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Originally Posted by Back to NE
Seriously? I've liked alot of the Raveonettes stuff but aside from them being born in Denmark, there is nothing European about their music. All of their influences are American apart from the Jesus and Mary Chain. They live in NY and LA and work and record all of their music in the US. They constantly proclaim their worship of 1950s-60s American acts.
If that is the case, then The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or Led Zep aren't British. Perhaps it is more ethnically European music that was originally intended for this thread. If that is the case, then, yes - my bad.
If that is the case, then The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or Led Zep aren't British. Perhaps it is more ethnically European music that was originally intended for this thread. If that is the case, then, yes - my bad.
No sweat, but I think early Beatles and Stones had some Euro influences and alot of the acoustic Zep was influenced by older British Folk. Granted later they were all quite Americanized, especially the Stones.
And there's been several threads on this topic, somewhere in the recent bowels of CD.
My intent with the thread was to see the original musics of different European countries. Like the second post of the Romanian group playing unusual instruments. There are already a multitude of threads on rock music.
Rock music has been in the UK nearly as long as America, so at what point do the geniuses of UK music stop being claimed as American?
Yeah but rock came from blues, which came from the US. Acts from Europe only touched it after the progress of each wave of American acts from Johnny Ray to Elvis to rockabilly to the early 60s girlgroup and Brill building stuff then soul then disco then r&b then hip-hop then even techno.
I'd argue that no pop/rock music has originated in Europe until Kraftwerk (even that was influenced by early midwestern house music), and the great wave of creativity in the late 70s post-punk/early 80s new wave which England dominated (w/ a nice assist from Scotland & Germany). That was the first era that was not led by America (well, actually punk/post punk was shared).
This is why I'm fascinated by pre World War pop music from Europe because it was not influenced by anything American. It was purely European. Hopefully its not on the way to being forgotten. (there's a better CD thread on historic Euro music).
BTW, I think we are long overdue for the next UK genius. Speaking of which, I bet you can't find any of your UK music geniuses that don't cite numerous US acts as their main influence.
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I will throw my hat in with all kinds of Irish music. From Enna, Clannad, The Chieftains, to The Pogues! Love Scottish stuff too, so I guess it's really Celtic music that I like.
So because there was rock and roll in the 50s stateside, you will claim every UK band that brings out an amazing record. Fact is Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Who, Led Zepplin etc are most rock fans idols and doesn't matter what spin you put on it, they are British. I can easy say all your indie band are in existence because of the Stone Roses, but I won't.
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