I can't find a single reason why we wouldn't connect to english music.
1. you speak english
2. most people into english music have either lived or visited england
3. most of us are partly english in heritage
4. its not hard to listen to a hybrid of music based on early american sounds
5. Being a teenager is a universal experience.. Everyone goes through it.
Sit back and think about.. How different is your average urban white
kid in America to your urban white kid in England. To be honest not
much.,, Except accents and quality of food eaten.. ;)
john
> > Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:21:41 -0000
> > From: Andrew Broughton-Braithwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: RE: crude sideswipe at an easy target
>>
>> I'm just amazed that any foreigners can connect with The Jam, or the kinks
>> or Blur or Bowie et al for that matter (witness the fact that Bowie 'broke'
>> the US with the shite Let's Dance with his good stuff almost totally
>> ignored). This is almost totally essentially English musically and
>> lyrically.
>> Surprised more people haven't voiced Nick's opinion.
>>
>> Me, I think The Jam are superb. Little Boy Soldiers and That's Entertainment
>> would definitely accompany me to a desert island.
>> And I'm sure this is an area where Paul Sec and I have disagreed...
>>
>> Andy BB
>>
>>
>
>I completely connected with The Jam (back then). Soundtrack of my
>teen years as
>someone else said. I rarely listen to them anymore, but when I do I
>still feel
>some of what initially excited me about them years ago. On a different note,
>Bowie 'broke' in the US around "Space Oddity".
>
>Dan
>
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