We were left alone by our government and each other to do our own thing, except when they wanted to do die in their wars. As soon as the government disrupted the Anglo Saxon system around 2000 everything has turned to shit, especially since the 2008 financial crisis.
I'm seventy eight now and I'm so lucky to have lived through the Swinging Sixties in London. We ruled the world with the best music and fashions. The sixties and seventies had the best music.
Back then, we were also interested in the background of groups' music and would look up the sources. So we knew a lot about the history of the music that preceded. For the last few decades it seems that fans are not interested in that.
I spent my junior school years in London (58-63) and endorse your comment. My pals and I attended a choir school at Dean's Yard and in our free time formed a pop group trying to emulate the likes of Lonny Donegan, skiffle groups, The Shadows, and Tommy Steele, between rehearsing Bach, Tallis, Steiner, and Allegri. What a great time to hace been a music loving kid.
@@splodge561 I don’t think this is great as past decades there seems to be less variety and lyrics for a start. I find I’m going back to previous decades more and more. I’m 70 now. It’s been a joy re-visiting. I’m shocked at how I took it so much for granted because there was so much good music around, and also the speed at which new singles came out. They tended to be quite prolific back then just look at the Beatles.
Yeah, lost count of how many reaction videos I seen made by Americans - switched on, open minded clued up Americans - who go & waste all the good Karma they have built up with me by saying "He/She/They are British!?" as if they cannot possibly conceive of a Universe where America is not the sole originator of anything of value.
In the early sixties, some apprentice mates, used their staff travel ticket to go to Hollywood, and were chatting to some locals who asked " where you from?" and they said the UK and the locals said, some people came from the UK, to try to get into films, but don't think they made it. When informed by my mates about the stars who had made it, they could not believe it, thinking all the time that they were American.
'Stuck In The Middle With You', sung by Gerry Rafferty was the song playing when Michael Madsen's character sliced the cop's ear off in 'Reservoir Dogs'. Rafferty also sang 'Baker Street' - which most people should recognise by the brilliant sax opening.
Also, Billy said that the sax player wanted to clain credit for the sax tune but Billy (Gerry's best friend) said that he heard Gerry playing it years before on electric guitar. Gerry was a perfectionist. Lots of great talent comes from Scotland. Good call. Madsen's sister was the lady in Electric Dreams - Love of my life! Rabbit holes everywhere 🙂
It's interesting why these songs were picked. This video could play continuously for months and even though only playing a few seconds of each song, would never run out of songs to play. Don't forget that we're excluding acts that are known to be British, by the American public and also those British acts who were huge international stars but who were largely unknown in the US. I've come across Americans who even thought that The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Queen were American! Americans seem to believe that they reign supreme, when it comes to popular music and don't realise that, since the early 60s, there have been TWO superpowers in the World of popular music! :)
As an add on to what you have here, the UB40 was a an identity card that you had to take to the unemployment office (dole office) if you had to sign on to claim unemployment benefit prior to the use of computer technology by the Department of Work and Pensions here in the UK.
Def Leppards drummer was involved in a car accident in 1984 which resulted in him losing his left arm and uses a specially adapted drum kit to play anything part of his drum kit that he needs his left arm for,
@wessexdruid7598 I don't know of any bands where it matters whether the idiot at the back has an odd or even number of limbs. As for DL being good, meh!
Trinidad was a British colony for 69 years ending in 1958 when Billy would have been 7-8 years old. Consequently like India it would have absorbed a significant amount of British culture, and most Trinidadians spoke a local dialect of English.
So...way back in the day I used to DJ techo and house nights with my mate. One night, in a club I can't remember the name of, he was playing tunes and I was farting around with the lights and the owner came up and asked us to play a tune next, handing us a 12" record. He started it and Mark Morrison jumped onto the wee stage, pretend to sing, dance about for 3 mins to stunned punters full of Ecstacy and immediately, on ending, dance right out the door with his posse...😬 Bizarre. One love from Scotland. 💙
Too true. I was born in 1958, same year as Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Neil Finn, Gary Numan, Thomas Dolby, Simon le Bon & co.
