What they are suggesting Madness are linked to neo nazis, that's down to the ignorance of the Mojo people. Skinheads were a multi racial phenomenon. They didn't crossover because so much of what they did was based on British culture and references.

Its really weird to me that people haven't heard of Pulp. Differen't class was one of the best albums of the 90's.

The JAM are ICONIC! One of my favorite vocalists in Paul Weller. That's Entertanment and Town Called Malice are very good listens.

The Jam & Paul Weller as a solo artist are amazing!!!

Every song on the debut album by The Stone Roses is a masterpiece. 'I am the Resurrection' and 'This is the One'. Greatness.

Britain has a tsunami of amazing musical talent. It was a real pleasure growing up in the 80s with bands like Madness. All the bands here were huge in the UK. My favourites here are Madness, Pulp and The Stone Roses, their first record being one of my favourites since. I'd recommend Common People by Pulp and Fools Gold by the Stone Roses but all the bands here are worth further listening. They were huge in this part of the world.

Stereophonics are brilliant. Dakota is a good song to start with and it’s one of my favourite songs

The Waterboys "Whole of the Moon" is glorious. The Jam and Stone Roses are still in regular rotation on my playlists.

I recenttly discovered an English band I had never heard of called 'Prefab Sprout'. Looove their music!

Take That were massive here. I wasn't one of their avid fans but I did like all their songs. The Stereophonics are another must listen to band. They're brilliant.

Waterboys- The Whole of the Moon. Wonderful.

That's one really positive aspect of living in central Europe: you get music from the UK and the US equally, as well as from other neighbouring countries. In the US you got so much homegrown stuff that it's really hard for "outsiders" to crack it. You should definitely check out Maximo Park. Pretty much all their singles are great.

THE STONE ROSES FIRST ALBUM IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, AND IM FROM AMERICA…..YOU MUST LISTEN!!!!!!!

Pulp’s “Common People” is such a great song, with its very realistic depiction of class separation in England. And the Stone Roses were HUGE in America on alternative rock stations, and I love them dearly.

Dude, you need to check out. The Specials, especially Ghost Town. Truly perfection. I’m from Australia but this is monumental UK song.

TAKE THAAAT! Amazing, incredible band, from the beginning to today. I love them. Sorry for my english. Besitos. 😍🇪🇸

"Simple Minds" had a few big hits in the U.S. in the 80's, primarily "Don't You (Forget About Me)", but they were crazy popular in the U.K., and other parts of the world, in the 80's. I highly recommend checking out some of their songs like "Love Song", "The American", "Someone, Somewhere in Summertime", "Promised You a Miracle", "Waterfront", etc.. They sold 60 million albums worldwide. Also, another similar band from the 80's, that had little success in the U.S. versus the world, is "Ultravox". You reacted to their song "Vienna", which never even charted in the U.S., but reached #2 in the U.K., and have a ton of songs that were top 20 hits in the U.K. Finally, "Split Enz"/"Crowded House" are band(s) that had a little success in the U.S., but nothing compared to how popular they were in Australia and the U.K..

Manic Street Preachers are one of the best bands ever. I definitely recommend checking them out. "A Design for Life" is probably one of the best starting points, as it was their first really big UK hit single, and is just a great anthem to working class empowerment. Other songs to look for would be "Motorcycle Emptiness" "Faster" and "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" Their latest album, "The Ultra Vivid Lament" just came out as well. Their 14th. So lots to check out. I actually saw them live on Monday. My first gig in almost 2 years. Missed live music so much.

I’ve heard of just about all these bands. The ones I really enjoy The Stone Roses, Kasabian, and Pulp. Suede was pretty good too.

OMG! Manic Street Preachers, Pulp and Suede - pure legends!

The Happy Mondays Pills & Thrills still resonates with me. Same with the Stone Roses. Really great musicianship and song writing.

I would put The Housemartins, Travis, James, etc. on the list. You should really really react to Mando Diao from Sweden!!! Start with "Dance with somebody" and then listen to tons of their other great songs.

Pulp and Suede are both brilliant!

Please react to stereophonics! Coming from a welsh person, we all love this band! they are so talented and the singer has a unique raspy voice which is amazing. Dakota is awesome!

You should absolutely react to Stereophonics. Lead singer, Kelly Jones, has one of the greatest Soft-Rock voices of all time. He’s an absolutely brilliant singer.

