Subject: Best Rock n Roll Song by Nationality
Date: Sat Aug 1 21:27:46 2015
User: Kaos
Message:Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" popped up on the radio the other day and I thought that it might be my favorite rock-n-roll song from Australia. But, there's been lots of great bands from Oz. That can't be what most people think. I'm not even sure it's my favorite Australian RNR song because I'm sure there's a bunch of bands from Oz most people in the states tink are from the U.K..
But, that got me pondering what about other countries? What is the top rock and roll song from each nation?
My list likely has:
USA: Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen
Scotland, Sultans of Swing, Dire Straights
Germany, Ode to Joy, Beethoven
England, Go to the Mirror, The Who
Ireland, Pride, U2
Australia, Beds are Burning, Midnight Oil
Mexico, La Bamba, Ritchie Valens
Canada, My My, Hey Hey, Neil Young
Date: Sun Aug 2 15:09:18 2015
User: FilthyMcNasty
Message:Valens was born in LA.
Date: Sun Aug 2 15:51:04 2015
User: BuzzClik
Message:Post 2000 Indie Rock
Sweden - Lykke Li, "Get Some"
Wales - Stereophonics, "Bank Holiday Monday"
Sri Lanka -- MIA, "Matangi"
USA -- Vampire Weekend, "Giving Up the Gun"
Scotland -- tie: Fratellis, "Chelsea Dagger" and Belle and Sebastian, "The Cat with Cream"
France -- Phoenix, "1901"
England -- Radiohead, pick one of a dozen fantastic songs. "How to Disappear Completely"
Australia -- Tame Impala, "Why Won't They Talk to Me"
Ireland -- My Bloody Valentine, "Who Sees You"
Canada -- New Pornographers, "Brill Bruisers" (I'm leaving out Arcade Fire due to their meteoric rise)
etc, etc, etc
Date: Mon Aug 3 09:21:18 2015
User: roo
Message:New Zealand - La Da Das, Gonna See My Baby Tonight
England - Beatles, Twist and Shout
USA - Nilsson, Jump Into The Fire
Australia - Billy Thorpe, Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy
Sweden - Abba, Mamma Mia
Germany - Kraftwerk, Autobahn
Date: Mon Aug 3 09:22:33 2015
User: roo
Message:That should read "La De Das"
Date: Mon Aug 3 23:58:06 2015
User: Kaos
Message:Depending on your taste, Oz seems to be out-performing some other nations based on population. It's hard to find many bands from Canada and easy from Australia and I think that Canada has half again as many people. Maybe they are just too nice in Canada for R&R? Arcade Fire seems to be the only really big Canadian band.
On the flip side, I went along for 20 years or so thinking that the best selling hard rock album ever was from an American band only to final find out that AC/DC is from down under.
Date: Fri Aug 7 04:28:02 2015
User: dcn21
Message:As a Canadian I'd like to mention the Guess Who, Neil Young, April Wine, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Rush, Triumph, Steppenwolf, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bryan Adams, Chilliwack, The Five man Electrical Band, A Foot in Cold Water, Prism, Crowbar, Harlequin, Streetheart, Max Webster, Loverboy, Trooper, Rough Trade, Teenage Head, Tom Cochrane with and without Red Rider, Corey Hart, Alannah Myles, Platinum Blonde, Helix, The Box, Michel Pagliaro, Roch Voisine, Blue Rodeo, Colin James, Jeff Healy (although the last 2 would fall under the Blues category, really, I suppose), Annihilator, The Tea Party, Matthew Good Band, Our Lady Peace, Moist, Alannis Morissette, I Mother Earth, Avril Lavigne, Sam Roberts (from my home town), Nickleback, The Tragically Hip and of course, William Shatner.
Date: Fri Aug 7 09:19:42 2015
User: TNmountainman
Message:Although not Canadian, I was surprised to read Kaos's assertion that "it's hard to find many bands from Canada", and almost posted at that time about Guess Who, Rush, BTO, etc., etc.
But I would certainly agree that Oz "out-proportions" most countries with their output. And while "Beds are Burning" is a great song, I personally would have gone with Men at Work's "Down Under" or any number of AC/DC choices.
Those items mentioned, I'm not gonna take time to answer Kaos's full challenge, due to time constraints, I guess. But surely, any number of Who songs other than "Go To the Mirror" would rate higher, such as about 4 or 5 from "Who's Next", and "My Generation". But just my opinion, of course.
Date: Sat Nov 18 12:24:13 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Wasn't sure where to put this. I almost put it in the "Old Music" thread, where we have posted several other passings, but it seems more appropriate here, as AC/DC was prominent towards the (previous) end of this thread.
Although brother Angus (rightfully) gets more of the credit for his gunslinging, Malcolm was no slouch, and the band wouldn't have made it without both of them (imo).