Plenty of 80s music is shit. But I will admit that watching some TOTP from around 98 onwards is excruciating to watch, I can pass off any music I consumed at that time as just being young then. Just think of someone like Bowie. He was pretty much dead during this time until 2012 and Heroes became the anthem of the Olympics and then he was loved again. Led Zeppelin were all but forgotten after their disastrous Live Aid performance and it needed their 2007(?) return concert to have any relevance again. I despair for you lot that can't enjoy Travis Scott as much as Pink Floyd.
They are from Manchester. Their dad was a musician working for the ferry firm that ran between England and the Isle of man. When his contract finished, they all moved back to Manchester. Later on, they moved to Australia . If you listen to them speak, they have Manchester accents.
1960s and 70s music is pure nostalgia for me, great music that really held its moment in time but also has real staying power. As I get older it's particular bands or random songs that grab my attention and connect on an emotional level. After a certain age life inevitably takes precedence over chart watching.
You would be surprised at how many artists who sing in English, especially back in the day were not even from an English speaking country. ABBA is a prime example of that.
Strawberry Fields Forever is often considered the first music video (well, film) - though the Beatles had done specific videos for some songs before that.
Jamaica was part of the British Empire up until 1962. So being from Jamaice, and being an artist in the 70s and 80s meant you were probably born in the British Empire. Also Katrina in Katrina and the Waves is American, but the band is British.
Billy Ocean charted in the UK multiple times in the 1970s compared to one minor hit in America during that decade, with Love Really Hurts Without You reaching #22 there compared to #2 in the UK. I would imagine people might have thought he was American after he had a revival during the 1980s once When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going was used as the theme song for the Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas film The Jewel of the Nile that was a sequel to Romancing the Stone, with all three of them appearing in the video as backing singers.
It's the same with actors. Most Americans often assume some British actors such as Henry Cavill, Christian Bale, Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Tom Hardy, even Ewan McGregor and many many more are American.
You like older music because that’s when it was proper music. Where you had to actually have talent unlike today with auto tune and same old generic crap
I'm 61 years (Today, yes, thank you) but there were several in that montage that even I was surprised by, Billy Ocean being the most surprising for me!
You beat me to it. In the US, EDM didn't really get huge till the era that McJibbin mentioned when he was at college and yeah it was not great by then. 1995 to 2005 was indeed a golden era.
You really should take a dive into the Ren rabbit hole ,his use of beats mixed with the use of words will show you a 21st century Bard,no track is the same but unique mixed with stunning visuals.
Totally agree, I only found Ren in August, now I'm obsessed by this lad from Wales. The guy is so versatile, but everyone needs to start with Hi Ren. His backstory with his illness is heart-breaking but just reading comments on his tracks, he has helped so many overcome their own mental angst with his music, it is heart warming. Also, if any content creator want to grow their subscription base, they should react to Ren. I've watched countless reactions, mainly from the US. As you say, there is a rabbit hole of choice, I have yet to find a bad song (or story), from his solo work, to his band 'The Big Push', to his collaborations.
Come on UK do you not get tired of producing the best singers, songwriters, musicians and groups time after time, take a break and give others a chance.
Just a little note here Katrina Leskanich lead singer of Katrina and the Waves (Walking on Sunshire 1997) is american and was born in Topeka, Kansas on April 10, 1960.
Actually for a young guy you have great taste in music. I grew up in the 80s, so 80s music is my thing mostly, ever tho I do like other genre's and years of music too. 😎👌🏻
There were lots of songs with videos before Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star" in 1979. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was 1975, and that was hugely influential
many great artists far to many to mention them all. Pink Floyd, Queen, DAvid Bowie, ELO, Rolling Stones, The Who,. If you watch Top Gun Maverick and listen to the soundtrack its amazing.
I like older music because it just feels more real, raw with less ‘noises’ added in. Voices just seem like you’re listening to someone sing and not it coming through some process before you hear it
I think in many cases British artists sing in a hind of mid-Atlantic accent that ca be taken for American. And a lot of these songs were used in big American movies, making them feel American by association.
