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Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Bork — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:26:58 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 03/03/2012 02:26

purple wrote:

Bork wrote:

purple wrote:

RFNAPLES wrote:

Would it be fair to compare the average brain sizes?

intelligence correlates with the depth of sutures and surface area, not size or volume...

Although a larger sized brain has on average a larger surface area, so although there are numerous exceptions the capacity of a larger size brain is generally higher than that of a smaller size brain if you compare across species.

I hope you believe that Americans and Europeans are the same species

Of course I do. I also believe that Americans and English have pretty much identical brain size on average, which is why I answered Naples question with a No. If the comparison was made on the average brain size the value to compare with would be the same for both nations and that would be unfair to the UK who has only one fifth of the population yet has managed to put out a lot more than one fifth as much good music.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Anonymous — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 20:21:50 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/03/2012 01:21

Bork wrote:

purple wrote:

RFNAPLES wrote:

Would it be fair to compare the average brain sizes?

intelligence correlates with the depth of sutures and surface area, not size or volume...

I hope you believe that Americans and Europeans are the same species

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Robert Anton Wilson — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:59:15 GMT

Author: Robert Anton Wilson

Posted: 03/02/2012 20:59

To me the UK wins hands down no contest.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Bork — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:53:18 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:53

purple wrote:

RFNAPLES wrote:

Would it be fair to compare the average brain sizes?

intelligence correlates with the depth of sutures and surface area, not size or volume...

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Anonymous — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:48:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:48

RFNAPLES wrote:

Would it be fair to compare the average brain sizes?

intelligence correlates with the depth of sutures and surface area, not size or volume...

also, US jazz and blues blows most other music cultures out of the water; UK rock history is piss compared to either of them.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Anonymous — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:35:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:35

Bork wrote:

It was a "No". Hope that clears it up.

What was Naples getting at to begin with though? What has it to do with the subject?

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Bork — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:29:24 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:29

It was a "No". Hope that clears it up.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Anonymous — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:25:18 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:25

Bork wrote:

RFNAPLES wrote:

Would it be fair to compare the average brain sizes?

No.

Is Naples for or against? 😕 I was compltely lost with the line but looks like Bork understood it. But I can't tell if it was a "no" no or a "don't go there" no. I'm so confused here.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Charicature — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:25:14 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:25

HigherThanTheSun wrote:

I suppose you have to ask yourself, if you can only listen to UK or USA music from now until forever which would you pick? Well I guess I'd miss UK music more so I'll go for UK.

I wouldn't play the game...

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Bork — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:22:53 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:22

RFNAPLES wrote:

Would it be fair to compare the average brain sizes?

No.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

RFNAPLES — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:14:52 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:14

Would it be fair to compare the average brain sizes?

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Bork — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:12:14 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 03/02/2012 14:12

Of my top 50 artists the US wins 34-15. The sheer volume of US music is the main reason for their advantage. The UK output is impressive considering it's comparative size though, although I don't think it's quite fair to compare it to the size of Oregon. People rather than land makes music so the UK really is one fifth the size of the US.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

RFNAPLES — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 08:59:59 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 03/02/2012 13:59

USA

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

HigherThanTheSun — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 08:15:35 GMT

Author: HigherThanTheSun

Posted: 03/02/2012 13:15

Without considering hip hop it's an easy choice for me UK all the way.

But throw hip hop into the mix and it's about 50 50.

I suppose you have to ask yourself, if you can only listen to UK or USA music from now until forever which would you pick? Well I guess I'd miss UK music more so I'll go for UK.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

Charicature — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:57:23 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 03/02/2012 10:57

It really depends upon your tastes.

My top 100 is almost evenly split between the two (with a smattering of others). I have a preference for UK artists but there's certain American sounds I like and the British don't do them.

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

cartoken — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 02:23:27 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 03/02/2012 07:23

my top 50 artists:

1. USA: 30
2. UK: 14

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

TrekkiELO — Fri, 2 Mar 2012 01:22:45 GMT

Author: TrekkiELO

Posted: 03/02/2012 06:22

UK

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

telefunker — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:53:50 GMT

Author: telefunker

Posted: 05/30/2009 15:53

i guess i'm about 50/50 in terms of personal preference, with a slight leaning towards the US perhaps..

there's no denying though that the UK has produced far more per capita, which i'm acutely aware of having grown up down the road from jimmy page and then moving to down the road from brian eno.. without realising who either of them were at the time, mind

there is something about the british public though, they do seem to take a little easier to more subversive, experimental types.. i'm just reminded of the luke warm reception pet sounds received in the states compared to the uk..

but yeah.. it does seem the rest of the world lags behind us as a collective by about 5/6 years

Re: USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

albummaster — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:16:22 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 05/30/2009 09:16

Where USA have an advantage is the depth across all music genres (jazz, country, folk, soul, hip-hop, rock & roll etc) as well as pop/rock etc. Obviously UK has produced some great artists as well, but IMO not as many if you consider not just rock/pop (& derivatives).

Top 20 artists on this site:

1 The Beatles (UK)
2 Radiohead (UK)
3 Pink Floyd (UK)
4 Led Zeppelin (UK)
5 Bob Dylan (USA)
6 Nirvana (USA)
7 The Clash (UK)
8 The Rolling Stones (UK)
9 The Velvet Underground (USA)
10 U2 (Irish)
11 David Bowie (UK)
12 The Who (UK)
13 Oasis (UK)
14 The Jimi Hendrix Experience (USA)
15 The Beach Boys (USA)
16 The Smiths (UK)
17 Bruce Springsteen (USA)
18 Pearl Jam (USA)
19 Pixies (USA)
20 The Doors (USA)

The above doesn't answer the original question directly as there's more to consider apart from the raw data on this site about what is the best artist (and the above is biased to the more popular music genres), but UK are doing well considering England is about the size of Oregon! (the above results are 50% UK, 45% USA and 5% Irish)

USA Or UK - Which has produced the best artists?

NowhereMan — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:40:36 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 05/29/2009 19:40

Having a brief think about this

What are your thoughts?