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Originally Posted by scottsy
In the early nineties, American music totally owned it, but as the decade rolled on British bands took over as the general quality of music from the US kinda declined, but there were great bands springing up all over the UK...
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Interesting how opinions differ because I think the exact opposite is true.
Anything that came out of the States in the early 90s was pretty much just a big budget pale version of what had already came out in the mid to late 80s from there,Grunge, hip hop & stadium rock.. and that was about it.
Whereas in Britain you had tons of new stuff cropping up everywhere. Tip hop, Shoegaze, dance music, Electronica, Baggy & Britpop. You had small labels popping up all over the place & they actually got press & public attention.
On the other hand by 1996 british music ground to a halt and really good stuff like post hardcore & math rock & garage rock started coming out of the States.
In fact excluding the occasional post rock band I can't think of a single decent British band who recorded a debut album between 1997 & 2000 that really sold in large amounts AND who got critical acclaim too.