Broad Shoulders

....and? But not well recognised. You ask a hundred people on the street and the majority will not know who they are. I recognise most of that list, but my wife wouldn't.

willamos

That is so willfully bogan, ocker and unsophisticated it is genuinely frightening to read.

willamos

Anyway - this is not relevant. I wasn't even really focussing on Canadian music. I only listed those artists because someone (you?) implied there were no more Canadian artists than Australian ones.

And anyway, you're forgetting I also mentioned Buble, Morrissette, Mitchell etc.

BadgeIsBack

But MrMover forgets..
many a proud Bogan I have met lists music as one of his loves. Many a guitar - several! are laid to rest in display in a corner near an amp. It's up there with the pretend bar that is so universal.

kporte

Not really mate, she is spot on. There was another poster, Camponotus, that waged a similar campaign a while back. Your posts are identical.

willamos

So because my view is that Aussie music is inferior to UK music my view is in itself dismissed?

Right, fair enough.

Who is this campotus? What's that got to do with anything?

johnnyx0

I've got two words for you.....









Rolf Harris

kporte

I was referring to your constant need, for reasons best known to yourself, to run down Australia in any way possible. You even pop up on threads that have nothing to do with Australia and spout this stuff.
You can do what you like mate but I thought I should point out that it makes you appear deranged.
Australian music is very average indeed by the way.

willamos

Don't always run it down actually.

My view, if you care (and I assume you don't) is that Australia and the UK are, taken overall, fairly equal.

The ''UK is total s***, Australia is the way forward'' bias on websites like this is totally irritating and needs redressing. That's all.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

10cc
52nd Street
808 State
A II Z
A Certain Ratio
Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
Alfie
Alpinestars
Amplifier
Audioweb
Autechre
Badly Drawn Boy
Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds
Barclay James Harvest
Beecher
Bette Davis and the Balconettes
The Bee Gees
Beau Leisure
Big Flame
Billy Ruffian
Black Grape
Blak Twang
Blue Orchids
Tim Booth
Brassy
Elkie Brooks
Ian Brown
Victor Brox
Mark Burgess
Tim Burgess
Buzzcocks
The Chameleons
The Chemical Brothers
Cherry Ghost
Cleopatra
The Clint Boon Experience
Cohesion
The Courteeners
John Cooper Clarke
Crispy Ambulance
The Distractions
Doves
The Durutti Column
Easterhouse
Elbow
Electronic
The Fall
Fear Of Music
Fingathing
Freddie and the Dreamers
Freeloaders
The Freezing Fog
The Freshies
Stephen Fretwell
Future Sound of London
David Gray
A Guy Called Gerald
Happy Mondays
Herman's Hermits
Tom Hingley
Tom Hingley and the Lovers
The Hollies
I Am Kloot
Inspiral Carpets
It's Immaterial
J-Walk
James
Davy Jones
Joy Division
Kinesis
King of the Slums
Lamb
Last Chance
The Longcut
Long-view
Ludus
Luxuria
M People
Magazine
MC Tunes
Man From Delmonte
Marconi Union
Johnny Marr
John Mayall
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
The Mindbenders
Mint Royale
Mock Turtles
Monaco
Morrissey
The Mothmen
Mr. Scruff
N-Trance
National Forest
New Order
Nine Black Alps
Northern Uproar
Jim Noir
Northside
Oasis
Oceansize
Omerta
The Other Two
Our Innocence Lost
Mark Owen
Paris Angels
The Passage
Puressence
Quando Quango
Rae & Christian
The Railway Children
Lou Rhodes
Sad Café
The Seahorses
The Shirehorses
Frank Sidebottom
Simply Red
Slaughter & The Dogs
The Smirks
The Smiths
So Shush
Sonic Boom Six
Space Monkeys
John Squire
Starsailor
Sub Sub
The Stone Roses
Sweet Sensation
Swing Out Sister
Take That
Theatre of Hate
The Ting Tings
Twisted Wheel
Van der Graaf Generator
The Verve
The Waltones
When in Rome
The Whip
World of Twist

I have heard of most of these bands and some of them are internationally know... and they all come from one English city.

willamos

And don't try and tell me that these forums aren't biased towards an over-praising of Australia and an undervaluing of the UK because they bloody well are.

willamos

And who is campotus? Can't find someone of that name.

kporte

I agree with you which makes me wonder why we spend so much time arguing
I don't really agree that there is a massive Australia bias though, there are a great many posters who, love it or hate it here, are very realistic about the downsides. Then you have a section that has the polar opposite, Aus is total s+++ and the UK is the way forward. I didn't notice you making any pro Aussy posts in MBTTUK for balance

willamos

If people made absurd criticisms of Australia, I would argue against them. But generally people don't do that.

Far, far more often, people make absurd criticisms of the UK and totally over-the-top proclamations about the virtues of Australia.

Just the way it is.

BadgeIsBack

How many times does it need to be said.

It takes all sorts mate. There are plenty of posts which rubbish Australia. There is normally at least one-four campaigners at any one time. In recent times they have been a bit quieter.

The difference is that the people who tend to rubbish Australia do come over as needing medication at times.

The people who rubbish the UK tend to do it in very measured, specific doses - (to keep the medication theme going) and as I've said before can normally be disregarded as they tend to bang on about crime or religion.