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Nominations




From ABBA to ZZ Top, we've all got a favourite band, but who's yours? It's been roughly three years since the last Ultimate band countdown, so I thought it was about time it was revived. This stage is the nominations round where we ask you to submit a list of your favourite bands, the top 100 bands will go through to a final voting stage and then the countdown will commence;





RULES


1. Any group or band from any era/genre is submittable, but they have to have made at least TWO studio albums, this prohibits the more recent bands like Bastille or Disclocure. Compitations, soundtracks, re-releases, deluxe editions and live albums don't count which means that most well-known bands will qualify, with the only exception I can think of being The Sex Pistols who only had the one studio album and neither do Glee Cast as all their albums are soundtracks.


2. Duos are counted as bands in this list, as long as they meet Rule 1.


3. If you are unsure whether or not an act is a band, check their Wikipedia page and see how they are described in the first sentence (eg - group, band, project). Most notably Florence + The Machine & The Streets qualify as a band on this list, but Marina and the Diamonds do not.


4. Backing groups or artists who have albums with them do no count, unless they meet the criteria in their own right (eg. The Shadows).



5. In both stages you can give a mimimum of 10 votes and a maximum of 25


6. You can submit votes on this thread or via. a message to me, Leonardo.



So those are the requirements, quite unrestrictive, now it's up to you. The dead line is Monday 24th February at 23:59PM

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My votes, 1 being the best

 

1 Fleetwood Mac

2 Queen

3 ABBA

4 U2

5 The Supremes

6 The Killers

7 The Bee Gees

8 Green Day

9 Erasure

10 Destiny's Child

11 UB40

12 The Drifters

13 Girls Aloud

14 Blondie

15 Suede

16 The Carpenters

17 Oasis

18 Steps

19 Nirvana

20 Maroon 5

21 Panic! At The Disco

22 Little Mix

23 The Pussycat Dolls

24 The Jacksons/Jackson 5

25 Florence + The Machines

Edited by Leonardo

1. Girls Aloud (best)

2. One Direction

3. The Saturdays

4. Atomic Kitten

5. Sugababes

6. S Club 7

7. Little Mix

8. Destiny's Child

9. Pussycat Dolls

10. All Saints

11. JLS

 

Would ideally have liked to nominate Stooshe, absolutely love their album. Can't say I agree with leaving out recent bands through that method. (although I would agree that at least one album needs to have been released)

Edited by JosephStyles

Best

1. The Saturdays

2. Green Day

3. 30 Seconds To Mars

4. JLS

5. Busted

6. McFly

7. Boyzone

8. Bullet For My Valentine

9. Westlife

10. Take That

Worst

 

I am only going to post my top 10 just now and will complete the 25 later :)

Edited by Cameron

Roughly 80% of the groups I actually want to nominate only have one album. Two album rule makes it a bit of an inequitable representation on the whole~

1 The Beatles {best}

2 Spice Girls

3 Oasis

4 Coldplay

5 Little Mix

6 Sugababes

7 Girls Aloud

8 The Beach Boys

9 Black Eyed Peas

10 Arctic Monkeys

11 The Script

12 The Killers

13 Blue

14 Blondie

15 Busted

16 No Doubt

17 Maroon 5

18 All Saints

19 Rolling Stones

20 Kaiser Chiefs

21 Kings of Leon

22 Massive Attack

23 The Prodigy

24 Green Day

25 Gorillaz

Edited by Jade

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The reason I did the two album rule which I'm sure was used in another rundown was that it was a rundown of all-time favourites meaning those which have had shown more than just an album's worth of material.
Roughly 80% of the groups I actually want to nominate only have one album. Two album rule makes it a bit of an inequitable representation on the whole~

 

But no group with just one album can be even remotely considered the best ever imo, so them being in a countdown of the best groups ever makes it a bit biased and not particularly accurate either. I mean wouldn't it look a bit ridiculous if in all time list, an artist goes top 5 on the strength of one album and then plummets to 64 next time the poll's ran because their second album was a massive disappointment?