Take That are massive in the UK... Singer songwriter Gary Barlow went on to record a single with Agnetha Faltskog from ABBA... you can find their live performance on KZfaq

Also -- not a band, but a solo artist (for the most part) -- Cliff Richard was a HUGE success in the UK, but only had a few hits in the US. Overseas, though, he had 14 singles reach #1, 68 which were top 10 hits, and overall, 124 songs in the UK top 40, spanning 5 decades.

You need to give Pulp, Manic Street Preachers and Stone Roses a definite go, hell have a dabble at them all, all have great tracks.

The Flood with Take That is my favorite. Robbie Williams join the other guys in this. I also love many of Robbie Wiliiams songs. I grow up with Scandinavian, German and Britian music..

Loved this! As a Mancunian on the Manchester scene in the 1990s, can't wait for you to react to the Roses. I Wanna Be Adored is one of my favourites, along with Waterfall, Resurrection...

I've been asking for Pulp and Manic Street Preachers reactions for a long time =( I hope now you'll consider them ;) I like most bands on that list. If you want to add yet another, I recommend The Fratellis

It's odd that Mojo would claim Madness was associated with skinheads. Maybe they had fans that were skinheads. Maybe ones that had been fans of ska. But the band as far as I know had no association with the skinhead movement.

Should definitely react to some Take That. I have seen them twice in concert and they are a great band

I still remember when I heard opening riff from "Disco 2000" for the first time in 1996. This song still reminds me of my childhood.

Everyone of these bands is worth reacting to. UK music rules!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Please do all of these!!!

My favourite Take That songs - 'Patience' and 'Never Forget'

American here, love Madness!

I`m sure your to play list is long, but here`s a few more great UK artists from the 80s and 90s you`d enjoy Black - Wondeful LIfe PJ Harvey - This is Love Primal Scream - Movin On Up The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl Massive Attack - Angel / Protection

REALLY enjoyed this reaction! Off the back of the bands listed, I’d love to hear a reaction to The Stereophonics, probably the song ‘Dakota’.

Happy Mondays' "Kinky Afro" is how I found them while I was listening to some song suggestions on Spotify and that's how I began to listen to their discography. Also Stone Roses are amazing. In fact, two of the guys from the band had a chance to meet The Clash while the punk band was in Manchester.

Happy Mondays “wrote for luck” (Oakenfold remix) is one of the best songs to come out of UK in 1980s.

Definitely Take That was a huge boy band in the 90's and still releasing quality and mature music. Unfortunately the band has been loosing some of its members on the way but still hanging on. Sereophonics "Maybe tomorrow" is a must in your reaction list. You"ll not be disappointed for sure

I LOVE Happy Monday!!!! ❤️

Madness was huge in the US, they were hourly staples on mtv and every dance or dance club played them. Their stickers were on skateboards to lockers to trapper keepers. I stood in line for hours for their shows, many times.

The Jam are a brilliant band. I grew up listening to them. Down in the tube station at midnight.. That's entertainment, Town Called Malice.. Great songs. . Style Council (Paul Weller formerly of The Jam). Weller also did a solo album. Stanley Road it's called.. One of the best albums ever written imo.., The Housemartins were decent in the 80's. Happy Hour anyone??.

Take that were the biggest boy band in the UK in the 90s, with multiple number ones and sell out arena tours, they broke up and got back together without Robbie and wrote new material in 2006 and with huge comeback stadium tours, they are still together but now with only 3 members.

There are countless bands that didn't 'make it' to American radio or audiences unfortunately. As a Canadian I know many Americans who don't know bands that are very popular in my country. It's wonderful you put these out there for us all to finally listen to! thanks for sharing Jayvee :) PS, they didn't mention XTC or Squeeze...those are some other cool bands from UK

I love Stereophonics. Definitely worth a check. Madness also a really fun band. I’m not a big fan of Brit pop-Indy if I’m honest. Blur are a pretty awesome band of that time (90’s) Different music genre, but Eternal were an awesome British girl band that tried to make it in America but just didn’t crack it (they had a couple hits there but not big)

I love Kaiser Chiefs. Hell, all these groups are great - I definitely prefer British music to the stuff that's been churned out in the States over the last 30 years.

You should do some Take That reactions. Huge pop band over here & they have some great songs. Plus, not many reactors have done them yet.

Madness and Take That was my teenage angst bands

T Rex should definitely be on there, Marc Bolan was years ahead of his time and was a huge influence on future artists. Also Status Quo and Slade. Slade were very underrated as a great rhythm & blues band, probably because they were classed as glam rock, but were one of the influences for Oasis, as acknowledged by Noel Gallagher, and alot of AC/DC tracks remind me very much of Slade.

