Besides understanding the genius of Queen, The UK has bad taste in music. They had me thinking Robbie Williams was better than Elvis and Mercury combined, then bought his album and felt ashamed of myself for going for that UK Hype. America may have never fully appreciated Queen the way the rest of the world has, but generally we have much better taste and understanding of what makes a legendary Rock band. Like The Beatles (obviously) Stones (obviously) Zep, The Who, Hendrix Experience, Floyd are the big 6 here. Then The Doors, Rush, Queen, ACDC, Guns Roses, While in the Uk The Who don't even get a mention as an all time great. They say oasis, Just another UK Hype Job. Bought one album and thought it had a couple of decent songs. But better than the Who or Zep? Or Floyd? He's about a guy, In Brian May who Influenced brilliant players like Malmstien among others.
mike hunt · Member since
I don't care if he's an ass or not. His band wasn't on Queens level.
cmsdrums · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]user1 wrote:[/b]
Once again.
What a BELLend.
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There, corrected that for you...!
Holly2003 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
Besides understanding the genius of Queen, The UK has bad taste in music. They had me thinking Robbie Williams was better than Elvis and Mercury combined, then bought his album and felt ashamed of myself for going for that UK Hype. America may have never fully appreciated Queen the way the rest of the world has, but generally we have much better taste and understanding of what makes a legendary Rock band. Like The Beatles (obviously) Stones (obviously) Zep, The Who, Hendrix Experience, Floyd are the big 6 here. Then The Doors, Rush, Queen, ACDC, Guns Roses, While in the Uk The Who don't even get a mention as an all time great. They say oasis, Just another UK Hype Job. Bought one album and thought it had a couple of decent songs. But better than the Who or Zep? Or Floyd? He's about a guy, In Brian May who Influenced brilliant players like Malmstien among others.[/QUOTE]
The UK has bad taste in music? This from the country who brought us Kiss? lol! If you fall for music hype that's your fault and nothing to do with some UK-US rivalry.
"in the Uk The Who don't even get a mention as an all time great."
Would be interesting to know what you base that comment on -- if you based it on anything at all, that is. I suspect you are on the wind-up.
Vocal harmony · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
Besides understanding the genius of Queen, The UK has bad taste in music. They had me thinking Robbie Williams was better than Elvis and Mercury combined, then bought his album and felt ashamed of myself for going for that UK Hype. America may have never fully appreciated Queen the way the rest of the world has, but generally we have much better taste and understanding of what makes a legendary Rock band. Like The Beatles (obviously) Stones (obviously) Zep, The Who, Hendrix Experience, Floyd are the big 6 here. Then The Doors, Rush, Queen, ACDC, Guns Roses, While in the Uk The Who don't even get a mention as an all time great. They say oasis, Just another UK Hype Job. Bought one album and thought it had a couple of decent songs. But better than the Who or Zep? Or Floyd? He's about a guy, In Brian May who Influenced brilliant players like Malmstien among others.[/QUOTE]
So, what about the rest of the world then. Are they as un musical as the UK or are they up there with your view of American understanding of what's good, what's bad and what's hype.
You fell for the hype, by your own admission. Five of your legendary bands are British, the American one needed UK management and audience to get his career off the ground. Take a look around at the current/successful US bands and the number of them who site UK acts as being an influence, as much as American acts.
Music is music, it doesn't mater where it comes from, or who plays it. The industry hypes everything because the industry needs to make sales. It isn't hard to look beyond the hype and crap that gets written and discover music for yourself and not be led to product that really is bad.
The one thing that's certain, like any form of art, it shouldn't be about what one countries view is over another, and if you make it such you better know what your arguing about.
mike hunt · Member since
I think you misunderstood me a bit....I'm not comparing UK and American artists, most of my favorites are From the UK. Queen my favorite band, Priest among others. My point is in America, here In Ny for Example, we do a compitition of lengendary bands once a year or greatest Rock songs of all time and those top bands are mentioned, Including The Who and Queen. I read up on Uk shows and they have the same type of polls and The Who and Zep are never listed. A crap band like oasis are. I never understood that. Remember Roger Talyor saying "where the fuck are The Who" when Queen won best UK artist. They wern't even on The list.
The Fairy King · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
They had me thinking Robbie Williams was better than Elvis and Mercury combined, then bought his album and felt ashamed of myself for going for that UK Hype. .[/QUOTE]
And who is to blame for that? The press or you for believing them? Robbie in a league of his own. He has his own style of songwriting and his own sound. Robbie would be the first to tell you that shit ain't true and would be the first to admit defeat against the genius of Elvis and Freddie.
mike hunt · Member since
Well, that was before I knew about youtube and all that. That's not even getting my point anyway. The bottom line is the Uk puts oasis before The Who and Floyd. That's sad.
mike hunt · Member since
I seen their best of list, it's something like Beatles, Queen, Stones,U2, Oasis and some other crap bands in the mix. No Who, No Zep, No Floyd.
AlbaNo1 · Member since
Oasis were the band of a generation. Definitely wrote some songs that will be timeless in British Isles pop culture.
That said, I dont particularly like them.
Liam tempered his obnoxious comments with some pretty respectful remarks by his standards.
I bet Noel hates Queen a lot more and genuinely.
Its a working chip on the shoulder class thing ,and Queen are a very middle class band .
Cunt. His nasal vocal is more irritating than Bob Dylan, Tiny Tim and Chad Kroeger put together.[/QUOTE]
Ha, I knew this would upset some sensitive Queenies.
LG cracks me up. He's great for a quote. He also said that obviously Freddie was a great singer and Queen were a top band, but I guess that's not relevant.
So what Queen aren't his thing, they aren't a lot of people's.
LOTV · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Invisible Woman wrote:[/b]
When I was in teenage years I liked to listen some songs of Oasis, but frankly, I didn't like much his voice and way of singing.
I don't like the fact that he is talking about other people in such a way. One is to say his opinion and the other to insult people.
He should respect musicians who are more successful and more talented than him.[/QUOTE]
a) Why should he?
b) He says he does respect Brian.
LOTV · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]YourValentine wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]user1 wrote:[/b]
Liam is one of the few real rock stars left. All the others only say things their PR agent approves. I'm glad there's still someone out there who clearly states what he likes and what not, even if I don't share this particular opinion.
Btw, his latest album is great and sold about 100.000 records in the UK in one week. Neither Queen nor any of the members released anything comparable since 1995.[/QUOTE]
Surely there is a difference between "stating what he likes" and insulting another artist. What exactly has selling 100 000 albums to do with? Does it entitle him to belittle other artists? Once he is 70, will he have sold over 300 million records, written some of the most iconic songs of all times, have obtained a PHD, written books about various subjects, made a difference for AIDS patients worldwide? Then he can think about what he has achieved in life compared to Brian. Probably he will rather be known for drug abuse, drunken fights, and out-of-court settlements with the victims of his assaults. Really very world class Rock'n Roll.
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He's said he doesn't like Brian's guitar sound for fuck sake, not called him a serial rapist. Calm the fuck down.
LOTV · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]AlbaNo1 wrote:[/b]
Oasis were the band of a generation. Definitely wrote some songs that will be timeless in British Isles pop culture.
That said, I dont particularly like them.
Liam tempered his obnoxious comments with some pretty respectful remarks by his standards.
I bet Noel hates Queen a lot more and genuinely.
Its a working chip on the shoulder class thing ,and Queen are a very middle class band .[/QUOTE]
Noel and Alan Maghee are both Queen fans actually. Why do think Noel was so excited about where they recorded What's the Story?