I get you on Macklemore. As a 9/10/11 year old in the late 90's early 2000's there was a British group called Steps, and I think that was the first time I ever felt true hatred for something. I remember them being an immediate, panicked, angry channel change/radio station change for me. It baffled me how a group of glorified holiday camp performers got so popular. And later it would turn out that a lot of their members had huge egos, which was crazy for a group whose biggest hit was a cover of Abba's Tragedy. As you can tell, I've gotten over that hatred well.
Back when NOT ALL songs were about drugs, sex, foul language and domestics... be hard pushed to find one made nowadays that doesn't contain one of those
No one else in the world calls it EDM dude. Just you guys. Namely because dance music is multiple different genres and dominated everywhere else from the 80s onwards :-)
I think you are about 10 or 12 years younger than me. But we all seem to get to a stage in life when we say "wasn't the music from the 60s to 80s great?"
'Video Killed The Radio Star' was the first video played on MTV. The first proper "video" is hard to say - Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' is a good contender.
I always thought the Bee Gees were from Australia... "Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first video played on MTV, I think, but it was not the first video ever made. "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles was the first real promotional video. Also, the song they show here by Manfred Mann was actually written by Bruce Springsteen (Blinded By The Light).
I’m right with you about hating the music between 2012 - 16. Sometimes I heard a song on the radio and instantly turn it off due to hating that song so much.
Older music is generational, but you grow up hearing what parents and older siblings listened to, then as a teen you like what's current, then get a bit older and you go back to liking what you grew up hearing for the nostalgia-or the good chemicals in your brain.
Generally speaking, most people lose their accent when they sing. Chaz and Dave, Cilla Black (to some extent) and Guy Garvey retain their regional accents, but most become accent-neutral.
As a Brit I was genuinely surprised when I found out The Foundations were a British group especially as Build Me Up Buttercup is one of my guilty pleasure favourites, I'd always assumed they were American like the Four Tops
Yes, quite a few surprises for me but I usually know the nationality of artists I like. Most of these 80 songs I don't like. For years I assumed Rick Astley was black because he sounds African American to me.
@@Frahamen but that was over a decade after the song in this video, the song here was Roxanne, their biggest international hit with a very strong reggae sound (as The Police had generally), so what are you talking about 😂
The drummer was American. Stuart Copeland - born in Virginia. Fleetwood Mac were British/American- as were Foreigner. Fleetwood Mac's drummer Mick Fleetwood was also in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film'Total Recall'...... 'Get your ass to Mars.........'
@@gibson617ajg Not to be pedantic but he's in The Running Man, not Total Recall. I know this because I didn't know of Fleetwood Mac until Mick appeared on Top Gear when I was younger and then the penny dropped about F1 and The Chain and that he appeared in The Running Man which I must have watched on VHS in the late 90s as a kid!
The first artistic music video especially designed to promote a single other than by showing a band playing a song was the Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video. It preceded the founding of MTV and Video Killed The Radio Star by a full 5 years.
There’s some amazing independent artists around the uk atm. Ren and Chinchilla are a couple. I think every era has some great music, sometimes you just have to look a bit harder.
I like music from 40s 50s 60s 70s and some music from 80s to current and most genres there are many songs and singers and bands I cannot stand so I understand what you mean when you can't explain how a song makes you actually feel when it's one you don't like❤
Katrina and the Waves were all American though they were founded in the UK because they were all from families stationed at US airbases here at the time.
You have lovely hair... 🙂 I agree with you about that period of music.... pretty medium... Most people in popular music sing in "American" English.... there are exceptions like The Proclaimers AC/DC... You are right though, music hits the emotions first....The early rock from 1955 onwards hits me personally as I turned 13 in 1955.....
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also small correction...
"Video killed the Radio Star" was the 1st song to be played on MTV...
the first music video seems to be Little lost child released 1894, please correct if wrong
@@harryfarrar1540 The first music video was 'Sugar Sugar' by 'THE ARCHIIES' a cartoon.
