Who rocks better?

[Al Khalifah]

The epic pan-Atlantic battle, which nation produces and has produced the superior music of the years?

I myself think Britain is still better, because while the music is nowhere near as good as it was up to the early 90's, much of American music seems to have degraded to some horrid commercialised bastard child of rap music.

[Meneldil]

France ?

[IliaDN]

I think european countries are on their rise.

[Drisos]

GAH!

I think in every country there are people who make good music, so I can't vote in this one. :(

[Al Khalifah]

The question isn't who rocks best in the world... the question is who makes the better music out of these two options.

Its a two party system.

[IliaDN]

As far as I listen to Manowar ( americans ) and Iron Maiden ( british ) I can say that, Manowor made his last album btter than I.M. , but I I.M. make more different - style albumes , so I voted for U.K.!!!!!!!!!

[Templar Knight]

Iron Maiden! woohoo!

[Meneldil]

Well, seriously, I just can't stand most of US cheap commercial music. They might have some good stuff, but the only things we hear of in France are Limp Bizkit (they're from US aren't they ?) and other megacrap like that, so I say go Britain.

[Paul Peru]

Most of the Ones I consider Great are British.
Even Hendrix did much of his rocking in Britain.
Nowadays the rocking is done in Norway and Sweden, in case you don't know.

[Al Khalifah]

Norweigan rock music is excellent !
Its just a shame it occasionally gets too extreme and things get burnt to the ground as a result, but hey thats the rock and roll life style.

[Duke Malcolm]

Why, Great Britian, of course!
Edward Elgar, and the Pomp and Circumstance song. They even play that in the US at graduation ceremonies, apparently.
Then the Beatles, they are one of the greatest bands of all time.
Then the various bands of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and all their marches.
Vaughan Williams, with Fantasia on Greensleeves, and the Folk Song Suite.

[IliaDN]

Most of the Ones I consider Great are British.
Even Hendrix did much of his rocking in Britain.
Nowadays the rocking is done in Norway and Sweden, in case you don't know.

They are cool!

[GoreBag]

Its just a shame it occasionally gets too extreme and things get burnt to the ground as a result, but hey thats the rock and roll life style.

Haha!

A few guys burn down some churches and kill some homosexuals, and Norway will never live it down.

As far as rock music goes, I'm only really familiar with metal and its subsidiaries, thus taking the commercialization of American music out of my personal equation.

The problem with Britain in the metal scene is that it's isolated nearly to the point of being pompous. If a band not signed to an English label attempts to distribute in Britain, it will get almost no attention, no support, and therefore, no sales. Darkthrone is a good example of this.

That being said, the Isles do and have produce(d) some pretty good metal. For every good British band, however, there is an equally good North American band, so I'm going to go with America (and Canada) purely on being a more accessible, newcomer-friendly market.

[English assassin]

Why, Great Britian, of course!
Edward Elgar, and the Pomp and Circumstance song. They even play that in the US at graduation ceremonies, apparently.
Then the Beatles, they are one of the greatest bands of all time.
Then the various bands of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and all their marches.
Vaughan Williams, with Fantasia on Greensleeves, and the Folk Song Suite

Is it just me or is there a subversive thread of humour buried in most of His Majesty's pronouncements? Well, not that buried.

Anyway its plainly the UK. Two words: The Who. Though Americans bands are harder working and put on a good show IME.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

The UK wins hands down. We have(or had)-

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Deep Purple
Cream
The Beatles
The Kinks
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix (ok, he was an American, but he made it over here)
Black Sabbath
The Rolling Stones

The list goes on...there are probably a number I've left out.

[Mikeus Caesar]

We (the british) have all the gewd rock music!! The only good thing to come out of America was Elvis, but i'm not sure that he was even that good.

[Duke Malcolm]

Is it just me or is there a subversive thread of humour buried in most of His Majesty's pronouncements? Well, not that buried.

It must be you, I'm not that clever to think up something like up. Feel free to share the joke, though.

[Husar]

I think I´ll vote for Britain.

But the best music in my opinion still comes from Canada and Sweden.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

canada has music?

[Togakure]

I'm an American, but I had to vote for the UK in this one. If the poll was about who has the most excellent rockin' bands, then I'd have to vote for the USA, but when it comes to the number of bands in my top ten or twenty, the UK dominates.

