Why is it that most of the great classic rock bands, the dadrock staples, are British? How did a bunch of suburban English kids manage to beat the Americans at their own game?
Rock was very popular in america in the 50's, near the end of the 50's it was starting to die off because most of the famous rockers were either killed or in prison, also elvis joined the army.
So it was pretty much on the verge of death but then 4 lads from liverpool appeared to give it new life
Isn't it kinda of a mixed bag?
Its like over the pond you have the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Cream Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple for much of the 60's and 70's.
and here in america you had Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater revival, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield/ Neil Young, and in the 70's you had the eagles, doobie bros, and ZZ top.
Bongs read more than burguers
The British bands watered down rock concepts enough for the general audience to be able to more easily digest them. Through history, no matter what genre, the British have been kings of watering down ideas that would be much more esoteric for a general audience to make easy listening garbage with nowhere near as much depth. It happened in classical with the British literally creating something called Light Music which is literally easy listening but for classical music. Then it happened with jazz where it's nowhere near as intricate from a rhythmic and improvisational perspective. After that we had blues where the raw yet wide range of emotions were restricted for the sake of wanking. Soon after that there was rock music which, thanks to the British, had an enormously long stagnation period. In the 70s, the industrial scene did watered down "experiments" of musique concrete because they were too pussy to do more complex sound manipulation. Prog took only the most basic structural knowledge from classical rather than truly understanding form. Post-punk eschews the punk aspect of the music for the sake of being either boring, repetitive musicians for the sake of muh mood or some poor attempt at so called "experimental" music which was really just an easy listening version of the kind of real experiments that happened in the 60s and 70s. Britpop copied old tropes in an attempt to be more sophisticated when the production work was actually shallow. Synthpop made the groove aspects of electronic dance music straightforward and boring. Grime is hip hop with far less range in style, technique, atmosphere, and composition. The Ambient of Eno and Aphex Twin simplified the ambitious works of German musicians. Dubstep has far less variety in rhythms and tones compared to the dub it's inspired from.
The only good artists to come out of UK are Brian Ferneyhough and Autechre. Everyone else is utter trash.
>>74721866
Is this an obscure copypasta or did you write all that yourself?
>>74721456
>suburban
>in England
American education everyone
>>74722403
>bong bands take the blues from american blacks and 50's rockabilly
>claim they were the pioneers
lol
>>74722388
Screw top 40 like Beatles or Navy, i only paste essays about British music
>>74721866
Nonsense.
the blues interpretations of the Brits were not "watered down" but embellished with a flavor and style all their own. LZ "covers" were anything but "watered down"...with multiple guitar tracks creating tension and momentum through orchestral heightening and exploratory motifs.
Hard to "water down" a Robert Johnson song when its just him and his acoustic guitar to begin with.