bigsmokebass Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Need I say more? 🤔🤔 1 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuzzie Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Steel panther Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 3 hours ago, Cuzzie said: I know we shouldn’t mention it, but Ze Germans . . . . . . . . and don't forget Fats and His Cats! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) My personal opinion and been well in my 50s I would say the UK hands down the classic rock of the late 60s/70s through to the NWOBHM in the 80s we ruled....the mainstream chart music in my eyes died after 79 we had that horrible dirge of electronic girlie music in the 80s...that awful Britpop sxxt of the 90s, then the noughties things just got worse....but the 70s/80s spawned the greatest Heavy Rock Bands in that classic era. Edited April 1, 2019 by thebigyin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 10 hours ago, Bolo said: UK has Bolt Thrower, They supported my old band back in 1987 or 88 - IIRC it was the Opera on The Green in Shepherd's Bush though most things from back then are hazy... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikel Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 UK by a long way. If you also consider Hendrix had to come here to be taken seriously and managed properly then he is a surrogate Brit. The list of genre inventing and boundary pushing acts from the UK is too long for me to bother with. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Growing up in the 70s, I always looked west for musical inspiration...Kiss, Rush, Angel, Starz. When punk took off, the UK was where things were at to my newly-annointed teenage ears. I'd say right now, the stuff that's stayed longest with me is UK based...Japan, early Queen, The Clash, Rich Kids (what a band they could have been), curiously a lot of the US powerpop/poppunk stuff I listen to is very UK-tinged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxnik Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 2 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said: I’m not going to vote as I don’t feel I know what the answer is, if indeed there is one. I do feel the need (obviously) to add this name to the discussion though. David Robert Jones. Thank you @hiram.k.hackenbacker 😊 I was going to add his name myself this morning after rereading this thread.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 3 hours ago, thebigyin said: ...we had that horrible dirge of electronic girlie music in the 80s... Proud electronic girlie right here, just standing up to be counted obviously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeponehandloose Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 In general most UK scenes can be seen as a reaction to US innovation, so I voted USA.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocker Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 All the biggest 'modern day' music genres originated in the US - Blues, Jazz, Crooners, Rock & Roll, Country, Funk, Disco, Grunge etc., so the US is where it is happening. The U.K.including Ireland punch way above their weight musically speaking but the US is way ahead of us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 I've always been more drawn to music from the USA, be it Steely Dan in the 70's through to Jason Isbell now with a huge amount inbetween. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Disappointed there's no poll option for France 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) 20 hours ago, Bolo said: Ah well for instance UK has Bolt Thrower, the US has Obituary. Tit for tat really. Iron Maiden Vs Metallica? I think for most genres there is an equivalent genre overseas of similar influence, with acts carrying similar weight. Both inspiring the next generation artists on either side. Would we even have had Metallica if we'd never had Iron Maiden? Edited March 31, 2019 by Crusoe missing word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Crusoe said: Would we even have had Metallica if we'd never had Iron Maiden? You can follow that 'ladder of inspiration' all the way down to it's root of cavemen banging rocks on tree trunks. There would be no rock without blues, no blues without old timey folk songs, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 11 minutes ago, Bolo said: You can follow that 'ladder of inspiration' all the way down to it's root of cavemen banging rocks on tree trunks. There would be no rock without blues, no blues without old timey folk songs, etc. Or we can extrapolate the other way and we end up at K-Pop 🤢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 13 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said: Or we can extrapolate the other way and we end up at K-Pop 🤢 Which suggests even worse is yet to come! 😯 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeponehandloose Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 4 hours ago, skankdelvar said: Disappointed there's no poll option for France They have a very off the wall take on music, Jaques Dutronc is one of many 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) On 30/03/2019 at 18:54, Passinwind said: Well, you missed every single one of my favorite US bands, so... Just for starters: Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Santana, Allman Bros. Band, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny Band, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich, The Supremes, Johnny Cash, and the MC5. Many of my favourites in there and I'll add CSN, James Taylor's all star band, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, David Lee Roth, Mr Big, Dream Theater, Alice Cooper Vs Yes, John McLaughlin's bands, Led Zeppelin and the Who. Edited April 1, 2019 by jacko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 On the US side I've got the likes of Blondie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Velvet Underground, the Stooges On The UK side I've got Joy Division, Iron Maiden, The Beatles, Buzzcocks, Sisters of Mercy etc How can I possibly choose one over the other? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 I think it has a s much to do with the kinds of music you like as well as the era when you got into music. My first interest in music was 70s glam rock and then progressed to punk/post-punk, synth pop and then acid house/progressive house. My while most of the genres I liked owed their roots to US artists, it was always the UK and European bands that took the music and made the definitive versions of it. Until the late 90s and early 2000s I owned hardly any records or CDs by US bands. In fact these days I probably have more Japanese music than that from the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown_User Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 I think as others have said that it depends what was happening in music when your opinions were getting shaped. My main years for listening to contemporary music were the late '90s and early '00s. I find a lot of the British music I listened to then has aged pretty badly and I now find mostly a bit boring. For example the whole Britpop thing and Indie stuff. Although I was never really into either. The only UK bands from that era I still regularly listen to now are Queen Adreena and Dodgy. Also a local band called Zombina and the Skeletones but they did very US style music. At that time the US had lots of what have become my favourite bands that I still listen to and enjoy now. Marilyn Manson, Tura Satana/My Ruin, Foo Fighters, PUSA, Everclear and so on. Grunge and nu-metal were big and authentic sounding movements in music at the time and dominated by US bands. By contrast Indie and Britpop seemed a bit insipid and preening to me. 22 hours ago, Rocker said: All the biggest 'modern day' music genres originated in the US - Blues, Jazz, Crooners, Rock & Roll, Country, Funk, Disco, Grunge etc., so the US is where it is happening. The U.K.including Ireland punch way above their weight musically speaking but the US is way ahead of us. I agree with this. The UK have produced a lot of very good bands over the years, but a lot of it in reaction to what was going on in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 UK stuff that I couldn't imagine not being part of my life - Stones, Beatles, 60's blues (incl. Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Winwood etc), Bowie, Punk / New Wave and all the great pop music from the UK early 60's to late 70's. However I still think the US stuff that shaped my musical life so much does have the edge for me. Talking about early rock 'n'roll (Elvis, Little Richard and more than anyone else the late Chuck berry), then Motown, Stax and Atlantic artists and their spin-offs, Phil Spector's great work, country and country rock ( Eagles, Little Feat & The Band especially) and leading on to Bruce Springsteen / Tom Petty etc. Also wonderful dance music from Chic, Sly Stone and James Brown. There's just something about going to see a great band from the US that still makes it that extra bit special for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passinwind Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 8 hours ago, jacko said: Many of my favourites in there and I'll add CSN, James Taylor's all star band, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, David Lee Roth, Mr Big, Dream Theater, Alice Cooper Vs Yes, John McLaughlin's bands, Led Zeppelin and the Who. Personally, I think we all lose in a very real sense when music becomes a ".vs" thing. But I'm still enjoying many of the responses to this thread, as I so often do on Basschat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 We have the Beatles and the Wurzels. Argument is futile. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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