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Gawain of Orkeny
06-21-2007, 16:13
Most popular bands are either from England or the US. Probably because of english being so popular or is it the other war around :laugh4:
There are many fine bands from the rest of the UK but it seems to me that the English dominate. Canada and Australia have lots of good groups as well . Like AC/DC, and Rush . So what are some of your favorite bands from other countries than these.
Ill start with my favorite Scottish band. It was mentioned in another thread.
Take this G&R
Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog (Live Houston 1981) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ66UO-iKpc)
BTO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq7HxaAxF78&mode=related&search=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-KepL8gRXA&mode=related&search=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6u7bij5wXQ&mode=related&search=
From the top of my mind:
Duch art-rock Legends : The Nits
German and International Legends - electropop & techno godfathers : Kraftwerk
Irresistible one hit wonder from Germany : Nena (99 Luftballons)
Italian modern pop-rock godfather : Ligabue
Swedish Pop gods (~;) ) : ABBA
Australian Legends of goth-ethnic : Dead Can Dance
French Cult legends of the early 90's : Mano Negra
Japanese alternative and electro-rave darlings of the late 90's early 00's : Supercar
Canadian r'n'r/rock/pop Legends of the 60's/70's (Randy Bachman's ex group until he quit due to tension with singer/songwritter/pianist/guitarist and other founding member Burton Cummings - he then proceeded to form BTO) : Guess Who
Irish absolute group hard-rock prototype - legends of the 70's : Thin Lizzy
Irish absolute prototype of single blues/rock artist - legend of the 70's : Rory Gallagher
Papewaio
06-22-2007, 12:30
Crowded House
Pannonian
06-22-2007, 13:11
A-ha
Take on Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA57LGJygpY)
Hunting High and Low (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FiPak28viE)
The Sun Always Shines on TV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1fjfSysaI)
Take on Family Guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRgs9uJFbE)
AC DC immediately jump to mind, they were great in concert, so werent the scorpions for that matter.
But the best? I'll go with Rush.
King Kurt
06-22-2007, 13:42
People who popped into my mind
Canada - Jeff Healey
Holland - Focus
Scotland - The Proclaimers, Simple Minds
Ireland - U2 - well I like them!!
Mexico - Flaco Jiminez - a superb accordinist who played with Ry Cooder who I saw in a small club once
How about that lot for broad tastes - electric blues through folk to Tex Mex:laugh4:
Louis VI the Fat
06-22-2007, 16:02
ABBA
Anything from the land of Oz (oh, and Crowded House - NZ)
U2
Heart. (If it's an English Canadian band, I often don't even realise they're not American, so I probably overlook some great Canucks).
Can we have also have solo artists? Then Alizée, and especially my godess Mylène Farmer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09JXheXtj_k). Otherwise, the French music scene is mostly dominated by synth pop and rap. :barf:
I know I'm forgetting dozens of great bands...
Kralizec
06-22-2007, 16:12
The Policevvvv
Coldplay
Keane
Raccoon
Snow Patrol
Nelly Furtado (well, not technicly a band...)
......
ABBA
YES !
How could i have forgotten them ! :thumbsup:
Gawain of Orkeny
06-22-2007, 16:28
YES !
How could i have forgotten them !
Especailly as I posted them in the best band with a girl lead singer just prior to posting this thread. Its what gave me the idea. I watch those videos just to look at those two babes.
Louis VI the Fat
06-22-2007, 16:39
Noir named ABBA in this thread earlier too. Everybody loves them I guess. :2thumbsup:
I watch those videos just to look at those two babes.For looks everybody always goes for Agnetha, the blonde. But Anni-Frid is the far more interesting woman. For a start, she is now Her Serene Highness Princess Anni-Frid Reuss of Plauen:
Lyngstad was born out of wedlock in Ballangen, near Narvik, Norway, as a result of a liaison between 18 year old Synni Lyngstad, and a married German sergeant, Alfred Haase, at the very end of the Second World War German occupation of Norway. Norway was liberated in May 1945. Anni-Frid was born 6 months later, November 15th 1945.
