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[Music] Greatest UK Band Cup 2025 - Group B

Group B - choose your favourite

  • Madness

    Votes: 49 36.6%
  • Manic Street Preachers

    Votes: 30 22.4%
  • Genesis

    Votes: 26 19.4%
  • The Beautiful South

    Votes: 29 21.6%

  • Total voters
    134
  • This poll will close: .






Garry Nelson's Left Foot

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Jul 7, 2003
13,921
tokyo
See, you say "sexy" but the drummer looks and dresses (at points) like Mark Corrigan working at a NatWest.

Doesn't quite tie up with the punk ethos to me.
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot

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Jul 7, 2003
13,921
tokyo
Apart from "incredible tunes", I don't really care about any of those things.
If that's your only criteria then guess what?

You should VOTE MANICS.

Their songs shit al over what the other bands in this group can offer.

If you change your mind and want more than just great songs then guess what?

You should still VOTE MANICS.

They shit all over the other bands in this group on every other front too.

Unless you're a rabid RACIST who hates the Welsh. In which case VOTE MANICS anyway.
 


mejonaNO12 aka riskit

Well-known member
Dec 4, 2003
22,448
England
Even if they go out at this stage, I'm just pleased the manics are having their moment in the sun.

However if they do go out, I would say you stole the sun fro........oh whatever
 


Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
33,146
Brighton
At time of speaking, the Manics are only 5 votes behind The Beautiful South.

Mods, be on the lookout for some interesting new Usernames joining the board :lol:...
 




Sid and the Sharknados

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NSC Patron
Sep 4, 2022
6,317
Darlington
If that's your only criteria then guess what?

You should VOTE MANICS.

Their songs shit al over what the other bands in this group can offer.

If you change your mind and want more than just great songs then guess what?

You should still VOTE MANICS.

They shit all over the other bands in this group on every other front too.

Unless you're a rabid RACIST who hates the Welsh. In which case VOTE MANICS anyway.
I admire your enthusiasm.

I'm pretty sure I saw them in Swansea a few years ago.

My sole recollection of the gig is Super Furry Animals being mildly irritating.
 








Garry Nelson's Left Foot

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
13,921
tokyo
The manics also played Cuba. That's cool. Here they are meeting Fidel Castro. That may or not be cool depending on your viewpoint. Playing Cuba

I admire your enthusiasm.

I'm pretty sure I saw them in Swansea a few years ago.

My sole recollection of the gig is Super Furry Animals being mildly irritating.
In which case you should VOTE MANICS so everyone can know that Wales produces great bands and not just mildly irritating ones.

I know they're not long of this competition but they can't go out to madness and the f***ing beautiful south. :nono: 😭
 


bhafc99

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2003
7,850
Dubai
Frankly all of Group A’s quartet are better than this selection.
 






Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,742
I like the Manics, I've seen them live. Madness - the favourite band of thick kids at school. Beautiful South - meh. I preferred The Housemartins.

However, I still listen to Genesis regularly, and the music it spawned (Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike and The Mechanics). I prefer later Genesis to the early stuff but - that said - Supper's Ready is such a National Treasure of a song, so eccentric, so English, so prog rock.
 


BN9 BHA

Flakey fanbase member 🙄
NSC Patron
Jul 14, 2013
23,778
Newhaven
The manics also played Cuba. That's cool. Here they are meeting Fidel Castro. That may or not be cool depending on your viewpoint. Playing Cuba


In which case you should VOTE MANICS so everyone can know that Wales produces great bands and not just mildly irritating ones.

I know they're not long of this competition but they can't go out to madness and the f***ing beautiful south. :nono: 😭

 








bhafc99

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2003
7,850
Dubai
f***ing Madness winning, honestly NSC, take a good hard look at yourselves. Who do you fancy in in the next group, Bad Manners? Chas ‘n Dave? Black Lace?
 


Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
33,146
Brighton
Yeah I considered it but couldn’t quite bring myself to vote for a band where one of their main hits is basically just them shouting Baggy Trousers.
 


A1X

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 1, 2017
23,274
Deepest, darkest Sussex
I love Madness, couldn’t vote for anyone else and I nominated one and seconded another in this group
 




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