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peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Best Brumsong posted on: 4/10/2004 11:07:28 AM What's the best song by a Brummie artist?
BrummieExpat Rank: Jasper	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/10/2004 2:14:10 PM Funky Moped by Jasper Carrott. Just kidding. I quite like paranoid by Sabbath but don't know whether they count or not, I know Ozzy's a Brummie but not sure about the rest of the band. Slade did a few good ones but apart from that the only other Brummie band I can think of is UB40.
BrummieExpat Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 4/11/2004 11:08:41 AM by BrummieExpat	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/10/2004 2:14:46 PM Bollocks! Now why'd you suppose that happened?
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/11/2004 8:29:10 AM quote: Name some more Brummie bands and I might have some other suggestions. I don't know if Slade are officially a Brummie band. Don't they come from the Black Country? I think these are all (or mostly) Brummies: Led Zeppelin, UB40, Duran Duran, ELO, Black Sabbath, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Ocean Colour Scene, Joan Armatrading, The Streets, Jamelia, The Move, Steve Winwood, Wizard, Toyah, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Fuzzbox, Musical Youth, Renee and Renato . . . OK, I'm struggling now. Anyone else care to add to the list? I'd like to nominate Musical Youth's 'Pass the Duchie 'Pon the Left-hand Side' as the best Brumsong because it celebrates the city's ethnic diversity. And drugs.
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/11/2004 11:28:51 AM quote: What's the best song by a Brummie artist? "Piss for Blood, Shit for Brains" or "Psychic One Inch Punch" by Mistress could be contenders, or "Pandemonic Hyperblast" by Anaal Nathrakh. Not really songs though - more demented blasts of sonic violence.
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/11/2004 1:46:25 PM I've not heard those. I wonder if Bounds could get some sound files on here. You've just reminded me, by the way: Napalm Death. And Police Bastard.
rotunda pants villa, but nice with it Rank: Ozzy	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/11/2004 6:20:36 PM Dexy's are from Wolverhampton, and Renée is from Italy, and lives in Bromsgrove, and both should be discounted. All of Sabbath's original line-up are from Aston and therefore Brummie, so any song from Sabbath's 'Mob Rules' album or later can't count, as Ozzy has gone, and a dwarf yank is his replacement. And there's Joan Armatrading.
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/11/2004 7:10:06 PM quote: Dexy's are from Wolverhampton, and Renée is from Italy, and lives in Bromsgrove, and both should be discounted. All of Sabbath's original line-up are from Aston and therefore Brummie, so any song from Sabbath's 'Mob Rules' album or later can't count, as Ozzy has gone, and a dwarf yank is his replacement. And there's Joan Armatrading. I've already mentioned Armatrading. I suppose we have to define 'Brumsong'. Does it have to be a song by a band who were all born in Birmingham, have Brummie accents and still live here? Sounds a bit strict to me. Renée owned an Italian restaurant in Wylde Green when his 'Save Your Love' went supernova, I believe. I think that makes it a Brumsong. Similarly, Dexy's all lived and rehearsed in Brum when Searching for the Young Soul Rebels was out, so doesn't that make 'Geno' a Brumsong?
KingoftheHeath Rank: Jasper	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/12/2004 11:35:03 AM The Au Pairs - 'Kerb Crawler' The Killjoys - 'Johnny Won't Get to Heaven' Doom - 'Slave to Convention' Charged GBH - 'Dead on Arrival' Fall of Because - 'White Rock, Black Death' Godflesh - 'Avalanche Master Song' Head of David - 'Pierced All Over' The Prefects - 'The Bristol Road Leads to Dachau' Cable Regime - 'King of Beers' Napalm Death - 'You Suffer'
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/12/2004 3:47:38 PM quote: The Au Pairs - 'Kerb Crawler' The Killjoys - 'Johnny Won't Get to Heaven' Doom - 'Slave to Convention' Charged GBH - 'Dead on Arrival' Fall of Because - 'White Rock, Black Death' Godflesh - 'Avalanche Master Song' Head of David - 'Pierced All Over' The Prefects - 'The Bristol Road Leads to Dachau' Cable Regime - 'King of Beers' Napalm Death - 'You Suffer' Were The Au Pairs really from Brum? I didn't know that.
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/12/2004 11:18:27 PM quote: Napalm Death - 'You Suffer' Excellent choice. About time someone produced a dance remix of it.
DocSausage	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/13/2004 12:42:29 PM 'New World in the Morning' by Roger Whittaker (born in Preston Road, Aston). Best classical piece? 'In a Monastery Garden' by Albert Kettelby, also from Aston.
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/14/2004 8:18:48 AM 'In a Persian Market' is far superior to 'In a Monastery Garden', but shouldn't we rule Ketelby out? He may have been born in Aston, but he died on the Isle of bloody Wight. Traitor.
bounder chairman of the board Rank: Ozzy	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/14/2004 10:21:15 AM Stephen Duffy "Twenty Three" - even mentions Brum in the song.
pixie_mason foul mouth Rank: Toyah	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/14/2004 12:11:15 PM Stuffies / Poppies / Neds - do they count? Been listening to them quite a bit of late - Neds come out the worst now, I reckon. Funny how I didn't realise this at 14. I was older by the time God Fodder came out and thought it was a bit cack. Time and nostalgia haven't reversed that. Aren't they touring again? And what about Wo-oh Black Betty - her's from Birmingham. Er... ok, if the record was scratched or there was a sticky bit on the cd... it could hold up
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Best Brumsong replied on: 4/14/2004 12:16:21 PM Another traitor. In an interview in The Guardian in 1999, he said that he “successfully lost” his Brummie accent at an early age because he didn't want it to affect his career. I would have thought that a lack of any discernible talent should have been his main worry.
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