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boo boo · 05-11-2009, 05:49 AM

I may have done this before, but maybe my opinions have changed since then.

50s: Yanks. easly.

60s: Tie. Brits had the invasion. We had Miles, Hendrix, Dylan, Zappa, The Beach Boys, The Doors, The Byrds, The Dead, CCR, Jefferson Airplane, Motown. I was going to give this to the brits but... We both had our fair share.

70s: Brits. By a landslide. They gave us prog and metal, while they didn't invent punk, they perfected it. We had a lot of funk and soul, but that's mostly it.

80s: Tie. A lot of people are quick to hand this over to the brits, but ehhhh. We had a bit going for us this decade, ass metal notwithstanding, we had Talking Heads, REM, Michael Jackson, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Van Halen, GnR, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Metalica, The Replacements, the early hardcore scene. I say the amount of quality music from both sides were about 50/50.

90s: Yanks. I know a lot of brits will disagree over this one. Yeah you had Radiohead. But me, I was never big on most of the britpop bands, Blur aside. Sure you also had Primal Scream, Stone Roses and a lot of great electronica and trip hop, and some bitchin' prog too. But IMO we had a lot to offer last decade. Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth, DJ Shadow, Phish, Yo La Tengo, Rage, RHCP and a lot of hip hop. I'm clearly going by preference on this one.

00s: Yanks. I think everyone can agree with this one. Maybe you brits have some really awesome music right now, who knows? But it sure as f*ck ain't coming over here. Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, Muse. That's pretty much it as far as I'm concerned.

It may seem like I'm being overly generous to us yanks, and maybe I am. But it should be more than obvious to anyone who knows me that the 70s is my favorite decade, and my top 5 bands are all brits.