TS: Liverpool Vs. Manchester

inspiral carpets are from oldham, not manchester
the verve are from wigan, not manchester
jesus jones surely werent from liverpool!
w.a.s.p arent even british

get one map

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Geir you should continue to do these only if you get them even more ridiculously wrong next time e.g. 'so, representing the US West Coast: Lionel Bart, Manu Dibango, Mission UK and Serge Gainsbourg'

yes, Psycho has certainly proven an inspired revelation as team coach.

Both these fine cities are in the North West of England, this is an IRREFUTABLE FACT.

I'm a Manc, so obviously biased. Plus, there is a long and colourful history of rivalry between Mancunians and Scousers, but a simple proof of Manchester's superiority is provided by the following regional brew showdown:

Manchester's most famous drink = Boddingtons Bitter
Liverpool's most famous drink = mum's choice "Trampagne" Lambrini

Anyway, I'd go with Manchester. Also, charltonlido, you're right, the Verve and Inspiral Carpets weren't from the City of Manchester, but, since Wigan and Oldham are in Greater Manchester, I think they still count. After all, your strict method would discount Brooklyn and Queens acts from being New York bands, right?

I'm a Manc (by birth) too, and as much as it pains me to say it, I have to point out (in an inexplicable burst of self-defeating fairness) that Liverpool FC are more successful than Manchester United, historically. But musically, after the Beatles and maybe Echo and OMD, Liverpool can't hold a candle to the likes of Joy Division/New Order, the Smiths, The Fall, the Buzzcocks, the Chameleons, etc. Even when Manchester loses points (Simply Red), they're balanced in the debit column by a Cast.

But current Liverpool music is also dire, all this Coral business leaves me dry.

Overall I'll give my dues to L'pool for Teardrop, Echo, Wah!, Drummond (he lived in L'pool for awhile so give Geir this one k?), Flock Of Seagulls, ESPECIALLY Flock Of Seagulls, Frankie and the couple of good Costello singles. Manc has uh, some New Order and some Fall. Living here has made me numb to the greatness of Moz & Brown/Squire, every late 20s/early 30s failed musician/poet lives, breathes and bleeds them and it gets tiring.

HOWEVER, Manchester's clubscene is top dog. Whenever I've been out in L'pool I've only ever met people with big old chips on their shoulders whereas most Mancs are just big harmless show-offs. Er, most of the time anyway (cf: mugged, being taxed or getting done over. your stories.).

I could have sworn Bury finished seventeenth in League Two.

Most annoying thing about Manc: fetishisation of the 'angry young man'. Being a swaggering yob is not. a. good. Of course, then we get the flipside which is the tortured lovelorn poet, which is. even. worse. At least Liverpool has glorious basket cases like Cope & Drummond & Burns.

In terms of a place to live, I'd rather get beat up in Manchester than in Liverpool. Less chance of ice-pickings or skull-stabbings.

Oh, and Liverpool can also claim John Peel (but also Courtney Love -- indirectly -- so take that for what it counts).