I really don't care for ROCK music from Great Britain....

[Bennyboy]

So there. Some was okay back in the day, (Beatles, Stones, Traffic, the Who, The Kinks etc)but never liked most British bands. But outside of the Beatles, no Brit band really got to me like so many US bands get to me.

Bowie? never owned a Bowie album ever.

Queen? never really cared much for them.

Sex Pistols? Nah. Thought the DK's and Husker DU were way cooler.

The Clash? Again not so much.

YES? pretentious whack offs. ELP too.

Sting? Oh boy. The Police? Whattaloadofexpensivecrap they were.

I seriously don't think I have played any recording made by a British performer (outside of the Beatles or Stones) in well over 10 years.

Kind of weird I think.

[HopeHoops]

1. David Bowie's real name is David Jones.

When he hit the music scene, there was already a David Jones (Davey Jones) so they asked him to change his name. He picked his stage name to match his favorite kind of knife.

[dawg]

2. You might be "bizarro-dawg"

You just named a shitload of my favorites - including my all-time favorite (the "pretentious" Yes). Just out of curiosity, who are your favorites?

[Bennyboy]

5. American music...

Grateful Dead, leftover Salmon, String Cheese Incident, Spearhead,Phish, Del McCourey, Carolyn Wonderland, that type of thing. Roots rock stuff mostly.

[realisticphish]

3. Pink Freaking Floyd nt

[Bennyboy]

4. Dig pink Floyd....BUT...

never were my faves.

[Bennyboy]

17. Actually Pink Floyd are fantastic...

I have tons of their shows on my IPod and other media and play them all the time.

So an exception there.

Too bad they too sucummbed to the set show, over produced, over rehearsed, lights on timers, no improv form they became since The Wall. They used to jam out and play off the cuff but since the Wall, everything is over done..

Go to Wolfgangs vault and get the show from Winterland. THAT band was amazing.

[madrchsod]

6. there`s a few but most are copies of american rockers...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. As a guitarist, Yes gets a lifetime pass for "Wurm"...

...Steve Howe's coda to "Starship Trooper." It is simply one of the most finely crafted, climactic endings to a song I've ever heard.

Pretentious whack offs? Maybe. But the same could be said of 30 minute crowd chant versions of "Not Fade Away."

One man's ceiling is another man's floor, ya know?

:toast:

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

9. Those 30 minute crowd chants didn't seem so long

if you had the right kind of mushrooms. :rofl:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Oh, I absolutely get the concept...

...but sitting at home, with the CD in the player and no shrooms, all of a sudden some of those magic moments aren't as magic as they might have seemed at the time.

:rofl:

:toast:

[eyepaddle]

21. I felt the same about any ELP live "Toccata"

I could never figure why the crowd was cheering at the end of that.

Until I saw it in concert--Keith really can manage to put on a show.

Also: I am in complete agreement with you on Wurm.

I could never stand "Space" or "Drums" from the Dead.

[Book Lover]

8. You don't care for Queen?

Sucks to be you.

[Bennyboy]

10. They were okay, but..

outside of three or four songs, they weren't all that.(I play the "name three Queen songs, not the five everyone knows", game all the time and hardly NO ONE knows the names of any of their songs).

I have never owned nor played a Queen record ever in my lifetime. Nor have I been in a place where someone would play Queen since the 70's sometime. I don't ever listen to classic rock radio so I wouldn't ever hear it there either.

Something about the way Brits did the rock thing kind of gets me. They don't really bring it. take it outside, so to speak. They have their shows and the pageantry and all that but something for me is missing in the heart of the deal.

[Book Lover]

14. Gotcha

and I apologize for being an ass. We're all doing our own thing and you don't have to like what you don't like.

[Odin2005]

11. Early British Punk = WIN!

[Mojambo]

12. Dolly Mixture for the fucking win. n/t

[zanana1]

15. Did everybody forget Eric Clapton?

Best musician ever born?

[Bennyboy]

16. Exact example of what I don't like about most British music...

He cops the blues, an American art form. And unlike most of his US contemporaries, (and all of his British) he is very British (as in stingy, tight, too rehearsed etc...) with his music. At one time Clapton was great (Derek and the Dominoes) but that was mostly due to the American blues format and American musicians he was playing with. But for the most part he never really jams out. At least not since the mid seventies.


Great musicians try new things and explore new universes... and I never thought EC did that after D and the D's...

[CrownPrinceBandar]

18. Elvis Costello?........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZrBw6mcSM&feature=related">I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

[Bennyboy]

19. Love Elvis...

I forgot he is even British.

[tigereye]

28. ah, there you go!

[musette_sf]

20. Nick Lowe

Dave Edmunds
Jack Bruce
Tom Jones

These British gentlemen have, ahem, "gotten to me".

I am liking Jools Holland lately.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. no love for

Dave Clark Five - Catch Us If You Can (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRQCN5x1-NI

what about..
Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey (Original Stereo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUv9MOSIDOY

or maybe..
The Hollies - Carrie Anne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgA4-bLcoN8

no fun here?
Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good (1965)_HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxDh2sYQRpo

what about these two guys ..
I Go to Pieces - Peter & Gordon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6l4i-zA_Q&feature=related

not these guys?
Manfred Mann Mighty Quinn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIQLIx2Onw&feature=related

what say you ...
Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bswxaeyQDFI

don't forget these guys ..
The Searchers - Needles And Pins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2RqRxjjlsI&feature=related

surely these guys, right?
Procol Harum - A whiter shade of pale 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI&feature=related

:shrug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. adding these guys --

The Who - My Generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594WLzzb3JI

and of course:
here comes the night....them............♥
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXD1B2651X8&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

24. The Hermans Hermits were my first concert...(with THE WHO)

and I hated the Who (got over it).

[IcyPeas]

25. this is all old stuff.... (not that's it's bad, but...)

Just saw MUSE last night at Staples Center. they were friggen awesome.

Or are we not talking about new stuff?

[Chan790]

26. You know, I think we have exactly diametric taste in music.

I hate just about everything you listed as liking. I loathe the Dead. Someone bought me a Phish CD on clearance (Story of the Ghost? I think that was it, it's in a box somewhere.) and I couldn't return it so after the first 2 minutes it became the prettiest coaster on my tea table. I think I'd rather suffer unanesthetized dental surgery than listen to Spearhead. I can't stand jam-bands or their music, I think it's over drawn-out boring pretentious crap. I hate it.

I love Bowie. I liked The Police. Later Floyd over earlier, earlier Radiohead over the later-experimental d-baggery of Thom Yorke. Listen to Queen to get psyched-up. Think Clapton's amazing, The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin too. My parents old The Who records formed the soundtrack of my early-mid-twenties. The Sex Pistols were genius and The Clash blew my mind the first time I heard London Calling.

[tigereye]

27. wow, that's a lot of great music to dislike, but to each his own...

[PVnRT]

29. They who deny The Clash shall be sent to the Lake of Kenny G

Yea, truly I tell you, they shall be tormented with smooth jazz for all eternity.

[jobycom]

30. What did you think of the Sir Douglas Quintet?

Since they were an American band blending blues, jazz, Cajun, and Mexican, but started out pretending they were British.