Really, the two nations that stand out are UK and Sweden though proportionally Sweden is in its own class entirely to this day. About 50% of all modern day hits are produced or written by Swedes. If you consider how small our nation is, that's pretty impressive. Yet the UK will forever be the greatest because Motörhead... At least we got a Swedish letter and a Swedish drummer in there. :P
@@michaelmay5453 ...and most of them being dance tracks with a female singer it's all a bit dull. Sweden has a proud musical history though! (and I don't mean Abba - although kudos) Also that letter should be ø but yers wanted to be more German. Boo.
@@Stupot2030 LOL, what? No. Most of our music isn't dance music but female singers do tend to do well in our nation for a reason. We don't consider them as lesser humans that shouldn't even have basic human rights like the US.
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDereknothing deserves as much praise as they get and Beatles fans axt like their music is perfect and get offended if you even make a criticism so in that way they're overrated but not in terms of how good they are
The problem most don't understand about the beatles is they're listening to em 60 years AFTER they changed music....listen to revolution then music pre beatles....the fact I played beatles in late 90s and my nephew said "oh you're playing oasis says it all" 😅
I think the person who compiled this loved the Artic Monkeys and Muse. But leaves out the Kinks, ELO, Genesis, The Hollies. What about The Who - My generation?
Actually, U.S give us a lot of time tbh, they rate us and are always respectful toward us, theres as many successful british bands in the us as there are us bands in the uk, maybe we should cut them some slack, I know we don't like being liked or given compliments and that's in our DNA, but we admire the yanks same as they do us, even if we don't admit it, I think we can give the US some mutual respect, about the only nation on earth that's honest with their opinions without bias... waiting to be shot down for that lol
I don't take Americans only knowing Song 2 as an excuse either because Damon's accent is still very present throughout. There's no way they only heard the instrumentals right? 😭
I too was surprised there was no Madness in this (they are up there with The Monkees [who wouldn't be on this list since they were only one fourth British] for me).
People who think the Beatles are overrated aren't taking the era they were in as their perspective. The Beatles went from "I want to hold your hand" in 1963, to "Strawberry Fields Forever" in 1967. They progressed more musically in 4 years than most bands do in 20, and influenced the future of popular music for the next 40 years.
Saying The Beatles are overrated is like saying oxygen is an overrated element. That may sound like hyperbole but every rock group since The Beatles has been influenced by them one way or another. Have better groups come after them? Possibly, but not without that influence, and certainly not on the same cultural level. It's oddly disheartening to hear someone dismiss the Beatles without actually properly listening to them. Then again, there are music acts I think are overrated - Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, for example - and I've not heard their entire catalogue either. It is what it is, I suppose.
I just subbed this chap. I like that he's not embarassed to say things that Brit's might fall over at. Just being himself. No pretence here. And open to new information. Good stuff I say.
You should realise the Beatles mean nothing to those who don't listen to rock, which is a lot of the population, no matter how popular you think they are.
@@dkinclonberne That's perfectly true. Fans of classical or jazz or blues, for example, may not give the Beatles a second thought. Hip-hop and rap as well, of course. However, the impact the Beatles had on popular music cannot be overstated. To coin a phrase, that's not an opinion, it's just counting. You don't have to like them, but you surely can't deny their importance.
Arctic Monkeys were massively over-represented. Where were Snow Patrol, The Kinks, Small Faces? Still, good to watch. Proud of our music. We are the only nation in Europe that truly embraced rock music. 🤗🇬🇧🤩🇬🇧😍🇬🇧🤗🇬🇧
Great to see you blissing out, and why not, some of the best music since the 1960's. Loved most of it - the soundtrack of my life after all. I discovered Queen as music played on a ski-lift in Turkey and my life has not been quite the same since then
Funny, just mentioned Slade above - plus ELO, Kinks, Sweet, and T-Rex - they all have some classics that beat the majority of those Artic Monkey Tracks. Then there's Rainbow, Whitesnake, Def Leopard, wow there's loads of great British rock when ya think about it!!!
Moved to Australia with there families as young children. Not a fan of Brian’s voice as it’s to scratchy for my liking Bon was great but much older then the rest
McJibbin's penchant for extending one of the phalanges of either his left hand or right and to use that appendix to depress a button on his peripheral input device called a 'space bar' is rather disconcerting 😛
Oh Yeah, some homegrown talent...Bring It On Baby, Let's Rock!! Just a shame the music segments aren't slightly longer, atleast 10 secs per song wouldn't have hurt, still , another Great Reaction, LOVE you Connor ❤
Absent from the lineup were Supertramp, 10CC, The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, Roxy Music, Slade, Wizzard, Sweet, T. Rex, Free, Eurythmics, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Erasure, Madness, The Specials, The Beat, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, UB40, and The Cranberries. To name just a few.
In one of your previous videos, you said you'd never heard of Radiohead lol! I commented that I bet you would have heard 'Creep'. Seems I was proved right as you said, 'Great song'.
