Put these 3indie bands in order of "The best" :

The Stone Roses
Oasis




The Smiths

cue wailing and nashing of teeth from Morrisey fans.

Oasis
Smiths
Stone Roses

For me

Where are the three indie bands ?

I agree with *****

oasis
stone roses
smiths

B-)

For me its:

The Smiths
Stone Roses
Oasis

same as brentford

I reckon you had it right first time but the second and third are pretty inseperable:

The Smiths





Happy Mondays
The Charlatans


Oasis
Roses

imo

Martin pipe returns 04 Dec 18:51


Where are the three indie bands ?

I took it as meaning independent record labels.

Oasis
Stone Roses




Smiths

Stone Roses





The Smiths
Oasis

snooker backer......where would you put Inspiral Carpets in that list mate?

Cancer
AIDS
Those three bands

The Smiths - utterly unique, dozens of great songs
Stone Roses - one great album
Oasis - completely derivative

Good point angryfire, silly me. Just above the Roses but probably below Oasis.

Seen the inspirals 5 times, Mondays 3, Oasis and Smiths and Roses...never....wish id seen the Smiths and Roses too.....one of my only regrets in life that money cant buy for me.

The Stone Roses
The Smiths
Oasis

Well I saw the Smiths once, Mondays once (on form for once, at the Hacienda), Oasis twice and The Charlatans last year, still a class act. Just think in terms of the way music changes things there is little to rival the Smiths, to me the Mondays were the 80's/90's equivalent to the Sex Pistols but the Smiths were like nobody before. The Roses and Oasis were always imo standing on the shoulders of giants.

Saw the carpets once in Gloucester but I was a bit p1ssed, EMF were there too so a bad night was had by all. Good studio band though, love Saturn 5 and Caravan.

I did see the La's at their peak too. Awesome, but dated I suppose. i

Saturn 5 and Caravan, yeah. Loved everything they did...Clint and Tom..heroes to me...Only saw Mr Ryder when he was whacked.....and in those days, I just thought it was the red stripe he was holding.....how little did I know.

Smiths




oasis



















































































stone roses

oasis
the smiths
stone roses

Smiths
Roses


Oasis


Very easy decision

1. Smiths (genius vocals, lyrics & guitar riffs, split up at just the right time)
2. Stone Roses (fantastic, creative, debut album, but burnt out too quickly)
3. Oasis (good, but ultimately nothing more than Beatles copyists with attitude)

Im with Alex ^

so angryfire, question back, if you put the carpets, the mondays and the charlatans in there what would your order be?

I don't know the inspiral carpets much but of the 5, i'd go:-

Smiths
Roses

Charlatans

Mondays
Oasis

Well I would be like this:


The Smiths
Inspiral Carpets
The Stone Roses
Happy Mondays
The Charlatans
Oasis

I think the Smiths have to win cos they were the most prefectly timed band ever......they were needed....and still stand up today. They will go down in history, the others (some of em) will just be remembered.

Agree with the top choice and yoursummary obviously. Mozza continues to be supreme live. But please please please listen to Pills Chills and Bellyaches again and again and again before you demote the Mondays so easily.

:)

Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches, not Chills!

;) describes the mood at the time! Freudian slip!

Yep, they were great times.....and my goodness, high times.

The Smiths



by miles



The Stone Roses (for one album)

edging out

Oasis

Smiths
Stone Roses
Oasis

The Everley Bros
The Marx Bros
Mike and Bernie Winters feat. Schnorbitz

cult
mary chain
cure

good thread.

all cracking bands, but The Smiths win by a mile!

smiths by a mile

stone roses- fine debut album.

dont regard oasis as of any musical significance whatsover. rutles tribute band.

Im not a massive Oasis fan, in fact, not much at all....I loved the single Rock and Roll Star.....and Supersonic.....but once they started with Some might say, it was all starting to get a bit "status quo" for me.

Angry - who are your top few bands of all time, mate, out of interest?

It would be a little shameful if im honest.



Its so varied......

Icant do an order but here are a few I like:


Faithless
Everything but the girl
Jethro Tull (Yes, really!)
Air
New Order
Joy Division
Cud
Nirvana
Elbow
Prodigy
To be honest, I could go on with 70s, 80s and 90s.......Theres just too many. Everything but the girl were doing stuff same time as The Smiths and imo, some of it genius. Others would say "plain pop" but I rate em.

smiths, then oasis sometimes, never liked the stone roses

1.The Smiths
2 .Ian Brown's superior solo stuff
3. Nobody