Brits Vs Yanks

[Mr.Wise Guy]

People who try to be deliberately provocative just come off like tools. Just ask Bill O'Reilly

[LindaLoo]

Times are a changing people... who knows, maybe tomorrow Mr Sensitive will make an intelligent post and madeinNY will take her head out of sabrinas arse!

[viper1651]

Yeah but alternative?

Alternative to what exactly?

[DJ Warp Shadow]

I f*cking love Tool, but nay.

[saja s]

Bad Moon Rising is one of the worst albums in my collection.

The other 2 are a little better but not much.

Sonic Youth didn`t get interesting till Sister to me.

[~Brittney]

The Germans, obviously. Where would we be had it not been for Kraut Rock? Eh?

[pinkfrog13jm]

Lets set the record straight. America has been setting up for slaughter anyone and anything getting in their way. Lets roll over some of what the US was putting out in the 1970's:

Marvin Gaye
James Brown
Talking HeaRAB
Frank Zappa
Merle Haggard
Sly & the Family Stone
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Waits
P. Funk
Lynard Skynard
Allman Brothers
Greatful Dead
Chicago
Aerosmith
Van Halen
The Ramones
Kiss
Alice Cooper



[withholding to see if I am being called out directly.]

Edit: Holy **** sticks this is about me.

1. how dare you?

2. Who the when? I said something about America owning roots music? Where?

3. Theres nothing rewarding about British music, its measured by the pound =P



We know where Dylan came from. I was getting drunk in Southie or I'd have called you out sooner.



Don't fake the funk. You're swinging for America's mighty jaw.

[flowerchic]

So you want to trace it all back to the beginning?...Fine, it all goes back to early blues and gospel music from black plantations, which can go all the way back to african folk music and european folk music, which can go way back to the days when caveman discovered they could make cool sounRAB from banging a bone against a rock.

Its true that Elvis and Dylan both influenced The Beatles, but The Beatles took all their influences and became something bigger, they are easly a top canidate for the most influencial and popular musical figures in history.

Sure you can say popularity dosent matter, and though that may be true when it comes to all the crap banRAB getting MTV play today, those banRAB are just faRAB, and there will come a time when nobody remerabers who they were, being popular for a year or two is much different than having a significant amount of popularity and influence for over 5 decades...I dont care what anyone says, that certainly counts for something...And not as many banRAB TODAY credit Elvis as a influence, but many still point to The Beatles for inspiration.

Im merely trying to be objective about it, and you're getting pissed for no reason.

[Mister Sister]

Just a bit less make up really

[sp4nna]

i'd say they were pretty evenly matched during this era. while Britain had bigger banRAB to come out at the time, America contributed significantly to get the psych/garage ball rolling. not to mention '60s jazz, motown, southern rock, and Beefheart which all occurred almost wholly in America.

i suppose the birth of prog certainly changed stuff.