What are some bands that made it big in Britain but failed to majorly cross over (or in the Manics' case cross over at all) to the States?
What are some bands that made it big in Britain but failed to majorly cross over (or in the Manics' case cross over at...
Wyatt Cooper
Hudson Miller
Pretty much every Britpop band
Nolan Brown
every uk band/artist tbqh
Austin Roberts
>beatles
Nathaniel Brown
Blur
Christopher James
I guess XTC is one, even though a cover of one of their songs is prominently featured in a movie every real American has seen multiple times.
Nathan Torres
Yup. It's called britpop because no one else wanted it.
Carson Young
don't they all live in america?
Carter Hernandez
XTC had some success in Britain, but they were never extremely successful. They only had 1 album and 1 single ever break the top 10. They were definitely more successful there though.
Charles Wilson
1. The Kinks
2. Blur
3. The Stone Roses
Nathaniel Flores
This
Suede
MSP
The Verve
Mansun
Pulp
Starsailor
& countless others
But then you had bands like Oasis that managed to find success. Britpop was a cultural thing though, so it didn't make sense to many Americans.
Christian Jackson
What are some British bands that were more successful in US than UK?
The only one I can think of is Bush
Brody Richardson
This. They were a one-hit-wonder in America, but in Britain they were as big as Oasis, and both were bigger than Radiohead.
Lucas Lee
That's strange. I've always been under the impression that they were a household name in England. I've watched documentaries where Andy Partridge is treated like a living god. Apparently they've charted higher in the US than they ever did in the UK, even though most Americans have no idea who they are.
Brandon Jones
Nathaniel Phillips
My personal rankings for all MSP albums:
1. The Holy Bible
2. Everything Must Go
3. Lifeblood
4. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
5. Know Your Enemy
6. Journal for Plague Lovers
7. Send Away the Tigers
8. Gold Against the Soul
9. Generation Terrorists
10. Rewind the Film
11. Postcards from a Young Man
12. Futurology
Aaron Flores
Biggest Britpop bands in America:
1. Spice Girls
2. Oasis
3. Coldplay
4. Bush
5. Radiohead
That's it. That's all the British crossover bands for the last 30 years.
Nolan Robinson
Yes comes to mind. Granted, they were just as big in the UK but they sold a lot more in the US, especially when they moved there.
Isaac Price
Is this a sick joke?
Dominic Nguyen
I'm talking out of turn here because I can't possibly know what the scene is over in the UK.
Pink Floyd, which I know they're huge everywhere but fucking gigantic in the states. I'm sure they're enormous in the UK too but I dunno how to quantify that. Pretty much everyone listened to Floyd here in the states until the 2000s generation came and they're considered top 10.
Ozzy
AC/DC - shut up they count. Upside UK is still the UK
Clapton?
Bowie
Zeppelin?
Justin Garcia
One and a half. Girls and Boys was only played on college radio stations. Song 2 was the hit, played in stadiums during handegg and during truck commercials.
Gavin Ward
I still can't believe that Bush is British. It blew my mind when I found out.
Henry Rodriguez
No he's not joking. Most people here don't know who the fuck the stone roses are, woo-hoo: the band, and the kinks are known by a niche music genre
Kevin Bell
Zepp was huge in its homeland but their sound was so deeply rooted in American music, most forget it's British at all. They are an American icon.
Ryder Johnson
>What is Radiohead
Ryder Young
>the kinks are known by a niche music genre
Then explain why several of their singles are staples of American classic rock radio in every city in America?
Austin Thompson
The Kinks were banned from the US for five years. They were nowhere near as popular in the US as they were in the UK, and in the US, they were not as popular as the Beatles, The Rolling Stones or The Who.
telegraph.co.uk
William Price
Interesting article. It clarifies nothing, while leaving everything up to the imagination, in the Kinks' favor.
Thomas Perez
They did have enough fairly successful singles to be fairly relevant in the UK, and most of a certain age probably remember them a bit. I think Partridge and the band in general is more renowned amongst music fans than they are with the public at large.
Aaron Baker
Not Britpop
Jaxson Roberts
Porcupine Tree
Wyatt Perry
flock of seagulls
most 70s blues rock bands
new order?
i know right. i think their debut was decent and like some of their other songs are decent. however, most of the time they were just another boring, shitty, post grunge band, so i assumed they were canadian for years.
John King
What about US bands that are more popular in the UK? I can't think of any.
Matthew Foster
The Killers maybe
Bentley Scott
Every Beach Boys album from Party! to Holland charted higher (often much higher) in the UK than USA
Scott Walker
Jimi Hendrix
Owen Jackson
The Libertines never come to the U.S.
Jaxson Garcia
Kaiser Chiefs
Luis Hernandez
Almost every metal band from the UK like Iron Maiden or Paradise Lost is more popular in America and the rest of Europe than UK
Jonathan Wilson
>From Britain
>Make pop music
>Not britpop
Wat
Lucas Cook
semisonic
it's easier to chart higher in the uk, but the beach boys had more number ones in the us and more hits in general
Matthew Cook
>tfw Canadian
>Manic Street Preachers are my favourite band
>Nobody has heard of them