The early Beatles were a revelation even though they look and sound a bit dated now, at the time they were revolutionary, and it was a privilege to be a young teenager when they burst on the scene and just blew our minds. It is said that there was 'music before the Beatles and real rock music after the Beatles'. They set the standard that everyone later had to follow. The Beatles and the Stones inspired a generation of young people to pick up a guitar or drums and make music, experimenting and developing new genres and styles in every city and small town in the country. That's why there are so many Great British acts.
I agree that stairway to heaven is one of the greatest songs ever made. Look up the kennedy centre honours for Led Zeppelin, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart did a cover including John Bonhams son on the drums, it was spectacular.
The Beatles were the most important band of all time. That is a stone cold FACT, whether you like it or not. It is impossible to overestimate the influence they had on everything that followed.
No Jethro Tull that's disappointing. Aqualung Locomotive Breath Thick As A Brick All excellent songs. Some will say it's not Rock but it's definitely Progressive Rock as is Pink Floyd.
Emerson Lake & Palmer, Barclay James Harvest, SAHB, Slade, Sweet, Lindisfarne, Jethro Tull, Hawkwind, Billy Fury, Wishbone Ash, Yes, Mott the Hoople, Simple Minds, Tears For Fears, Black, The Christians, Madness, Fairport Convention, The Tain, John Martyn, Nazareth, Billy Idol, Gerry Rafferty, Genesis, Kate Bush, Culture Club, The Pretenders, Pet Shop Boys, Runrig, Silly Wizard and many more. Not all 'rock' (neither are all the 100 on this video) but great music all the same.
@bitemyshite in one word "censorship" ELO probably don't allow there music to be prostituted, like Prince, but hey ho, you listen to what they tell you is good.
Band singing in clear British accents or with massive Union Jacks on their artwork - "They're British?" You are clearly off your face but that is no excuse!
I'm not sure but I think you gave a wave of interest on hearing a snippet of radio head if you don't know them but liked what you heard I can highly recommend you take time to look into them. Btw i love the fact you seem to have knowledge and appreciation of music spanning many years and styles 👍🎶🎵🎸
McCartney playing the Glastonbury Festival here at 80 - for over two hours - and outsinging Dave Grohl - was a look. It would be an interesting reaction video actually. I don't know how he stood out there that long without wanting to pee.
Iron Maiden popping is a little reminder of hearing their first album as a child - courtesy of an older brother, 11 years and one day older than me. He had the gear. The hair and the beard and the denim and the patches and basically adhered to that movement until he got older. Now he's almost pipe and slippers....
I was just editing the clips for my 1970 chart compilation and number one was George Harrison and I kid you not it came on on your video at the exact moment I had finished it!
Love that you've got such a wide taste in music! Speaks volumes. And you're one of the best reaction TH-camrs - you have opinions and thoughts and you're not afraid to voice them, you speak your mind, you don't let the more f*ckwitty comments get to you (at least not that we can see!) and you're a good, intelligent human being.
The Beatles can't be overrated. They did everything, and they did it first. They pioneered new techniques, new instruments, and the one everyone forgets - without them, there wouldn't have been the commercial infrastructure. Without them there wouldn't have been a pop industry, just a few bands gigging in pubs and bars. Pop was dying when they started, but they brought the money back.
Yes, you're right about the Keane song 'Somewhere only we know' being the one that has the line "I'm getting old and I need something to rely on". I was really wanting the Queen clip of 'The Show Must Go On' to go on for a little longer.. 😭 no pun intended.
Truth is live music is a big thing in Britain - at all levels - I have know loads of people in bands and the grass roots level of pub gigs and open mic's and pub blues jam nights are all over the place. I'm lucky enough to have played with the same guys in my band for years. It's like an adrenaline sport, the buzz is addictive - the rougher the pub the more responsive the audience. It's a knife edge, do a bad gig and you know it... but to end the night with encores and an audience up and dancing is awesome.
Oh there’s so much more that could fit in this top 100 - I have listened to British music evolve over nearly 60 years . There are so many brilliant artists and songs missing from this list sadly
Hi Connor, great to listen 2 your review over this very fast top 100. Top 20 & longer clips wld be better. Not your fault though. Nice to see your reactions as i feel the same as far as music inffluencing my whole persona. It's true that even if awesome group, sometimes their music can be a downward spiral so quickly that i have to turn away. Plenty of awesome music still out there. And so many different genres. Try out 'Two Cellos' for epic cross-over. Take care. 😊💕👍🏻
Arctic Monkeys need time. You gotta listen to them a few times before you 'get it'. They're fantastic, especially their earlier stuff, but newer stuff is great too. Muse is one of my favourite bands ever. The Kooks and Radiohead are two others that you need to check out more. Absolutely amazing bands. A newer British rock band (not on the list), called Nothing But Thieves are growing, and have some amazing albums. Definitely check them out too.