@@nigelleyland166all derived from Queen doing Bohemium Rhapsody.
Boomtown Rats had some great videos
Connor - I love music, but everything 09 - 18 on this vid is second rate
Britain definitely punches above its weight with its contribution to music, for such a small country.
The Clash, the Stones and The Beatles made a real difference, the rest have been forgotten.
@Ffinity B.S, anyone who listens to music regularly will inevitably be playing quite a bit of British music. It's unavoidable.
@@matthewjamison I said made a difference. Learn to read.
@@Ffinity You said the rest have been forgotten. Which is b.s or your music library is very slim.
@@Ffinity everyone can read what you said just fine, maybe you want to do a dirty delete because that comment is just embarrassing
There is just something about the UK, we are good at creating, whether it is music, sports or inventions..
Not any longer. We are dying culturally.
@seansmith445 yeah we are at the moment, most European countries are!
@@BritishReactionhow
We were left alone by our government and each other to do our own thing, except when they wanted to do die in their wars. As soon as the government disrupted the Anglo Saxon system around 2000 everything has turned to shit, especially since the 2008 financial crisis.
I'm seventy eight now and I'm so lucky to have lived through the Swinging Sixties in London. We ruled the world with the best music and fashions. The sixties and seventies had the best music.
Back then, we were also interested in the background of groups' music and would look up the sources. So we knew a lot about the history of the music that preceded. For the last few decades it seems that fans are not interested in that.
There's still great music around if you're prepared to look for it and take your blinkers off . I'm 58 btw.
I spent my junior school years in London (58-63) and endorse your comment. My pals and I attended a choir school at Dean's Yard and in our free time formed a pop group trying to emulate the likes of Lonny Donegan, skiffle groups, The Shadows, and Tommy Steele, between rehearsing Bach, Tallis, Steiner, and Allegri. What a great time to hace been a music loving kid.
Didn’t we have the best soundtrack to our lives?
@@splodge561 I don’t think this is great as past decades there seems to be less variety and lyrics for a start. I find I’m going back to previous decades more and more. I’m 70 now. It’s been a joy re-visiting. I’m shocked at how I took it so much for granted because there was so much good music around, and also the speed at which new singles came out. They tended to be quite prolific back then just look at the Beatles.
"When first they heard these songs no one knew they were British," is something only an American would say.
Yeah, lost count of how many reaction videos I seen made by Americans - switched on, open minded clued up Americans - who go & waste all the good Karma they have built up with me by saying "He/She/They are British!?" as if they cannot possibly conceive of a Universe where America is not the sole originator of anything of value.
Arrogant Yanks!
You'll be stunned at how many famous actors aren't American, but come from all around the world
In the early sixties, some apprentice mates, used their staff travel ticket to go to Hollywood, and were chatting to some locals who asked " where you from?" and they said the UK and the locals said, some people came from the UK, to try to get into films, but don't think they made it. When informed by my mates about the stars who had made it, they could not believe it, thinking all the time that they were American.
'Stuck In The Middle With You', sung by Gerry Rafferty was the song playing when Michael Madsen's character sliced the cop's ear off in 'Reservoir Dogs'.
Rafferty also sang 'Baker Street' - which most people should recognise by the brilliant sax opening.
Also, Billy said that the sax player wanted to clain credit for the sax tune but Billy (Gerry's best friend) said that he heard Gerry playing it years before on electric guitar. Gerry was a perfectionist. Lots of great talent comes from Scotland. Good call. Madsen's sister was the lady in Electric Dreams - Love of my life! Rabbit holes everywhere 🙂
@alanhogg9939 'Night Owl' is my favourite song of his - it's just gorgeous....
@@gibson617ajg Me too! And Right Down The Line.
@@gibson617ajg Same here! And Right Down The Line.
no shade...
but the correct title of the original video would be: "everyone knew they were British.. except Americans.." ;)...
