Why are Americans so much better at music than Brits?

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these lads > all yanks

Britain is a small country . It's not difficult for the rigged systems that make our celebrity musicians to also snuff out new talent that might be competition


Also the uk hasn't coped well with media changes, doesn't in general support new talent, has no printed music media other than nme which is not for sale anymore. Jools Holland tho

It's been like this for years

See also art world corrupted to prevent new talent and siphon off public money to keep the same few people rich

We've got a dead culture here

Best music by decade:

1450: Guillame Dufay
1460: Johannes Ockeghem
1470: Josquin des Prez
1480: Pierre de La Rue
1490: Martin Agricola
1500: Antonius Divitus
1510: Nicolas Gombert
1520: Thomas Tallis
1530: Pierre de Marchincourt
1540: Cloude Goudimel
1550: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
1560: Orlade de Lassus
1570: William Byrd
1580: Giovanni Gabrieli
1590: Thomas Campion
1600: Michael Praetorius
1610: Claudio Monteverdi
1620: Girolamo Frescobaldi
1630: Francesco Cavalli
1640: Johan Jakob Froberger
1650: Jean-Baptiste Lully
1660: Heinrich Schutz
1670: Dieterich Buxtehude
1680: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
1690: Arcangelo Corelli
1700: Henry Purcell
1710: Antonio Vivaldi
1720: Georg Philipp Telemann
1730: Jean-Philippe rameau
1740: Johann Sebastian Bach
1750: Domenico Scarlatti
1760: George Frederic Handel
1770: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
1780: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1790: Ludwig van Beethoven
1800: Joseph Haydn
1810: Carl Maria von Weber
1820: Niccolo Paganini
1830: Gioacchino Rossini
1840: Franz Schubert
1850: Franz Liszt
1860: Johannes Brahms
1870: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1880: Antonin Dvorak
1890: Edvard Greig
1900: Gustav Mahler
1910: Igor Stravinsky
1920: Arnold Schoenberg
1930: Anton Webern
1940: Bela Bartok
1950: Dmitry Shostakovich
1960: Karlheinz Stockhausen
1970: Brian Ferneyhough
1980: Alfred Schnittke
1990: Arvo Part
2000: Helmut Lachenmann
2010: Einojuhani Rautavaara

I dont see any Americans, definitely a few British though.

>>69287109
My only qualm with this list is there is no John Dowland, which was of course English. Why is Britain so great?

>>69287614
not an argument

>>69285612
>who are led zep, ozzy osbourne, iron maiden, etc etc
if you're going pick and choose freaking legends don't cherrypick arctic monkeys as the best we've got over the water, there are better in the genre like gorillaz let alone the 60/70/80/90s.

See also

EDL
Islamic terrorism
Feminism
Arab spring
Drone executions
thguardian and the collapse of Labour
The benefit system
Survalence cameras
Classic rock magazine

It goes on forever

There are four bbc radio stations for modern music (i knoe theres more but) it sort of sums up what a fragmented society the uk is

No money, nicholas serrota

It's a book of what the fu k

Amazon, monoculture, britains got talent, ciggarette legislation,

>>69287539
>John Dowland
Dowland is pretty lame compared to Fayrfax, Tallis, Dunstable, Gibbons, Byrd etc. British guys of the time.

Also a lot of guys get left off because only 1 allowed per 10 years, which can be hard

>>69289378
>Dowland is pretty lame compared to Fayrfax, Tallis, Dunstable, Gibbons, Byrd etc. British guys of the time.

Do you have a single fact to back that up? Like recommendations from the composers you listed.

>>69289701
>recommendations
You lot generally

>>69289730
what?

>>69289759
Don't be facetious

>>69289830
>facetious
I'm not I genuinely have no idea what you were talking about by "you lot generally."