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View Poll Results: Which English-speaking country produce the best music?
The United Kingdom 99 40.57%
Ireland 4 1.64%
The United States 106 43.44%
Canada 14 5.74%
Australia 8 3.28%
New Zealand 4 1.64%
Jamaica 2 0.82%
Other (which?) 7 2.87%
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Old 02-05-2012, 11:53 AM   #401 (permalink)
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I don't really like these questions to be honest. It instigates nationalism in people. Or at least an artificial sense of pride in where you are from. It kind of contradicts everything music is for me, something universally human and empathetically beautiful and because of that, I think categorising who is better at making music is a little childish ( not targeting the thread maker or anyone in this thread at all). I just think music means more than this.
This is music and not some race debate I'm English and proud of it, but I voted the USA as more of my favourite bands are from there, so that kind of defeats your hypothesis!
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Old 02-05-2012, 11:57 AM   #402 (permalink)
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This is music and not some race debate I'm English and proud of it, but I voted the USA as more of my favourite bands are from there, so that kind of defeats your hypothesis!
Good to hear it then! haha.
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Old 02-07-2012, 01:43 AM   #403 (permalink)
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I don't really like these questions to be honest. It instigates nationalism in people. Or at least an artificial sense of pride in where you are from. It kind of contradicts everything music is for me, something universally human and empathetically beautiful and because of that, I think categorising who is better at making music is a little childish ( not targeting the thread maker or anyone in this thread at all). I just think music means more than this.
This is what I say all the time on music forums. Obviously this poll doesn't have to looked at that way but some will. It's the same with other artforms, some people in some places look at it as patriotic to highly rate art from where they are from. For example quite a few Eastern European films are probably highly overrated on imdb because of this.

I'm English but not that proud of it in some ways (awful politics, awful tabloids), but proud in some I suppose.
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Old 02-07-2012, 01:47 AM   #404 (permalink)
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well, I'm Malaysian and i have to say the Malaysian music scene sucks

too many Pearl Jam and Green Day ripoffs and too much copycatting J or K Pop

as for the country itself - could be better/could be worse
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Canadian music scene is allright I guess (I'm Canadian), but America gets my vote
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Why India is not listed??
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I'm stuck between the US and Europe as a whole. Hundreds of years of music really can't be disregarded lightly!
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I'm stuck between the US and Europe as a whole. Hundreds of years of music really can't be disregarded lightly!
Europe is not exactly Anglosphere, only two countries are (UK and Ireland)
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Why India is not listed??
I was under the impression most Indian music isn't in English. Most that I've heard certainly isn't.

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I'm stuck between the US and Europe as a whole. Hundreds of years of music really can't be disregarded lightly!
Europe as a whole isn't part of the Anglosphere, especially if you're talking about music from hundreds of years ago.
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Old 02-15-2012, 09:51 AM   #410 (permalink)
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Oh yeah, good point... I'm still stuck though, UK and Ireland have had a lot of really great musicians!
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