Brits Vs Yanks

Rap and Hip Hop relies on sampled music borrowed from Funk/Soul/Rock.
Country music is rooted in the folk traditions of the British Isles. In the new world, those roots became entangled with the ethnic music of other immigrants and African slaves.
Jazz has it's roots in African folk music, call and respond.
Funk is a derivative of Soul, again black.
Heavy Metal evolved through rock 'n' roll, again no prizes for guessing where that stems from.
Emo...ditto.
Ska...get the gist.

Forget the UK and the USA.
I think ALL NATIONS should bow down to the black African immigrant.
 
I've actually written a lot of the major music articles at Wiki, contributed heavily to the punk, rock, jazz, pages... written tons of the sub genre pages. And yes I DO love it. Most of the stuff I know already, but I definitely check it to make sure my facts are right. And sometimes if I link a wiki article, it's one I've written.

And country... it doesn't do a lot for Americans above the Mason-Dixon line either... so I know how you feel!
 
You may have hit on the underlying thing of why I don't like it. Im no patriot and it pisses me off when you get British people Yank bashing and talking about how great British culture is. Personally I think most of its pure s*** but thats just my opinion.

British tradition is dancing around a pole. American tradition is the blues and Southern literature. Theres a hell of a difference.
 
Both are as much American genres as they are British.

Punk didn't begin with the Ramones, but it did start in the US. It doesn't matter where it became a "worldwide phenomenon." That's like saying Nirvana started Grunge because they're the ones that made it big first.

And Post-Punk isn't even close to being an exclusively British genre.
 
I prefer american personally. Pretty much all my favorite banRAB are from here, with the exception of like a few (Damned, Million Dead etc..). I really don't think either is better, cause I mean croatian music pwnz them all, hanRAB down.
 
I wasn't merely speculating about population. At the time it would have been harder to spread new music around such a big area than it would your country. It's not opinion, that's fact... it's common logic. With the same hose it would take longer to fill a swimming pool up with water than it would a bathtub.

Album sales nowadays are not the definition of "success" - so it's not the same thing.

The genre was spawned in Jamaica due to American influence. America had ska before England in our cajun country. Ska found it's way across the pond and was popular in England. Ska came back to America - popular, and then America reworked it. And now ska is almost completely dominated by American banRAB.

There ya go. Ska.

I'm tired of this roundabout thread. Each of us have too much pride to allow any admittance or give any ground - it's pointless. That being said - I'm outta here. I'd be glad to talk about this sans competitive nature!
 
Aye, that gives me some comfort. You know I love the Monkeys so that works in your favour. ;)

I don't like Funk though, then again I've not listened to much of it. Chilis are k.
 
Thats the difference between direct and indirect influence.

Indirect influence is when banRAB influence banRAB who influence other banRAB, but just because Chuck Berry influenced The Stones dosent mean everyone influenced by The Stones are influenced by Chuck Berry, or even like Chuck Berry.

Im talking mainly about direct influences, and what banRAB mean the most to the modern music community.
 
Getting this back on track

For what it`s worth I would rate it like this...

50s - US
60s - UK
Early 70s - US
Late 70s - UK
80s - UK
90s - UK
00 - US (But only just , my personal opinion is UK music is in the shitter at the moment , the US is slightly better but not much.)
 
Not in the traditional sense but there were some great British post punk banRAB that used funk as a base for their sound.

Not that I would argue they were better. Two totally different things.
 
Yeah...I like what I heard from Arctic Monkeys. They were just the first band that sprung to mind, because they were one of the most recent I guess. Still, I don't think they, or any other British band of late deserves the ridiculously high level of praise they get.
 
Now we're talking about "under the radar" banRAB? That term, by definition, means they are banRAB that not too many people have heard of. My point is that tons of British banRAB are very well known over here and have been for literally decades.
 
Radiohead were just a Britpop band who began to copy whatever IDM artists were doing at the time. I love them, but I'd rather listen to anything on Warp RecorRAB than any of their more experimental albums.

There are a ton of American banRAB better than Radiohead, they just don't get the same amount of recognition that Radiohead do.
 
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