AC/DC had three Scots in the group, Angus and Malcolm Young and singer Bon Scott. They moved to Australia when they were young (sorry bad pun). The reason the Young family were short was due to lead in the water when they stayed in Tenements in Glasgow.
I saw Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy and Judas Priest in concert the 1970s and loved Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow amongst other bands and genres, so I do have some heavy rock credentials. Stairway to Heaven and Layla absolute classics! Since 2005 one word Keane, takes voice of an angel to a whole new level in my opinion. Not for everyone, each to their own. Rock as defined by this list does seem to be a very broad generalisation.
I saw the Cure in th late 80's at Wembly Arena, funnyest gig ever who knew a arena coild be Hot Boxed???? They also forgot the words for Love Cats, how was that possible???? . It was hilarious, nuts.
Errm?.. so according to this list there are only a handful great British rock bands? Don't get me wrong these were some great tracks from some of the best bands but... there are dozens more British bands who have produced world class tracks
No Quo = No Show. *The Greatest Live Music event the World has ever known was kicked started by the Mighty Quo. (admittedly with their version of a Fogerty song) They set the scene and set up the play. *Live Aid - Wembley 1985
Connor does on every video which includes The Beatles - but then he says every Beatles song he hears is great _&_ then plays that briefest of Yesterday clips to death!! 😮🤔🥺🏴🙂♥️🇬🇧🖖
Take 1,000 lines, boy! Write out 500 times: THE BEATLES ARE NOT OVER-RATED. and 500 times: I AM SORRY. Glad to see two of my fave Pink Floyd numbers are included 'Money' and 'Comfortably Numb'. Could have done with more Cream. Btw, did you catch the view of the Belfast street (probably 1971) at no 48 ('Teenage Daydream')? Your mum sounds great!🙂
Please pass on my admiration to your Mum!! The first Reactions I started watching were musical ones. And I'd been gobsmacked to see how many of them (the reactors) had never even heard of, let alone heard at all, some of the most iconic tracks in musical history - including Queen! Many first-timers were brought to tears hearing some of them. And a large proportion of them have never heard of all the legends whose music was featured here. And all I could do was watch in stupefaction: were they brought up by wolves?😁 In Oz, and in England, people grow up hearing their parents' music - down the pub - every time you enter a Charity Shop - definitely when working in the kitchen - when you get a sudden urge to shake your booty. I was brought up not only on my parent's music, but my grandmother & great grand mother's music as well. It made me infinitely sad that kids are left to 'fend for themselves' when it comes to music. All they hear is their own genre of music, so they go through their lives not ever understanding how varied and even sublime, music can be. Your mother gave you a great gift, didn't she?☺
You may think the Beatles are overrated, young man, but when they started, rock music was nearly dead, Elvis was in the army, and they revolutionised music. It was a bigger upheaval than punk. This happened at the time your parents were born, apparently. Makes me feel very old.
On top of all the Beatles songs on this list, it's worth noting, out of the top 3 songs, Number 3 (The Scientist) was written in Liverpool and based on a George Harrison song, Number 2 (Wonderwall) was sang by a band heavily influenced by The Beatles and Number 1 was brought back into popularity by Wayne's World, starring Mike Myers - whose father is from Liverpool. Proof that Liverpool is probably the greatest musical city in the world
This list did not even have all the best Beatle songs nevermind Oasis who are basically Beatle fanatics getting higher. 1. The Cure, criminally underated 2. So many other artists missing say phil Collins 3. Artic Monkeys overrated 4. Sorry but anyone who says the Beatles are overrated means they dont undertand music, overrated in what way? Their song structures were near perfect. The change from Love Me Do to Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, A Day in the Life, Happiness is a Warm Gun is not just astonishing but i know of no other atrist that made that transition and bucked the trend of what was going on around them and made music turn on its head. Then you have the fact that all their songs sound different, dont stick with the formula. In fact Lemmy from Motorhead, Ozzy from Black Sabbath are super fans of the Beatles Apart from a few greats missing the list Some great artist here The Cure Fleetwood Mac are 2 of my favourites
I was puzzled by the inclusion of the three Fleetwood Mac songs, which were all sung by American Stevie Nicks and at a time after FM moved to the States and had become Americanised. I always think of FM as two different bands - the Britsh R&B band from the 1960s led for most of that time by Peter Green, and then the ‘Americanised’ west-coast sound band after they brought in Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. I like both FMs btw.
Brit Rock is my favourite music. I love Queen, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Led Zep. Whoever made this list was obviously a big Artic Monkey and Muse fan as way too many of their songs made it in the list above some absolute classics as well (in my opinion)
That Blur song I think it’s called “song 2” was actually written to take the mick out of heavy metal for its lack of lyrical ability, the lyrics don’t make a lot of sense if you listen to it The first line is “I got my head checked…, by a jumbo jet”
I have pretty much all of these songs except ANY Muse or the bloody Arctic Monkey's! Why are they on this list, but almost no The Who or The Kinks!!! Spotify have a lot to answer for!
