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View Poll Results: Which English-speaking country produce the best music?
The United Kingdom 99 40.57%
Ireland 4 1.64%
The United States 106 43.44%
Canada 14 5.74%
Australia 8 3.28%
New Zealand 4 1.64%
Jamaica 2 0.82%
Other (which?) 7 2.87%
Voters: 244. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
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Old 09-12-2008, 09:20 AM   #11 (permalink)
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most of those genres bore me to tears...
Wow. You just completely dismiss genres as broad as jazz with the wave of a hand. That's realy something.

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the only good punk band from the USA outside of new york i can think of off the top of my head is black flag...
How about Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Seven Seconds, X, Fear, Flipper, The Misfits, etc., etc.

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my statement was limited to the rest of america which seems intent on producing ****ty hippie throwback music, corporate rock radio, insipid country, and horrendous hip hop....


of course there are exceptions
just not heaps...
Well, talking about American music without including New York is like talking UK music without including London, but here's a heap of American artists that aren't from New York for you:

An Albatross
Big Black
Book of Knots
Busdriver
Dalek
Death
Devo
Dillenger Escape Plan
DRI
Dropkick Murphys
Earth
The Faint
Flaming Lips
Fugazi
Jane's Addiction
David Garza
Grandaddy
Husker Du
Kill Me Tomorrow
Land of the Loops
Lightning Bolt
The Locust
Los Lobos
Madlib
Taj Mahal
Man Man
Mastodon
Mates of State
Matmos
The MC5
Mirah
The Modern Lovers
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Lif
Need New Body
Neurosis
Pelican
Pig Destoyer
The Pixies
Iggy Pop
Racebannon
REM
Rocket from the Crypt
Scratch Acid
Secret Chiefs 3
Slayer
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Social Distortion
Sunn 0)))
Tortoise
Trans Am
Tom Waits
Wall of Voodoo
Ween
Gary Wilson
Stevie Wonder


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and what is zydeco??
Wikipedia is your friend.

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