 

I'll get my nominations in soon.

Edited by Chez Wombat

I don't think an artist needs to have released 2 albums to be considered someone's all-time favourite at all, I prefer Stooshe to quite a few on my list actually.

 

(added Atomic Kitten as I forgot them)

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I don't think an artist needs to have released 2 albums to be considered someone's all-time favourite at all, I prefer Stooshe to quite a few on my list actually.

 

(added Atomic Kitten as I forgot them)

 

I do understand the point, but in order to stop the list being full of bands that are just from this year, i've imposed this rule, although it is supposed to be a somewhat annual list, so when said bands release their second album you can vote for them.

In no specific order

 

01 Killing Joke

02 Manic Street Preachers

03 Nirvana

04 The Clash

05 Siouxsie And The Banshees

06 Nine Inch Nails

07 Blondie

08 The Prodigy

09 Sex Pistols

10 The Jesus & Mary Chain

11 The Sisters Of Mercy

12 Garbage

13 Slayer

14 Arcade Fire

15 Jane's Addiction

16 The Cramps

17 The Vaccines

18 Pixies

19 Echo & The Bunnymen

20 Pulp

21 Muse

22 R.E.M.

23 Talking Heads

24 The Gaslight Anthem

25 Pink Floyd

I was gonna come in to say Bastille and Disclosure :lol: Will make my full list soon!

01 Arctic Monkeys / FAVE

02 The Pussycat Dolls

03 Monrose

04 Fall Out Boy

05 Sugababes

06 Green Day

07 Freemasons

08 Kings Of Leon

09 No Doubt

10 Colonia

 

11 The Black Eyed Peas

12 The Prodigy

13 Panic! at the Disco

14 Slipknot

15 The Killers

16 AC/DC

17 t.A.T.u.

18 Gorillaz

19 Muse

20 Depeche Mode

 

21 Pet Shop Boys

22 Hurts

23 No Angels

24 Empire Of The Sun

25 Korn

 

01 Leftfield [Fave]

02 Faithless

03 Prodigy

04 Massive Attack

05 Daft Punk

06 Chase & Status

07 Pendulum

08 Chemical Brothers

09 Underworld

10 Groove Armada

11 New Order

12 Scissor Sisters

13 The KLF

14 Hot Chip

15 4 Strings

16 Snap!

17 2 Unlimited

18 Moloko

19 Basement Jaxx

20 Joy Division

21 Zero 7

22 Aphex Twin

23 Röyksopp

24 Air

25 Deep Dish

Arcade Fire

Arctic Monkeys

Chase & Status

Coldplay

Daft Punk

Florence & The Machine

Foo Fighters

Gorillaz

Green Day

Keane

The Killers

Linkin Park

Manic Street Preachers

Muse

My Chemical Romance

Oasis

Snow Patrol

U2

The White Stripes

 

Think that's everything.

YVA (Lithuania)

Abba

New Seekers

Brotherhood Of Man

Bucks Fizz

Steps

Blondie

K3 (Belgium)

Luv' (Netherlands)

Maywood

No Angels

Me & My

Shampoo

Scooch

Aqua

Corrs

M2M

Aly & Aj

How can a band be the ultimate band with only one album.

 

My noms

Kraftwerk

Pink Floyd

Radiohead

Pixies

New Order

Manic Street Preachers

The Cure

Depeche Mode

Blur

Suede

Edited by AnthonyT

I am completely in agreement with the "two album" rule. I don't think the idea of having them chart in a list like this with one album only is fair, because it's not very representative of how you feel about them at all. The second album, like CW said is usually seen to be a disappointment and therefore, by the time the next vote comes along, they may suffer from it. (An example for me (even though she's not a "group") would be Jessie J. Absolutely adore her first album, but her second album majorly disappointed me, so she'd definitely be lower on my list for female/artists etc...). So I'm definitely supporting this rule.

 

My list shall be here soon!

 

Also, do they have to be in order? :(

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