"I've rarely ever heard a British band that I found to be listenable. In my opinion, the British should just stop trying to play rock-and-roll altogether."
lou reed is just a bob dylan wannabe art fag
lol, sorry, WAS
Fucking cunt. We took rock to places Murkans couldn't have dreamt of.
>>65783978
lol true
>>65784500
like the rubbish bin?
>ostrich tuning
who does he think invented all those sick guitar sounds oh that's right his music is a bunch of boring avant-wank
>>65784538
Ooooh snap! Yah fampai, brits definitely brought cockrock to the masses. Good for them. Should definitely stick to electronic dance music instead of appropriating rock and rap from Americans
>>65784500
Meh, distant third behind the USA and Germany at best. Every supposed invention by a british group was done by an american first (with the exception of maybe heavy metal, which is just a bastardized version of blues rock.)
>>65784538
fucking savage
>>65784500
It's a joke. Lou's favorite thing was to say ridiculous, untrue shit to reporters
Bowie fucking rekted
>>65784598
Elvis actually invented cockrock, but meh...
>>65784500
did you take it to the moon
>>65784653
He didn't even have that in him.
>>65784656
/thread
I think Christgau explained it in one of his columns -- rock music was grounded in our American roots music tradition (blues, folk, country, etc) but Brits didn't have that so they digested the genre somewhat imperfectly. They lacked the cultural connections to be able to produce stuff like the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith, or Mountain did.
>>65783978
Lou Reed kek
Most people couldn't even tell you who he was
Plus, didn't a Scottish film give him his big break with that Sunny Day song?
Haha, ask people about rock stars and they're automatically going to think of the British like The Beatles, The Who, Springsteen and The Jam.
Ameritards should just stop
>>65784817
There's only one half-good band in that trio
>>65784828
the only good american rock band are dire straits tbqh
>>65784656
The European space agency took Blur to Mars. Don't think any rock music was played on the Apollo moon missions.
>>65784850
The Dead.
>>65784876
(Maybe because no-one wanted them on Earth.)
>>65784828
>Springsteen
>British
Uh...
>>65784874
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>>65783978
It's difficult not to see his point of view, Britain fights to make sure things don't happen , it's a weird set-up
>>65784906
lol
>>65784874
isnt dire straights from london
or are you just baiting/banting
>>65784894
No, they're boring as fuck.
I was on about Mountain
>>65784955
>isnt dire straights from london
lolno, they're from texas
>>65784928
I thought the bait was obvious
CCR best band
America rules
>>65784955
check em
>>65784874
>Dire Straits
>American
>>65784876
That was decades later. Rock hadn't been accepted into mainstream culture yet during the Apollo era and was still just some scary horrible racket that stoned teenagers listened to.
>>65784817
That's actually where prog came from. Brits tried to adapt their own indigenous folk traditions to rock.
>>65785123
Absolutely Free by Frank Zappa was the first prog rock record, and the first british progressive rock bands sounded nothing like folk. Nice try.
Queen Victoria conspired with satanists in the 16th century which created a downward spiral of manipulation of the masses to benefit the elites. Finally coalescing into the last 60 years of pop culture that spread through global communications as a parasitic thought form, descending societal structure into chaos
>>65785200
Not at first. That happened gradually as a response to American country rock.
>>65784626
"You spend an entire fucking year working on something only for some asshole in the Village Voice to give it a B-."
>>65783978
I saw him play with Gorillaz alongside two members of the clash lmao
>>65784817
A song like Aerosmith - Last Child...Brits couldn't possibly do that.
>>65783978
He had a nice house
>>65785464
Considering he probably never made a huge amount of money given that his music wasn't commercial enough for the radio.
>>65785609
"Walk on the Wild Side" is a song by Lou Reed from his second solo album, Transformer (1972). It was produced by David Bowie. The song received wide radio coverage, despite its touching on taboo topics such as transsexuality, drugs, male prostitution and oral sex.
The single peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in early 1973.[16]
>>65785609
Perhaps he sold his art collection?
>>65785700
Yeah like two songs of his entire fuckin discog got radio play he's not exactly Taylor Swift
>>65785708
I always thought Iggy Pop ripped off Jim Morrison more than anything, but then Jim Morrison was accused of stealing from Jagger, so...meh.
He was just butthurt that the VU's biggest talent was a Brit (pic related)
But when did he say that? Because it doesn't seem to line up with reality. He loved David Bowie, he was friends with Pete Townshend, and he once accused Iggy Pop of being a Mick Jagger rip off
>>65785749
>that feel when you realize that Steve Perry is probably a much, much wealthier man than much more deserving guys
>>65785609
Sunday Morning was used in several commercials.
>>65785749
Don't break your back moving those goalposts anon!
>>65785764
I'd say more Jim Morrison for performance style, and more Mick Jagger for actual singing.
Meh, I strongly prefer The Stooges to The Doors, but I'm not sure who I'd choose between The Stooges and The Rolling Stones
>>65785609
>>65785749
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/07/01/lou-reeds-estate-worth-over-20m-executors-say/11924529/
>>65785800
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/steve-perry-net-worth/
$45 million so still twice as much as LR made.
AIDS.
>>65785895
No one ever went broke appealing to the lowest common denominator.
>>65786141
are you sure?
The people in this thread are fucking retarded
>>65785815
Eat a dick I'm not the guy you were talking to in the first place you dolt.
Rock-and-roll was supposed to be music that kids would dance or have sex to. Britbongs instead turned it into a bunch of socialist whining.
