Favorite British Invasion band?
 

Who's your favourite British Invasion band (of the 60s)?

Options: (had to limit the options a bit, sorry if your favourite band isn't there)

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

The Who

The Kinks

The Yardbirds

The Animals

Small Faces

Sorry if it's in the wrong forum.

Definately The Who. One of my favorite bands ever.

Kinks for sure, they are on the top of my favorites list.
The Who come in second.

Goin' with The Who.

The Who, hands down. Second place would be the Kinks, and in a distant third, the Stones.

The Zombies should have been included

The Beatlez.

Voted the Kinks. But I love all these bands.

And I'd like to add that Steve Marriot is one of the best vocalist of forgotten music history, just because I like to point that out as often as possible...

I have a soft spot for The Creation.

Although they were more package holiday rather than invasion.

The Beatles for me,,,first song I remember that really caught my attention was Get Back, when it was first released. We were camping and were listening to it on our AM radio,,,in mono,,,FM stereo was just getting started...lol.

Honorable mention The Who, and The Kinks.

Oh god, The Kinks for me no contest.
All of their albums are fun and have this unique personality to them. I think they were totally underrated as a band.

I would say that Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround is favorite Kink's album. :D

Where the **** are The Byrds?!?

obviously, that's not the only band that you forgot..I could go on and on about this..but I won't.

Out of those select few:

The Kinks, I suppose..

I do love the Kinks so much...but I had a hard time choosing betweenthe Kinks and the Beatles...

Err... The Byrds were American...

Beatles.

Anthology discs.

No competition

DA BEETULZ. followed by the Kinks. Honourary mention to the Byrds. I should be cast out of mod society cause the Creation were ****ED. The Faces and all. Sha-la-la-la-lee!

:laughing: I sincerely hope you meant The Birds.

Where's The Dave Clark Five, Donovan, The Hollies, and The Zombies on this list?

Nope, the Byrds, it's an honorary mention. ;)
How are we defining British Invasion exactly? I would assume it's beat groups up to 1966? You can't help thinking that most of the more inferior groups went on to do their best work later in the decade. In other words, Odyssey and Oracle. I rest my case

The Zombies and The Moody Blues both should have been listed.

I definitely agree on The Zombies. The Moody Blues were on the short list for me, along with a bunch of other artists.

I think The Moody Blues were the most underrated British invasion band. Days of Future Past is an amazing overlooked gem.

Moody Blues were great, even when they were The Magnificent Moodies. I think Hayward and Lodge's later work was amazing also, especially on the Bluejays album. If any of these bands came out today, the Moody Blues would probably get the most fame because of the transcendent quality of their music, spanning all sorts of genre sounds.

That being said, I like every band listed but the Yardbirds. Their music doesn't carry much over these days because they were a little bit boring and probably at the time Fleetwood Mac was more experimental. I can't complain about Fleetwood Mac not being added though as they generally are not considered British Invasion.

The Kinks are amazing, as are The Who. The Stones WERE amazing but are not just skeletons with electrical instruments.

The Animals were better once Eric Burdon decided to move on from the original lineup. Song's like San Franciscan Nights and Sky Pilot were much better than that whole House of the Rising Sun bull$h1t.

The Beatles still rule, but the more you listen to their stuff the more you realize that George Harrison created their best products. Lennon and McCartney were kind of douches.

I would hardly just call Lennon and McCartney douches. Maybe this is just me (:rofl:) but they both made some of the best music of the era.

I think you could add "On The Threshold Of A Dream" as another Moody Blues gem, it's my personal favorite. One of the truly unique sounds of any band coming out of England of any era.

Where's Gerry And The Pacemakers or Freddie And The Dreamers or the Tremeloes or the Searchers? JK

The Zombies, Hollies and Moody Blues should be on the list.

i said kinda, not just. I liked both of their music, but I think George Harrison's contributions, while fewer, were more quality.

Lennon and Harrison were all right, but really, I'd say that even the secondary composers in other bands of that time were much better (Dave Davies, John Entwistle).

