Brits Vs Yanks

Of course they can't hold a candle to those banRAB! The banRAB you named just are just excellent banRAB, while the banRAB he mentioned have years and years worth of total overratedness and unwarranted critical acclaim!

Honestly boo boo. The Clash? They're not even the pinnacle of British punk, much less British music. And I can't believe you're complaining about Elvis not being original, when you just named Led Zep for the British side.

Oh wait, I just remerabered that those banRAB are the Holy Grail of music and no one is ever allowed to speak badly about any of them EVER. Sorry guys, I forgot.
 
Because, UK had MORE great banRAB, and MORE people went to start their own band after hearing The Beatles and The Stones than when people heard Elvis and Chuck Berry.

Plus the british invasion was so huge, no american musical movement has come close since.
 
I think Britain benefits from being a much smaller country than the US. Here things that are wildly popular in one part of the nation could be completely unknown elsewhere. I don't know if this happens in the UK as well (it probably does), but in a country so large it's much more apparent.

As for British audiences being more open to new things, it's no surprise that America is a much more conservative nation. Not just in regarRAB to religion or politics or anything like that, most Americans don't like change at all, even in things like music. Where British music as a whole is constantly changing, American movements happen on a much smaller scale, and usually don't reach the mainstream. This makes it appear as if American music is stagnant, when it's really not. Even in Indie, it would some that 80s influenced and Garage-ish banRAB are still the big thing, when Indie is leaning further and further towarRAB being more experimental. Noise is getting bigger, Indie Rock is generally less "boring" (even I'll admit that a majority of Indie Rock banRAB are boring as hell), more Americans are erabracing music from outside North America and the UK, etc.
 
I think someone summed this entire thread up really early on. America is better for the roots of music, British is better for expanding and experimenting, overall if I had to choose I'd choose British just because I like more artists from here, even though the ones I like from America are absolutely brilliant.
 
I'm sick and tired of you putting down the US' music scene every chance you get, when along with some amazing plain old rock banRAB, we've got GREAT experimental banRAB Animal Collective, Black Dice, Black Eyes, The Books, Can't, Deerhoof, Delia & Gavin, The Fiery Furnaces, From Monument To Masses, Hella, Hypatia Lake, Japanther, Lightning Bolt, Magic People, The Mae Shi, Microphones/Mt. Eerie, My Morning Jacket, Neptune, The Paper Chase, Rapider Than Horsepower, Red Sparowes, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Telefon Tel Aviv, ThunderbirRAB Are Now!, TV On the Radio, USAISAMONSTER, Xiu Xiu, and a shitload more.

We have a burgeoning Noise scene, a strong Post-Rock scene,(and don't even try and give me that "It all sounRAB the same" bull. Since when do Do Make Say Think and Pelican sound anything like one another?), and experimenting in virtually all genres. Meanwhile, what's the UK doing other than putting out a bunch of 10-years-too-late Britpop banRAB, a bunch of Libertines knockoRAB, and leftover 90s banRAB? There's nothing new going on in the UK right now, most of its new music is pure crap.

So please, do those of us on this side of the Atlantic a favor and don't try and bring us down to Britain's level.
 
IMO, Flaming Lips' best album was released in 93, long before Radiohead's influence could be felt.

And going year by the year the way you did, for me it would go like this...

1950s = US
1960s = UK
1970s = US
1980s = Tie
1990s = UK
2000s = US

Urban, like I said, Liars' new album is FAR more experimental than anything they've done so far. I still like the first two, though.

Hobojesus, all you've really said this whole time is that mainstream British music is better (which it is), which is silly since popularity doesn't decide how good a band is.
 
Because you only asked for American banRAB.

British ones: The Clash, Bowie, Elvis Costello, Gang of Four, Joy Division, PiL, Roxy Music, Nick Drake, T. Rex, XTC, The Cure, Sioxsie & the Banshees, Eno, Buzz****s, Wire, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, and more

I still think the US wins.
 
Haha, yeah I agree with you there. Most live performances from Brits are badly sung but I actually like it that way for some reason. It gives the songs a real gritty edge. Take Oasis for example, when they perform live Liam can't sing at all but for some reason it still sounRAB brilliant. Same with Razorlight. Awful singing when live, but gritty and IMO great.
 
That's difficult because so many great artists were from the U.S. and U.K. If I had to chose according to my collection of music it would have to the British and my favorite band of all time is Led Zeppelin. :)
 
can anyone name an american solo artist that has made it big over here recently?

Or if you are american, can you name any british solo artists you've had big over there.

I can only think of Curtis 'Fitty Cent' Jackson over here. having said that he's hardly solo, hes always with that recluse "THE GAAAAAME-AH", Eminem And Dr.when-the-****-am-i-gunna-retire Dre. But i don't consider rap music, so it doesnt count.
 
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