Moral of the story, if Americans don’t understand your british accent. Sing at them instead 😂
It's interesting why these songs were picked. This video could play continuously for months and even though only playing a few seconds of each song, would never run out of songs to play. Don't forget that we're excluding acts that are known to be British, by the American public and also those British acts who were huge international stars but who were largely unknown in the US. I've come across Americans who even thought that The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Queen were American! Americans seem to believe that they reign supreme, when it comes to popular music and don't realise that, since the early 60s, there have been TWO superpowers in the World of popular music! :)
UB40 are from Birmingham.
The same place as Ozzy Osbourne.
Used to listen to them rehearsing above the Dewhurst butchers in Moseley😂
As an add on to what you have here, the UB40 was a an identity card that you had to take to the unemployment office (dole office) if you had to sign on to claim unemployment benefit prior to the use of computer technology by the Department of Work and Pensions here in the UK.
@@JohnPilkington-o7h It still is i believe.
One of the Campbell brothers lives half a mile away from me in Jeff Lynne's old house.
The music this Island has produced blows everyone out the water.
Def Leppards drummer was involved in a car accident in 1984 which resulted in him losing his left arm and uses a specially adapted drum kit to play anything part of his drum kit that he needs his left arm for,
Fascinating. If only it was relevant!
@@Ffinity Do you know of any other good bands with one-armed drummers?
@wessexdruid7598 I don't know of any bands where it matters whether the idiot at the back has an odd or even number of limbs. As for DL being good, meh!
@@wessexdruid7598 The good thing is that the band kept him even after a seat belt tore off his arm. Wonder how many other bands would have done that?
@@wessexdruid7598 I know of one… Ded Flatbird… 😂
The older music is MUSIC!
Some absolute classics in there. Enjoyed that Connor.
Katrina, Katrina and the waves, was from Topeka, Kansas, however the band was formed in the UK.
Billy Ocean was from Trinidad.
Trinidad was a British colony for 69 years ending in 1958 when Billy would have been 7-8 years old.
Consequently like India it would have absorbed a significant amount of British culture, and most Trinidadians spoke a local dialect of English.
Moved to UK when he was 10 and lived in UK ever since.
Which was British when he was born in 1950.
Katrina and the waves were also the last act to win Eurovision for the uk.we will probably never win it again
So...way back in the day I used to DJ techo and house nights with my mate. One night, in a club I can't remember the name of, he was playing tunes and I was farting around with the lights and the owner came up and asked us to play a tune next, handing us a 12" record. He started it and Mark Morrison jumped onto the wee stage, pretend to sing, dance about for 3 mins to stunned punters full of Ecstacy and immediately, on ending, dance right out the door with his posse...😬 Bizarre. One love from Scotland. 💙
It's not that Brits lose accent when singing, everyone does. To foreign ears Americans lose the american accent when singing.
True.
I was born in 1955 and was a child, teen and young adult during the 60s and 70s - best music. I feel lucky.
Too true. I was born in 1958, same year as Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Neil Finn, Gary Numan, Thomas Dolby, Simon le Bon & co.
Yaaaay so happy you reacted to this :D
For some reason I knew you'd be shocked by Jay Sean and UB40 being British 😂
Music (in the UK and US) was incredible from the 60's to the mid 90's, then it all went wrong.
Totally agree. For me, it was hip-hop and rap which killed it for me. Music used to have memorable melodies and meaningful lyrics (a lot of the time).
it went blck
@@pbworld7858 Imagine a type of "Live Aid" in 20 or more years with rap and hip-hop artists from today.
@@mikefraser4513 To be honest, I wasn't too keen on the 1990 version (or was it 1989). The original one had iconic singers/bands.
Plenty of 80s music is shit. But I will admit that watching some TOTP from around 98 onwards is excruciating to watch, I can pass off any music I consumed at that time as just being young then. Just think of someone like Bowie. He was pretty much dead during this time until 2012 and Heroes became the anthem of the Olympics and then he was loved again. Led Zeppelin were all but forgotten after their disastrous Live Aid performance and it needed their 2007(?) return concert to have any relevance again.
I despair for you lot that can't enjoy Travis Scott as much as Pink Floyd.