Music is subjective..what one person likes..another doesn't...like everything in life...Some people like coffee...some people don't..some like tea..some people don't..and so on and so on....There are many factors as to why we like what we like and don't like.
simple fact is that the UK has not only influenced music world wide but we have produced some of the biggest singers/groups EVER .....
Really, the two nations that stand out are UK and Sweden though proportionally Sweden is in its own class entirely to this day. About 50% of all modern day hits are produced or written by Swedes.
If you consider how small our nation is, that's pretty impressive. Yet the UK will forever be the greatest because Motörhead... At least we got a Swedish letter and a Swedish drummer in there. :P
@@michaelmay5453 Really?
@@michaelmay5453 ...and most of them being dance tracks with a female singer it's all a bit dull. Sweden has a proud musical history though! (and I don't mean Abba - although kudos) Also that letter should be ø but yers wanted to be more German. Boo.
@@ajsafc7150 Yes.
@@Stupot2030 LOL, what? No. Most of our music isn't dance music but female singers do tend to do well in our nation for a reason. We don't consider them as lesser humans that shouldn't even have basic human rights like the US.
"The Beatles are overrated" proceeds to love every Beatles song. Never change Connor.
he's just jumping on a weirdo bandwagon. Nothing overrated about the beatles.
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDereknothing deserves as much praise as they get and Beatles fans axt like their music is perfect and get offended if you even make a criticism so in that way they're overrated but not in terms of how good they are
I rather wish he would. Has a "reactor" ever issued forth with a more ridiculous statement in the history of YT?
@@Joemama55122 nah
The problem most don't understand about the beatles is they're listening to em 60 years AFTER they changed music....listen to revolution then music pre beatles....the fact I played beatles in late 90s and my nephew said "oh you're playing oasis says it all" 😅
I think the person who compiled this loved the Artic Monkeys and Muse. But leaves out the Kinks, ELO, Genesis, The Hollies. What about The Who - My generation?
It looks like it was done on number of streams on Spotify.
Hollies😂
MUSE the best 🔥🔥
Arctic Donkeys are shite. Muse aren’t much better
....and no Duran Duran, Genesis, Depeche Mode
Nice to see more Americans opening their eyes and ears to the fact that there is a rest of the world outside of the US 😂
Not really Americans are the biggest uk rock fans mate. Germany, France, Spain like Euro pop.
Omg!! The Beatles overrated. Are we living on the same planet??
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Americans *made* most of these bands TBF.
Actually, U.S give us a lot of time tbh, they rate us and are always respectful toward us, theres as many successful british bands in the us as there are us bands in the uk, maybe we should cut them some slack, I know we don't like being liked or given compliments and that's in our DNA, but we admire the yanks same as they do us, even if we don't admit it, I think we can give the US some mutual respect, about the only nation on earth that's honest with their opinions without bias... waiting to be shot down for that lol
The Cure, Zepplin, Ozzy, Stones and Beatles especially.
"They're british?!" Blur is as british as they come 🤣 Damon from Blur is also the singer from the band Gorillaz. 😊
I was looking for a comment like this - Blur being the quintessential Brit-Pop band along with Oasis 😂
I heard that Blur were collectively a little disappointed Song 2 was so successful. It was supposed to be them taking the piss out of lazy rock music.
It was the Iron Maiden "Oh my god, they're British?!" that got me - like the bloody flag didn't give you a clue?
I don't take Americans only knowing Song 2 as an excuse either because Damon's accent is still very present throughout. There's no way they only heard the instrumentals right? 😭
12:25 Yup.
How many times Arctic Monkeys is played is crazy. No The Kinks or Madness? Crazier though.
I have a feeling we probably share the same record collection... #1 and #2 in my eyes, so thanks for mentioning the Kinks and Madness.
No Genesis either and so many songs by the Arctic Monkees, can't be a real music expert that made that list
It seemed to me as if it was compiled solely on spotify streams, not necessarily the standard of the songs or artist.
I too was surprised there was no Madness in this (they are up there with The Monkees [who wouldn't be on this list since they were only one fourth British] for me).
Kinks, good point that's furry muff, but Madness ain't rock is it now....
People who think the Beatles are overrated aren't taking the era they were in as their perspective.
The Beatles went from "I want to hold your hand" in 1963, to "Strawberry Fields Forever" in 1967.
They progressed more musically in 4 years than most bands do in 20, and influenced the future of popular music for the next 40 years.
I was 2/3 through this before I realised it's based on Spotify plays. Explains a lot!
Saying The Beatles are overrated is like saying oxygen is an overrated element. That may sound like hyperbole but every rock group since The Beatles has been influenced by them one way or another. Have better groups come after them? Possibly, but not without that influence, and certainly not on the same cultural level. It's oddly disheartening to hear someone dismiss the Beatles without actually properly listening to them. Then again, there are music acts I think are overrated - Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, for example - and I've not heard their entire catalogue either. It is what it is, I suppose.