I love all of these bands! Hi from Australia :) Love your videos! Maybe you could do a video on Aussie bands?

Pulp is a prime example, popular and a classic all over Europe, unknown outside of college radio in the U.S.

Thanks J, this was fun.

"Maybe Tomorrow" by Stereophonics should have been a greater hit in U.S. I was introduced to it by the local Chicago radio station (WXRT); I loved it immediately. It was also used for the movie "Crash." I owned a couple albums by them, and enjoy many songs.

More Paul Weller (The Jam or The Style Council) and definitely check out Stereophonics (the song that played during this video is called ‘Maybe Tomorrow” and is a great start! Also Take That and Robbie Williams as a solo artist are a great rabbit hole of Hits to dig into.

Take That was huge here in Europe, i highly recommend you check out their stuff. so good

Take That’s backup band is the same musicians Jeff Lynne takes on tour with Jeff Lynne’s ELO. You saw/heard them when reacting to “Telephone Line” live at Wembley. They are top talent.

The Stereophonics are an awesome band, seen them live 4 times and never disappointed. You want to listen to 'I stopped to fill my car up' The lyrics are fantastic!

I love TAKE THAT yes play some very good band maybe play weekend blinded by the lights. Hugh in uk for our NHS Nurses that care for the covid patients so well

After all this years, Manic Street Preachers "The Holy Bible" is still one of my favourite album all time. What a masterpiece !

Everyone knows who madness is.. one of the best "SKA music bands" ever!! I saw them in concert when MTV debuted their first MTV concert tour live it started in Arizona.. the bands that played at this were The Police, Madness, Thompson twins, Devo... This was such a good concert.

A track from each group in the list to try out: 10 - Supergrass - "Alright" 09 - Madness - "It must be love" 08 - Take That - "Back for good" (their "boy band" style isn't my cup of tea, but this track was great). 07 - Kasabian - "L.S.F." 06 - Happy Mondays - "Step on" 05 - Stereophonics - "Local boy in the photograph" (most people would probably suggest "Dakota" though) 04 - Manic Street Preachers - "A design for life" 03 - Pulp - "Common people" 02 - The Jam - "Going underground" 01 - The Stone Roses - "Waterfall" (probably not the most popular suggestion) Honourable mentions: Suede - "Animal nitrate" Maximo Park - "Our velocity" The Waterboys - "The whole of the moon" Oh you have such great times ahead of you :)

You should definitely listen to Handbags and Gladrags by the Sterephonics

Definitely will like Happy Mondays!

'Maybe Tomorrow' is like one of my favorite songs ever. no joke.

Love you to check out The Stereophonics Maybe Tomorrow would be my choice, it’s so mellow 😃 Also Suede, they were my favourite band in the 90s 👍🏻 Cheers Jay!

YES, I had already recommended Take That a while back when you were doing some boy band stuff (e.g. the track "Never Forget"). More importantly though, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE react to Paolo Nutini "Iron Sky" (Abbey road live session), you will love it!!! You will certainly also enjoy Stereophonics or Travis.

Great work Jayvee! You opened the box and it's a DEEP WELL. Start with these and it will lead you into more Indie that was missed completely. What an innovative time it was.

Wow, The fans in Canada gave them love. They were even on some commercials. thanks for showing them all in one set. Have not heard them in awhile. Cool.

Hi Jay you should definitely react to Pulp`s Common People. Its from the album Different Class which really lived up to its name.

Why did these bands never hit it big here? Because radio plays what they want you to hear.

Manic Street Preachers "A Design for Life", Stereophonics "Have a nice day", Take That "Pray", The Waterboys "Whole of the moon". All great.

It's hard to pick a favourite! Stereophonics and Kasabian are brilliant live. Stereophonics - Superman, Dakota, Maybe Tomorrow, Just Looking & Pixk a Part and Kasabian - I'm on Fire, Club Foot, Shoot the Runner & Empire - only a few x

Some great bands there for you to check out. I especially recommend the stereophonics

Common People by Pulp is worth reacting to - especially live, so you can see how audiences react to this song and to really appreciate the total rock star charisma of their singer Jarvis Cocker. Best version in my opinion is "Pulp - Common People (Reading 2011)" If you watch this version it's important to stay till the very end of the video.

I’m an American lived in the UK for 10 years so I know most of these band. You should definitely check out Stereophonics and Manic Street Preachers. Pulp’s song Common People is also a must listen!

