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Who were Brum's greatest musical export to the world?

Moody Blues
3 (37.5%)
Black Sabbath
1 (12.5%)
Judas Priest
0 (0%)
Fuzzbox
0 (0%)
Musical Youth
0 (0%)
Slade
2 (25%)
Other please specify
2 (25%)

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Humph Warden Bennett

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Brum's musical finest!
« on: September 23, 2018, 01:24:17 PM »
OK not just the City of Brum, but the whole of the Wez Middle Ans region (they are always calling me a bluddy Londoner, so I am returning the compliment).
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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2018, 02:45:02 PM »
50% of Led Zeppelin for starters.
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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2018, 02:57:13 PM »
Quote from: Shaker on September 23, 2018, 02:45:02 PM
50% of Led Zeppelin for starters.

Quite correct. But a half group? OK perhaps half a vote for Led Zep.
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« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2018, 03:01:28 PM »
I voted other - The Move are the chaps.

As for the ones on the list - the least said the better!
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« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2018, 03:12:02 PM »
My own vote went to the Moodies, classic era rather than the eighties. The late Ray Thomas received a fair amount of stick for the line "Hurry hi, ye butterfly" ("Om"), which was unfair since  Ray just sung the line, the song was written by Mike Pinder,

I played in a group in the early eighties, we recorded a song with the guitarists sisters boyfriend guesting on electric piano. He was balding with long hair and a beard, so we credited him as "Mike Spinder".
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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2018, 05:51:13 PM »
The Bloody Moos are well ahead at the moment, but since only three people have voted (including me, for them), anything can happen.
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« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2018, 06:00:32 PM »
How could it be any band other than Black Sabbath?
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« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2018, 06:11:09 PM »
I doubt that Slade - a Black Country band - would be doing cartwheels of joy at being lumped in with the Brummies yet again.
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« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2018, 08:10:16 PM »
Well some might say Duran Duran.

Not that I would.

Dexy's.
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« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2018, 11:01:24 AM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on September 23, 2018, 08:10:16 PM

Dexy's.

How could I have forgotten Dexys ? :o

I remember in 1982 one of my work colleagues was from Brum, and yes she really was named Eileen. Whilst we genuinely tried not to annoy her, it's funny how ubiquitous is the phrase "Come on".
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« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2018, 03:12:36 PM »
ELO
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« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2018, 05:05:17 PM »
Moody Blues for me (& yes I do know who they are  :) ).
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« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2018, 05:47:45 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2018, 06:13:36 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on September 25, 2018, 05:47:45 PM
Yorkshire greeting.
No, that was that other legendary band, A-Up.
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« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2018, 06:33:00 PM »
I'm quite fond of 'Other please specify'.
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« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2018, 09:37:36 PM »
I know that she is not the kind of "musical finest" we should be considering, but what about Lauren Zhang?
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« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2018, 09:49:42 AM »
The Bloody Moos are still in the lead! Hooray!  :D
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« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2018, 10:19:46 AM »
Quote from: Steve H on September 26, 2018, 09:49:42 AM
The Bloody Moos are still in the lead! Hooray!  :D

Boo  >:(
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« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2018, 10:22:15 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on September 25, 2018, 06:13:36 PM
No, that was that other legendary band, A-Up.

The one with the singer named after the little town of Morten Harket?
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« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2018, 04:51:57 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2018, 05:39:09 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2018, 01:27:15 PM »
I remember reading an interview some moons ago with Dave Hill, he said that "Cum on feel the Noize" was written as a "proper" song, but "Skweeze me pleeze me" was the group sending themselves up and was not intended to be taken seriously.

FTR I quite liked Fuzzbox, the drawback was that their record company did the the same to them as was done with The Bangles, a scruffy looking band who wrote their own songs were glammed up & one of them turned into a sex symbol.
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