How about Scottish bands and musicians? - Music

bobbyb5

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Location: New York

The song "In a Big Country" by Big Country is everything U2 was trying to be their entire career. Although U2's " I Will Folllow"came a year or two before Big Country. so you can't help but think that big country was actually aiming for U2. You know, everything had to be an Anthem. But those two songs actually DO sound like anthems.

HazeyTwilight

boyfriend in your wet dreams

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Age: 27

Location: Elmo Knows Where You Live

Insomniac wrote:

Someone needs to champion The Twilight Sad in here....

Can't believe I forgot about these guys. Surprised

Looks like I should head up; I'm shallow and blind.
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Graeme2

Gender: Male

Location: The Upside Down

Scotland is the place. I love it. The landscape, the mountains, the people and the music. The top three concerts I've enjoyed were by Glasgow acts (Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream). The people behind the greatest indie label ever (Creation) are from Glasgow. The greatest electronic artists of all time are Scottish (BoC). Most of the greats have been mentioned, but some essential listening would be

Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters ...ilight Sad

Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub

XTRMNTR by Primal Scream

Special Moves by Mogwai

Geogaddi by Boards Of Canada

CharlieBarley

Gender: Male

Age: 50

Location: Mount Olympus

There are loads of good ones that have been mentioned, I love Big Country, Jesus And Mary Chain and The Proclaimers. And I am just getting into Mogwai and Boards of Canada.

There are so many top quality Scottish bands, and I don't just say that because I am Scottish.

Many of my favourites have been mentioned. Were The Cocteau Twins mentioned?

I like older acts like The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and the mighty Bay City Rollers. I also love 80s band Deacon Blue, who were my favourite band as a teenager. They had so many good tunes. Plus Travis were top notch and did quite well in America, I believe, at least for a time. Plus Fran Healey is a talented songwriter and has a very good voice. I have seen both of those bands live. Yeh, so Travis and Deacon Blue,

Also 3 members of AC/DC were born in Scotland, which will probably explain the inclusion of bagpipes on their first album.

Two cracking little bands, not too well known are Goodbye Mr Mackenzie and Bis. Both brilliant. Plus I also love Primal Scream, as mentioned.

Plus there are urban acts like Emeli Sande and Ms Dynamite, the latter's mother is Scottish.
Paolo Nutini is good. I even like a couple of tracks by Texas and Wet Wet Wet. Heaven forbid!

Other good Scottish artists:

Amy MacDonald
Biffy Clyro
Calvin Harris
Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat were Scottish, I think)
Hue And Cry
Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice were mentioned)
The Skids
The Fratelli's (check out Chelsea Dagger - a staple chant at football and rugby matches and sang along to in many a pub)
The View
Finley Quaye
K T Tunstall
Lloyd Cole
Fiction Factory (I only know Feels Like Heaven but what a song)
Hipsway
Chvrches
BMX Bandits
Glasvegas (gorgeous band)
Fairground Attraction/Eddi Reader (what a voice!)
the Danny Wilson song Mary's Prayer
Ultravox/Midge Ure
Gerry Rafferty's project Stealer's Wheel (Stuck in the Middle With You)
Frankie Miller
Marmalade
Dougie Maclean
Can't forget Lulu (already mentioned but ace)
Even Billy Connolly had a stab at the charts and scored a number 1 in 1975 with D.I.V.O.R.C.E. a parody of the famous Tammy Wynette song. Plus he started out in folk band The Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty, then went solo to revolutionise stand-up comedy as we know it in the UK, back in the 1970s

There are more but those are all the ones I can think of, apart from those already mentioned.
Check some out
There's a lot of good stuff.

bobbyb5

Gender: Male

Location: New York

Of course I mentioned the cocteau twins. In fact, when I was a teenager I thought that the reason I didn't understand what she was saying is because she was Scottish. But of course that wasn't the reason at all. Americans can't understand Scottish at all. When they show Scottish movies they are subtitled.. Without subtitles we cant figure out what they're saying. Like when they show Trainspotting here its subtitled. And I when watched a movie with Claire Grogan who was the singer in altered images, one of my favorite bands of the 80s, it was available in subtitled our unsubtitled. I watched both of them.

bobbyb5

Gender: Male

Location: New York

I forgot about Maggie Bell and stone the crows. And she's in my top 100 so I don't know how I forgot

CharlieBarley

Gender: Male

Age: 50

Location: Mount Olympus

bobbyb5 wrote:

Of course I mentioned the cocteau twins. In fact, when I was a teenager I thought that the reason I didn't understand what she was saying is because she was Scottish. But of course that wasn't the reason at all. Americans can't understand Scottish at all. When they show Scottish movies they are subtitled.. Without subtitles we cant figure out what they're saying. Like when they show Trainspotting here its subtitled. And I when watched a movie with Claire Grogan who was the singer in altered images, one of my favorite bands of the 80s, it was available in subtitled our unsubtitled. I watched both of them.

Was the Clare Grogan film Gregory's Girl?
That is such a good film.

bobbyb5

Gender: Male

Location: New York

Stover75 wrote:

Was the Clare Grogan film Gregory's Girl?
That is such a good film.

No. It was called Comfort and Joy. It was about a war between people who drove ice cream trucks. It was fuckin hilarious. It was the same director though.