Ah the reason for that is we have embraced our Bastard, Mongrel, and Piratical natures. How else do you get a Keef? Or for that matter a Led Zeppelin or a Who. And the Irish lads are all rebellious, and they produce damn fine bands. And for that matter, wasn't Miles an American? And Bird? And if we're confining ourselves to Pop music, what about Brian Wilson. Jimi, anyone?
Folk like the Cure and Radiohead are a different side of it: I doubt that they rage in quite the same ways.
We had a cultural explosion because of size, the English speaking world, and the swagger accruing from having beggared ourselves winning what seems to have been a just war. Piratical and dandyish fits well with pop music. Also until the 80's, we educated our able children better than just about any nation, but in the 80's we decided we didn't like paying the taxes for that, so....
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Date: 2008-03-26 04:37 pm (UTC)Folk like the Cure and Radiohead are a different side of it: I doubt that they rage in quite the same ways.
We had a cultural explosion because of size, the English speaking world, and the swagger accruing from having beggared ourselves winning what seems to have been a just war. Piratical and dandyish fits well with pop music.
Also until the 80's, we educated our able children better than just about any nation, but in the 80's we decided we didn't like paying the taxes for that, so....