English Music is awful, just awful

[Weevil]

No, hear me out. For whatever reason, North america only gets to hear the best of music from England. And even most of that is pretty bad. People are quicl to assume that England has produced really good music because they turned out some of the first really good rock bands.

But after that? They ruined the blues, ruined psychadelic pop and then condemned the public to thirty years of Duran Duran and the Spice Girls.

It's the almost reverse of Canadian music, where somehow all of our bad music gets exported(Bryan Adams, Sum 41, Nelly Furtado) and our good music(Thrush Hermit, Gob and The Hip) gets left behind. This projects a worse image of music than is really true(Albeit Canadian music is still pretty bad)

But the English? I mean I know enough of the British music scene to know that even the bands that aren't exportable are really, really awful. Boyzone, Catatonia and Travis, oh my.


I'm done.

 

[Darowyn]

(Leaps into action wearing bowler hat and union jack waistcoat)
I say steady on old chap, you can't talk like that.......
(thinks for a minute)
You know, you are dead right, everyone you name is dreadful, and there are dozens of worse ones behind them, like Cornershop, and all the Westlife/Boyzone clones. Oasis were apalling.
I don't think I have bought an album by a new British band for over ten years.
There are good people making good music here, but they are getting no encouragement from the UK music business (except the bit of it I run, of course)
I think it is partly as a result of the demise of live venues. Bands never get a chance to learn how to play and to play the crowd.

 

[Weird Harold]

...But after that? They ruined the blues, ruined psychadelic pop and then condemned the public to thirty years of Duran Duran and the Spice Girls....

Do you think they might be encouraged to take on Rap and ruin it to? Pretty please?

 

[Myrrdin]

But the English? I mean I know enough of the British music scene to know that even the bands that aren't exportable are really, really awful. Boyzone, Catatonia and Travis, oh my.
I'm done.

Bad choice of examples, weevil. Boyzone were Irish. Catatonia, Welsh.
Wide choice of music in the UK. Something to offend everyone.
As someone who is presently suffering from over exposure to Bluegrass, I think British music is sounding better all the time

 

[Weevil]

Re: Re: English Music is awful, just awful

Bad choice of examples, weevil. Boyzone were Irish. Catatonia, Welsh.

Bad choice of reading. I said, right before I gave those examples, the British music scene. As in Great Britain.

But that's besides the point. Listen, I'm not a huge bluegrass fan myself, but I'll take it over Robbie Williams.

 

[Weevil]

(Leaps into action wearing bowler hat and union jack waistcoat)
I say steady on old chap, you can't talk like that.......
(thinks for a minute)
You know, you are dead right, everyone you name is dreadful, and there are dozens of worse ones behind them, like Cornershop, and all the Westlife/Boyzone clones. Oasis were apalling.
I don't think I have bought an album by a new British band for over ten years.
There are good people making good music here, but they are getting no encouragement from the UK music business (except the bit of it I run, of course)
I think it is partly as a result of the demise of live venues. Bands never get a chance to learn how to play and to play the crowd.

good post. Two things

1) There's been good stuff but it's been few and far between. radiohead is alright. Blur's not bad.

2) I stand by the statement that Oasis was really, really good on their first two albums.

 

[DéjàNu]

Re: Re: English Music is awful, just awful

Bad choice of examples, weevil. Boyzone were Irish. Catatonia, Welsh.
Wide choice of music in the UK. Something to offend everyone.
As someone who is presently suffering from over exposure to Bluegrass, I think British music is sounding better all the time

Agreed with you Myrrdin....

Lately in my 5 cd player: Coldplay, Elbow, Starsailor, Travis and..... Radiohead

Déjà

 

[Mensa]

Re: Re: English Music is awful, just awful

Do you think they might be encouraged to take on Rap and ruin it to? Pretty please?

Just how could that be done? What would make it worse than it already is?

 

[Weevil]

Re: Re: Re: English Music is awful, just awful

Just how could that be done? What would make it worse than it already is?

By the way, just how is the new Pat Boone album? AS groundbreaking as his last?

 

[mig]

Come on.

90% of what masquerades as pop 'music' these days is total
crap.

Don't matter if it's British,American or Canadian.

Total crap.

 

[Weevil]

Come on.

90% of what masquerades as pop 'music' these days is total
crap.

Depends. What's your definition of "pop"? There's some outstanding music out there right now.

 

[mig]

Depends. What's your definition of "pop"? There's some outstanding music out there right now.

That's why I said 90%.

 

[MunchinMark]

English Music is Brilliant

Bob the Builder.

Nuff said.

 

[Weevil]

That's why I said 90%.

Well, except if your definition of pop is the whole Britney-Backstreet-Shania definition then I agree with you and think your number might be a little low.

If your definition includes, say, U2. Then we disagree. And I think your number is at leas 25% too high.

 

[Weevil]

Re: English Music is Brilliant

Bob the Builder.

Nuff said.

and just how is Victoria Beckham's solo career right now?

 

[Guest]

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Agreed with you Myrrdin....

Lately in my 5 cd player: Coldplay, Elbow, Starsailor, Travis and..... Radiohead

Déjà

now thats what i call good taste in music... did you hear elbow's version of "Independent Women Pt 1"...damn funny

...question....

 

[Starblayde]

for FUCK'S SAKE!

now thats what i call good taste in music... did you hear elbow's version of "Independent Women Pt 1"...damn funny

...question....

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