What Country Has The Best Music?

[DVS Storm]

We have a lot of good metal and rock bands here in Finland and in Scandinavia. There are also a lot of good bands/artists from middle-Europe. Then there is of course USA. But I'd say UK. They have a lot of good rock bands, modern and old. And David Bowie(enough said).

Germany, because they've got Rammstein. 'nough said for my case.

That is a valid point. One of the best bands in the world imo.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

Australia.

AC/DC beats the entire music industry, single handedly.

You beat me to it. Australia wins, since it spawned these gods of rock.

Second place has to be a tie between the UK and my own country, the US.

Spoiler: And now, ladies and gentlemen, some more AC/DC. Why? For teh lulz, thats why.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

America. We have Metallica.

Agreed.

Finland and Sweden for me. You seriously can't beat Scandinavian MeloDeath.
Russia's pretty good for it too, but not as good as Scandinavia.

Agreed.

I don't have any real preference for what country. I'm American, but I hate that pop music (Friday, anyone?) Whatever country it's from, my vote is for metal. NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) or nu-metal or Scandinavian Melodeath... anything metal, any country.

As a final note:

Spoiler

 

[KefkaCultist]

I like looking up bands from different countries so my music library is pretty culturally diverse. Japanese, Polish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, etc. You name a country and I probably have a band from it.

As for my favorite: I'm torn between Norwegian and Japanese. Norway is like the birth of black metal and a lot of amazing bands come from there, but the Japanese's music is just so crazy energetic and catchy. My vote goes Japanese because bands like The Pillows, Maximum the Hormone, and Dir En Grey are played a lot more than my Norwegian stuff.

Taiwan? Cambodia? North Korea?

I have the band Cthonic who are Taiwanese and Crash from Korea (not sure if its north or south though). I cannot say I have Cambodian though.

EDIT: Wiki search shows that Crash is from South Korea so I don't have North Korean either I guess.

 

[darkman80723]

When I look at my top five favorite artists; Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, NIN, and The Clash.....gotta say that the UK takes the prize.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Germany: Rammstein.

 

[figday]

currently I'd have to go with :

Europe (mostly UK) and Japan : their music are timeless, innovative, listening ones from the 90's still sounds awesome!

and worst..America : mostly all pop which sells on sing-a-longs, good looks, and same music. and the 'hip-hop' and RnB are now just spouting on how gangsta or how rich they are, with fail grammars.

no trolling, just my two cents.

if i get to pick the best PERIOD of music, the 90's. where most artists are still 'musicians' instead of 'rock/popstars' like today.

You dont know shit about music, you sounds compleatly uncultured.

Every decade and country has its fair share of shit and awesome bands.


Personally i prefer USA for metal music and UK for its prog rock, but i love stuff from sweden too, but outside of Europe and the USA i dont listen to much.

woohoo, chill dude. seems i struck a nerve there.

i think i pissed u off at the America part, i said 'mostly', as in mainstream ones. not all of em are bad. i listen to Black Keys, Mars Volta (huge fan), ATDI, Marylin Manson, Immortal Technique (he's latino tho), Eminem, and tons more! what saddens me is that most of these quality bands/artists arent getting as much recognition as the mainstream ones.

and cmon 'You dont know shit about music, you sounds compleatly uncultured'; but then you said 'but outside of Europe and the USA i dont listen to much', thats pretty shallow.

i've been living with music for 20+ years, and been listening music from every inch of the globe. so there you go. and chill out dude ^^

 

[Eternal_24]

I don't think any one country has the best music in the world. I'd argue that Scandinavian countries have the best metal and European countries have the best electronic music but honestly you can find great music in any country.

 

[Mj0ln1r]

ENGLAND

 

[silasbufu]

Australia.

AC/DC beats the entire music industry, single handily.

+1

Also, seen them at one of their concerts and my mind was blown, no other performance amazed me so much and I don't think it will ever happen (except if it's another AC/DC conert).

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

When I look at my top five favorite artists; Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, NIN, and The Clash.....gotta say that the UK takes the prize.

Jimi Hendrix was an American.

OT: Austria. They gave us Mozart.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I might add BellX1, The Frames as well Miracle of Sound to that

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Fun fact... I did a gig in Cork with Bell X1 in my old band. Nice lads!

Also met Hansard and Frames a few times, but so did everyone in the country.

 

[Vykrel]

honestly, its probably a tossup between america and britain.

 

[EvilMaggot]

The UK. We have Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Alestorm, Motorhead, Slash, and many many more.

this

 

[trooper6]

OT: Austria. They gave us Mozart.

Mozart was born in Salzburg, but his family was German...his dad from good old Augsburg, Germany.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

OT: Austria. They gave us Mozart.

Mozart was born in Salzburg, but his family was German...his dad from good old Augsburg, Germany.

Well, it was the Holy Roman Empire at the time, so the technicalities are boggling. I just take it from where he was born.

 

[countrysteaksauce]

This entire thread is pretty much, "My favorite band is from ____, therefore _____ has the best music."
Taking everything in, it would probably be the USA followed by Britain, just for the sheer amount of popular music that comes out of it.

 

[trooper6]

OT: Austria. They gave us Mozart.

Mozart was born in Salzburg, but his family was German...his dad from good old Augsburg, Germany.

Well, it was the Holy Roman Empire at the time, so the technicalities are boggling. I just take it from where he was born.

See that's tricky though since many of the european countries don't grant citizenship based on where you were born. For example, a good friend of mine was Austrian (or so she said)...and she'd go on and on about how she was Austrian and Austrians were better than Germans. I asked her where she was born? Germany. Her parents? Also born in Germany. It was her grandparents who were born in Austrian. But since being born in Germany doesn't give you citizenship, she had an Austrian passport.

This was and is very often the case all over Europe. The Roma who are born in Austria don't have Austrian citizenship. Anyway, a lot of continental Europe goes by bloodline rather than birth location for citizenship.

That said, I don't actually know what sort of paperwork Mozart had. I should ask one of my colleagues who specializes in Mozart.

ETA: Oh, here's some interesting info about the Mozart situation--
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/11/opinion/l-letter-on-mozart-a-german-not-austrian-composer-878092.html

 

[Valkyrie101]

Iron Maiden. Black Sabbath. Judas Priest. Saxon.

I think we win.