Favorite Scottish Bands?

Toms_Dad

Full marks to @Redlester for mentioning my favourite Scottish band, Big Country. They also provided the soundtrack to one of my fave Scottish films, Restless Natives. 

UnclePsychosis

Bis
Teenage Fanclub
The Pastels
Arab Strap
Mogwai
The Rezillos
Orange Juice / Edwyn Collins
Domiciles
Cloth
PRML SCRM
The Associates
Josef K
Average White Band
Cocteau Twins
Boards Of Canada
The KLF 
Idlewild
The Vaselines
The Blue Nile
The Fire Engines

Funkfingers

Three pages in and none of you seems to remember THE most “Scottish” band ever … the Bay City Rollers.  

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If one Scot in the line-up makes the whole band “Scottish”, I nominate John McGeoch for Magazine, The Armoury Show and The Banshees.

horse

ewal said:

Also The Delgados are worthy of a mention - not just for their music, but for their role with the 'scene'. Camera Obscura too.

 I quite liked that album with All you need is hate on it

EricTheWeary

Funkfingers said:

Three pages in and none of you seems to remember THE most “Scottish” band ever … the Bay City Rollers.  

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@ICBM did back on page one. 

Funkfingers

I missed that. Curse the ignore list!

camf

Philly_Q said:

I tried to make a case for AC/DC on the Best British Bands thread, so I'll try again here.

Anyone mentioned Heavy Pettin? 

The Almighty.  Holocaust. 

I was supposed to release a Holocaust record on my wee indie label until their former management weighed in. Good band. 

camf

MagicPigDetective said:

Many great bands from Scotland. Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, The Vaselines/Captain America/Eugenius, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Primal Scream, Primal Scream, Mary Chain, Beta Band, Glasvegas, Orange Juice, The Pastels etc etc 

We have some Fretboarders who've been in bands, calling @ewal and @camf , (Fenn and The Cateran) I'm sure they could name a hell of a lot more. @camf 's new band, Borrowed Books:

https://borrowedbooks.bandcamp.com/album/shorting-out-and-longing


My current favourite are the incomparable Cocteau Twins. 

Thanks for the mention @magicpigdetective.

Philly_Q

Doug said:

west said:

Strangeways .... used to love the native sons album ...

Absolutely love that album, bought on cassette after hearing them on the 'Friday Rockshow/Tommy Vance many moons ago, bought again on cd years later.

I've got that album, I didn't realise - or didn't remember - they were Scottish.  Terry Brock on vocals though, wasn't he?

hollywoodrox

Doug said:

west said:

Strangeways .... used to love the native sons album ...

Absolutely love that album, bought on cassette after hearing them on the 'Friday Rockshow/Tommy Vance many moons ago, bought again on cd years later.

As others have mentioned - Gun, another vastly underrated band.

SAHB 

The Proclaimers 

Omg strangeways ,forgot about them ,they are excellent, wasn’t a huge gun fan but their cover of word up was pretty cool 

sticker

Aztec Camera and Texas 

UnclePsychosis

77ric said:

and the first (and possibly only) unsigned band to play top of the pops...

Bis

...absolutely hands down my all time favourite band. 

WiresDreamDisasters

Mogwai.

Fretwired

The Average White Band is the best band to have come out of Scotland IMHO ... they were so good black DJs in the US thought they were black. They were international superstars who shifted millions of albums ..

UnclePsychosis

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Mogwai.

Ask and ye shall receive

Fretwired

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Mogwai.

I do like Mogwai .. this is one of my favourite tracks .. love the way it builds.

Fretwired

I also like  Boards of Canada ..

Fretwired

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Mogwai.

Rano Pano live .. reminds me of your band .. :-)

Bellycaster

lovestrat74 said:

AC/DC

and... 

Not "True Scotsmen" though, really.

ewal

All the love here for Mogwai and Frightened Rabbit - you need to know the band that had all of both in their music....