British VS US music

What is better US or British music

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Freebird is like Hotel California and Stairway to Heaven, some of the most overplayed songs that I wouldn't mind not hearing for another 20 years, except with Freebird, everyone requests it at concerts too. ;)

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American Bands:
Bad Religion
Dredg
Cave In
Darkest Hour
Hot Water Music
Isis

European:
Ignite
Muse
Placebo
Satanic Surfers
Dragon Force

Canadian:
Weakerthans
Propagandhi

I tried to only use bands that are recent for this list; otherwise I would have a lot of the classic bands people have mentioned as well.

For current music America wins by a small margin.

Although for older music Europe wins.
 
UK or US? both are phenomenal mass producers of media...however judging by popularity US music seems to be dominant.
 
redarmy11 said:
Current touted US bands:
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Yellowcard, Cute Is What We Aim For, Paramore, Taking Back Sunday, Madina Lake, Angels & Airwaves, Stone Sour.
Though the last two of those are based on previous success of at least one of the band members. American music is pretty good and it'll be interesting to see if any of those really make it big.
 
draqon said:
UK or US? both are phenomenal mass producers of media...however judging by popularity US music seems to be dominant.
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I'd suggest the US is more popular because they have a higher population, UK bands find it very hard to break such a large market when a relatively small band out there can already have a larger following than a big UK band.
 
The British are a fallen empire that can only create trivial popsongs.

The Americans still have about fifty years, so they've got some interesting music.
 
infoterror said:
The British are a fallen empire that can only create trivial popsongs.

The Americans still have about fifty years, so they've got some interesting music.
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Ha.

Trivial popsongs?

The UK is miles ahead when it comes to innovation. When we're not talking about classic rock or, to a certain extent, black music, the UK produces far more innovative, boundary pushing artists and bands. I'd call that more interesting than the tried and tested US method.

If you only watch MTV or listen to the radio, then I guess your impression is only of chart music; and therefore pop music.

It's interesting to compare the size and population of the UK and the US and the amount of successful artists from each. I'd be inclined to say the UK is more talented percentage wise.
 
The Police are a London band and they're still playing.

There's no real delineation between Canadian music and U.S. music. We can't tell ourselves apart by accent or anything like that. People often don't even know which side of the border a band is from unless it's one of their favorites and they read up on it. When bands from either country go on a "national" tour they always play venues in both lands.

Everyone knows that country-western heartthrob Shania Twain is Canadian because her home town is as far north of the Mason Dixon Line as you can go without being eaten by a polar bear and they made a big deal about it when she debuted. But how many people know that Alannah Davis is too? Yes the lady who sang about Mississippi and Tennessee in "Black Velvet."

Then there's the phenomenon that many Canadian performers move down here when they become stars. Most Americans think Joni Mitchell and Neil Young are Americans because as far as they know they've always lived here. It's not limited to singers; Lorne Green of Bonanza and Battlestar Galactica and Dan Aykroyd of Saturday Night Live are Canadians.

Relative to population size, there are a lot more Canadians among us than Mexicans. Got to put some barbed wire up along that border. :)
 
Fraggle Rocker said:
How about heavy metal? Your guys may have invented it, but once Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath disintegrated our guys took over. Metallica and Guns'n'Roses practically reinvented it. Judas Priest and Motorhead are barely footnotes in that chapter of music.
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G&R is not heavy metal, and Metallica can eat shit compared to Judas Priest.

Motorhead is just a very loud rock and roll band... :)
 
I voted British for the obvious reason and I can prove it!:

Out of the 5 best selling records in the USA 3 were British bands, 1 Australian, and only one (The Eagles) American...

So go figure.... The musiclovers voted... :)

Edit: I rechecked it, and it is actually a tie in the top 5, 2 Brits (Floyd, Zep) 2 US (Eagles, Jackson) and AC/DC. I remembered wrong. Although different websites give different numbers...

Let's put it this way: it is pretty close, but since the population of the US is 6 times bigger than the UK's....
 
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