Why is british music so embarrassing? I'm british and i see a lot of hate for grime but most of the stuff from my country is legitimately terrible too. So /mu/ why do people pretend to like awful shit like The Kinks and Pink Floyd?
I'm American and I agree.
You guys pretty much suck. Especially post-1985.
But at least you aren't Australia.
>>65403783
Australia has The Avalanches and The Go-Betweens so their okay in my books cause they don't have the biggest population.
I'm American and I like grime.
>>65403774
But I like this album
Britain turned rock-and-roll from good time fun music into socialist whining.
Two songs, same year.
>American rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJV2va9V9A
>British rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGFlP5Duuw
>not appreciating lyrical depth and variety in arrangement
The one thing I'll readily admit Britain fucked the fuck up was punk. You guys sucked at that.
>>65404650
'Nother example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl4dEAtxo0M
vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDkrMi8B15U
>>65404771
>The Who
>Example of socialist whining
Aren't The Who very conservative in their politics?
>>65404771
>>65404650
Except your British examples were already well established acts. Like, the Kinks had been around for 20 years. Of course they would use their clout to try and change things in society.
>>65403774
>>65404800
Pete Towhshend was a spoiled middle class babby anyway. Generally the divide between punks and metal/hard rock is that the latter have a far more white trash fanbase. Read Christgau's accounts of the Sex Pistols. He attended one of their shows when they toured the US and noted it was heavily college kids from relatively well-off families. The fanbase was not as, uh, lowbrow as you'd expect at an Aerosmith or Van Halen show.
>>65403868
the avalanches are the biggest /mu/ meme of this year.
they were never good, but everyone seemed to jump on the band wagon. then they drop a literal electroswing song, proving their lack of actual talent, and everyone went fucking crazy.
>Village Green is terrible
this might actually be the worst opinion I've ever heard. I was going to ironically respond, but I don't have an image that would properly express the amount of 'shiggy' that I get from this post.
You might as well say
>I want to be cool with /mu/
Just fucking stop.
>>65404897
>but everyone seemed to jump on the band wagon. then they drop a literal electroswing song, proving their lack of actual talent, and everyone went fucking crazy
People went crazy before the song dropped, and in order to not look stupid they had to pretend to like the song.
>>65404889
Well, yeah. Punk/New Wave/alternative rock did appeal heavily to collegefags. They replaced singer-songwriters in that particular demographic niche.
>>65404889
See, back in the day, meathead rednecks used to beat up punks.
>>65403774
I wouldn't normally say this, but there is something wrong with you. That is one of the greatest albums of all time.
>>65404650
Oh look, I can do this too.
>you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXy3JccJzM
>us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0qfwX1mXe8
>>65404964
not as good as arthur tbqh familia
>>65404889
I always assumed Van Halen fans back then were frat boys who blasted Running With The Devil at keggers.
>>65404897
>avalanches
>meme of the year
how fucking new are you?
>literal electroswing song
FIGURATIVELY fantano
>>65404980
Please do not link Oasis songs on /mu/. Thank you very much.
>>65404984
Oh I love Arthur too, and Lola. Possibly the best three album streak by any band, but I must respectfully disagree and maintain Village Green as the best, my good man, don't you know.
>>65404980
Brits sure love their girly poofer rock.
>Beatles
>prog
>Queen
>Bowie
>Oasis
>>65405027
i've been using this board for years, and there has never been as much jerking for SILY as there has been for the last few months.
if you think that frankie sinatra isn't electroswing, then you are the exact kind of bandwagoning faggot i'm talking about.
>>65405099
>ur ethur with me or egenst me
I love Danny, like Doom, and have had a soft spot for Since I left You since I first heard it, 9 years ago. I really don't like the new song. It goes entirely against what I believed to be their ethos.
But to just say it's "literal electroswing" is being reductive and adding exactly nothing to the conversation -- to the point where you're apparently parroting a 'literal' meme reviewer.
>>65403868
>implying midnight oil is not the best band of all time
>>65405376
other than nick cave, aussie bands are just bad rip offs of english+american bands.
>>65405427
Please tell me who the Church ripped off so I can go listen to them.
>>65403774
eye dee emm is pretty great tbqhwyf
>>65403774
>i'm british
No you're not. KYS.
>>65403774
The Kinks are fine, and never put out a bad record, whereas Pink Floyd turned to shit in the 1970s after Obscured By Clouds.
>>65403783
Australia gave us......
The Easybeats
AC/DC
The Saints
Radio Birdman
Rose Tattoo
The Celibate Rifles
Not too shabby for an island that is both a country AND a continent.
>>65404700
I don't care if you did get dubs, please explain how the Brits fucked up punk. Pro tip: You CAN'T because that country gave the world some EXCELLENT punk bands who's music, even today, stands the test of time, you faggy pleb!
>there are people who unironically think there is music better than british music
>>65408110
this tbqhwy senpai
