Rage

Two ridiculously happy and cheery songs, always put a smile on my face:

'Generator' by The Holloways -

'She's so Lovely' by Scouting for Girls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95ycVOPcP8

Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

The Maccabees - Colour it In

My favourite album of the year, and one of the best debut albums of the 21st century in my view! Can't stop listening to it, not a bad song on it.

Honourable mentions to Shotter's Nation and Cross by Justice.

I'm a huge Bloc Party fan but was very disappointed by A Weekend in the City - poor.

Cradle of Filth had a t-shirt with 'Jesus is a cunt' printed on it so maybe they might be a little anti-religious?

Lol, nice one. My mate lost the bet with me. So he got his eyebrows shaved off.

Stupid question, but why is there only 2 matches in the Champions League tonight?

I Get Along and While My Guitar Gently Weeps are two of my favourite songs ever, I know a couple of the others, good stuff - 8/10.

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire

Sing For Absolution - Muse

Would? - Alice In Chains

Last Summer in New York - The Saw Doctors

One Tree Hill - U2

Turn Into- Yeah Yeah Yeah's

Queen of The Slipstream - Van Morrison.

Message In A Bottle - The Police

Which Side Are You On - Dropkick Murphys

She's Hearing Voices - Bloc Party

Try from 'Clare To Here' by Ralph McTell. Lovin' it at the moment.

Forever Young by Bob Dylan makes me weep.

Is it only me that sees that the Libertines were clearly the greatest band of the 00's?

Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies

Didn't think I'd get into them at all when I heard them first, but since Scuzz and other such channels constantly play their videos, I have become very fond of them. Their album is good stuff.

InMe - Overgrown Eden

Bought this in 2002 when I was more of a metalhead. Found it the other day and totally forgot how good it was. An absolute gem. I hadn't heard of them since then and listened to their 2nd album. Pity, it's shit.

The climax bit of So Here We Are by Bloc Party on a very dark night in September in a dirty field in the asshole of Ireland.

Ireland beating England in the World Cup would nearly be on a par with Spurs winning the Champions League for me.

Cork City's Alan Bennett about to join up with former teammates Kevin Doyle and Shane Long at Reading. All of our Eircom Legaue talent is being stolen for the benefit of British football. Boohoo.

SERGEI REBROV, 11m from Dynamo Kiev to Spurs. Absolutley shocking.

Yeah, the Libertines for sure.

Snow Patrol

the Arctic Monkeys too.

I guess it is due to your own location but when someone says to me the phrase, 'most influential artists of all time' or 'best selling artists of all time', it is mostly British Isles (including Jersey ) artists that come to mind. Is this due to my location too?

No, that has to do with genre preference.

I guess it is due to your own location but when someone says to me the phrase, 'most influential artists of all time' or 'best selling artists of all time', it is mostly British Isles (including Jersey ) artists that come to mind. Is this due to my location too?

Last night, I was having a conversation with a mate in the pub who's a big music buff. He explained for about half an hour why the British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales, NI, ROI) produce the best music. I asked a few people after that about their thoughts on this, and all of them agreed.

I then proceeded to see where the majority of bands and artists on my iTunes list were from, and it came out something like 85 British Isles and 10 American and Other.

So what is EWB's thoughts on this idea? Does the British Isles produce the best, and most popular music? Where are the majority of your favourite artists from?

My Irish Traveller/Gypsy Bare Knuckle Boxing collection.

Ooh, forgot about Bittersweet Symphony.

Elliott Smith - 'Angeles' and 'Christian Brother'. Spine tingling and so eerie.

Bloc Party - 'So here we are'. I dunno why really, but it always got me emotional. Espeically the 'I figured it out, I can see again' bit.

Coldplay - 'The Scientist' and 'Trouble'. Two other songs which make me cringe with passion.

Snow Patrol - 'Run', in particular the live version of it, where the whole crowd would have their hands in the air singing 'Light up, Light up..'.

Keane - 'Somewhere only we know'. Saw it played live at Glastonbury on TV and was just the most passionate performance I had seen in years by a band. I had never heard them before that.

When it started pissing rain during 'Raining Blood' by Slayer at Ozzfest 2002.

Has to be The View and Jamie T for me. Just has to be.

Both of their albums have been leaked, even though they're not scheduled for release till 2007, and they both are superb stuff. There will be comparison's to The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, and The Streets respectively but for me these two acts are out on their own and should be the stars of 2007!

It's very different to Silent Alarm. A lot more Dance influenced than Rock. Which isn't a bad thing. But still they've gone in a new direction.