Damn we really did have ALL the music in the UK 😂
The Bee Gees were originally from the Isle of Man
@robertpetre9378 yes so whilst the IOM is not part of the UK it's citizens are still British
Born somewhere, raised somewhere else, then another place. Phil Wang was born in Stoke on Trent but grew up in Malaysia. He's not a Stokie!
They are from Manchester. Their dad was a musician working for the ferry firm that ran between England and the Isle of man. When his contract finished, they all moved back to Manchester. Later on, they moved to Australia . If you listen to them speak, they have Manchester accents.
Ummm think you'll find they are Mancs 😂
@kaijuk like what you did there 👏
1960s and 70s music is pure nostalgia for me, great music that really held its moment in time but also has real staying power. As I get older it's particular bands or random songs that grab my attention and connect on an emotional level. After a certain age life inevitably takes precedence over chart watching.
You would be surprised at how many artists who sing in English, especially back in the day were not even from an English speaking country. ABBA is a prime example of that.
Definitely react to more videos from this channel, there’s some really good ones 👍
I just hope nobody thought David Essex and Chaz & Dave were American.
Great comment.
Love the older music especially the 80s compared to the rubbish now.
I think the Buggles weren't the first music video but was the first video to be played on MTV.
Strawberry Fields Forever is often considered the first music video (well, film) - though the Beatles had done specific videos for some songs before that.
Jamaica was part of the British Empire up until 1962. So being from Jamaice, and being an artist in the 70s and 80s meant you were probably born in the British Empire. Also Katrina in Katrina and the Waves is American, but the band is British.
I'm British but had no idea Billy Ocean was British. Definitely thought he was American.
He was born in Trinidad in 1950 moved to Romford Essex London when he was 10 before Trinidad and Tobago became independent from the UK in 62.
Billy Ocean charted in the UK multiple times in the 1970s compared to one minor hit in America during that decade, with Love Really Hurts Without You reaching #22 there compared to #2 in the UK.
I would imagine people might have thought he was American after he had a revival during the 1980s once When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going was used as the theme song for the Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas film The Jewel of the Nile that was a sequel to Romancing the Stone, with all three of them appearing in the video as backing singers.
It's the same with actors. Most Americans often assume some British actors such as Henry Cavill, Christian Bale, Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Tom Hardy, even Ewan McGregor and many many more are American.
You like older music because that’s when it was proper music. Where you had to actually have talent unlike today with auto tune and same old generic crap
Oh brother, can’t believe this same old tired narrative is still being used
@ some decent music about today. But not proper or real music like back then.
I was fortunate enough to know Clem Curtis, the lead singer of The Foundations, great guy!
I'm 61 years (Today, yes, thank you) but there were several in that montage that even I was surprised by, Billy Ocean being the most surprising for me!
i just realized ive watched your videos for years. keep it up
Liverpool singers have a Liverpool accent. Pink Floyd have southern English accents.
Why is Talk Talk never included in these montages, they were a fantastic live band, also the original Fleetwood Mac, amazing 🇬🇧
Give EDM another chance. 1996-2005 was the golden era and full of proper gems. Maybe a reaction to Kevin and Perry go Large could change your mind
You beat me to it. In the US, EDM didn't really get huge till the era that McJibbin mentioned when he was at college and yeah it was not great by then. 1995 to 2005 was indeed a golden era.
You really should take a dive into the Ren rabbit hole ,his use of beats mixed with the use of words will show you a 21st century Bard,no track is the same but unique mixed with stunning visuals.
Totally agree, I only found Ren in August, now I'm obsessed by this lad from Wales. The guy is so versatile, but everyone needs to start with Hi Ren. His backstory with his illness is heart-breaking but just reading comments on his tracks, he has helped so many overcome their own mental angst with his music, it is heart warming.
Also, if any content creator want to grow their subscription base, they should react to Ren. I've watched countless reactions, mainly from the US. As you say, there is a rabbit hole of choice, I have yet to find a bad song (or story), from his solo work, to his band 'The Big Push', to his collaborations.
