Why do the Brits produce such good music?

The 10,000 km^2 Somerset Levels are an entire world to the 600 million primitives roaming them in dugout canoes

Horsecrap. A lot of American acts have as much creativity if not more, and many of these bands inspired the British bands. Listen to Zappa, Dylan, Beach Boys, Beefheart, Velvet Underground, etc. British bands are just very good at giving their songs immediate commercial pop appeal, giving the false impression that they’re better.

The UK is England ,Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK is not part of the United Kingdom .

because led zeppelin

Bad Wigins wrote: Those official numbers don't count the hordes of backward savages living in the vast swamps of Wessex.

you seem to be forgetting that those savages are enslaved in the marmalade mines so they neither make nor listen to music and therefore don't count.

cheers.

Little-known factoid- Mick J was a "rock" star before he even joined a band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGpPItQ422w

With rock music in the 50s and 60s, it was about rebellion, and Britain had a class system that begged to be flipped off if not railed against. In the U.S. the white boys were crooning with acoustic to get laid whereas the Brits wanted crank it up to smash things up. They related to black blues musicians due to the repression of lower-classes.

But... Fu Manchu is from California.

AmericanInnovators wrote:

Horsecrap. A lot of American acts have as much creativity if not more, and many of these bands inspired the British bands. Listen to Zappa, Dylan, Beach Boys, Beefheart, Velvet Underground, etc. British bands are just very good at giving their songs immediate commercial pop appeal, giving the false impression that they’re better.

Agreed. Stuff by bands like the Beatles was mostly a huge pile of steaming crud. In comparison at the same time America had bands like The Doors who just simply blew the doors of any Brit band. Vietnam might have been a huge creative stimulus for young American culture in the 1960s and the Brits did not have such a stimulus. In the 1990s stuff by Britpop was just more commercially packaged crud whereas America had much more innovative bands such as Pearl Jam, Guns and Roses, Nirvana, REM, B52s etc etc...

Some Brit bands held their own such as the Happy Mondays, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac or the Bee Gees, but for the most part American bands were far superior throughout history.

Why so good? wrote:

It pains me to say it, but why does 90% my music come from British bands? Why is thier music so good?

After a lot of gin I listened to Glory Box by Portishead and Teardrops by Massive Attack and I'm a wreck...then I locked at my collection and most bands are British. Why do they produce such music? Bit drunk...

The 90s are almost 30 years old dude! You gotta update that music list

The Brits don't produce good music, Americans are just entranced by the stupid, charming accents of their lead singers

Well, the British bands, of the 60s, in many ways gave birth to the majority of US bands that followed in their wake.

Take Dylan - the rock version! His rock career was kick started by UK band "The Animals".

Dylan, himself, tells the story of driving in his car, in 1964, when The Animals version of "The House of the Rising Sun" came on the radio.

Dylan was transfixed and stopped the car to listen.

What had Dylan heard that moved him so?

Well, "The House of the Rising Sun" was a number he had recorded, on acoustic guitar, on his first album and that's where The Animals came across it, but The Animals transformed it into a blues/rock chart-topping world-wide hit record.

You can imagine what thoughts went through Dylan's head, and that was the moment that Dylan could see the future...and it didn't contain an acoustic guitar.

You could make the argument that without The Animals, Dylan would not have gone electric and all those US bands influenced by Dylan the wordsmith might not have emerged OR have emerged later in a different form.

And as to The Beatles. Well, they probably inspired more US rock bands that appeared in their wake than any band.

For example, The Doors were mentioned above. If the British rock band invasion hadn't happened in 1964, The Doors would never have happened.

They were an outgrowth of a creative music scene created by UK bands.

All the right numbers wrote:

The UK is England ,Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK is not part of the United Kingdom .

That's true but you're forgetting Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and those weird islands off South America where everyone's related. Known as the Crown's dingleberries ever since the magna carta, these territories are all part of the United Kindgom.

Well... in my expert opinion The Rolling Stones are the worst band of all time. Terrible music from start to finish. So that brings them down.

Best America has come up with:

Watch out you might get what you're after

Boom babies strange but not a stranger

I'm an ordinary guy

Burning down the house

AmericanInnovators wrote:

Horsecrap. A lot of American acts have as much creativity if not more, and many of these bands inspired the British bands. Listen to Zappa, Dylan, Beach Boys, Beefheart, Velvet Underground, etc. British bands are just very good at giving their songs immediate commercial pop appeal, giving the false impression that they’re better.

American actors are bland and uninspired.

So Does Anyone wrote:

Well, they did embrace Black American blues earlier and more fully than U.S. kids did back in the 1950s and 1960s, and combined that influence with their own skiffle and the reggae-related ska. Much of that influence still lingers. You could also say that more of the British musicians come from lower and lower middle class backgrounds, but people like Jagger are exceptions to that.

More of the British musicians seem to have art school backgrounds; a wide-ranging artistic palette probably helps in creating original music.

I don't think that many UK kids dream about becoming professional athletes. Outside of soccer (their football), there's not much anyway. So music becomes a way out of the doldrums. They probably don't see acting as much of an option; in the UK, actors are expected to have more formal training.

I'm just winging it here.

My favorite group is Jethro Tull. Tull's Ian Anderson learned the flute by imitating the wacky playing of the Columbus, Ohio, - born Rahsaan Roland Kirk (formerly Ronald Kirk which he thought too ordinary a name). And Anderson, I think, was briefly an art school student. So maybe you're onto something.

I pray this isn't a joke

Irish running fan wrote:

My Bloody Valentine are Irish!

Smiths and Oasis first generation Irish too

that's off the top of my head

Many more too of Irish heritage