Did anyone see Channel 4's uk music hall of fame last night? I was quite surprised at a couple of them (Dr Dre and The Spice Girls) and was amazed that some other bands were not there. For example 'Primal Scream' the Album Screamadelica has to be one of the greatest albums of all time and took the uk by the scruff of the next with a fantatsic fusion of trance and guitar based indie music; and the Stone Roses...I guess that the first album was released in 89 but i bet that they don't make the 80's cut either. But of course this is all subjective.
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OK, I never thought the day would come that I would try and defend the Spice Girls - but have people forgotten what a force they were for the day? They are still the highest selling female band of all time, have shifted more than 80 million albums and singles, and invented "Girl Power"... but on reflection, it still don't make it right!
Glad to see that U2 made it to automatic founder member status though. :-))
They did release some fine singles, to be fair. In fact as a singles band, I think they can only be rivalled in the '90s by Take That or Oasis.
You ARE kidding right?!... I don't think that anything other than "Wannabe" (even that, only at a push) warrants anything more than a footnote in the history of contemporary music.
Not at all! Stop, Who Do You Think You Are?, Viva Forever, Spice Up Your Life... tune after tune!
Actually, I didn't think that much of Wannabe...
I think having Blur *and* Oasis was a bit of a waste. One or the other, purleease. Yes, Spice Girls should have been there as they changed the face of crap pop forever.
Dr Dre has had much more of an effect on 2000s music than 1990s as a solist - maybe it should have been NWA instead. They should have had Orbital, their 'brown' album made it okay for dance artists to make full, complete albums, and also their 1994 Glastonbury appearance had a profound effect on people's attitude towards live dance music.
Why isn't Stephen Devine there?...
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