Link: Malcolm Young passes on....
Date: Sat Nov 18 13:32:47 2017
User: MikeC
Message:The Warning from Mexico is pretty good .
Date: Sat Nov 18 17:56:48 2017
User: Klepp
Message:roo: I happened to be enjoying "Autobahn" as I scrolled through here...(I'm amazed I wasn't introduced to Kraftwerk as a kid, low-lighting the inartistic Philistines Klepp was forced to grow up around)...
Date: Sun Nov 19 09:50:09 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:Best British (London) band pretending to be a Japanese electro-pop band/j-pop: Kero Kero Bonito
This group popped up in another music thread as being one of the most annoying groups ever. Shockingly, at all the gigantic festivals (e.g., Coachella), they pack their venues with adoring fans.
Link: Kero Kero Bonito, "Break"
Date: Sun Nov 19 10:08:18 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:And speaking of Canadian bands...
The two best Canadian indie bands whose concerts I've attended in the past month:
Alvvays (Ottawa)
Japandroids (Vancouver)
Date: Sun Feb 11 02:25:24 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, in my once-a-year-or-so quest to see what's 'new', I checked out Kero Kero Bonito. I watched 6 or 7 of their videos, and preferred the one you linked ("Break"), and maybe "Trampoline" after that. I feel quite sure there's less than a 1% chance I'd have encountered them without you posting the link above. Certainly not my cup of tea, but moderately listenable. Could never listen to a whole album of their music, but their videos are somewhat inventive and interesting. I won't say they're a one-trick idea, but they kinda are. Yet they make the most of that one trick. What is it with all the synthesizer these days? Didn't we go thru that phase in the disco era?
Date: Sun Feb 11 03:56:58 2018
User: outskirts
Message:As a half-Canadian myself, I'd never forget one of the Not-Ready-For-Primetime-Players who went on to musical fame and stardom as half of the (leads in the) ultimate rhythm and blues revue and showband, THE BLUES BROTHERS. Can I get an amen.
Date: Sun Feb 11 05:04:22 2018
User: bingbong
Message:AC/DC
I used to watch them play at the local in Melbourne
And I am amazed that so many people thought they were from US
Also INXS I loved Michael and they are the best Aussie band
Date: Sun Feb 18 12:32:02 2018
User: SMIDDY
Message:.golf clap dcn21 and outskirts
Date: Wed Aug 29 12:36:16 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Denny's MOTF about Jim Breuer channeling Bon Scott led me to this effort from 2009 at River Plate in Buenos Aires. It's closing drags on quite too long, but there's lots of serious shredding and noodling. Don't give up on it too soon - try to watch it all the way through. Or.....skip over some of the early vocals, and the dragging stuff in the middle-ish parts, but there's some great stuff scattered all throughout. I'm pretty sure this is what Angus Young was born to do.
Oh, what Orville Gibson hath wrought......
Link: Indeed..............................let there be rock
Date: Wed Aug 29 16:01:49 2018
User: Bobby_Jindal
Message:FilthyMcNasty:
<<<Valens was born in LA.>>>
I used to be the governor of LA.
Date: Thu Sep 6 12:41:30 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ick. No personal offense, but re-read the title of the thread, please. No way on earth can that surpass any of the top, oh, 200 of Neil Young's songs, just for one example. Not likely it can surpass any, or many, of the *bottom* 200.
And that's just using Neil for a simple proxy for all the great Canadian songwriters.
Date: Thu Sep 6 13:00:06 2018
User: Colt_McCoy
Message:I always liked Gordon Lightfoot.
Date: Thu Sep 6 19:47:33 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:So, TN. Can we assume you don't like the band or the song?
Just seeking clarification....
Date: Thu Sep 6 20:10:34 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Both would be true. And I tried. I didn't reject it out of hand.
Date: Thu Sep 6 20:21:41 2018
User: The_Inquisitor
Message:So, you had it in your hand?
Date: Thu Sep 6 21:35:18 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Metaphorically. In truth, only the mouse was in my hand. Sorry - I should have written it "out-of-hand"; I'm sure that's the confusion.
Date: Fri Sep 14 18:18:16 2018
User: Buttock-Wrench
Message:Dire Straits were English, not Scots.
On the loose definition of "Rock n Roll" being applied here, The Undertones' "Teenage kicks" is the best Irish contender.
Date: Fri Sep 14 23:31:38 2018
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:For Irish, I gotta go with Van the Man. "Beside You" as any song but it's not very rock, so maybe St. Dominic's Preview or Mystic Eyes for garagey rock.
Date: Wed Sep 26 05:59:08 2018
User: bingbong
Message:Van the man is the best ever, any of his songs. Had the privilege of seeing him live not too long ago.... was not disappointed
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