Yes, Canada has some excellent rockers--Rush and Saga immediately come to mind.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I'm an American, but I had to vote for the UK in this one. If the poll was about who has the most excellent rockin' bands, then I'd have to vote for the USA, but when it comes to the number of bands in my top ten or twenty, the UK dominates.

Yes, Canada has some excellent rockers--Rush and Saga immediately come to mind.

Well, I'd imagine you would have the most-you're a bit bigger than us.

Perhaps some kind of rockin' band per members of population quotient would be a good way of deciding.

[Orda Khan]

Whereas I would probably vote for GB, I would also have to say that the Blues is my scene and for that I must thank USA

........Orda

Canada.....Heart, Bryan Adams, Neil Young

[Spino]

Great Britain by a large margin.

The UK wins hands down. We have(or had)-

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Deep Purple
Cream
The Beatles
The Kinks
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix (ok, he was an American, but he made it over here)
Black Sabbath
The Rolling Stones

The list goes on...there are probably a number I've left out.

Lumping Hendrix into that group is ridiculous. He's an American musician who first cut his teeth as a blues guitarist! Where in blazes do you think the blues originated? Madagascar?

Just as an FYI, were it not for the existence of the following American musicians & bands many of those great UK rock bands would have never existed...

- Chuck Berry
- Elvis Presley
- Little Richard
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- The Beach Boys - Their album "Pet Sounds" had a MASSIVE influence on rock and roll. It is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential rock albums of all time.
- Numerous country and blues musicians

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Lumping Hendrix into that group is ridiculous. He's an American musician who first cut his teeth as a blues guitarist!

Yes, I suppose it was a bit of a stretch...

[Somebody Else]

Just think... who produced The Spice Girls... S Club 7... Boyzone... and all those other greats?

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But seriously. First off, I would like to, on behalf of our fair country, apologise for the above mentioned travesties.

Recently, I reckon Robbie's better than anything I've heard from America... though, I do prefer the sort of stuff mentioned in BKS's post.

Just one thing... why was Queen not mentioned?

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Hmm, I wonder... I was having a chat with a friend about cheese the other day, what's do the various honourable (and not so) members of this .Org-anisation think of as some of the greatest and cheesiest songs out there? A few we mentioned: I am the One and Only, I Will Walk 500 Miles, Build me up Buttercup, Don't Stop me Now... to name a few...

Perhaps another topic would be best for this though...

[ichi]

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Ozzy, the Stones, Beatles. . . as an American I gotta say its the Brits, altho their best music was an adaptation of American black music.

ichi

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

So the consensus is that the Americans created it and the Brits refined it then? I could agree with that.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Are we talking now or in the history of rock.

I say Great Britain as all my favorite groups are from there

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Deep Purple
Cream
The Beatles
The Kinks
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix (ok, he was an American, but he made it over here)
Black Sabbath
The Rolling Stones

All great though as has been pointed out Hendrix is american and Yes , Traffic and Jethro Tull are missing to name a few plus there are hybrid bans like Fleetwood Mac. America had some awsome music back then also though such as the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, The Greatful Dead, CCR, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Lynard Skynard, the Allman Bros, Frank Zappa and many other greats. The British invasion though to me was the pinnacle of rock and will never be eclipsed.

[hrvojej]

Overall:
UK in the past, but ever since that horrible horrible dance-quasitechno-synthetic-whathaveyou era in the early 90s, the effects of which are felt even now, I prefer modern American music to European by far. Even if they produced rap and similar music, at least in the US people still play the guitars.

[Quietus]

Jamaicans! Hands down!

Bob Marley & the Wailers
Peter Tosh
Linton Kwesi Johnson with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band (UK)
Burning Spear

Augustus Pablo
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Ernest Ranglin
Steel Pulse (UK)
Bunny Wailer
Mighty Diamonds
Inner Circle (original group)
Aswad (original group)
Dennis Brown
Gregory Isaacs
Joe Higgs
Jimmy Cliff
Toots & the Maytals
etc...

As for US vs. UK alone. UK is way too melodic but ZIP rhythm. US is more about rhythm.