XFM Greatest Manchester song of all time

[zetec]

XFM just now, some fantastic tunes being played, Clint Boon is the DJ and now in the top 10.

[Asterix]

Hmmmmm - 'Fools Gold' has to be up there.

The La's are Liverpool I think but if its included, 'There she goes' is a brilliant song.

[robsco]

That's got to be one of the most difficult questions ever posed.

[toxicated]

Taken from Addict Music

The top 10, which does not contain any Oasis, is below:

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
I am the Resurrection – The Stone Roses
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
Blue Monday – New Order
Fools Gold – The Stone Roses
How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
One Day Like This – Elbow
This Charming Man – The Smiths

[MrDarkBlack]

That's really just a list of the most popular songs by those bands...but IMHO, not the best. I think they're all great songs(bar the Elbow one) and it appears that people have voted for them without knowing much more about the bands.

I could go on about all of them..but I'll stick to The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony. IMO, "Blue", "Slide Away", and "Gravity Grave" are head and shoulders above it..but they never got blasted on the radio day and night, hence average joe doesn't know them. Same can be said about Joy Division.

toxicated said:

Taken from Addict Music

The top 10, which does not contain any Oasis, is below:

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
I am the Resurrection – The Stone Roses
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
Blue Monday – New Order
Fools Gold – The Stone Roses
How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
One Day Like This – Elbow
This Charming Man – The Smiths

[B Huey]

Voodoo Ray by A Guy Called Gerald.

[B Huey]

toxicated said:

Taken from Addict Music

The top 10, which does not contain any Oasis, is below:

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
I am the Resurrection – The Stone Roses
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
Blue Monday – New Order
Fools Gold – The Stone Roses
How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
One Day Like This – Elbow
This Charming Man – The Smiths

No Happy Mondays either, a travesty.

Weren't The Verve from Wigan?

[sneijder]

B Huey said:

Voodoo Ray by A Guy Called Gerald.

Just finished 'How not to run a club'.

I had a cost of an orchestra doing Voodoo Ray, IIRC it was on a mixmag cover.