I just subbed this chap. I like that he's not embarassed to say things that Brit's might fall over at. Just being himself. No pretence here. And open to new information. Good stuff I say.
You should realise the Beatles mean nothing to those who don't listen to rock, which is a lot of the population, no matter how popular you think they are.
@@dkinclonberne That's perfectly true. Fans of classical or jazz or blues, for example, may not give the Beatles a second thought. Hip-hop and rap as well, of course. However, the impact the Beatles had on popular music cannot be overstated. To coin a phrase, that's not an opinion, it's just counting. You don't have to like them, but you surely can't deny their importance.
FALSE. @@dkinclonberne The beatles massively influenced pop and folk and hundreds of subgenres. They are not only rock.
Oxygen is OK, but it's no Molybdenum.
Did not realise Connor had such good taste, pleasantly surprised 😅😂
Same taste as me i was glad he was like meh at the same ones and yeees at the same ones as me
People who can listen to just 4 seconds of a song have no taste.
@@philjones45 no, as in he knew most of the songs already and has clearly listened to them in their entirety
Connor - Beatles are over-rated. Every Beatles song that comes on - Such A Great Song !
Not all Beatles songs are good but most are great.
At this stage I think he’s trolling us 😂
And then says he loves the Beatles tribute act, who are Oasis!😅
A very inferior tribute act.@@kevanwillis4571
Not only that majority of bands on list worshipped beatles 😅
Arctic Monkeys were massively over-represented. Where were Snow Patrol, The Kinks, Small Faces?
Still, good to watch. Proud of our music. We are the only nation in Europe that truly embraced rock music. 🤗🇬🇧🤩🇬🇧😍🇬🇧🤗🇬🇧
Arctic Monkeys likely benefited from Spotify coming into existence a few years after they started.
Snow Patrol had one song that ended up being the opening music to an American Medical TV show. Their other songs were blah!
Arctic monkeys are rated highly by their peers
Germany also very much embraced rock
Cheers Connor, I enjoyed that - and it reminded me of some tracks I'd almost forgotten (so immediately went and played them!)
Great to see you blissing out, and why not, some of the best music since the 1960's. Loved most of it - the soundtrack of my life after all. I discovered Queen as music played on a ski-lift in Turkey and my life has not been quite the same since then
Led Zep just incredible music. Bowie 'Life on Mars' deserved a mention. One band you never hear about but whom I think did some great stuff is Slade.
Funny, just mentioned Slade above - plus ELO, Kinks, Sweet, and T-Rex - they all have some classics that beat the majority of those Artic Monkey Tracks. Then there's Rainbow, Whitesnake, Def Leopard, wow there's loads of great British rock when ya think about it!!!
All of AC/DC were born in Britain, all the Young brothers, Bon Scott and Brian Johnson, they just emigrated to Australia.
All but Brian Johnson were born in Scotland.
Moved to Australia with there families as young children.
Not a fan of Brian’s voice as it’s to scratchy for my liking
Bon was great but much older then the rest
@@davidlauder-qi5zvwhich is the uk 🙄.
Yes he’s from Newcastle, England.
@@Mind-your-own-beeswax No, Scotland is not the UK, it is part of the UK, along with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Fleetwood Mac started as a fully British band in 1967 then it became an British American band when Stevie Nicks joined with Lindsay Buckingham in 1975
Blur have the most British accent ever. How can you think otherwise lol
Because Americans don't care where a band is from. More open minded when it comes to music
McJibbin's penchant for extending one of the phalanges of either his left hand or right and to use that appendix to depress a button on his peripheral input device called a 'space bar' is rather disconcerting 😛
Oh Yeah, some homegrown talent...Bring It On Baby, Let's Rock!! Just a shame the music segments aren't slightly longer, atleast 10 secs per song wouldn't have hurt, still , another Great Reaction, LOVE you Connor ❤
Enjoyed your reaction so much I watched it twice. You appear to be very influenced by your parents tastes, which are excellent I might add 😊
Absent from the lineup were Supertramp, 10CC, The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, Roxy Music, Slade, Wizzard, Sweet, T. Rex, Free, Eurythmics, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Erasure, Madness, The Specials, The Beat, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, UB40, and The Cranberries. To name just a few.
And I would put The Verve there too
i really missed Genesis in this list
In one of your previous videos, you said you'd never heard of Radiohead lol! I commented that I bet you would have heard 'Creep'. Seems I was proved right as you said, 'Great song'.
That was an emotional rollercoaster, some truely awesome bands have come from the UK
The Who and Genesis are massive omissions!
The Who were on here.
I enjoyed that, pity the songs weren't a little longer.
Does Queen ever miss?
NO.
Irishman here.... Jaysus wept, who the f&%k put that list together..... were they sponsored by the Arctic Monkeys?!?!
