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Who Do You Think Will Headline Reading and Leeds 2011

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  1. 1. Headliner(s)

    • Green Day
      48
    • Foo Fighters
      54
    • Muse
      24
    • System of a Down
      16
    • Linkin Park
      14
    • Blur
      6
    • Soundgarden
      9
    • Eminem
      7
    • Gorillaz
      5
    • Kings of Leon
      0
    • The Killers
      0
    • AC/DC
      4
    • Iron Maiden
      5
    • Rammstein
      1
    • Kasabian
      10
    • The Strokes
      51
    • Lostprophets
      0
    • My Chemical Romance
      13
    • Aerosmith
      1
    • Other (Please State)
      16

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Hmm, TCV will not be there. Foo's are writing a new album so they'll probably be there.

Doubt No Doubt (heh) will be that low, They'd probably headline.

I hope Mumford never play that high up, them and Florence can do one :lol:

Apart from that, +1 on the REM. :lol:

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I'd actually agree with the comment about the polls, however they still place highly on critics polls and you can't discount them entirely. After all there will be some 'proper' music fans who placed them highly. I'd still take any poll over that of the Rolling Stone one which favours extremly highly to older bands. How anybody can put forward that poll that has 10 Beatles albums in it (including Help!, A hard days night and let it be) and nothing by Primal Scream, Blur, Stone Roses and Arcade Fire and not consider it shit I don't know. Rolling Stone magazine has to be the worst publication going and I'd say they know shit about music but thats another rant.

As for The Clash been more influential than Oasis I'd disagree strongly. Oasis were the first band I properly got into and introduced me into music. From them I got into more similar bands and my musical collection grew strongly. There will be absolutly loads of people in a similar situation. The size that Oasis are or were in this country means that they will have been the first sound that people heard to get into rock and Indie music for absolutly thousands of people. I'm pretty sure that 99.9% of people will have heard of Oasis' music before that of say the Velvet Undergound, Marvin Gaye and Ramones when growing up in the last 20 years. Now of course when we go further into music we release that they probably weren't the best thing that ever happened to the business but without them I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't have delved further into other bands and been able to make this conclusion. Their influence on society is huge. Now when a bands making a record and list the influences that helped them with it, I can't see a lot saying Oasis for the reason as you said they weren't extremly varied, but I'm sure a lot will owe them the debt of making them want to pick up a guitar in the first place.

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What utter garbage. Defintely Maybe and WTSMG place extremly highly on most greatest albums ever polls most of the time above London Calling. Recent polls I've seen such as hmv, mtv, Q, NME, Channel 4 etc. all had the first 2 albums near the top above anything by The Clash and a few of them actually had DM as the greatest album of all time so how you can come out with such as statement I don't know. Your obviously a very big Clash fan with the user name and only a big fan can come out with a comment that an album such as 'Give em enough rope' or sandinista is anywhere near as good as Oasis' first 2 albums. Not even Mick Jones would come out with that statement. Its clearly not the case!

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That's not Chris IPod

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I can see it being somwhere along the lines of;

The strokes subbed by Franz Ferdinand

Green day subbed by Sum41/The Offspring ( i know both are probably big enough to headline themselves )

Syetem subbed by My Chem

Just a general guess at the headliers and sub-headliners, feel free to comment :)

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But you're ignoring the fact those albums to many from past generations and indeed from this are as good. Oasis are bland. The Clash's albums may not be single/hit producing but I'm sure Mick Jones would say they were as good and I know Strummer definitely would have said they were better than the music produced by the publicity fuelled media darlings that were Oasis. DM is a good debut album but it isn't the classic album that many people make it out to be- it wasn't the breath of fresh air 'The Clash' was when it was released. I also disagree that MOST polls rate DM & WTSMG above London Calling.

Anyway, why did people bring up polls? They're bollocks. Oasis are also likely to feature on polls as they are a) more recent B) more commercial. I'm 20 btw and Oasis haven't really influenced as many people as you'd think and are more noteworthy to many for their antics than their music. In fact if I went round people I knew, and asked which were better Oasis or The Clash, the majority of 'music fans' would say The Clash. The friends more geared towards the charts who have less interest would say Oasis. In fact, I don't know of any real music fans/obsessives who I know that really even rate Oasis as anything above big band with some big hits and one very good album.

This all started from the argument (as it turns out as expected a wind-up) that Oasis were the best British band since the Beatles which is clearly bollocks. Now we could move away from The Clash and mention many more bands that make Oasis look like Busted. I don't even hate Oasis I just hate the viewpoint that Oasis are somehow incredible, which they aren't.

Post-rant Edit: Actually I'm probably gonna leave this debate now. I suppose music is about tastes- this was my side of the argument :P

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But you're ignoring the fact those albums to many from past generations and indeed from this are as good. Oasis are bland. The Clash's albums may not be single/hit producing but I'm sure Mick Jones would say they were as good and I know Strummer definitely would have said they were better than the music produced by the publicity fuelled media darlings that were Oasis. DM is a good debut album but it isn't the classic album that many people make it out to be- it wasn't the breath of fresh air 'The Clash' was when it was released. I also disagree that MOST polls rate DM & WTSMG above London Calling.

Anyway, why did people bring up polls? They're bollocks. Oasis are also likely to feature on polls as they are a) more recent B) more commercial. I'm 20 btw and Oasis haven't really influenced as many people as you'd think and are more noteworthy to many for their antics than their music. In fact if I went round people I knew, and asked which were better Oasis or The Clash, the majority of 'music fans' would say The Clash. The friends more geared towards the charts who have less interest would say Oasis. In fact, I don't know of any real music fans/obsessives who I know that really even rate Oasis as anything above big band with some big hits and one very good album.

well it was my self who started this convo and me who will end it by saying OASIS ARE BIGGER THAN JESUS :D

This all started from the argument (as it turns out as expected a wind-up) that Oasis were the best British band since the Beatles which is clearly bollocks. Now we could move away from The Clash and mention many more bands that make Oasis look like Busted. I don't even hate Oasis I just hate the viewpoint that Oasis are somehow incredible, which they aren't.

Post-rant Edit: Actually I'm probably gonna leave this debate now. I suppose music is about tastes- this was my side of the argument :P

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no there was no wind up i do think oasis were the biggest thing after the beatles. just the convo has gone on for like ever and a day and its boring me to death. lets just say oasis are a great band the clash are a great band and we live happily ever after the end.

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They're not though. As you state earlier, they were, or could have been, off the back of their first two albums, as others have stated though, they have become terribly bland releasing the same old 'pub rock bollocks'* over and over and over for the best part of 2 decades now.

The Beatles, constantly changed their sound, which is why they're so well regarded and if you're comparing them to more contemporary outfits, who have moved on and developed, Blur, Radioihead, even U2 and Blink 182 for god's sake have updated their sound

*Noel Gallagher

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