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THE BEST MUSICIANS AND TOP BANDS IN GREAT BRITAIN TODAY

35. Lone Pigeon
Gordon Anderson used to be a member of the Beta Band, and his debut solo album, Concubine Rice, was a reminder of everything that was most thrilling about the Beta Band's earliest EPs. His music is fragmentary, peculiar but always deliciously melodic, while his tales of tramps and cows ache with melancholy. Rumour has it that he is considering giving up music to travel across Britain letting animals out of their cages. If he did, we would lose one of our most beguiling eccentrics.
Sound:17 Songs: 16 Gigs:- Style:7 Attitude:17 Total: 57

36. Franz Ferdinand
These four young men who met at art school in Glasgow lay claim to an unfairly forgotten lineage of Scots post-punk pop. A timely conflation of snappy art-funk and spiralling guitars, Darts of Pleasure, the best three-track debut single since Suede's The Drowners, narrowly missed out on a top 40 placing last month. January's follow-up, Take Me Out, will almost certainly take the band on to Top of the Pops. An album is due in February. Sound: 12 Songs:11 Gigs: 10 Style:11 Attitude:12 Total: 56

37. Joss Stone
Stone is following the Dido career path: on her way to being a hit in the US before making an impression in her home country. Musically, however, she puts you in mind of Dusty Springfield. A 16-year-old blonde from Devon, Stone sounds like a queen of Motown soul. On her demo CD, recorded in Miami with a team of 1970s soul musicians, her voice is smoky, sultry, passionate and quite extraordinary. Sound: 19 Songs:13 Gigs: - Style:10  Attitude:13 Total: 55
40. Selfish Cunt
Dividing the nervous few who have heard or seen them, art/punk duo Selfish Cunt aren't simply an in-joke too far perpetrated by the denizens of London's trendy Hoxton - more a malignancy at the heart of the fashionable life. Singer Martin Tomlinson and guitarist Patrick Constable create unruly anti-songs, angry unravellings of beatbox stuffer, garage noise and invective. Tomlinson is Suicide's Frankie Teardrop recast as a violent gay dandy, and genuinely menacing debut double A-side single Britain is Shit /Fuck the Poor is the most brutal state-of-the-national address since the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen. Sound: 11/20Songs: 8/20Gigs: -Style: 15/20Attitude: 18/20 Total: 52/100.