If you look at the actual screen, it is based on Spotify plays and Arctic Monkeys are super popular with the last two generations.
😂😂
British music is the best!!
Lots of songs that shouldn't be there, and lots that should but aren't
based on spotify listens
The early Beatles were a revelation even though they look and sound a bit dated now, at the time they were revolutionary, and it was a privilege to be a young teenager when they burst on the scene and just blew our minds. It is said that there was 'music before the Beatles and real rock music after the Beatles'. They set the standard that everyone later had to follow. The Beatles and the Stones inspired a generation of young people to pick up a guitar or drums and make music, experimenting and developing new genres and styles in every city and small town in the country. That's why there are so many Great British acts.
I agree that stairway to heaven is one of the greatest songs ever made.
Look up the kennedy centre honours for Led Zeppelin, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart did a cover including John Bonhams son on the drums, it was spectacular.
sorry to say mate but if you like every beatles song that comes up i don’t think you can call them overrated 🤣
Indeed
When your mum plays some of her tunes at home, do you say "I'll react to that sure" 😊
Never apologise for what you like we're all unique in our own way ❤
The Beatles were the most important band of all time. That is a stone cold FACT, whether you like it or not.
It is impossible to overestimate the influence they had on everything that followed.
No Jethro Tull that's disappointing.
Aqualung
Locomotive Breath
Thick As A Brick
All excellent songs.
Some will say it's not Rock but it's definitely Progressive Rock as is Pink Floyd.
It's top 100 most streamed British 'rock' songs on Spotify, jethro tull aren't streamed that much. And many on here aren't rock.
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Probably because it takes 20 minutes to get through one song.
@@mattlm64 probably, most people that use Spotify have embarrassing attention spans.
Sorry, can't let it go. This simpleton actually said (twice!!) that The Beatles are overrated.
Emerson Lake & Palmer, Barclay James Harvest, SAHB, Slade, Sweet, Lindisfarne, Jethro Tull, Hawkwind, Billy Fury, Wishbone Ash, Yes, Mott the Hoople, Simple Minds, Tears For Fears, Black, The Christians, Madness, Fairport Convention, The Tain, John Martyn, Nazareth, Billy Idol, Gerry Rafferty, Genesis, Kate Bush, Culture Club, The Pretenders, Pet Shop Boys, Runrig, Silly Wizard and many more. Not all 'rock' (neither are all the 100 on this video) but great music all the same.
i'm surprised no ELO MR Blue Sky, a banger or no Madness, but it's based on spotify listens, or Bee Gees to think of it. (suppose not rock)
Beatles overrated he says whilst commenting great song again and again to their music.
Brilliant.
No 10cc ?!!
Or Quo!!
@@judithrichardson3684 or Squeeze, Kinks or even Slade, Def Leopard, or Sweet, and what about T-Rex, lol
Was nice to see Keane popping up on one of these lists, now that's a band that gives you all the emotions!
Joke of a list when ELO aren't there.
And The Prodigy. 👍
@@rickb3645 Feck yeah, even Rod Stewart, they missed loads for the sake of the feckin Arctic Monkeys :)
@bitemyshite Spotify does not equal great music, this is whats wrong with the world.
@bitemyshite in one word "censorship" ELO probably don't allow there music to be prostituted, like Prince, but hey ho, you listen to what they tell you is good.
No Elton John, No Rod Stewart, No prodigy , no Madness, no Squeeze., I could go on, but they don't matter as spotify says so ha ha
Hey Connor, Sir Paul McCartney was performing in Manchester (UK) last Saturday, aged 82 !
Band singing in clear British accents or with massive Union Jacks on their artwork - "They're British?" You are clearly off your face but that is no excuse!
I'm not sure but I think you gave a wave of interest on hearing a snippet of radio head if you don't know them but liked what you heard I can highly recommend you take time to look into them.
Btw i love the fact you seem to have knowledge and appreciation of music spanning many years and styles 👍🎶🎵🎸
Awesome music reaction👍 Some of my favorite bands and songs🎶💖
McCartney playing the Glastonbury Festival here at 80 - for over two hours - and outsinging Dave Grohl - was a look. It would be an interesting reaction video actually. I don't know how he stood out there that long without wanting to pee.
At his age he's probably wearing incontinence pants or has a catheter!
Iron Maiden popping is a little reminder of hearing their first album as a child - courtesy of an older brother, 11 years and one day older than me. He had the gear. The hair and the beard and the denim and the patches and basically adhered to that movement until he got older. Now he's almost pipe and slippers....
I was just editing the clips for my 1970 chart compilation and number one was George Harrison and I kid you not it came on on your video at the exact moment I had finished it!
The damn British were better than us!!!! I'm okay with that!!!! I LOVE DAVID BOWIE
Love that you've got such a wide taste in music! Speaks volumes. And you're one of the best reaction TH-camrs - you have opinions and thoughts and you're not afraid to voice them, you speak your mind, you don't let the more f*ckwitty comments get to you (at least not that we can see!) and you're a good, intelligent human being.
