The Friday MEGA Canon: CARTER USM vs THE WONDER STUFF vs PWEI

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's the Grand Battle of Grebo: just ELEVEN ticks across all three bands' UK Top 40 singles!

[Poll #1062623]
Green Day: (link)

1. Basket Case
2. Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)
3. Welcome To Paradise
4. American Idiot
5. Longview
6. Warning
=7. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
=7. Holiday
=7. Minority
=7. Wake Me Up When September Ends

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

There was a time when indie-punk outfit Carter USM were always in the charts but their distinct sound has seldom been copied. (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/09/atwhich_successful_bands_havent_been_influential.html)

Favourite quote:

"When Britpop happened everybody realised that they could rip off Oasis and so there were hundreds of new bands. Then Radiohead came along and nobody could work out how Jonny Greenwood played his guitar so it all went a bit quiet. Now, if they want to rip off The Libertines and the Arctic Monkeys, it's a fucking doddle!"