September 19, 2024Sep 19 I'm guessing they wanted to boost the number of black groups. Soul II Soul are the only other one on the list.
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Hot Chocolate would have been a better inclusion imo, or Eternal, but I guess they wanted to sidestep the recent Bennett sisters' controversy.
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Oooh. Little Mix coming top 5 even without my vote :cheeseblock: (I'm annoyed I didn't vote as STEPS wouldn't have received many (if any) points from me - so I would have broken the tie!) but tbf, I'm not sure I would have been able to come up with 30 groups that I would have liked to have voted for and been happy with.
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Love seeing Erasure in the radio 2 list, they are often snubbed for anything like this. On the whole I think the list is pretty well balanced across eras and types of music. Imagination jump out at me as being the ones I know very little about - unless I'm missing something I can't see why they would be included over some of the more successful acts. I'm not sure I'd put Wings in there either. Any band with Paul McCartney is always going to automatically get in despite other more successful acts being left out. Steps is really quite a glaring omission on that list seeing as they have 15 top 5 singles and #1 albums across 4 consecutive decades, then Westlife too with their numerous #1 singles and albums... :blink: They have just as much right to the list as Girls Aloud for instance if they are left off due to being "pop puppets" as pop acts often are on these type of things. Edited September 19, 2024Sep 19 by spiceboy
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Just noticed no S Club either, guess it's due to personal preference of the panelists too. :rolleyes:
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Westlife don't qualify due to being Irish but I agree that it's a shame that pretty much all of the prominent turn of the century (1998-2003 era) British pop acts got shut out, especially Steps and S Club 7 as arguably the two biggest and most impactful. But they never impressed the critics I suppose.
September 19, 2024Sep 19 I'm more surprised at the omission of Roxy Music than anything else. An entire generation cited them as hugely influential. Practically all of the Post Punk bands, the New Romantics and any 'arty' band have said they owe a debt to them. Maybe the younger generations only know the later Sophisti-Pop hits and not the really important stuff.
September 19, 2024Sep 19 BBC Radio 2 celebrates National Album Day with a listener vote to find the nation’s Ultimate British Group https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/radio-...p-vote-launches More discussion about this event can take place here: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=274907 ...but I specifically wanted to share the list in this thread, to highlight where the groups placed in the results here. It could interesting to compare with the eventual Radio 2 results! ----- Alphabetical 115th: 10cc 15th: All Saints 23rd: Arctic Monkeys 26th: Bananarama 88th: Bee Gees 22nd: Blur 11th: Coldplay 149th: Culture Club 25th: Depeche Mode 96th: Duran Duran 195th: Elbow 111th: Electric Light Orchestra 24th: Erasure 102nd: Eurythmics 17th: Fleetwood Mac 42nd: Florence + the Machine 378th: Frankie Goes To Hollywood 121st: Genesis 1st: Girls Aloud n/a: Imagination 232nd: Led Zeppelin n/a: M People 259th: Madness 32nd: Manic Street Preachers 21st: Muse 73rd: New Order 14th: Oasis 31st: One Direction 9th: Pet Shop Boys 70th: Pink Floyd 66th: Pulp 7th: Queen 20th: Radiohead 139th: Simply Red n/a: Soul II Soul 2nd: Spice Girls 124th: Stereophonics 4th: Sugababes 16th: Take That 8th: The Beatles 110th: The Beautiful South 94th: The Clash 39th: The Cure 95th: The Human League 273rd: The Jam 119th: The Kinks 165th: The Police 111th: The Rolling Stones 68th: The Smiths 212th: The Stone Roses 295th: The Who n/a: UB40 53rd: Wham! 378th: Wings BuzzJack's Order 1st: Girls Aloud 2nd: Spice Girls 4th: Sugababes 7th: Queen 8th: The Beatles 9th: Pet Shop Boys 11th: Coldplay 14th: Oasis 15th: All Saints 16th: Take That 17th: Fleetwood Mac 20th: Radiohead 21st: Muse 22nd: Blur 23rd: Arctic Monkeys 24th: Erasure 25th: Depeche Mode 26th: Bananarama 31st: One Direction 32nd: Manic Street Preachers 39th: The Cure 42nd: Florence + the Machine 53rd: Wham! 66th: Pulp 68th: The Smiths 70th: Pink Floyd 73rd: New Order 88th: Bee Gees 94th: The Clash 95th: The Human League 96th: Duran Duran 102nd: Eurythmics 110th: The Beautiful South 111th: Electric Light Orchestra 111th: The Rolling Stones 115th: 10cc 119th: The Kinks 121st: Genesis 124th: Stereophonics 139th: Simply Red 149th: Culture Club 165th: The Police 195th: Elbow 212th: The Stone Roses 232nd: Led Zeppelin 259th: Madness 273rd: The Jam 295th: The Who 378th: Frankie Goes To Hollywood 378th: Wings n/a: Imagination n/a: M People n/a: Soul II Soul n/a: UB40 The biggest snubs from BBC's list according to BuzzJack would be the following artists, all of them making the BuzzJack Top 40: Little Mix Steps The Saturdays S Club Atomic Kitten Snow Patrol Apart from Snow Patrol there is a bit of a theme in the snubs 😂
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Apart from Snow Patrol there is a bit of a theme in the snubs 😂 It’s almost they don’t even post on Buzzjack :lol:
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Apart from Snow Patrol there is a bit of a theme in the snubs 😂 :lol: I laughed :lol:
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Author A convenient time for another plug- Erasure rate still has ten days left to vote in! Erasure Rate
September 19, 2024Sep 19 Justice for Girls Can't Catch We didn’t quite get Girls Can’t Catch but Bellefire definitely made an appearance, and Fifth Harmony were rated above bands like R.E.M. ;)
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