Weird top 100
You and your mum have great taste in music 😊
iron maiden isnt just british, there the figureheads of the metal revival known as "new wave of british heavy metal" they defined metal for there era
When you got to "Yesterday" I had to double check my internet wasn't glitching! wtf man!
DAMON ALBARNS SINGING ON SONG 2 IS SO OBVIOUSLY BRITISH😂
The Beatles can't be overrated. They did everything, and they did it first. They pioneered new techniques, new instruments, and the one everyone forgets - without them, there wouldn't have been the commercial infrastructure. Without them there wouldn't have been a pop industry, just a few bands gigging in pubs and bars. Pop was dying when they started, but they brought the money back.
Yes, you're right about the Keane song 'Somewhere only we know' being the one that has the line "I'm getting old and I need something to rely on". I was really wanting the Queen clip of 'The Show Must Go On' to go on for a little longer.. 😭 no pun intended.
11:05 the lead singer of Blur is the singer for the Gorrilaz...
7:35 I thought YT was broken for at least 10 seconds. Know this.
so annoying
@@lukespooky It's not annoying. It's Connor
Yeah sorry about that 💓😅
This is not the top 100 British songs ... This is just 100 British songs
this is based on Spotify streams that stood the test of time the most.
Truth is live music is a big thing in Britain - at all levels - I have know loads of people in bands and the grass roots level of pub gigs and open mic's and pub blues jam nights are all over the place. I'm lucky enough to have played with the same guys in my band for years. It's like an adrenaline sport, the buzz is addictive - the rougher the pub the more responsive the audience. It's a knife edge, do a bad gig and you know it... but to end the night with encores and an audience up and dancing is awesome.
Oh there’s so much more that could fit in this top 100 - I have listened to British music evolve over nearly 60 years . There are so many brilliant artists and songs missing from this list sadly
Im wondering if the compiler of the original vid was limiting it to British bands and artists that had actually had some chart success in the US.
PS. You say the Beatles are overrated maybe that explains why Paul McCartney is worth over $1 billion!
heroes and boys dont cry and you make a hand gesture like you dont like it, those are the best songs on this list
Hi Connor, great to listen 2 your review over this very fast top 100. Top 20 & longer clips wld be better. Not your fault though. Nice to see your reactions as i feel the same as far as music inffluencing my whole persona. It's true that even if awesome group, sometimes their music can be a downward spiral so quickly that i have to turn away. Plenty of awesome music still out there. And so many different genres. Try out 'Two Cellos' for epic cross-over. Take care. 😊💕👍🏻
Arctic Monkeys need time. You gotta listen to them a few times before you 'get it'. They're fantastic, especially their earlier stuff, but newer stuff is great too. Muse is one of my favourite bands ever. The Kooks and Radiohead are two others that you need to check out more. Absolutely amazing bands.
A newer British rock band (not on the list), called Nothing But Thieves are growing, and have some amazing albums. Definitely check them out too.
So.... you're the culprit who put this shameful biased list together.
AC/DC had three Scots in the group, Angus and Malcolm Young and singer Bon Scott. They moved to Australia when they were young (sorry bad pun). The reason the Young family were short was due to lead in the water when they stayed in Tenements in Glasgow.
Brian
I saw Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy and Judas Priest in concert the 1970s and loved Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow amongst other bands and genres, so I do have some heavy rock credentials. Stairway to Heaven and Layla absolute classics! Since 2005 one word Keane, takes voice of an angel to a whole new level in my opinion. Not for everyone, each to their own. Rock as defined by this list does seem to be a very broad generalisation.
I saw the Cure in th late 80's at Wembly Arena, funnyest gig ever who knew a arena coild be Hot Boxed???? They also forgot the words for Love Cats, how was that possible???? . It was hilarious, nuts.
The Beatles are not overrated mate 👍
Errm?.. so according to this list there are only a handful great British rock bands?
Don't get me wrong these were some great tracks from some of the best bands but... there are dozens more British bands who have produced world class tracks
How about checking out the original Fleetwood Mac, with Peter Green, completely different vibe, more blues based.
No Quo = No Show.
*The Greatest Live Music event the World has ever known was kicked started by the Mighty Quo. (admittedly with their version of a Fogerty song)
They set the scene and set up the play.
*Live Aid - Wembley 1985
And Queen won it hands down 👍🏻
it's certain, English groups are the best....and I'm French! ...and 1964 is the best year 🤣🤣🤣🤣....it's mine!
How on earth can anyone call the Beatles overrated.
Someone who doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground.
Connor does on every video which includes The Beatles - but then he says every Beatles song he hears is great _&_ then plays that briefest of Yesterday clips to death!! 😮🤔🥺🏴🙂♥️🇬🇧🖖
Take 1,000 lines, boy!
Write out 500 times:
THE BEATLES ARE NOT OVER-RATED.
and 500 times:
I AM SORRY.
