Scottish Bands/Artists Appreciation Thread

[Mirrorball95]

Originally Posted by GravitySlips

hey i'm scottish too!

scottish bands i like:

orange juice/edwyn collins
josef k
fire engines
urusei yatsura
belle & sebastian
mogwai
the jesus and mary chain
cocteau twins
franz ferdinand (to an extent)
teenage fanclub (my flatmate's uncle was in the band too!)
the pastels
idlewild
boards of canada
arab strap
the delgados
camera obscura (to an extent)

i've missed out loads too i'm sure... scottish music rules.

there's some class new ones as well, like Frightened Rabbit and Danananakroyd.

Mcf*ckity f*ck! I knew there was someone Id left out! Ill have to a bit for Primal Scream & Jesus & Mary Chain.
Ive heard of Mogwai, Arab Strap, Belle & Sebastian but I only know other people who are into them.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

As hyphenated-American, I really don't want any one to know I'm part Scots & Scots-Irish et cetera.


I like differnet Scottish bands but only a few songs like Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, Dire Straits, Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, The Average White Band, Tannahill Weavers, and of course Big Country, too bad they didn't become as big as U2.

My favorite band from Scotland is The Rezillos, actually the first time I heard them I was at Jazz store looking for Les Paul and Wes Montgomery, because Steve Howe was influenced by them. While I was in the basement of this store, that had non-Jazz albums, I heard this band I never heard before and it was the greatest bass playing I ever heard, I sheepishly asked the guy who worked their and said he was playing the Rezillos. Whenever I was in a music store, I would look for their CD, but could never find it. Every so often I'll ask someone about them and they never had a clue who they were. I found a store that could special ordered the CD. It finally arrive something like 6 months latter. It was well worth the wait.

YouTube - The Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures

YouTube - Average White Band - Pick up the pieces

YouTube - Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

I want to say that The Rezillos + AWB = Franz Ferdinand (style-wise); but I won't becuase I don't want any criticism for saying so.

I didnt include Franz Ferdinand as I dont really rate them as a good Scottish as such- certainly not up beside the likes of these.
Also Snow Patrol (although they have a few Scottish members)- I would class as Irish as the lead singer is Irish, he has an irish accent & he sounds Irish. Annie Lennox & Eurthymics just dont match my tastes but I can respect here as an artist.
As for Big Country, I wouldnt want them to be as big as U2 as U2 are a bunch of *******s.
Somebody keeps badgering me about Frightened Rabbit, whom Ive not gotten round to checking out yet, good I suppose aye?

Originally Posted by Comus

Dire Straits are from Newcastle...

Yeah I wouldnt class a bunch of Jordies as a Scottish band. Although i think Mark Knopfler was born in Scotland.

Originally Posted by right-track

Not strictly Scottish, but worthy of inclusion.

Haha, thats just a rip off The Proclaimers.

Originally Posted by Comus

Bodkin!



Awesome heavy prog, this blows most scottish bands out of the water. John Martyn is of course always great too.

Cool man ive never heard of this band before, will need to check them out. Got any recommendations on where to start? Im glad you like John Martyn. Have you heard an album called The Apprentice? Ive included some tracks from it here.

Primal Scream:
I have been into this band for as long as I can remember. Screamadelica was one of the first albums I ever heard from them but Give Out But Dont Give Up was my favourite. It took me ages to appreciate the other songs on Screamadelica (apart from Loaded & Movin On Up) although I always loved 'Damaged'.

This song has one of the best intro riffs I have ever hear in my life- lost count of the times I used to listen to this full blast on the Ipod.
I also love the album, Give Out But Dont Give Up (1994) on which they collabarated with George Clinton- which was how I got into him in the first place.


Like Urban said in his review, one of the best album openers of all time, which I can only agree on.


Another good un


One I forgot about!


'Vanishing Point' is an extremely underrated album & I stupidly took a very long time to get it.




Jesus & Mary Chain- I got into them through Primal Scream when I heard that Bobby Gillespie was the drummer in them previously.
The early stuff is my favourite, especially the track 'Upside Down'. They are an example of when noise can be blissful.



Sorry about the sound quality, was the only one I could find apart from ****ey fan boy covers

[lucifer_sam]

Originally Posted by Mirrorball95

Jesus & Mary Chain- I got into them through Primal Scream when I heard that Bobby Gillespie was the drummer in them previously.
The early stuff is my favourite, especially the track 'Upside Down'. They are an example of when noise can be blissful.

he was only with them for Psychocandy, then he went & did his own thing with the Scream. it's really always been just the Reid kids.

i can't even stand Psychocandy anymore (which is apparently a 'masterpiece' of the '80s), the production is terrible and it sounds grating after a while. Darklands and Honey's Dead are both superb albums though, much stronger songwriting too.

[Zer0]

[Mirrorball95]

Originally Posted by Comus

Geordie* and Bodkin only have one album, I'll send you a link.

Aye man cheers for that, Ill probably listen to it tomorrow.

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

he was only with them for Psychocandy, then he went & did his own thing with the Scream. it's really always been just the Reid kids.

i can't even stand Psychocandy anymore (which is apparently a 'masterpiece' of the '80s), the production is terrible and it sounds grating after a while. Darklands and Honey's Dead are both superb albums though, much stronger songwriting too.

Yeah, I dont know a lot about the Jesus & Mary Chain- Ive only got their 21 Singles album which i really like, have had Psychocandy & Darklands on my wishlist for years now. I just knew Bobby Gillespie had played with them before Primal Scream who I think did their first album in 89? I recentley got it to complete my collection & it has a different punkier sound to it. Wasnt too keen on it though.

[Gone Sugaring]

While I am most certainly not Scottish, some of my favorite bands are.

Orange Juice- YouTube - Orange Juice - Falling and laughing

The Vaselines- YouTube - The Vaselines-Son Of a Gun

The Pastels- YouTube - The Pastels - Nothing to be done

Teenage Fanclub- YouTube - Teenage Fanclub - The Concept (audio only)

Belle and Sebastian- YouTube - Like Dylan In The Movies - Belle & Sebastian

Josef K- YouTube - Josef K - Heaven Sent

[Raust]

Recently I've been digging The Twilight Sad.

[Justthefacts]

Belle & Sebastian all the way. I love them so much.

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Mirrorball95

Yeah I wouldnt class a bunch of Jordies as a Scottish band. Although i think Mark Knopfler was born in Scotland.

Mark Knopfler is not Jordanian, his father is of Jewish decent.

[Mirrorball95]

Very funny, as much as I like Dire Straits, lets stop talking about them as they are not a scottish band.

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Mirrorball95

Very funny, as much as I like Dire Straits, lets stop talking about them as they are not a scottish band.

You keep talking about them, hey the only reason I temporarily thought Mark Knopfler's Scots was because he said his father was the only Jewish doctor in Scotland, I must of missed the part were his family moved to Newcastel upon Tyne.