Poll 3: Overall, the UK has better music than US

[City]

I hope this is a good poll question.

[gogonutz]

equal?

[jolene102]

i don't care for british music

[City]

lol. Sorry, koen, but i hate ties. part of you has to lean towards one or the other.

anyways, i remember (at least with my friends) around 2005ish, my friends would say The Beatles, Queen, and modern bands, coldplay, keane, muse were clear superior while the us has slow jams and watered down poprock. But iono, if they actually lived in the uk, I'm sure there's a good portion of mediocre music as well? It's just the popular stuff that gets their name across the sea. I really want liz to answer because she's the one who said the uk has better music two years ago. I wonder if she changed.

Me, I always liked the US better and my answer is kind of weak, but I simply connect with it easier because the vocals sound like me. And that whole brit-pop era....they all sound the same. Why you so overrated Blur? I'm probably more open to british vocals now, but the ones that I actually enjoy are the ones without the high-pitch accent.

[gogonutz]

Depends on my mood what I lean more towards. And in what genre. In the folk/americana/country genre, the US clearly takes the #1 spot, though I have to admit that in the 70s there was a good amount of good folk music coming out of the British Isles. In the pop/rock genre I think there's more diversity in the US but the quality of the music and songwriting might be higher (on average) in the UK. So it's hard to say if I find one better than the other..

[idlewild]

Ah Chris, you don't have a large enough sample of the population I'm afraid..


Isn't Radiohead enough to clarify things? While I can't deny there are certainly good things coming out from the US (Brand New and Nada Surf for example), my heart lies with the British and their accents (Feeder, Stereophonics!). Incorporating said accent into vocals only enhances the song as a whole - even to the point of creating a melody of it's own. But perhaps that's just me being deprived of good English language speaking on a daily basis so that might not be a viable point.

Not all the time however, you can differentiate if the band's american or british. When I first heard Somebody Told Me, never would I have imagined The Killers hailing from Vegas. So you can't immediately jump into conclusions about which part of the world comes up with better music because there's always the possibility of a very american band sounding british and vice versa.

I'm pretty sure I don't listen to enough of folk music to decide, but if all UK folk music sound like the combination of Roddy Woomble, Kris Drever and John McCusker then perhaps they might even be able to give Ani DiFranco a run for her money.



Sorry, while I certainly take note that LH themselves are from the US and half the majority of the boardies are Americans themselves, but the UK can kick US' ass in music anytime. Or as they would say, arse.

[chimichanga]

i don't think i can answer this one. i just can't compare the quality of the music of one region to another. it is a pretty good question though, i just don't want to answer.