Love you Jayvee :) Keep the great video's coming.

I'd definitely give The Stereophonics a listen too. My favourite is Handbags and Gladrags..not written by lead singer Kelly Jones this is a cover but was a mega hit over here🇬🇧.. his raspy voice is epic and any song on their ablum Just enough education to perform you will love..Take That was epic here too..initially a pop boy band..Gary Barlow lead singer and songwriter is very talented..he had a continual disagreement with Robbie Williams and Williams left. Take That broke up a yr after..However they got back to together a few yrs back now and are bigger than ever.. Back for Good..Never Forget..A million love songs from their boy band time..Patience..Let it Shine. .and a lot more hits that are very recent.. i wouldn't bother with some of those that were in the top ten. I would add The Beautiful South into that list..Perfect 10.. Dignity..Take a little time and many more.. also Level 42..very big in the 80's.. similar status to tears for fears .. wrote their own music... very catchy tunes great lead singer in Mark King and one of the other band members had a fantastic falsetto..can't remember his name right now ..enjoy

Try the live "Whatever You Want" by Status Quo..... Great song

Hey JV…Stereophonics’ “Maybe Tomorrow” was on the soundtrack from the movie Crash & played as the credits rolled! 😎

The girl group shown before the top 10 is Girls Aloud. I’m from America and love them. You should definitely react to them. One of the members, Sarah Harding just passed away from breast cancer. She was only 39.

Oasis were the biggest band in the world between 1995 and 2005 having sold over 70 million albums. I can't believe US KZfaq reactors don't react to them. Their first 2 albums are that good that one could pick any song at random and it's a masterpiece. One could probably pick 30 top notch songs from their catalogue.

An easy move into SUPERGRASS is their song MOVING, give it a go, it's a slower tempo track. It will give you a good base to explore the rest.

Manics and Take That defined my childhood back in the 90s

I grew up in SoCal in the eighties, and I had every Madness album. Cool kids who were in the know loved these bands. ☺️

"Take That" was great. Don't judge me. It was the 90s. 😄

I loved this reaction! Out of this list, please react to Manic Street Preachers - You Stole The Sun From My Heart and Tsunami, and Suede - Beautiful Ones and Trash 💜

I never heard Elbow mentioned. Britain's greatest secret. Check out "Mirrorball", "One Day Like This", "The Birds", "Station Approach", "The Night Will Always Win". The most beautiful melodies in perfect combination with the most sublime lyrics.

For those interested check out the jams Paul weller call me number 5 live which features Kelly Jones of stereophonics.. both on this list

Definitely check out The Stone Roses.

Some great bands in there but Stereophonics are my favourites of those. I've been to see them twice in my hometown of Wrexham twice and were absolutely awesome both times. The first of which was the day after Wales beat Belgium at Euro 2016 which added to the atmosphere even more. So many banging tunes by them you should check out: Dakota, You're My Star, A Thousand Trees, Local Boy In the Photograph, The Bartender and the Thief, Pick a Part That's New, Just Looking, I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio, Have a Nice Day, Mr Writer, Maybe Tomorrow, Since I Told You It's Over, Devil, Handbags and Gladrags, It Means Nothing, Could You Be the One?, Graffiti On the Train. I could name more but those are the essentials. I grew up on 90s Britpop bands such as Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Space and Supergrass. If you look for a 90s Britpop playlist on KZfaq, you'll find lots of catchy feel-good tunes which gives a lot of nostalgia and good memories to British millenials growing up at that time.

The Stereo's, Manics and Suede are superb!

British Madness fan here . skinheads in the UK were a cultural movement started in the 1960's that listen to Reggae , Ska , Punk , rock and a few other types of music . the skinhead movement was hijacked by Neo-Nazis who were racist . but don't let that put you off Madness . Madness never aligned themselves with the Neo-Nazis and even pulled out of a concert because they knew Neo-Nazis were there and the Neo-Nazis threatened to stab them . Madness have a fantastic catalogue of songs . fun songs and sad serious songs . well worth taking some time to listen to . and they are still going now .

The Stone Roses were awesome!

One of the best concerts I experienced was pulp at t in the park in the nineties, you should def react to babies by them

Pulp “Common People” is a must!! I loved Take That, but just because of Robbie Williams.

I remember Take that from the mid 90s. Their break up seem to be important news on music shows in Canada. I had a couple of their albums. It Only Takes a Minute from their first album is pretty good.