Glad to see two of my fave Pink Floyd numbers are included 'Money' and 'Comfortably Numb'.
Could have done with more Cream.
Btw, did you catch the view of the Belfast street (probably 1971) at no 48 ('Teenage Daydream')?
Your mum sounds great!🙂
Please pass on my admiration to your Mum!! The first Reactions I started watching were musical ones. And I'd been gobsmacked to see how many of them (the reactors) had never even heard of, let alone heard at all, some of the most iconic tracks in musical history - including Queen! Many first-timers were brought to tears hearing some of them. And a large proportion of them have never heard of all the legends whose music was featured here. And all I could do was watch in stupefaction: were they brought up by wolves?😁
In Oz, and in England, people grow up hearing their parents' music - down the pub - every time you enter a Charity Shop - definitely when working in the kitchen - when you get a sudden urge to shake your booty. I was brought up not only on my parent's music, but my grandmother & great grand mother's music as well. It made me infinitely sad that kids are left to 'fend for themselves' when it comes to music. All they hear is their own genre of music, so they go through their lives not ever understanding how varied and even sublime, music can be.
Your mother gave you a great gift, didn't she?☺
Surprised that Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help From My Friends" was not included.
You may think the Beatles are overrated, young man, but when they started, rock music was nearly dead, Elvis was in the army, and they revolutionised music. It was a bigger upheaval than punk. This happened at the time your parents were born, apparently. Makes me feel very old.
On top of all the Beatles songs on this list, it's worth noting, out of the top 3 songs, Number 3 (The Scientist) was written in Liverpool and based on a George Harrison song, Number 2 (Wonderwall) was sang by a band heavily influenced by The Beatles and Number 1 was brought back into popularity by Wayne's World, starring Mike Myers - whose father is from Liverpool. Proof that Liverpool is probably the greatest musical city in the world
You inflicted Ken Dodd on us too.
This list did not even have all the best Beatle songs nevermind Oasis who are basically Beatle fanatics getting higher.
1. The Cure, criminally underated
2. So many other artists missing say phil Collins
3. Artic Monkeys overrated
4. Sorry but anyone who says the Beatles are overrated means they dont undertand music, overrated in what way? Their song structures were near perfect. The change from Love Me Do to Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, A Day in the Life, Happiness is a Warm Gun is not just astonishing but i know of no other atrist that made that transition and bucked the trend of what was going on around them and made music turn on its head.
Then you have the fact that all their songs sound different, dont stick with the formula.
In fact Lemmy from Motorhead, Ozzy from Black Sabbath are super fans of the Beatles
Apart from a few greats missing the list
Some great artist here
The Cure
Fleetwood Mac are 2 of my favourites
My man did At don't look back in anger. You need to listen to it fully its a masterpiece
I was puzzled by the inclusion of the three Fleetwood Mac songs, which were all sung by American Stevie Nicks and at a time after FM moved to the States and had become Americanised. I always think of FM as two different bands - the Britsh R&B band from the 1960s led for most of that time by Peter Green, and then the ‘Americanised’ west-coast sound band after they brought in Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. I like both FMs btw.
Still a majority British band though. Mick, Christine, John... all British.
Mick Fleetwood , John McVie & Christine McVie all from the UK as was original guitarist Peter Green.
@@philipmccarthy6175 Yes, I know that. But by then the band was mostly driven by the Americans and their sound was very definitely American.
I enjoyed listen to that video I love listening to music very good
Brit Rock is my favourite music. I love Queen, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Led Zep. Whoever made this list was obviously a big Artic Monkey and Muse fan as way too many of their songs made it in the list above some absolute classics as well (in my opinion)
For hiccups, take a deep breath and then swallow three times. Sounds weird, but it works.
That Blur song I think it’s called “song 2” was actually written to take the mick out of heavy metal for its lack of lyrical ability, the lyrics don’t make a lot of sense if you listen to it
The first line is “I got my head checked…, by a jumbo jet”
I have pretty much all of these songs except ANY Muse or the bloody Arctic Monkey's! Why are they on this list, but almost no The Who or The Kinks!!!
Spotify have a lot to answer for!
Music is subjective..what one person likes..another doesn't...like everything in life...Some people like coffee...some people don't..some like tea..some people don't..and so on and so on....There are many factors as to why we like what we like and don't like.
I'm assuming this list of rock songs was put together by a member of the Arctic Monkeys.
To say The Beatles are overrated is one of the most ignorant statements anyone can make.
Too much Artic Monkeys, I cannot believe there wasn't any Def Leppard.
And yet YungBlud is on it 🤔🤣
Pretty sure whoever put this list together was one of the Arctic Monkey's mums.
12:38 you’re correct in what song you’re thinking. Somewhere only we know
Sir
Thank you for opening your eyes. The sun doesnt revolve around USA ,EUROPE ROCKS
Sounds like you & your mum's got great taste in music 🙂