In the spring of 1947, Anni-Frid, her mother Synni, and her grandmother Arntine Lyngstad left her birthplace because of fear of reprisals from people who were angry and vengeful towards those who had dealings with the Germans during the occupation. This could result not just in insult, but also in forced separation of infants from their parents and relatives.
Anni-Frid was thus taken at a young age by her grandmother across the Swedish border and eventually south to Torshälla, near Eskilstuna. Her mother stayed behind in Norway and worked for a period in the south, but then became ill and returned to Sweden, where she died from kidney disease soon afterwards, aged 21. Although it is said that Anni-Frid’s father, Alfred, had promised to return to Norway after the war, he never did (claiming to be unaware of Synni's pregnancy), and thus Anni-Frid was raised by her grandmother alone. However, a near contact with her family in Norway continued, and Anni-Frid recalls with warmth summer holidays spent with them at her birthplace.
Lyngstad believed that her father had died when his ship to Germany was sunk during the war. However, after the German teen magazine Bravo published her biography and a background story in 1977, she discovered that her father was alive and they were reunited that year.
In his book, “Bright Lights, Dark Shadows”, Carl Magnus Palm explained the apprehension Anni-Frid felt about meeting her father for the first time. For reasons unknown, Anni-Frid and Alfred no longer maintain contact. A couple of years ago, however, Haase appeared in a German tabloid magazine, pleading with Anni-Frid to resume contact.
Career
Lyngstad got her first job as a dance band and schlager singer in 1958, aged 13. Later she teamed up with a 15-piece 'big band' who performed a jazz reportoire covering Glenn Miller Duke Ellington and Count Basie; her vocal idols being Ella Fitgerald and Peggy Lee. In 1963 she formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four, marrying the bass player Ragnar Fredriksson in 1963, aged 18. The marriage produced two children, but the couple divorced by 1969.
In 1967, Lyngstad won a national TV talent contest, and in the next few years released several marginally successful singles for EMI. She spent the summers touring and in January 1969, Lyngstad took part in a cabaret that toured the country. It was in February at a venue in southern Sweden that she met future spouse Benny Andersson. 1st of March the same year, Anni-Frid participated in Melodifestivalen the swedish heats for Eurovision Song Contest with the song Härlig Är Vår Jord -and finished 4th. The song became her first single in the charts. Her first album Frida, produced by her then fiancé Benny Andersson, was released in 1971. The album received unanimously generous praise from the critics, who especially noted the precision and versatility of Lyngstad as a vocalist. Anni-Frid played in cabarets, toured and performed regularly on tv and radio and her relationship with Benny Andersson and the friendship with Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog eventually led into the formation of ABBA.
ABBAs career took up most of Anni-Frids time between 1972 and 1983.
Her next solo album in Swedish, "Frida ensam", that included the original Swedish version of the future ABBA mega-hit "Fernando", was released in 1975 when she was already involved in ABBA. The album became an enormous commercial and critical success in Scandinavia, topping the Swedish album charts for six weeks and remaining in the charts for forty weeks.
In 1982, during ABBA's last year as a working band, Lyngstad released her first solo record in English, a Phil Collins-produced album, Something's Going On, that topped the charts in Sweden, and reached the Top 20 in the UK and Top 50 in the US.
In 1983, Lyngstad assisted with 'Abbacadabra - the Musical', and featured with Daniel Balavoine on one track 'Belle, Belle' of the resulting album, 'Abbacadabra - Conte Musical'. This track was a cover of 'Arrival', an instrumental track from the ABBA album of the same name.
In the years that followed, she was seriously engaged in environmental work but also found time to make a couple of guest appearances on recordings by Swedish artists, former colleague and husband Benny Andersson's 1987 album in particular.