It's not just you. As I've gotten older I find myself listen to more older music or stuff from when I was a kid.
Come on UK do you not get tired of producing the best singers, songwriters, musicians and groups time after time, take a break and give others a chance.
Hot Chocolate's ' You Sexy Thing ' always reminds me The Full Monty. Makes me smile everytime. 😄😃
Just a little note here Katrina Leskanich lead singer of Katrina and the Waves (Walking on Sunshire 1997) is american and was born in Topeka, Kansas on April 10, 1960.
All 80 songs are sung by british artists
The sample at 9:22 is from My Woman by Lew Stone featuring Al Bowlly from 1932, you can hear it within the first couple of seconds
As you say, McJibben. Music is very subjective, but I must agree with your time frame for it!"
I'm British and some of them suprised me.
The older the music, the more integrity it has
Actually for a young guy you have great taste in music. I grew up in the 80s, so 80s music is my thing mostly, ever tho I do like other genre's and years of music too. 😎👌🏻
There were lots of songs with videos before Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star" in 1979. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was 1975, and that was hugely influential
many great artists far to many to mention them all. Pink Floyd, Queen, DAvid Bowie, ELO, Rolling Stones, The Who,. If you watch Top Gun Maverick and listen to the soundtrack its amazing.
It's simple, you like the older stuff because it's better.
You have great taste in music Connor the same as me rock, pop or ballads and like you I too smile at the 80s songs for Mr my best era😊
I like older music because it just feels more real, raw with less ‘noises’ added in. Voices just seem like you’re listening to someone sing and not it coming through some process before you hear it
I think in many cases British artists sing in a hind of mid-Atlantic accent that ca be taken for American. And a lot of these songs were used in big American movies, making them feel American by association.
All British my man 🇬🇧 The older music was real music often written and performed using real instruments with real vocals.
I get you on Macklemore. As a 9/10/11 year old in the late 90's early 2000's there was a British group called Steps, and I think that was the first time I ever felt true hatred for something. I remember them being an immediate, panicked, angry channel change/radio station change for me. It baffled me how a group of glorified holiday camp performers got so popular. And later it would turn out that a lot of their members had huge egos, which was crazy for a group whose biggest hit was a cover of Abba's Tragedy. As you can tell, I've gotten over that hatred well.
Great Rick-roll, Conor..you got all of us!! 😅😅😅
Back when NOT ALL songs were about drugs, sex, foul language and domestics... be hard pushed to find one made nowadays that doesn't contain one of those
Lets face it, older music is just better 😊
We play music at work and even the youngsters prefer 80's stuff.
No one else in the world calls it EDM dude. Just you guys. Namely because dance music is multiple different genres and dominated everywhere else from the 80s onwards :-)
"Olive: You're not alone"......only the best friggin dance tune of the nineties!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!
First cd I ever bought
Genuinely never knew The Foundations were British
I was born in 93’ but all the music I listen to is from 60s-80s
Music now days is pants….
I agree connor 60s and 80s music was superb 😊
I think you are about 10 or 12 years younger than me. But we all seem to get to a stage in life when we say "wasn't the music from the 60s to 80s great?"
The 90's was the absolute pinnacle still. IYKYK
'Video Killed The Radio Star' was the first video played on MTV. The first proper "video" is hard to say - Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' is a good contender.
A few months later, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas made a music video in a Ford automobile factory riding the assembly line in Mustangs.
I think the first music video with actual choreography was "Hey Micky" by Toni Basil. 🤔
I always thought the Bee Gees were from Australia... "Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first video played on MTV, I think, but it was not the first video ever made. "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles was the first real promotional video. Also, the song they show here by Manfred Mann was actually written by Bruce Springsteen (Blinded By The Light).
Bee Gees only spent their adolescence in Australia. They were born in England and returned there.
