"I've seldom ever heard a British rock group that I found to be listenable. In my opinion, the British should just stop trying to play rock and roll altogether."
"I've seldom ever heard a British rock group that I found to be listenable. In my opinion...
Ryder Bell
Daniel Parker
Great satirical interviewee
Mason Nguyen
BRITAIN BTFO
Dominic Powell
What a moron. The only good album he ever was involved was an album of feedback.
Glad he's dead.
Cooper Adams
>BASED
Adrian Diaz
I was just on a 70s rock binge lately and I did notice that American guys like Iggy Pop, Sammy Hagar, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Rick Derringer felt a lot more rocking than Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and Uriah Heep.
Luke Green
But then you remember those 70s rock artists were inspired by The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (two out of the three members were Brits), etc.
Owen Campbell
Rock-and-roll is supposed to be about drinking and getting drunk and boozing it up. And girls who have legs and know how to use them. The British just turned rock into socialist whining.
Camden Thomas
>Taking this quote seriously
Matthew Reyes
Holy shit. Britain is finished.
Blake Davis
Britain on national suicide watch
Jonathan Anderson
wtf I hate british music now
Ethan Barnes
Beatles BTFO
Jason Foster
just because you put someone's picture next to your own garbage opinion doesn't mean it becomes real
Easton Watson
you can disagree with something a person says without disliking them entirely
Ethan Parker
If you guys want a sauce, this is an interview from the 80s where he dumps on Britrock.
Dylan Jackson
He was right
British rock is almost uniformally shit
Zachary Thompson
He's right
Brits don't get rock and roll
Blake Young
Well, it does tend to be more political and less fun than American rock unless the band is trying to intentionally appeal to Americans (eg. Judas Priest from Killing Machine onward).
Hunter Clark
Lou liked the Kinks and named Sister Ray after Ray Davies. The Kinks are the most British band of all time. Checkmatey
Cameron King
Zappa
Josiah Diaz
It also tends to lack the swinging rock and roll feeling too. This is probably just lack of cultural heritage. The Beatles were so influential because they combined the amelodic, beat-driven rock and roll sound with a melodic sensibility borrowed from classical music
Michael Foster
Christgau explained it in one of his columns. Europeans lacked the cultural connections to blues, country, and other roots music that rock spawned from. Instead they grafted the European symphonic tradition onto rock which resulted in prog and Baroque-style metal bands. You'll note that, with the notable exception of Dio, American metal generally does not have Dungeons & Dragons schlock in it. The first truly American form of metal was thrash, and that was mostly punk-influenced.
Grayson Jones
Just Saiyan, there's a lot more of Chuck Berry in this...
youtube.com
...than this.
Jacob Hughes
Fucking American cunts. We took rock-and-roll and made it better. Yes, rock can be more than just shagging girls and getting hammered.
Jason Peterson
And who inspired the Stones and The Who but Chuck Berry and Little Richard? :^)
Connor Ward
Funny how Bob Dylan was the first who pointed that out.
Adam Ramirez
Ah yes, because there's so much Berry in Gimme Shelter and so much Little Richard in We're Not Gonna Take It
Nolan Gomez
Of course Gimme Shelter doesn't sound like Chuck Berry because they're British. :^)
Josiah Wood
all true
Jeremiah Jenkins
The disconnect is the shit that was rocking that Lou would have enjoyed didn't get much play in America. Like say the first two Roxy Music records.
Jason Myers
I'd say the whole macho angst thing doesn't really work with British culture. Sure, Metallica or Nirvana don't sound like Chuck Berry either, but then it's also hard to picture a British band sounding like them.
Samuel Nguyen
Wasn't post-punk a primarily british movement? It might not be macho but it's the definition of angst.
Samuel Hall
>paraphrasing scaruffi
Austin Garcia
I kinda disagree with his point on the lack of roots music. It was certainly less prevalent, but the first British invasion was heavily influenced by American blues. Plus this forgets the popularity of Skiffle in the UK. Brits do have some closer ties to symphonic music tho. But what's so wrong with some ol' DnD schlock
Levi Clark
Luke Thompson
>Brits do have some closer ties to symphonic music tho
Also a lot of prog incorporated Celtic folk music which is closer to being Britain's "equivalent" to our roots music.
Camden Torres
Dylan started out as an early 60s acoustic folkie but he later went electric and became more rock-flavored which is probably why Christgau liked him but found Joan Baez and PP&M completely repellent.
Mason Long
It's so interesting to see how roots music manifests itself over the years, love it!
Wyatt Green
Funny, he eventually came to like Paul Simon as well.
Ryder Sanders
That was just the British version of the 70s country rock fad (Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc).
Isaiah Barnes
Wasn't TVU heavily influenced by The Who though??
Easton James
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Easton Ross
I know he detested Montrose, but I was unfamiliar with that particular band, so I pulled up Rock Candy on Youtube. Yeah...now I see exactly what his beef with them was.
Landon Bennett
WHEN YOU'RE SEVENTEEN
REACHING FOR YOUR DREAMS
DON'T LET NO ONE REACH IT FOR YOU
PULL OFF YOUR PANTS
STRETCH OUT TAKE A CHANCE
IF IT CAN BE DONE, I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT
Nathaniel Robinson
How cute, he actually awards Sabbath and Kiss the status of legends. Didn't think he had it in him.
Andrew Nguyen
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