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NorthernGent -> RE: Best Mix of 2006 (1/12/2007 12:50:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: caitlyn
I was thinking most of your stuff today sounds like remake 80's new wave or 60's music. Bleeck!!!
There's a lot of nostalgia for the late 70s music culture in Britain because it was such a good music period for us. Bands like The Jam, The Smiths, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Police etc are well respected bands and you're right there is some of their influence in today's bands (bear in mind that the with the exception of one or two bands the 80s in Britain was musically shocking - there'd been boy bands before it was the first time loads of them were around together like Wham and Duran Duran - it was durge and music culture tends to skip this period and go straight back to the late 70s for inspiration). You're right about the 60s because that is where the 70s punk and mod bands took their inspiration from - from bands like The Kinks and The Animals. It's understandable really because 70s bands will have grown up listening to 60s music so will have influenced them.
We have that sort of thing here too, but also have a lot of new, just plain old rock and roll bands, and tons of death metal, etc ... which if you give it a chance, is actually pretty good. I've been finding lots of old country music that is very good. Patsy Cline is probably the best American artist ever. Drive by Truckers make killer drinking songs, and since drinking is on my list of fun things to do ... [;)]
We don't tend to have a version of country music. It's a very American/Irish scene.
My parents were 50s/early 60s generation and most of it was American - Elvis, Jonny Cash, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney etc. Every night they'd have this stuff on and at the time it used to have me and my sister climbing the walls but now I find myself liking the stuff. There's a bloke over here Richard Hawley who has basically modelled himself on Roy Orbison and he's sounding good, got rave reviews etc.
I wish you Brits would get with the program. About half of my top ten favorite older bands are from the UK ... but today, Garbage is about the only newer UK band I can think of, that I really like.
With what programme? The US programme? Fuck that. We'll do our own thing, thanks very much [;)].
Your music that travels really well over here is soul because we have nothing that can touch it. The likes of Marvin Gaye has no comparison over here and as a result people love it. Soul is where you really are streets ahead of anything anyone else has to offer.
In terms of your rock, I can't get into it at all, it's all too macho for me. American rock always seems to be a load of blokes expressing what hard men they are (I'm thinking Queens of the Stone Age etc). If macho is what makes them tick then just go down the pub and stare at someone for 2 seconds and they can fight their way into a coma. Music should be an expression of who you are and human experience. Some of it does travel though - I'm thinking Kings of Leon, The Killers etc
Hey, caitlyn, this drinking thing and country music - do you know the American comedian Rich Hall?
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