Im sorry but i disagree with most of this. What is 'REAL musical taste'? Some american music that has been released really good. I mean obviously you gotta look past the mainstream to find the goodness but because it does not appear in front of you does not mean that it doesn't exist.

As i do not know much about metal music and celtic music i can't say if they are better in the USA than in Europe.

As for your comment about American rap, im going to have to disagree again. I mean i understand why you might not like rap/hip-hop music but not every hip hop artist is like Ludacris and 50 Cent. Yes i won't lie, Hip-hop is heavily assosiated with bad language but if you take a proper look into the lyricism you will see that not every rapper is talking about girls, cars or money.

Why bother? I can find all the good music I need in Europe, without having to dig the earth out for it.

Marvin wrote:

Hip-hop is heavily assosiated with bad language but if you take a proper look into the lyricism you will see that not every rapper is talking about girls, cars or money.

Yeah, and some Nigerian prince actually wants to transfer 20 million dollars to my bank account.

I listen to a lot of differnet DJ's in general I don't really know or care where they are from haha. Like axwell I didn't know he was european haha. But I have heard of Inna and like her. I knew she was european but I would say most of my music is from the US because that's where I am from. But I think I could easily enjoy european music just as much. I think it just has to do with what you like, what is popular, what your exposed to, ect. :p But music in general is amazing no matter where it is from.

Man that must be annoying going through that much effort just for your post to get deleted. Didn't seem to break any rules to me.

All I really listen to in Hip Hop, and the US wipes the floor with Europe in that category.

not gonna lie, nearly all british bands have kind of a weird sound to them, imo.

I think U.S.A music and Europe music are so interesting. but I like better U.S.A music than Europe music. Because I think U.S.A music is include all the world music..

I listen to USA music way more than Europe.

I listen to a mix of both, I guess. Don't tend to distinguish nationalities of the music I like :p If I like it, I like it, and that's all that matters. The only time nationality has ever been obvious to me is in the case of Breaking Benjamin, who wont tour outside of America =/ And therefore have minimised my chances of ever seeing them live. Other than that, I don't really care :p

imurk789 wrote:

not gonna lie, nearly all british bands have kind of a weird sound to them, imo.

It's a cultural thing. I bet some British people think that music from the US have a weird sound to them.

Marvin wrote:

Hip Hop is defintely better in the USA. Im tempted to say Electronica is better in Europe but because Electronica has so many sub-genres i can't say that for sure because i have not listened to them all.

My friend told me that the real mixes happen in Europe. He played me a 5 min recording session from a station from the UK it had a lot of the sub-genres of electronica like dub-step, and it sounded way better than the mixes they play in US. It really depends on what each person likes.

For sure dub-step is very big in the UK. Can't say i like too much though.

Europe doesn't have a clue what real hardcore is.