Domenica 22 Giu 2008, 17:50

With inspiration from other similar Leagues in Germany, the Czech Republic and other places, I present the British Rock Artists League!

First however we need to decide which bands will take part! To do this I will simply ask everyone to post their top ten favourite bands who were formed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland! No need for them to be ordered, just your top 10 in any order!

Please send this to all of your friends and advertise it! This is an epic venture to pit our best bands against each other and I hope to get as many people involved as possible.

Thanks and get voting!

edit:

I completely forgot to give the link for the actual group, please join!

http://www.last.fm/group/The+British+Rock+Artists+League

League Structure

Originally I was going to mirror the English Football League System, so have a top league of 20 and then lower leagues of 24. But then I realised this will cause "fixture" problems, as I'd really prefer all leagues to be ending at the same time, and it serves no real purpose to have more bands in one league than an other, as in football, this is down to fixture congestion stuff among other things which don't apply here.

Thus I decided to just have leagues of 20. The German system has two leagues, which mirrors the German professional football league. Below that they have regional leagues, which is difficult to define with a band. Also, there are less German bands known to the wider world, unlike British bands. I have PLENTY of bands as suggestions here, so to use 80 bands didn't seem like such an issue, and this also kind of mirrors the English league system where we have 4 professional leagues.

So below, I've shown the bands in their leagues, listed in alphabetical order (the number of votes they received in this journal article is no longer relevant from this point). Where I had to split bands with the same number of votes between two leagues, I used the number of scrobbles they have received on Last.fm as the tiebreaker.

When I list out the bands though and think about the amount of "fixtures", I start to wonder if having 80 bands is a good idea. It's a lot of voting and I'm wondering if that is going to put people off? Well I am going to make a thread in the Group and I want people to tell me their opinion, because ultimately I want as much participation as possible and if too many bands is going to put people off, I want to know. Inversely, it could encourage more people to vote in the league itself if they see their favourite band listed that otherwise would not have made it. So I am in two minds, and I would like you guys to help me out here!

I am not going to get the leagues going yet, due to this issue. Thus I will better outline how these leagues will work when the time comes.

First Division

Arctic Monkeys
The Beatles
Black Sabbath
The Clash
Coldplay
The Cure
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Joy Division
Judas Priest
Muse
Oasis
Pink Floyd
Placebo
Porcupine Tree
Queen
Radiohead
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths
The Who

Second Division

Anathema
Biffy Clyro
Bloc Party
Blur
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Editors
Genesis
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
The Kinks
The Libertines
Marillion
Motörhead
My Dying Bride
Oceansize
Paradise Lost
Sex Pistols
Venom
Yes

Third Division

Alestorm
Belle and Sebastian
Bolt Thrower
Camel
Carcass
Cradle of Filth
Cream
Dire Straits
DragonForce
The Jam
Jethro Tull
Keane
King Crimson
The Kooks
Mogwai
Pulp
The Sisters of Mercy
The Stone Roses
Travis
The Verve

Fourth Division

Aereogramme
Anaal Nathrakh
Ash
Bauhaus
Bullet For My Valentine
Diamond Head
Feeder
Franz Ferdinand
The Futureheads
Gentle Giant
Lostprophets
Manic Street Preachers
Napalm Death
Primal Scream
Rainbow
Reuben
Slowdive
Snow Patrol
Teenage Fan Club
T.Rex