Could someone please tell me...

Why is it that Brits always know about cooler shit first? Especially if it's American???

Blues? Re-sold to America.

Jazz? Again...

Rock & Roll? *stands gaping* AGAIN???

Techno?????? Oh for fucking crying out loud!!!

You're not doing it this next time, you Limeys!!! I've put you on report!

Ha! We have American Idol!




Oh... wait....









*does a jig while watching uncensored hip hop videos*







We suck.

There is a clever and witty answer to this. I just don't know what it is.

Pfft. Australia is always way ahead of both Britain and the US. You guys'll be wearing stubbie shorts, thongs and blue singlets in a few seasons. Watch it happen.

British JAZZ?!?!? What the fuck are you talking about?

Can you really name a single British Jazz artist as good or as famous as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy, Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Sun Ra, Pharoah, Ornette Coleman, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sonny Rollins...I could go on.

British JAZZ?

I think even Germany's better at Jazz than the UK.

Also: Blues-Rock is NOT the same as the Blues.


But really: British JAZZ??!!?

hay im from the UK and im always complaining that we get things last, this country is backwards about going forwards at the best of time

I really must concur with PB... British Jazz?!

I've never heard of any of the musicians in the British jazz Wikipedia entry.

Also, we beat them on folk, country, polka, Afro-Cuban jazz, hip-hop and minimalism.

And we were neck and neck with them in punk until it started to suck.

Yeah well, a lot of those names lingered in obscurity among white American audiences until given a touch of foreign chic, via Brit appreciators.

And then there's acid jazz.

Always happens the same way... some one name drops it and then people swarm.

Well,,,,Soft Machine were pretty good....