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Where is the Good Non American Music???

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Message 161 of 172 (384107)
02-10-2007 3:14 AM 		Reply to: Message 158 by nator
02-09-2007 10:50 AM

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I was thinking about Canada, but couldn't think of any bands off hand.
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Neil Young?
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Joni Mitchell?
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Sarah McLaughlan?
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all effectively negated by celine dion. *shudders*
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02-10-2007 3:16 AM 		Reply to: Message 160 by nator
02-09-2007 9:47 PM

Wait, are you now admitting that you completely dissed the Beatles without having listened to much of their work?
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i think it's easy to forget how influential the beatles were, when everything you listen to today, and everything you've ever heard has essentially been influenced by them. nothing sounds new or innovative, because you've already heard it all before -- in people who got it from them.
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anyways. now that i've said that, can i voice my opinion that the beatles are perhaps a little overrated? and that i actually like wings better?
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02-10-2007 3:20 AM 		Reply to: Message 2 by joshua221
01-26-2007 11:19 PM

Led zeppelin does suck tho, jimmy paige is the most unoriginal and harshly sounding shit guitar i have ever heard. power chord blues... he made the blues cliche with his shitty music.
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you realize, of course, that led zeppelin was the first band to effectively combine rock and roll and blues, right? it's not unoriginal if nobody else has ever done it before.
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yes, they had blues influences. every band has influences.
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02-10-2007 3:24 AM 		Reply to: Message 5 by joshua221
01-26-2007 11:53 PM

Try Pink Floyd.
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Ok, I admit from what I heard they are ok. But the guitar work is too robotic.. and their live shows have a million people onstage so ridiculous.. No, I'll leave them with mediocre, still have to look into sid barrett though..
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...robotic? i can't say i've ever heard that before. your views on music are truly unique. what DO you like? because i listen to some of the stuff you mention, and fail to see why they excite you, and some of this doesn't.
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02-10-2007 3:29 AM 		Reply to: Message 33 by Vacate
01-27-2007 1:02 AM

Re: Just Face it
Given that half my cd collection is taken up by one band (Nine Inch Nails) I guess that my tastes tend to lean on the American side of the border.
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mine too. trent seems to inspire crazy collectors who have to every damned release.
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to be fair, my record collection is a lot more diverse.
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Message 166 of 172 (384115)
02-10-2007 4:10 AM

some of my favourite non-american artists
i'll start with a genre mostly neglected in this thread so far, one that was created in england, parallel to america's hip hop revolution (minus the funk influence): trip-hop.
  • massive attack - england.
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    so revolutionary, they are usually referred to as the quintessential band of the genre. the original band of the artist tricky. featured in all sorts of movie soundtracks. you've heard them before, even if you don't realize it.
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  • portishead - england
  • sneaker pimps - england (but only really the first album)
  • lamb - england
  • hooverphonic - belgium.
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    some from other genres:
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  • sigur ros - iceland.
  • imogen heap - england (also only really the first album)
  • the cure - england (disintegration, mostly)
  • u2 - ireland
  • radiohead - england
  • paz lenchantin - argentina (but plays in american bands a perfect circle, zwan)
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    some already hotly debated (prophex v. the world):
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  • led zeppelin - england
  • pink floyd - england
  • clapton - england
  • the beatles/wings - england
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i'm really only listing the things i listen to on a regular basis. i've got a lot of stuff i don't play a whole lot from who knows where, everything from classical (which i assume we are excluding? i really like chopin and rachmaninoff), to marley, to soft cell and the boomtown rats, to bowie, to bjork and dido, to the clash...
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