LONDON_ENGLAND_SEPTEMBER_.jpg' alt='New Wave Brit' title='New Wave Brit' />The 5. Greatest British Bands of All Time jimcofer. So something really awful happened recently, and to take my mind off it I decided to make a list of the 5. British bands of all time. The actual list only took an hour or so to make, but its taken me a couple of weeks to write the necessary paragraph or two about each artist. I did my best to keep my personal tastes out of this list, insofar as thats even possible. This isnt a list of my favorite British bands of all time. Ive tried to use record sales and chart performance to justify my positions as much as I could. But, at the end of the day, my musical tastes did dictate at least a little of the list. Not many of these lists would include the Cocteau Twins over, say, Squeeze, but hey its my list and Ill do it as I please. Keep in mind that the list implicitly includes spin off acts. If youre wondering how I could leave Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins off the list, note that theyre included under Genesis. My reasoning is that if I gave Gabriel his own entry, Id have give Collins one, too. And if I did that, Id have to have separate entries for Joy Division and New Order, Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, and maybe Marc Bolan. And if I did all that, my list of 5. Greatest British Bands would become the 1. Greatest English Bands, and their 3. Spin Off Acts. Of course, the list also includes artists who are primarily known for being solo acts, like David Bowie. White Patch On Tip Of Tongue. You typically wouldnt call Bowie a band, but 5. Carrier last connected in 1982 when it used New Orleans as refueling stop between London and Mexico City. New wave is a genre of rock music popular in late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from blues and rock and roll sounds to. Ccnp Switching Pdf there. Enjoy your holiday Terror police show terrified Brit tourists running for their lives in new advice video on what to do if terrorists strike your resort. Greatest British Musical Artists of All Time just doesnt have the same ring that 5. Greatest British Bands of All Time does. The Verve They werent my favorite band No shit Your 5. The Verve had a certain degree of magic when they werent busy arguing with each other. These guys were tight, but seemed to have more personnel issues than Spinal Tap. And its kind of ironic that their most popular song is now a Rolling Stones song. The band worked out an agreement to sample an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones song The Last Time for their single Bitter Sweet Symphony. Originally, the deal called for a 5. The Verve and the license holder. Car insurers recoil in horror from paying auto autos speeding fines Lenovo confirmed to the UK teamsters this morning at 9am that a new boss is set to parachute into. The new Oyster 2 wave generator hinges in the force of a wave to create power onshore in a big way. Brit holidaymakers snubbing old favourites like Majorca because the locals dont want them there. Slogans demanding tourists go home have been written over the Old. The parents of a British man arrested in Dubai for brushing an Arab man on the hip have spoken of their fears as he faces a lengthy spell in jail. Jamie Harron, 27. Nationalism Nationalism, ideology based on the idea that the individuals loyalty and devotion to the nationstate surpass other individual or group interests. Exclusive fashion editorials a new wave of creative talent. Loaded Review Mary McCormack Gives AMCs BigBucks Brit Comedy Real Bite. But when the song turned into a major hit, Allen Klein sued hes the former Stones manager who managed to steal the rights to most of their pre 1. The Verve had sampled it too much. Unbelievably, a court agreed. All profits were given to Klein, and songwriting credit was given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. This led Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft to quip that Symphony was the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 2. Symphony was the highest charting JaggerRichards single since 1. Brown Sugar4. 9 Japan One wonders what British pop music might have been like had Yuka Fujii never existed. JPG_500/MI0001/330/MI0001330456.jpg?partner=allrovi.com' alt='New Wave Brit' title='New Wave Brit' />She was the girlfriend of Japans bassist, Mick Karn. In the early 8. 0s, she packed up her things and, without telling Karn, moved in with lead singer David Sylvian. Not surprisingly, the band broke up shortly thereafter. Japans catalog is inconsistent, pretentious, and slightly dated. They started as a glam rock knock off, moved in to disco for an album, then settled into art pop. But they did create some of the most unique pop music in British pop culture history. Their Ghosts single hit the Top 5 in 1. L1MjMMdg1w/crop/405' alt='New Wave Brit' title='New Wave Brit' />And Sylvians solo work varies from esoteric to brilliant. Bananarama I know what youre thinking Bananarama  But hear me out on this one. Until the Spice Girls came along, Bananarama had sold more records than any girl band in history. The Go Gos The Supremes Salt n Pepa Bananarama outsold them all. And the band still holds the Guinness