How dare thee not mention Muse? Sure, maybe they came a little late... :P

i rate the beatles and they have been my favorite band. i think the stones are an underated band. but i reckon my favourite british invasion band is ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars.

Come on... including Bowie (and Muse) are pushing the limit. The invasion was pretty much finished with the Beatles separating anyway. Muse is not even second wave. And they haven't invaded much... (no offense meant, I only mean that people didn't go crazy over them the way they did for Duran Duran... or Oasis)

The Kinks are like epitome of the British invasion to me, Beatles are still my favorite though.

Wouldn't it just be easier to seperate the "british invasion" by waves? You know.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Yardbirds, The Animals, The Zombies, Dave Clark Five, The Moody Blues, Donovan = First wave

Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Yes, King Crimson, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Queen, Genesis = Second wave.

The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Buzzc*cks, Joy Division, Elvis Costello, The Fall, Gang of Four, Wire = Third wave.

The Smiths, The Cure, The Police, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Echo & the Bunnymen = Fourth wave.

Stone Roses, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays = Fifth wave, actually I wouldn't call this one an invasion. :laughing:

Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, Suede, Pulp, Supergrass, The Verve, Portishead, Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Stereolab = Sixth wave.

Muse, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, The Streets, Lilly Allen, whatever else you guys have, I'm not keeping track anymore = Seventh wave, the dark ages.

Man, you brits really do kick our asses at this whole music thing. Well, you did until now.

I think we should limit the invasions to times when the Americans didn't produce/export much good music, ie, stopping the first wave around Jimi Hendrix moving to England, then 80s pop would be the second (Synchronicity and all that crap). Some great music was made in the 70s in the US, which didn't leave much chance of real invasion.

I have this (controversial?) theory that all the best solo artists were American and that all the best bands were British. The only exceptions are the VU and Elvis Costello, and I would argue that Costello is the exception that proves the rule, because all of his best records were made with the Attractions.

I was referring to the first invasion when I made this poll, sorry for not making that clearer.

the beatles are my favorite, the stones get my respect for their inovation with blues back then and for their longevity.
i think musos like bowie, elton john, slade and the sweet were part of the invasion but were more glam rock. england created some good music and it was always changing and evolving. i also like the black blues/soul/gospel/rock sound that came from the south of america. bo didely, muddy waters, bb king, ella fitzgerald and billy holliday. through to buddy guy, keb mo, son seals. i recken some of those joot joints would have been going off.

......he wrote about 5 good songs. The standard of everything he did before 1968 was by his own admission amateurish and mediocre, at least when compared to the dexterity and experience of John and Paul. Production only allowed those songs onto the albums either to placate him or as filler (like tossing a song to Ringo).

so you are not familiar with his post beatles work then? and if you say he wrote five good songs then you probably don't know much about the beatles.

He wrote about 5 songs that were of Lennon/McCartney quality. His own view of his pre-1968 material was that it was mediocre by comparison to John and Paul's, and it is widely known that he only really comes into his own as a seriously strong and competetive songwriter by The White Album. At any rate, you were not talking about his post-Beatles work. You claimed that he created the Beatles' best products, which is straight-up nonsense. For one, he wrote no more than about 10% of the band's whole discography, of which about a third (at the most) were particularly good. Hell, he hardly ever even felt truly confident enough to write his own material until very late on. He felt he had to get help from John and Paul on songs like Taxman for example, which John reluctantly acquiesced and helped him out with.

You ought to stop saying to people "you probably don't know much about such and such" - it's becoming a broken record, and it has been proven repeatedly that others here not only seem to know better than you do, but express it a lot better too. Seriously dude, just stick to the points and stop feeling you have to call people "ignorant" or whatever. If they are, then prove it with your evidence and your argument.

Technically, The Kinks shouldn't be in this poll...they were banned from entering the U.S. for a period of 4 years during the height of the 'British Invasion'.

Most Americans at the time knew very little about them, by comparison to the others on that list.