MUSIC: the official thread.

I meant recently, nobody's got it right. Mainstream music is a wasteland.

 

no doubt

 

but this is a different argument to "we run the show", man::

 

In terms of what are deemed "classic" rock bands, I'd say the cream of the UK is better than the US. I mean, come on, it's The Beatles we're talking about here ::.

 

Just to re-iterate, my favourite band are American, I have no beef with Anerican music. Don't kill me Cdogg ::

Overall, USA has produced greater music across the spectrum, if you encompass all genres. Which should be expected.

 

One band! I would never diss the Beatles, but let's not act like that was some sort of typical English product... it's SORT OF like saying the SPL must be a real good league because Celtic is a good team::

 

(This list includes bands I don't like, despise in fact)

The Beatles
The Stones
Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
Black Sabbath
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
Queen

This is just off the top of my head, and there are more, but love them or hate them the bands listed above have had a HUGE impact on popular music and influenced and shaped future genres, scenes and generations. Of course America has too, but if we're comparing rock bands from the two countries lets not pretend there's some gaping chasm. There isn't.

 

So we are going to include bands we DON'T actually like, then?

Okay:

The Beach Boys
The Dead
The Byrds
Creedence
The Eagles
Fleetwood Mac (who only became internationally huge after the two Americans took over)
The Allman Brothers
Lynyrd Skynyrd


All of the above, off the top of my head, were ridiculously successful and had a HUGE impact on future scenes, genres, and generations. WHat's your point, caller?

You are the one who said "Engerland is Lord of all that is Rock"... NOW you are asking me to allow you to sort of break even!!:: SEE YOU!

 

BANDS bro. I'm not going to say Rock in general when you guys have the Elvis trump card ::

But yeah, even still, I'd say the top UK bands are superior.You should have included Buddy Holly and The Crickets by the way.

 

I'd listen to the Dead on repeat for the rest of my LIFE before I'd sit through a fecking minute of such Royal-oid Broadway fuckery as QUEEN, cartoon sludge like Black Sabbath, or the carefully crafted PR spectacle known as the Sex Pistols... I can respect The Clash a little, but again that music does nothing for me 99% of the time... I will also handily take the Dead over the entirety of Pink Floyd, even the Pink Floyd songs I like

Beatles, Stones, Zep? great... no doubt... the rest of your list doesn't float

 

and never mind fucking ELVIS

We've got the BLACK PEOPLE, the ones who invented the shit to begin with... Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, etc. ... we've got ALL of the real bluesmen and we've got ALL of the old-timey country singers and we've got ALL of the old gospel singers and ALL of the jazz... all the ingredients in the stew were made RIGHT HURR in 'MURICA!!!!












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WTF? ::
You actually believe that - that's scary.

By the way, you're wrong.

 

Joking aside, I agree with cdogg to a point.
There's hasn't been any meaningful artists from the UK in absolutely ages...it's embarrassing.

 

I haven't denied that either. Radiohead were the last IMO.

 

I don't deny that Cdogg, stay on topic ::

Elvis, Michael Jackson and The Beatles are the "big three" when it comes to musical superstardom though.

 

They may have been manufactured but the Sex Pistols had a massive impact, and heavily influenced the last great American music scene.

 

Ugh. :shit:

 

I'm not a huge fan of Radiohead myself, but that isn't the point

 

Yeah, the strange. cod-eyed. head-wobbling singer...the baldy drummer...the emo-looking guitarist who flops about everywhere and whoever the other 2 are.

Basically, bed-wetters from Oxford who can't handle fame or success.
Please. :shit:

 

MURRIKA!!!! FUCK YEAH!:giggle:

 

anyone who would rather listen to "Tommy" over Steely Dan is a menace

 

'Tommy' is wank.

But let's face it, after a while, Steely Dan become a little fucking tiresome.
I heard Donald Fagen's new single the other day and I just thought: "Is this cunt still doing this kind of stuff?" ::
Boring.

I read one review of his new album as follows: "the music is deceitfully lush, a snazzy cascade of rock, R&B and swing, with production as costly as a Santa Monica beach house"

 

no, no, no

Steely Dan's peak recordings... 72-78... have never and will never become tiresome:nono:

 

If your criteria is how much music by black Americans each country has produced America definitely wins :bears:

 

They're a little ghey though.

 

well, obviously they are not as masculine as the Jet Set Junta guy

 

That's the last time anybody got anything right in your book ::

 

no black folks = no rock and roll and no R&B

therefore, no whites ever start imitating it

 

Nothing wrong with having a bath occasionally.

 

It's the FIRST time in YOURS::

If Steely Dan played more poorly and were booked at CBGB's in 1979, you'd be singing their praises!