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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 2:50:01 GMT -5
I mean so far from what I have uncovered, yes.
Thanks to Steveweiser, I have unlocked the awesomeness of Example
and thanks to X Factor, I have fallen with a young girl by the name of Lucy Spraggan
Not to mention I actually am a fan of both Cher Lloyd and One Direction.
Amongst UK Hip Hop, with best examples being Professor Green and The Streets with A Grand Don't Come For Free, UK Pop (with Ellie Goulding) UK Rock (With The Script) and of course with Adele....The UK Can not go wrong
Even Jessie J, who I have pointed out had a boring hit in "Domino", has other songs such as Price Tag and It's OK Not to Be OK
I have yet to find a flaw in UK Music, and I really want to discover more considering the only acts that have crossed over are
The Script
Adele
Cher Lloyd
One Direction
Ellie Goulding
and Ed Sheeran
It just feels like either I have grown tired of the scene over here, or maybe it's just cause this is something new to me.....but I am really liking what I am hearing
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Feb 4, 2013 2:56:10 GMT -5
Eh, maybe pop-crap wise, but more metal bands come from America, such as Metallica and Pantera, which I prefer over the older British stuff like Iron Maiden etc.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 2:58:36 GMT -5
Funny thing is I prefer Iron Maiden over Metallica and especially over Pantera
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Feb 4, 2013 3:00:57 GMT -5
I always view them as having lighter vocals (Which may draw some flack), whereas Metallica and Pantera are more guttural, which I prefer.
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Post by rawthentic on Feb 4, 2013 3:03:11 GMT -5
Most of my favorite musicians are english..but i think this was the case in the 60's and 70's. I think the 80's and 90's belonged to Americans. It seems over the past 10 years UK musicians are taking over again.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 4, 2013 3:05:27 GMT -5
There are good musicians everywhere. It's just that they tend to get drowned out by tons and tons of crap.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 3:08:02 GMT -5
In my opinion, yes. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, etc.. The list goes on. Some of the best bands in history of music. But there's American bands like The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Frank Zappa, etc..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 3:08:05 GMT -5
At AJ: As true as that may be (as I do agree with you), I find Maiden more enjoyable to listen to simply for the guitar and the vocal work in their tracks. Metallica has a lot of great songs that I love but I have to be in the right state of mind for them, where as Maiden I listen to whenever I want to. As for Pantera.....I never got into them. I barely liked Cowboys from Hell but that was because it was fun to play on Guitar Hero  At Raw: 2 things You are right in the sense that the 80s and 90s were more American, and it seems that The UK is coming back in a big way and off topic....when the hell did your avatar happen? Sting wearing a Sting mask? |
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Post by rawthentic on Feb 4, 2013 3:43:41 GMT -5
At AJ: As true as that may be (as I do agree with you), I find Maiden more enjoyable to listen to simply for the guitar and the vocal work in their tracks. Metallica has a lot of great songs that I love but I have to be in the right state of mind for them, where as Maiden I listen to whenever I want to. As for Pantera.....I never got into them. I barely liked Cowboys from Hell but that was because it was fun to play on Guitar Hero At Raw: 2 things You are right in the sense that the 80s and 90s were more American, and it seems that The UK is coming back in a big way and off topic....when the hell did your avatar happen? Sting wearing a Sting mask? I wish i knew. Somebody posted this gif on another forum awhile ago and i thought it was hilarious. I can't find the episode it happened on. |
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Feb 4, 2013 5:50:57 GMT -5
It goes both ways, we gave you the Beatles but we also gave you everyone from the X Factor (mainly because we didn't want them)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 7:21:08 GMT -5
No.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 7:57:07 GMT -5
The only one of those musicians you listed that is actually any good (read: not over synthesised pop shit) is Adele.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 4, 2013 8:50:45 GMT -5
The only one of those musicians you listed that is actually any good (read: not over synthesised pop s***) is Adele. The Script aren't over synthesised pop s***. They're an awesome band. I'd say they're fairly even but... saying that, UK has a much smaller population than the US yet still managed to produce just as many amazing bands and singers. But on the downside, we also manage to produce just as many barrels of shit as the US does. Plus the best band in the world today, Muse, are from the UK  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 9:03:02 GMT -5
It depends entirely on the genre. Rock music in the US is pretty moribund, dominated by bands from over 15 years ago or groups that can barely call themselves rock music anyway (I love The Killers, especially their dance-oriented earlier stuff, but calling their music "Rock" is just a joke). Bands like Nickelback and Kings of Leon are the mainstream but the running joke about each revolves around how bad they are. Right now the big thing in the US is pop and R&B, but these get eclipsed time and again by different things, and at the moment electronica is rising really fast because young people find the mainstream pop musicians to be boring and lame.
As far as electronic music goes, the US is miles ahead of the UK. The UK invented dubstep and that's great and all (which I'd rather be the big thing, not Brostep), but the US has just way more diversity in its electronica due to the sheer size of the population.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 4, 2013 9:05:34 GMT -5
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 4, 2013 9:13:48 GMT -5
Wyld Stallyns > Anything from the UK
UK music is totally not excellent dude.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 4, 2013 9:19:12 GMT -5
Firstly, music is not entirely based on country.
Anyway, UK hip-hop has only recently even approached the legitimacy of American hip-hop, because the UK scene mostly spent years imitating the American one. It's only really with grime that things started turning around.
Also, listing The Script as 'rock' is preposterous, and I'm not a rock snob - I listen to pop music, but using The Script as representatives of UK rock music is sheer insanity.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 9:57:10 GMT -5
No, they're both good.
The Beatles = Beach Boys.
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Post by 4real on Feb 4, 2013 10:16:33 GMT -5
All I can say is you must be really jaded with American music if you think those bands/artists are decent. Out of that list Id say The Streets are the only act I like.
Yeah having The Script as representatives for U.K. rock....yeah oh dear. They are a truly awful band with not one redeeming feature. If they are the best rock band we have to offer we might as well just give up now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2013 10:22:29 GMT -5
I really don't like The Script. In general, the power of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Def Leppard are enough to make the UK be musically superior to the US. But now, give it to the US because we have some of the worst musical acts of all time.
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