of Canada
Mogwai
Belle and Sebastian
Once you add Blue Nile, Love and Money, and Shug'n'Greet, and you've probably got a good idea of my age
Derek Dick (aka Fish)
Nazareth
Capercaillie
Alestorm
2. Cocteau Twins
3. Orange Juice
4. Josef K
5. Aztec Camera
Mogwai
Blue Nile
Belle and Sebastian
Average White Band
I also forgot BMX Bandits.
I forgot Teenage fan club
And Frightened Rabbit.
Oh the shame.
2. Voodoos
3. Shambolics
4. Vista's
5. Skids
Biffy Clyro
Teenage Fanclub
Belle and Sebastian
Jesus and the Mary Chain
Cocteau Twins
Primal Scream
Teenage Fanclub
Beta Band
Jasmine Minks
Primal Scream
Cocteau Twins
Belle & Sebastian
Teenage Fanclub
Associates/Billy Mackenzie
Cocteau Twins
Aztec Camera
Simple Minds
Orange Juice
Texas
Teenage Fanclub
Simple Minds
Mogwai
Chvrches
Cocteau Twins
Primal Scream
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Belle & Sebastian
Travis
The Associates
Simple Minds
Belle & Sebastian
Orange Juice
Josef K
2 hue & cry
3 eddi reader
4 cocteau twins
5 big country
The Beta Band
Cocteau Twins
Belle & Sebastian
Mogwai
Orange juice
Aztec camera
Altered images
Simple minds
Cocteaus
Mogwai
Simple Minds
Nectarine No 9
2. The Jesus & Mary Chain.
3. Idlewild.
4. Orange Juice.
5. Skids.
Echo
Exploited
Dog-Faced Hermans
Lloyd Cole/Commotions
Mogwai
Teenage Fanclub
Jesus & Mary Chain
Orange Juice
Brutal how many great bands I had to leave out mind.
Orange Juice
Associates
Aztec Camera
Josef K
Orange Juice
Joseph K
The associates
The Razzillos
The Proclaimers
Big Country
Simple Minds
Glasvagas
Proclaimers
The Waterboys
Orange Juice
Belle & Sebastian
Order may change. If Waterboys are seen as more a North East Atlantic Archipelago band, then The Jesus And Mary Chain can take their place. Eventually, I expect I’ll love The Blue Nile as much as I love Paul Buchanan’s solo album.
Aereogramme
Biffy Clyro
Idlewild
Twilight Sad
Whats your favourite songs?
but of Forget The Night Ahead I really like I Became A Prostitute and The Neighbours Can't Breathe. They're all so good though.
Loved Pills I swallow and It was never the same.
Have a listen to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0icQEgK7ik&list=OLAK5uy_mJHA7juKJRnAf-pYSpIc7ECfhBiiAJn7M&index=7
Other than that:
Big Country
Skids
The Rezillos
Simple Minds
And does no one want Runrig? 🤣
Simple Minds
Average White Band
SAHB
Skids
Primal Scream
2) Bluebells
3)Garbage
4) Cocteau Twins
5) Bay City Rollers
Bay City Rollers
Donovan
Jack Bruce
Simple Minds
2) Idlewild
3) Chvrches
4) Belle & Sebastian
5) Bis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axMgGY6d8xs&list=OLAK5uy_mJHA7juKJRnAf-pYSpIc7ECfhBiiAJn7M&index=5
I miss the old Glasgow music scene.
2/ Del Amitri
3/ Aztec Camera
4/ Simple Minds
5/ Biffy Clyro
2. Blue Nile
3. Simple Minds
4. Teenage Fanclub
5. Aztec Camera
Big Country
Cocteau Twins
Jesus and Mary Chain
Aztec Camera
Teenage Fanclub
Trashcan Sinatras
The Proclaimers
Cocteau Twins
Blue Nile
Cocteau twins
Orange juice
Big country
🤯
2 Garbage
3 Travis
4 Aztec Camera
5 Snow Patrol (OK, half Irish but 😄)