Great British Music

[xXx White Lily xXx]

Heterodyne

I continue to be entirely sold on IAMX.

I saw them live last week! Chris Corner is a fittie whee  

[Boolean Julian]

I just booked to go and see The Turn of the Screw in London, I'm so excited.  

[Mr. Bono Vox]

Enter Shikari on the 1st of Nov. ^_^  

[Colibee]

I was camped next to some guys with the best Enter Shikari piss-take impression at Download Festival this summer.

Heaven & Hell are on the 10th of November. Dio and Iommi, pure British legends. Iommi playing at his unrivalled standard after losing the tops of his fingers to machinery as a kid is way more impressive than Def Leppard's one armed drummer.  

[loIitoads]

Lily Allen. I can quite happily mention her next to Dio, Iommi and all. She's captured modern day Britain in her music. Those others just made music... Britain always has been a little musically stunted though D: I'm sick of our Indie crap D:  

[Foetus In Fetu]

Pokegirl Princess Lolicat

Lily Allen. I can quite happily mention her next to Dio, Iommi and all. She's captured modern day Britain in her music. Those others just made music... Britain always has been a little musically stunted though D: I'm sick of our Indie crap D:

It's like, everything you say is a direct inversion of the truth.

It's great.  

[Boolean Julian]

I'm not sure Mary. "She's captured modern day Britain in her music" is at least partly true - she represents a good deal of what's wrong with it.  

[Le Aristocrat]

Hm, in modern terms we do kick the world's a** at music. We had the Beatles, Rolling Stones etc.

However, if you look at the classical composers we've had, our's are pretty pathetic compared to the rest of Europe's. Look at the area which is now Austria. They've had Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Mahler, Schoenberg, Bruckner and the Strauss family. Look at Germany. They've had Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Schumann, Handel, Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach etc. Look at Russia. They've had Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov etc. France and Italy have had fantastic composers as well.

We've had Elgar, Purcell, Britten and Vaughan Williams. And they don't even come close to the might of Austrians and Germans...

We fail at classical music. emo  

[Foetus In Fetu]

Boolean Julian

I'm not sure Mary. "She's captured modern day Britain in her music" is at least partly true - she represents a good deal of what's wrong with it.

Not in the sense that Pokegirl meant.

You're talking about Lily Allen as an example of what's wrong with Britain -- P-girl meant that Lily Allen's music itself explains what modern Britain is like. Like, deliberately.  

[Boolean Julian]

Le Aristocrat

Hm, in modern terms we do kick the world's a** at music. We had the Beatles, Rolling Stones etc.

However, if you look at the classical composers we've had, our's are pretty pathetic compared to the rest of Europe's. Look at the area which is now Austria. They've had Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Mahler, Schoenberg, Bruckner and the Strauss family. Look at Germany. They've had Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Schumann, Handel, Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach etc. Look at Russia. They've had Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov etc. France and Italy have had fantastic composers as well.

We've had Elgar, Purcell, Britten and Vaughan Williams. And they don't even come close to the might of Austrians and Germans...

We fail at classical music. emo

I disagree. I think Britten is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. In my opinion to say he "doesn't even come close" to Austrian and German composers simply demonstrates a lack of knowledge of Britten's masterpieces. I also recommend you listen more to the music of Ireland, Bridge, Stanford, Pott et. al....there's a whole wonderful tradition of post-impressionist English composers in the mid 20th century.  

[Boolean Julian]

Foetus In Fetu

Boolean Julian

I'm not sure Mary. "She's captured modern day Britain in her music" is at least partly true - she represents a good deal of what's wrong with it.

Not in the sense that Pokegirl meant.

You're talking about Lily Allen as an example of what's wrong with Britain -- P-girl meant that Lily Allen's music itself explains what modern Britain is like. Like, deliberately.

I was aware of that. It was simply my pathetic attempt at humour.  

[loIitoads]

I did mean she represents it in the same way you guys do... I just happen to revel in modern culture... It's amazing! But yea, I'm aware that there are a great many problems with it... I just feel too enamoured of the world to really care.

And yea, we weren't always musically stunted if you look at the Beatles, etc, but it's been a long time since we've had a really, truly great band with staying power. (Whoops, talk about loving disposable culture, then talk about staying power, haha!)  

[Boolean Julian]

Pokegirl Princess Lolicat

I did mean she represents it in the same way you guys do... I just happen to revel in modern culture... It's amazing! But yea, I'm aware that there are a great many problems with it... I just feel too enamoured of the world to really care.

And yea, we weren't always musically stunted if you look at the Beatles, etc, but it's been a long time since we've had a really, truly great band with staying power. (Whoops, talk about loving disposable culture, then talk about staying power, haha!)

Erm. Radiohead? Probably the greatest and most innovative band in the world today?  

[Foetus In Fetu]

Also, you know -- The Libertines.  

[xXx White Lily xXx]

Pokegirl Princess Lolicat

Britain always has been a little musically stunted though D:

I dunno why I'm saying this cause everyone already knows it but...
That's just so not true on so many levels