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UK -v- USA...Who produced the "best" bands???


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Who makes the best music??  

57 members have voted

  1. 1. Who makes the best music?

    • United Kingdom
      39
    • United States
      18


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On 30/03/2019 at 21:06, Cuzzie said:

I know we shouldn’t mention it, but Ze Germans did bring us Boney M, Mili Vanili, Hadaway, popularised Hasselhoff and now Rammstein.

They are on our tails

Boney M and Milli Vanili were both created and managed by the same guy, Frank Farrian.

Most of the 'official' line up of Boney M never appeared on the recordings which used session performers and Farrian himself to complete the vocal tracks.

This was not a secret nor particularly unusual for disco 'bands' who were often just the public face of tracks performed by various session musicians and the public at the time didn't care.

Fast forwards a few years and Farrian put together Milli Vanilli, based on a similar principle of being the public face of music recorded by other people.

This time all hell broke loose, which must have come as bit of shock to Frank after he'd done pretty much exactly the same thing before for years and nobody gave a rats backside.

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1 hour ago, mikel said:

At least we simply have band/act names. We don't try to big them up and make them sound more important than they are, like the US.  For instance;  "The King",  "The Boss", "The King of Pop", "The Queen of Soul" etc etc.

The UK has "God" and "The Prince of Darkness" who trump earthly rulers:-)

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The thread for "Reggae Bass" was below this one...prompted a thought. 

Can't say I know of one American Reggae band while the UK churned out such great bands as Aswad and Steel Pulse as well as it's own creation, Lovers Rock. Gregory Isaacs and Freddy McGregor were regular visitors to these shores. 

I appreciate that the spiritual home for Reggae is Jamaica but the UK helped it evolve, AFAIK US didn't do anything for the genre.

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On 02/04/2019 at 16:48, operative451 said:

Just heard Ed flipping Sheeran on the radio and the UK lost all its points...

then again the US loses points for bands like Journey, Boston, Foreigner etc,  80s hair metal, Emo and punk pop. 

But I do wonder about the UK' public's love of utterly mediocre  performers whether Ed, Robbie Williams, Dido, Oasis, Adele, Coldplay, Spice Girls...

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On 02/04/2019 at 10:37, Stub Mandrel said:

A lot of carefully argued points of view.

But the UK has Hawkwind.

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The UK boasts some of the highest highs...

On 02/04/2019 at 16:48, operative451 said:

Just heard Ed flipping Sheeran on the radio and the UK lost all its points...

...but also some of the lowest lows.

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