(12-08-2015, 03:15 AM)MrRager Wrote: Radiohead, just to throw a name in with the others. I absolutely love them.
I really like The Kinks as well.
I personally haven't gotten deep into their stuff, but my father is a huge T Rex fan.
Finally, you can't forget The Police!
You guys are not wrong. How in the hell did much much great music come out of the tiny island. I really think it blows the American thread out of the water.
I only know one T Rex song, and I hope to God I never hear it again. It just never stops.
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(12-07-2015, 08:13 PM)YorkshireBengal Wrote: Can I throw monty python into the mix? If i'd have known you all respected us Brits and our history so much i'd have just made it a British love in thread
....of course we respect the Brits. Just on the music front, if it weren't for bands like the Stones and The Yardbirds...and Clapton, the world would never have been introduced to American blues masters. It's a shame their own country didn't even give them their dues.
Like some, I can't name just one as "best", especially from GB. Led Zep is one, but mainly for John Bonham's influence on me when I was a young drummer looking for my voice.
Pink Floyd's ability to take one on trips where no man had gone before really set them apart back in the day. Each new album by them was an adventure. Others gave the public similar experiences, like The Moody Blues, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Peter Gabriel's Genesis.
And The Beatles with their catalog of hit after hit, year after year. Their influence was massive at the time. The Stones as well.
Now that I've reminisced the days when each of the above became 'popular', I keep going back to one. The world would be far less cosmic without Pink Floyd, so have a cigar.
Some say you can place your ear next to his, and hear the ocean ....
(12-08-2015, 12:38 PM)wildcats forever Wrote: Like some, I can't name just one as "best", especially from GB. Led Zep is one, but mainly for John Bonham's influence on me when I was a young drummer looking for my voice.
Pink Floyd's ability to take one on trips where no man had gone before really set them apart back in the day. Each new album by them was an adventure. Others gave the public similar experiences, like The Moody Blues, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Peter Gabriel's Genesis.
And The Beatles with their catalog of hit after hit, year after year. Their influence was massive at the time. The Stones as well.
Now that I've reminisced the days when each of the above became 'popular', I keep going back to one. The world would be far less cosmic without Pink Floyd, so have a cigar.
(12-08-2015, 03:15 AM)MrRager Wrote: Radiohead, just to throw a name in with the others. I absolutely love them.
I really like The Kinks as well.
I personally haven't gotten deep into their stuff, but my father is a huge T Rex fan.
Finally, you can't forget The Police!
You guys are not wrong. How in the hell did much much great music come out of the tiny island. I really think it blows the American thread out of the water.
(12-07-2015, 08:13 PM)YorkshireBengal Wrote: Can I throw monty python into the mix? If i'd have known you all respected us Brits and our history so much i'd have just made it a British love in thread
IMO, you can throw Monty Python into every mix!
And some of us Anglophiles are available to discuss such vaunted topics as "Were Mortimer and Queen Isabella getting it on before they crossed the channel?", "The Stanleys: Changing Sides for Fun and Profit!", "Æthelwulf and how to whip up on some Vikings", and "Oliver Cromwell: Reluctant Dictator?" ("I am not a dictator... but you all need to be doing what I tell you to do!!!").
(12-08-2015, 03:27 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: IMO, you can throw Monty Python into every mix!
And some of us Anglophiles are available to discuss such vaunted topics as "Were Mortimer and Queen Isabella getting it on before they crossed the channel?", "The Stanleys: Changing Sides for Fun and Profit!", "Æthelwulf and how to whip up on some Vikings", and "Oliver Cromwell: Reluctant Dictator?" ("I am not a dictator... but you all need to be doing what I tell you to do!!!").
I Like Traffic Lights, I Like Traffic Lights, I Like Traffic Lights.... But only when their green
Wow.... This is really hard. I'm sure I will forget a few.
The Clash (1st and foremost)
After the Clash in no particular order....
Beatles
The Kinks
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Jam
Elvis Costello
The Buzzcocks
Iron Maiden
P.I.L.
Sex Pistols
Motorhead
Magazine
(early) Def Leppard
Led Zepplin
David Bowie
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Cat Stevens
The Police
Sting
Genesis
Peter Gabriel
Are all Great.
Then there are many more that I like to some extent like Queen, Pink Floyd, Gorillaz, Oasis.... There are many more. That little island has produced so much great music. It's amazing.
(12-08-2015, 11:09 PM)YorkshireBengal Wrote: I find it strange that we can produce so much fantastic music, only for our national anthem to be so dull.
(12-08-2015, 11:09 PM)YorkshireBengal Wrote: I find it strange that we can produce so much fantastic music, only for our national anthem to be so dull.
And your foood from what I hear although Ive had a Christmas pudding sent to me a couple of times, and it is certainly interesting. I don't drink so I didn't put any spirits on it and light it, but cream was suggested, and I found that quite helpful in cutting some of the richness. My mom and I are bith big fans of A Christmas Carol so it was pretty cool to have an authentic pudding.
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