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British Invasion - Who's Number Four?

To answer your question, Number 4, The Animals, number five, The Kinks.

As for me, 1, The Stones, 2, the Who, 3, the Animals, 4, the Beatles, 5, the Kinks.
 
The Pretty Things. A great body of work that was mostly ignored here in the States. Until the 90's cd reissues.....
 
This is a hard one. The Zombies had such a different sound than the other bands of the time. The Yardbirds had a great sound as well as three of the top guitarists in Rock. The Dave Clark Five were fun, but weren't around long. I would have to go with The Kinks. Their body of work is pretty impressive.
A forgotten but quite amazing band of the time that I just love, is The Move. They had a great body of work but just never hit it big. They are one of my favorites of all time and had the fattest bass sound I have ever heard! "Do Ya", "California Man", Brontasaurus", were just a few of their many great tunes. And of course Jeff Lynne went on to fame with ELO.

1. The Beatles
2. The Rolling Stones
3. The Who
4. The Kinks
 
The Kinks
I agree the Move are right up there too, but "Waterloo Sunset" alone would give them the edge in my book.
 
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No.4 Kinks

Listen to "Sunny Afternoon" or "Dead End Street" by the Kinks today, and you'd never know they were written/performed almost 50 years ago.

But if you lived through the 60s, you know that the DC5 were commercially on the Beatles' heels until '67.
 
I'll have to go with the Dave Clark Five also.

This from wikipedia:

The Dave Clark Five (also known as "The DC5") were an English pop rock group. They were the second group of the British Invasion, after The Beatles, to have a chart hit in the United States ("Glad All Over" #6, February 1964).[citation needed]

The Dave Clark Five had several more hit songs in the United States during 1964-67, including "Bits and Pieces" (#4, April 1964), "Can't You See That She's Mine" (#4, June 1964), "Because" (#3, August 1964), "Anyway You Want It" (#14, November 1964), "I Like It Like That" (#7, June 1965), "Catch Us If You Can" (#4, August 1965), "Over And Over" (#1, December 25, 1965), and "You Got What It Takes" (#7, April 1967). The group disbanded in late 1970.

On 10 March 2008 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[
 
Wow.My list:
1)Beatles
2)Stones
3)Kinks
4)The Who
5)Animals
6)Hollies
7)The Move
8)The Zombies

Tough to split hairs with the last four.Bunched together pretty tight.
Jimmy
 
As far as number four on the list, my favorite to listen to would be the Dave Clark Five. I don't think that they were as talanted overall as many of the other choices, but I'm never in the mood to not hear Dave and the boys.
 
Led Zeppelin....and any argument against that could also be made to a lesser extent about the Who, although their appearance at Monterrey and Woodstock and "I Can See For Miles" would be the natural argument against my choice...Zep was a late 1960's band who really became huge in the 1970s. The same can be said about the Who to some extent...I think it is slightly unfair of them not to be included on the list....I mean what is the real ending date of the invasion?
 
I don't think Led Zeppelin would be considered a "British Invasion" band. We were already conquered by the time they arrived. They would be in the group with Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath to name a few.
 
The Animals

would be #3 in my book with The Who being #5. #4 for me would be The Kinks.
 
I'm glad all over to see the love for DC5! I have always thought they were fab.

I can't believe I forgot The Searchers, what a rockin band they were!
 
finnbow said:
Harkening back to my days in front of the TV watching Shindig and Hullabaloo, I think you're right about The Dave Clark Five.

That said, put me in the Kinks column.:smoke:
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I can remember discussing with my family while watching the Ed Sullivan show, who was better, The Beatles or the Dave Clark Five. So they get the nod.
Looking back, the very early Kinks stuff was, like their song says, "Not Like Everybody Else". It stands out as far as creativity goes. Other bands were drawing from blues and rockabilly, The Kinks were taking a different road.
I guess they all were innovative to some degree but The Kinks are my personal favorite of the bunch....many great bands to pick from.
 
finnbow said:
Harkening back to my days in front of the TV watching Shindig and Hullabaloo, I think you're right about The Dave Clark Five.

That said, put me in the Kinks column.:smoke:
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yeah, when I was 6-7 years old I think I'd heard of the Dave Clark 5. The Kinks, nah.

So that's not going by excellence, but just by what was the "face" of that "invasion".
That said, I can't even think of what their hit(s) were. (Dave Clark 5) Are they the ones that did that blue eyed version of "Do You Love Me (Now that I can Dance)?"
 
(Dave Clark 5) Are they the ones that did that blue eyed version of "Do You Love Me (Now that I can Dance)?"
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This classic Barry Gordy Motown tune was covered by bunches of people, including both The DC5 and The Hollies of the British Invasion bands.
 
finnbow said:
This classic Barry Gordy Motown tune was covered by bunches of people, including both The DC5 and The Hollies of the British Invasion bands.
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there was one version that was extremely popular on Tampa's (mainly white music) big a.m. station - and I'm thinking it was the DC5 version.
I remember my Aunt goofing around and singing it.....loooooooong ago. Never heard the Contours version until much later.
 
Glad to see the DC5 mentioned. Perhaps Dave's crusty attutude, belief he was better than the Beatles, and the fact that DC5 was out of print for so long has allowed DC5 to drop from our memories.

My take on DC5 is good rock & roll, but nothing mind-blowing (Zombies) or gritty (Kinks).

Ken
 
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