Personal life
In May 1969, Lyngstad met Benny Andersson, and the couple were quickly engaged, although they did not marry until October 6, 1978, during the height of ABBA's suceess. However, after only three years of marriage, they divorced in 1981.
In 1982, Lyngstad left Sweden and moved to London, before relocating to Switzerland in 1986 where she has been living ever since.
On August 26, 1992, Lyngstad married her longtime boyfriend, Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss of Plauen (May 24, 1950–October 29, 1999). Upon marriage, Lyngstad acquired the title of Her Serene Highness Princess Anni-Frid Reuss of Plauen. Prince Heinrich died of lymphoma in 1999, while a year eariler, Lyngstad's daughter Ann Lise-Lotte Casper (February 25, 1967–January 13, 1998) was fatally injured in a road accident in the United States. Through Lyngstad's marriage to Heinrich, who was a student at the same boarding school as the reigning King of Sweden, she became acquainted with the Swedish Royal family and eventually became close friends with Sweden's Queen Silvia. Today, Anni-Frid still engages in charity work - drug prevention in particular. In 2005 she stated in an interview that she had no interest in a music career, though 18 months later she would return to the recording studio.
Gawain of Orkeny
06-22-2007, 16:54
For looks everybody always goes for Agnetha, the blonde. But Anni-Frid is the far more interesting woman
I find them both very interesting :laugh4:
Did you know that Agnetha has become a recluse?
I find them both very interesting :laugh4:
Did you know that Agnetha has become a recluse?
The last I have heard is that she has actually published a new album in Sweden about 2 years back...
Quid
Kane
Admiral Freebee
Björk (not a band but err...)
Sepultura
Lordie (~;))
are some of the first I can come up with. And ofcourse every decent metal band. (Finland I guess.)
Oomph! most definitely. Great band, unique sound despite all the music on the market these days. And of course the one German band everyone knows, Rammstein, best two NDH bands in Germany. Paul van Dyk, though not a band, does some of the best dance/trance and remixes I have ever heard.
On the topic of Finnish bands, Kotiteollisuus is a great metal band. And Poets of the Fall are also very good, albeit not a metal band.
Tschüß!
Erich
Togakure
06-23-2007, 02:09
Several of the bands already mentioned are among my favorites in this category: INXS, Crowded House, Rush, U2, AC/DC. I will add Yellow Magic Orchestra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJuXXGXS3no) (YMO), the Gypsy Kings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUr127yKF0), Saga (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRqSXwsaHvE), the Scorpions and--despite all the turbulence that can distract one from appreciating someone's musical talent--Michael Schenker of Scorpions/MSG. Michael is one of only a handful of lead guitarists who can bring on that "heart-soar" feeling that lifts me up out of my chair into teeth-gritting, head-banging air guitar mode. The song that does it for me is from his early work with the British band UFO, Pack it up (and go) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI1vKdseV_4).
Ironically, I was only able to find a video of this song from a UFO reunion/studio remake in 2005, which of course, doesn't feature Michael. Meh. It sounds pretty close to the original--except for the lead. The guy's not bad, has decent tone, but he can't touch Michael in his prime. Not even close. If anyone is able to locate a postable link to UFO's 1978 release of Pack it Up, from Obsession, I would be grateful. I couldn't find a clip worthy of representing his talent.
CountArach
06-23-2007, 09:10
The Living End - Punk/Pub Rock:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6QibknDDrUc
https://youtube.com/watch?v=prjVGQWNyE4&mode=related&search=
EDIT: And my favourite song they have done to date:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cyS91nRBMkE&mode=related&search=
ShadesWolf
06-23-2007, 19:24
Inxs
Evil_Maniac From Mars
06-23-2007, 22:25
Well, there's the obvious, such as AC/DC, U2, and The Scorpions, but then there's a whole herd of others, like Nightwish, Die Toten Hosen, and Die Ärzte.
