| America vs England |
Thu, 20th Aug 09 4:33pm |
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MasterSignwriter |
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Who do you believe produces the best Musicians?
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 | | ellen - 2009-08-28 09:29:24 | | | While both countries have produced good musicians, I don't think America would have been so successful if it hadn't been for the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones so I would have to say England/Britain | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | FoxyCollins - 2009-08-22 19:07:33 | | | I agree with Clay on Gurrumul,hadn't really heard of him till recently Jeremy Vine has been playing him on Radio Two.He really brings something new to the table.In answer to MS's question,I can't explain why but I prefer British music so I think we produce the best musicians.Ted Nugent can play guitar at great speed but I don't like it.Hank Marvin knows what to leave in and what to leave out and that is a great musician.Just an example. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | Deacongirl - 2009-08-21 23:39:57 | | | Thanks to BC for bringing our attention to Afro Celt Sound System, very cool stuff. x | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | Clay - 2009-08-21 22:45:25 | | | oh by the way my love has always been rock&punk,although I do enjoy nearly all other music, have enjoyed music from reggae to big band, classical to dicso | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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| | Clay - 2009-08-21 22:39:03 | | | difficult to answer , but have found much good music coming from troubled souls or those with more difficult (sorry I'm not good at finding the right words) lives. one of my faves at the moment is Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupinguan Australian folk singer, self taught and blind from birth, dont understand a thing he sings about but some songs make me eyes water there is so much feeling in the voice.
Music the power of peace the world over | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | BigCol - 2009-08-21 16:06:08 | | | With regard to main stream stuff MS you may well be right there. I can’t really speak with authority about the last coupla decades or so (Kinda stopped after U2 came along dontcha know). But in my slightly alternative world of progressive folk music, there is no doubt in my mind that, as far as innovation and invention is concerned, we beat the Yanks hands down. The Americans, I don’t know, seem to stay American if you know what I mean, yet we Brits have produced people like Simon Emmerson, who have given us the likes of the Afro Celt Sound System and Imagined Village, and created a unique way of cross-culturing. The Afro Celts, would you believe, cross Celtic style music with African rhythms and vice-versa and really should be checked out. Whereas the Imagined Village, being a little more specialist, recognises that this island, and in particular England, is now broadly multicultural and sets out to define what it is that we can now call English music. Using old English traditional songs sung by the likes of Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy and Paul Weller accompanied by fiddles, sitars and dhol drums as well as the standard guitars etc it really is inventive. My point being that the best the Yanks can do with regard to cross-culturing is to cross-culture from state to state within America so it still comes out sounding American. So we are being progressive, but not necessarily in the main stream, generally heard on the radio world of music. And now, once again, I’ve forgotten what the question was. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | MasterSignwriter - 2009-08-21 15:01:42 | | | Oh go on then Col, lets include the whole island. Theres no doubt that no other country has been so influencial with likes of Led Zep, The Stones, Bowie etc but, it seems to me that over the last couple of decades we seem to have become less progressive and just a little bit dull. I cant name one home grown band of recent years other than Muse that leave me inspired. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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| | BigCol - 2009-08-21 14:33:17 | | | I really need to know if we're talking only England here. You see if it's only England that excludes people like Daniel O'Donnell, Tom Jones and the Bay City Rollers. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | mephisto - 2009-08-21 12:12:07 | | | Some legendary pianists from USA, BUT are they the best?? In terms of numbers USA, in terms of ability tough call! | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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| | Deacongirl - 2009-08-21 01:52:32 | | | That's difficult to answer MS, we sort of adopted one of my all time favs, Jimmy Hendrix, who was American but was given his first break in the UK.
I think we couldnt be beaten in the days of The Beatles then Led Zepplin, Cream etc, not so sure that applies now. Steve always credits his biggest influences as BB King first then Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck so I guess that says it all really. | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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 | | radiosw - 2009-08-21 00:27:35 | | | Difficult question but one I want to give an answer to so give me a day or so. Like this one MS | | Nod+ (0) | Report | Follow |
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