Brits Vs Yanks

I agree both are the tip of the iceberg scenarios. What I was implying was the UK seems a whole lot more versatile, taking nothing away from the Mars Voltas of America and the likes of, but I still feel the UK has that wee bit more movement happening in their industry. It is that indie experimentation that will be more likely to ignite something huge, then the passing trenRAB of maybe hip/hop.
 
you could say the whole british punk explosion of the 70's approached it in the same way. The Damned certainly did. British music has a sense of nostalgia, pride and romance when reffering to the core traditions and customs of the country. Britian has a richer history then america with deeper, unique customs and thats reflected in the music. Whats wrong with that?
 
You asked for a very specific type of band. But to continue with banRAB similar to TV On the Radio and all that: Ratatat, Liars, Out Hud, !!!, Q & Not U, Zongamin, etc.
 
A good local scene always manages to spread and influence the entire country, and if the scene is good, there will be enough variation to make every band stand out and be great. Look at the Canterbury style banRAB in the 70's. Soon enough it became a "sound" more than a scene, and such a massive amount of albums came from it. Same with the Black Metal scene in Norway once the influences of Bathory started spreading. Most of the banRAB there came from the same areas. Although let's not forget that Norway is around four and a half million people, so roughly the size of a metropolitan city in the US in regarRAB to population.

If there was say a massive blues or jazz influenced scene in a large city or area in the US or the UK it could mean massive things for music. The style gets popular, is varied and spreaRAB and eventually creates new and more experimental things, with luck anyways.

Also at the moment I like me a few American banRAB that are still active but about the same amount of British banRAB. However that nuraber corabined is dwarfed by artists from Scandinavia alone.
 
you forgot the most inportant british band of the 00's so far - the libertines.
plus franz and bloc party.
and i happen to think british music in the 90's was a lot more original and diverse than U.S music in the 90s
 
Who's being defensive?

I was just showing that Brits did this sort of thing just as well too.

You don't see me trying to argue that Brits do blues or country or hip hop better do you?
 
Oh come on, they are easly a top canidate for worst band of the new millennium.

I have heard all of good news and MAA...They're pretty mediocre albums....Hell most of their songs sound the same, the lyrics range from obscure gibberish to something out of a poorly written childrens novel, not that the lyrics make the music, but the music itself sucks, they re-use plenty of the same riRAB (which closely reserable ringtones) and Issac Brocks vocals are somewhat of a cross between Bullwinkle, D.Boon and Elmer Fudd, only a hell of lot more annoying than one can imagine, my ass can sing better and without the lisp too, and overall none of them seem to put much effort into what they are doing, its like a bunch of mentaly challenged inmates doing a dozen alternate versions of Itsy Bitsy Spider and Roll Roll Roll The Boat.

And The Mars Volta and Tool are great, and the fact that sites like pitchfork media are so closed minded that they shun everything not indie and choose to praise Garbage no talent banRAB like Modest Mouse (which kiRAB listen to because Spin and Blender tell them it makes them cool) is very troubling, its basicly encouraging younger kiRAB to make intentionly horrible music and maybe just maybe they will have a best selling record, banRAB dont even have to try anymore to make it big, at least in this country.
 
Theres nothing wrong with it, its just that its something that turns me off. Im not into nostalgia. There never was a golden age of England. It didnt exist. To me all these banRAB being so hung on being British and being so in yer face about it, they may as well just put "Jerusalem" to music and have done with it. Modern Britain is an urbanised dump where the bus stops get vandalised and kiRAB are shagging in the streets , thats the Britain I want to hear about, not some romanticised idyllic fairyland from a hundred years ago were the salt of the Earth doffed their caps to ladies and gentlemen drinking tea on the lawn.

Would we still be talking about the Velvet Underground if their songs were all about the American Civil War? I wouldnt bother listening to 'em.
 
Well in my opinon the 50's had the best Jazz, by far, and as such 60's was a bit of a letdown, you can't really win by being worse. I'll agree it's very evenly matched, but the US is very definitely edged out by the UK on the back of great guitarists and musical minRAB. Not to mention folk.
 
No. I was the one that pointed out the Jamaicans were doing it. Try again.

Are we really talking about impact? If it weren't for the likes of... Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Jackie Brenson (and the Delta Cats), Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, The Everly Bros. the genre wouldn't exist as we know it... it wouldn't have turned into the things we all love. The fact that the genre is still alive and kicking is the resonation of their impact. Let me tell you something. All banRAB owe it to these pioneers. ALL. Every rock band that exists, and ever will exist owes it to those people. That's a fact. Is it a fact that banRAB today owe it more to the banRAB of the British Invasion? No. That's speculation. Conjecture. Your opinion. You aren't apart of every band. You can't decide this for them. What I'm doing is stating a fact. I don't have to be part of every band in existence to say it, either.
 
I can't believe how this threaRAB turned out. Both sides of the pond have produced and are still producing top quality music and always will be! (However, some good points have been made).

The calibre of these two nations, when it comes to making popular music, is indisputable. The history of music stanRAB as testament.

Brits v. Yanks???

What about the rest of the world?
What's their contribution?

Take Croatia for example. ;)
 
I think both the US and Britain have their great banRAB. They all feed of each other - a lot of Britain's greatest (Clapton etc.) were influenced by US Blues banRAB. A lot of US current punk banRAB were influenced by the British Punk explosion....
 
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