Aren't the Bee Gees from the Isle of Man???
as a brits with (independent music taste ) ... i apologise for some garb & the tosh in this video (real music for real people)
Minus one or two dips, that was a really good compilation
You ask which songs are American???? Yet the title of the video is "No one knew they were British" oh my days 🙄🙄🙄🙄
We all have our own taste Connor. ❤
It's not "Why do Brits sing with American accents?" it's "Why do Americans talk like they're singing?" ;)
I’m right with you about hating the music between 2012 - 16. Sometimes I heard a song on the radio and instantly turn it off due to hating that song so much.
If you want to hear someone singing in a very British accent, try Sophie Ellis-Bextor!
Older music is generational, but you grow up hearing what parents and older siblings listened to, then as a teen you like what's current, then get a bit older and you go back to liking what you grew up hearing for the nostalgia-or the good chemicals in your brain.
First moden day music video 1964/5 .99% sure it was the Beatles.
Other bands also made them around that time but can't remember who.
The 60s, 70s and the 80s defenetly had the best music.
Generally speaking, most people lose their accent when they sing. Chaz and Dave, Cilla Black (to some extent) and Guy Garvey retain their regional accents, but most become accent-neutral.
As a Brit I was genuinely surprised when I found out The Foundations were a British group especially as Build Me Up Buttercup is one of my guilty pleasure favourites, I'd always assumed they were American like the Four Tops
I also believed them to be American until I went to a friends wedding in a small village in Northamptonshire, and they were the band he had booked.
Yes, quite a few surprises for me but I usually know the nationality of artists I like. Most of these 80 songs I don't like. For years I assumed Rick Astley was black because he sounds African American to me.
WHAT The guy who made a song "Englishman in New York" was British???? I literally don't know anyone who thinks The Police where Americans.
@@Frahamen but that was over a decade after the song in this video, the song here was Roxanne, their biggest international hit with a very strong reggae sound (as The Police had generally), so what are you talking about 😂
The drummer was American. Stuart Copeland - born in Virginia.
Fleetwood Mac were British/American- as were Foreigner.
Fleetwood Mac's drummer Mick Fleetwood was also in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film'Total Recall'......
'Get your ass to Mars.........'
@@gibson617ajg Not to be pedantic but he's in The Running Man, not Total Recall. I know this because I didn't know of Fleetwood Mac until Mick appeared on Top Gear when I was younger and then the penny dropped about F1 and The Chain and that he appeared in The Running Man which I must have watched on VHS in the late 90s as a kid!
Not familiar with Macklemore or Thrift Shop. Thought I'd check it out. 😱
I agree with you 100%.
I let you off with seal, but come on matey…. The bee gees??? How did you not know that?
There are Americans who still don't know that they are white!
The first artistic music video especially designed to promote a single other than by showing a band playing a song was the Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video.
It preceded the founding of MTV and Video Killed The Radio Star by a full 5 years.
The first ever official promotion video was Queen Bohemian Rapsody 😊
Didn't know they were British? Mate, I didn't even know some of these "stars" existed!
75/80s to 2010s is the music I like.
Totally agree 1965-1985
Tiny island massive talent. Could one state even come close?
Someone once said that blaming video games for violence was like blaming Sheena "9-5" Easton for commuting
There’s some amazing independent artists around the uk atm. Ren and Chinchilla are a couple.
I think every era has some great music, sometimes you just have to look a bit harder.
Pretty sure someone knew they were British, even if it was just their Mums.
I was surprised not to see Magic by Pilot.
All that just to get Rick Rolled at the end :D
I like music from 40s 50s 60s 70s and some music from 80s to current and most genres there are many songs and singers and bands I cannot stand so I understand what you mean when you can't explain how a song makes you actually feel when it's one you don't like❤
Katrina and the Waves were all American though they were founded in the UK because they were all from families stationed at US airbases here at the time.
9:20 the Whitetown instrumentation Conor likes is sampled from a 1930s British Dance band _leader Lew Stone
They were produced in Britain
You have lovely hair... 🙂 I agree with you about that period of music.... pretty medium... Most people in popular music sing in "American" English.... there are exceptions like The Proclaimers AC/DC... You are right though, music hits the emotions first....The early rock from 1955 onwards hits me personally as I turned 13 in 1955.....