Favorite bands of the British Invasion?

[Flower]

Originally Posted by snowblue I was beginning to think that I was the only one...............

[rbowman]

Baba O'Reilly is most certainly The Who's best song

[FretBuzz]

Wow, I can't believe only one person has mentioned the Small Faces. I put them right up there with any of the 'second tier' British Invasion bands (after the Beatles & Stones, of course). If you're a fan of the Who during their 'Mod' years, or the Kinks, Zombies, Hollies, etc., trust me, you'll like the Small Faces.

My top 15 British Invasion list goes like this:

1. Beatles
2. Rolling Stones
3. Who
4. Kinks (their original Bassist, Peter Quaife, just died yesterday)
5. Yardbirds
6. Small Faces
7. Cream
8. Zombies
9. Animals
10. Hollies
11. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
12. Spencer Davis Group
13. Donovan
14. Searchers
15. Dusty Springfield


For me, the British Invasion ends when Led Zeppelin began...I love Zep, but that was the start of a whole different era in my book.

[Flower]

Originally Posted by FretBuzz Wow, I can't believe only one person has mentioned the Small Faces. I put them right up there with any of the 'second tier' British Invasion bands (after the Beatles & Stones, of course). If you're a fan of the Who during their 'Mod' years, or the Kinks, Zombies, Hollies, etc., trust me, you'll like the Small Faces. My top 10 British Invasion list goes like this: 1. Beatles 2. Rolling Stones 3. Who 4. Kinks (their original Bassist, Peter Quaife, just died yesterday) 5. Yardbirds 6. Small Faces 7. Cream 8. Zombies 9. Hollies 10. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

[FretBuzz]

Glad you like my list Flower. I forgot about the Animals, had to add them in, so I changed it to my top 15.

[Flower]

I love the Animals too ...

[Drifter]

Here's my list and I'll make it ten groups.

The Rolling Stones
The Pretty Things
The Small Faces
The Who
The Kinks
The Creation
The Animals
The Zombies
The Move
The Searchers

[NothinShakin]

1 The Beatles
2 The Kinks
3 The Who
4 Small Faces
5 The Rolling Stones

[SteveB]

As someone in a music paper wrote: 'You could put the British Isles in one corner of Texas'.
And to think that so much remembered music came from here?
The problem (well partly) for us Brits in the 1960s was the lack of outlet to hear these gems.
The BBC had a stranglehold on the airwaves until the Pirate Radio vessels appeared, (and the BBC is/was a very stuffy place). Radio Luxemburg was a very hit-and-miss affair, but because of the limited exposure environment, almost every new record/disc/song you heard was the best available. Well done Britain.

[Lord Grendel]

^^I was really shocked when I learned that we stepped up and embraced Stereo before England did Steve, considering England was exporting the most popular music by far back in the Invasion days, I would have thought it was the other way around.

I have talked about it in our "Moody Blues" thread, so I won't go into details here.

[SteveB]

LG - I'll check out the MBs thread. In hindsight, the word 'parochial' doesn't begin to cover how stifling the UK was before the Swinging 60s. However, to its advantage, because it's such a (comparative to Europe/USA) small place, a lot of the bands that took part in the 'Brit Invasion etc' would regularly turn up in most nearby towns, and so you'd get a chance to see them. In fact a lot of these bands (Usually with only the original tambourine player left), still tour the UK.

[Lord Grendel]

^^I know my friends Sox and Sweaty and LOU are always nipping down to the pub to chat with ELP or watch Lemmy or Byford's band put on a show and share a pint afterward...

[hawk11]

1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Who
4. Cream
5. Traffic
6. Ten Years After
7. The Animals
8. Free
9. The Kinks
10. The Small Faces

[Stoned]

The Animals...

One of my favorite bands actually..

[rollingstoned]

Originally Posted by Stoned The Animals... One of my favorite bands actually..

Great band, sometimes over-looked sadly.