World Record for the most chart entries by a girl group Destinys Child and the Spice Girls might have sold more records overall, but Bananarama have had more hits than any girl group in history. Ever. And its a sad, sad soul who doesnt perk up when Venus or Cruel Summer come on the radio. The girls are still together after 3. Nick Lowe To most Americans, Lowe is the Cruel to Be Kind guy. And its true that Lowe hasnt sold a billion records. But hes a great songwriter, and has done some excellent production work, too including The Damneds New Rose, which most consider the first British punk rock single. Like Bob Dylan, Lowe is famous for other people covering his work Elvis Costellos Whats So Funny Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding and Johnny Cashs The Beast in Me were originally Lowe songs. Cliff Richard Oh sure, Cliff Richard is a bit of a joke in the music world. Hes kind of like Englands Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond, or whatever other unhip singer your parents or grandparents, or great grandparents listened to. But Richard is literally an icon of British music. His 1. 95. 8 single Move It is considered by many of be the very first British rock song, and in Richards 5. Top 2. 0 singles and albums. Hes the third largest selling singles artist in British music history and is the only artist to have a 1 song in every decade from the 1. Like him or not, you cant argue with fourteen 1 singles. Cocteau Twins You could argue that my personal bias is showing here. After all, the Cocteau Twins never really had much mainstream success. But they certainly changed alternative music forever. In fact, Id argue that the Cocteau Twins were the first true dream pop band unlike say, crossover bands like The Cure who often get lumped in the dream pop category for some reason. But the real reason the band made the list is because of Elizabeth Frasers voice. Name any post Cocteau Twins band with a whispy voiced female singer The Sundays, Sixpence None the Richer, Grimes, School of Seven Bells, The Innocence Mission, The Cranberries and Ill show you someone who was influenced by the band. Blur Oasis might have won the Battle of Britpop, but Blur were right behind them every step of the way. They were huge in the UK from almost the moment they started. Their first album, Leisure, only made it to 7, and the follow up, Modern Life Is Rubbish, only made it to 1. But every album since including 1. The Great Escape, the album that broke them worldwide has gone to 1. Oh, and every single one of their albums has gone at least gold, with Parklife going 4x platinum in the UK. These guys were huge. The Animals This is one of those bands that other musicians just love. Sure, The House of the Rising Sun belongs on any Best of the 6. Its My Life and We Gotta Get Out of This Place, which was practically the theme song of US soldiers in Vietnam and of which Bruce Springsteen said Thats every song Ive ever written Thats Born to Run, Born in the U. S. A., everything Ive done for the past 4. Joomla Template Mootools'>Joomla Template Mootools. That struck me so deep. It was the first time I felt I heard something come across the radio that mirrored my home life, my childhood. I dont know if Id go quite as far as to call them the British Doors, but there are certainly a lot of similarities in sound between the two bands. Oh, and I have to give the band some love for hiring a pre Police Andy Summers all the way back in 1. Manic Street Preachers Yeah, these guys were a blip on college radio in the US for a brief period back in the 9. But in their homeland they had eight Top 1. Top 1. 0 singles and three 1s the 1. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and two singles. The Oyster Wave Generator 2, Buoyant Wave Power Without the Turbine Inhabitat. This just in Aquamarine Power just unveiled its freshest wave generator design this morning Dubbed the Oyster 2 you may remember our coverage of the original Oyster, the new renewable energy generator is about 2. Aquamarine Power says that even a small Oyster farm could power 1. Check out the video of the plant after the jump. Basically it works like this. The Oyster 2 is anchored to the seafloor about half a mile off shore. Near shore waves pound against its frame and engage the hinge mechanism. The hinges engage two hydraulic pistons that are connected to hydroelectric plants onshore. Essentially the Oyster turns offshore wave power into onshore water power. The first prototype Oyster 1 was installed and tested in the summer of 2. Aquamarine Power used information from that test to vastly improve their design. The Oyster 2 is simpler in design, has fewer moving parts, generates 2. A lot of issues developing in the offshore wave power industry have to do with the cost of installation versus the amount of energy extracted. It seems that the Oyster design solves this problem by replacing conventional turbines with hydraulic pistons to create the energy onshore instead of out in the waves. Three Oyster 2s will be deployed and connected to the grid in the summer of 2. European Marine Energy Centre in Scotland. These Oyster 2 farms sound like a productive and adorable addition to the renewable energy market. Aquamarine Power.