EDIT: How could I forget Santana? They were formed in San Francisco, but Santana himself is Mexican. The band doesn't count as Mexican, but it's worth a mention.
Uesugi Kenshin
06-25-2007, 10:23
Madsen, Rammstein, Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen and The Beatsteaks are all good, and all from Germany. Then there's a Finnish band I like too, I think they're called Sunrise Boulevard or something like that. I've only heard a few songs from them, but they were pretty good. Even though they are constantly played on the radio over here.
Rammstein is definately my favorite from those bands.
InsaneApache
06-25-2007, 11:23
The Waterboys.
Geoffrey S
06-25-2007, 12:41
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, the Notwist, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Boards of Canada, Les Negresses Vertes, Mono, Laibach, The Fall (scottish?). Must be more, those are just a few on my iPod right now.
InsaneApache
06-25-2007, 12:45
The Fall are from Manchester. Did I mention that I went to the same school as Mark E Mark?
I did now. :laugh4:
Weebeast
06-26-2007, 00:41
I've always been an Anni-Frid person :sweatdrop:
Anyway I like a lot non-us bands from different eras. I grew up in the 80's so yeah... I also like lots of genres. I like the Coors, Daftpunk and movie-score guru Ennio Morricone (it's an orchestra band), Oasis, just to name a few.
average white band - scottish
Well, there's the obvious, such as AC/DC, U2, and The Scorpions, but then there's a whole herd of others, like Nightwish, Die Toten Hosen, and Die Ärzte.
I second these bands for their production of raw, non-pasteurized & unadulterated pure rock content.
Tschüß!
Erich
Strike For The South
06-26-2007, 01:13
The prouges
The prouges
do you mean the pogues? although they were an "irish" band they were from london, camden town in fact
Incongruous
06-26-2007, 07:51
The Policevvvv
Coldplay
Keane
Raccoon
Snow Patrol
Nelly Furtado (well, not technicly a band...)
......
Coldplay and Keane are English arent they?
Anyway hows about these kiwi blokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW7oFBoB4-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5RJfwlL1Sk&mode=related&search=
EVERMORE!
Coldplay and Keane are English arent they?
Anyway hows about these kiwi blokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW7oFBoB4-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5RJfwlL1Sk&mode=related&search=
EVERMORE!
yes and so were the police (barring an american drummer and manager)
Geoffrey S
06-26-2007, 08:56
The Fall are from Manchester.
Manchester, Scotland... it's close enough I guess...
doc_bean
06-26-2007, 09:30
dEUS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvjTEF-7ehQ)
Nick Cave and the bad seeds
Otherwise, the French music scene is mostly dominated by synth pop and rap. :barf:
That's why you keep giving titles to our artists ?
Arno (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z0dXpPHAJ0)
InsaneApache
06-26-2007, 13:59
Manchester, Scotland... it's close enough I guess...
Oi! I'll have none of that, if you don't mind. That there's fighting talk. :knight: ~;)
At first I couldn't think of any bands outside the ones people have already dropped...
ABBA
U2
AC/DC - Man I loved them with Bon Scott, they had a totally different sound from the Johnson years. Back in Black is the only Brian Johnson album worth mentioning (fantastic album though).
INXS
Rush
Scorpions
But then some more names hit me... nothing great but they're worth noting in that they either made a huge, brief splash or had a few hits throughout their career...
Thin Lizzy - I knew they were foreign but never sure where from, turns out they're from Ireland!
Men at Work - Australia
Accept - Germany - How can you forget Udo Dirkschneider... Get your b-lls to the wall!
Loudness - Japan - Kabuki theater meets KISS at a metal concert
Kralizec
06-26-2007, 22:45
Coldplay and Keane are English arent they?
Yeah, so is the Police. From the index page, the "England" part of the title is cut off so I missed it:embarassed:
macsen rufus
06-27-2007, 12:27
Mana, from Mexico, sort of a Latin Waterboys. I learnt SO much of my Spanish from their lyrics :laugh4:
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