Here's a hypothetical situation for you all. You're about to be dumped on a desert island for, say, 3 years. Don't worry, there'll be plenty of Food & Drink, Cigarettes and hunky men / scantily clad women for you. But here's the bad news, you can only take your entire record/CD collection from one of these 2 countries. Tough isn't it? So what's it going to be. 3 years without the Beatles. No Dylan or Velvets for 36 months. Choice is yours...
Obviously other countries make great music, so don't pull me up on that, unless you really have to.. And before I go, my stance? Well, obviously I love the Beatles. But there's a lack of any decent Soul or Jazz from over here. AND I believe I could listen to Big Star all day every day. And then there's Motown.. And Nuggets vol1 is better than vol 2. So, even though I'm a Brit, there'll be no flag waving here. It's one-nil to the States...
Obviously other countries make great music, so don't pull me up on that, unless you really have to.. And before I go, my stance? Well, obviously I love the Beatles. But there's a lack of any decent Soul or Jazz from over here. AND I believe I could listen to Big Star all day every day. And then there's Motown.. And Nuggets vol1 is better than vol 2. So, even though I'm a Brit, there'll be no flag waving here. It's one-nil to the States...
- The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
- The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
- The Clash - Train In Vain
- Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
- Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
- David Bowie - Rock 'N Roll Suicide
- Zombies - Friends Of Mine
- The Who - Happy Jack
- Syd Barrett - Dark Globe
- Small Faces - My Minds Eye
- The Jam - A Bomb In Wardour Street
- Blur - Sunday Sunday
- The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
- Donovan - Colours
- The Smiths - Panic
- PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
- The Cure - Love Song
- Roxy Music - Street Life
- Joy Division - Isolation
- Radiohead - Idioteque
- The Stone Roses - Sally Cinammon
- Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam
- Jesus & Mary Chain - Far Gone & Out
- Kate Bush - The Sensual World
- Bert Jansch - Veronica
- Nick Drake - One Of These Things First
- The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
- Velvet Underground - Rock And Roll
- Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Big Star - Way Out West
- Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
- Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
- The Pixies - Debaser
- Yo La Tengo - Mr Tough
- Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
- REM - Pretty Persuasion
- Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
- The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider
- Chuck Berry - Back In The USA
- MC5 - Shakin' Street
- Ramones - Beat On The Brat
- Pavement - Trigger Cut
- Love - My Little Red Book
- Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
- Wilco - Can't Stand It
- Elvis Presley - I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell
- Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People
- Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone
- Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
- Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
- Woody Guthrie - Car Song
5 comments:
God knows I'm not a patriot (ex-patriate more like), but I have to go with the country that gave the world Dylan, Al Green, Woody, etc.
Easy peasy mate. American music (at least post '65) is the clear winner for me. Wishy washy acts like The Kaiser Chiefs etc would never get away with it in the states. Interestingly a lot of people from that side of the pond still seem to have a fixation with turgid drivel that we hear on everyday radio, dunno why and have always wondered. Seems to me that The Scots and the Welsh are the only ones inventing.The Irish scene is on its arse Fred excepted and the NME tabloidization of english music depresses me no end. Living without my Swedish fix is another matter entirely. God bless 'em.
Get on the Fred bus BTW before they get massive, no actually they sadly never will.
American music comes from slaves singing in the cotton fields, sounds kidnapped from Africa. Elvis reclaimed popular music for middle class whites. The Beatles borrowed it and improved on it and made pop music acceptable. The Beatles have had the biggest influence on pop music therefore we Brits win.
Scotland vs Sweden is more interesting.
absolute stunning compilation !
very good taste, thanks for this
one.
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