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Foreign bands that bigger in the UK than their homeland

Bush were always touted as having made it in America, despite them never really taking off here.

Also, Abba and AC/DC have probably sold more records here than in Sweden or Australia, but that's more than likely due to their respective populations.

Bush were HUGE here (that sounds a bit wrong :oops: )
 
That's proper odd. I didn't realise this. I kinda just assumed they were big everywhere being that Nirvana were.

On reflection though, Dave Grohl doesn't really do the all American hero rock beloved of their stadium audiences (see Metallica, Springsteen, Dave Matthews etc). He's style is much more British in that respect.

Foo Fighters are, and have been very popular here too since they formed. :confused:
 
Bush were HUGE here (that sounds a bit wrong :oops: )

Didn't Gwen Stefani marry one of them? That's all I know about them, in my head they're just packed away into the big box marked 'horrid grunge bands: do not touch' but I don't actually know if they're even a grunge band.

e2a: I listened to almost a whole minute of one of their songs and came to the conclusion they can safely be done without.
 
There is definitely a difference between the two countries wrt pop culture stuff.

I think we just have so much of it here, that it's rare for everyone to like the same things, and things can be very popular despite the fact that only a handful of people you know have ever heard of it.
In the UK I was very surprised at how much similarity there was in people's tastes and interests. It seems like you ingest culture as more of a collective experience, whether you accept it or reject it. Here people are much more individual in their tastes and even in simply what they know exists as far as bands, tv shows, etc.
 
Didn't Gwen Stefani marry one of them? That's all I know about them, in my head they're just packed away into the big box marked 'horrid grunge bands: do not touch' but I don't actually know if they're even a grunge band.

e2a: I listened to almost a whole minute of one of their songs and came to the conclusion they can safely be done without.

yes, so it's maybe like your Posh & Becks, as I'd say Bush were actually more popular than No Doubt at the height of their fame...now, not so much though No Doubt/Gwen Stefani continues to be successful.
 
At least No Doubt had that one tune. This Rossdale chap appears to have made a career out of copying Nirvana songs badly enough to pass them off as his own work.
 
Consolidated and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy both struck me as being bigger here than there, based on nothing in particular.
 
Foo Fighters are, and have been very popular here too since they formed. :confused:
I seem to remember that their/his first album was embraced a lot more quickly in the UK than it was in the States, maybe that's what they were referring to. Although that would have been way back when...
 
Because that was the point I was making. They are not from india they are from the UK.
Look back at what I was quoting.

Its a daft comparison though. Frank Chicken are Japanese who live and work in London. Tjinder Singh is an English musician who lives and works in India.

Neither fit in to the threads requirements anyway.
 
Its a daft comparison though. Frank Chicken are Japanese who live and work in London. Tjinder Singh is an English musician who lives and works in India.

Neither fit in to the threads requirements anyway.

I did not know he lived and worked in india.

The frank chickens live and work in england and have made no attempt to do anything in japan as far as I know.
The other bands listed lived and worked in england but got bigger in other countries.
Cornershop were an english band that as far as I knew lived and worked in england.

I took home county as the country they called home. Where they lived.
 
So, in your rather confused reckoning, a british band who relocated to the US and became successful there whilst making no impact over here wouldn't count as an example of a UK band who were bigger in another country than the UK? Or Rich Hall moving to the UK becoming massively popular here wouldn't count as him being more popular here than the US where he is pretty unknown?
 
So, in your rather confused reckoning, a british band who relocated to the US and became successful there whilst making no impact over here wouldn't count as an example of a UK band who were bigger in another country than the UK? Or Rich Hall moving to the UK becoming massively popular here wouldn't count as him being more popular here than the US where he is pretty unknown?

Well yes I agree that this is a tricky one but also, no.
The Frank Chickens formed in the UK after already living here. There was no Frank Chickens in Japan.

In your example I suppose that would count if a band went to another country after not making it here. I guess it is not easy to define. It is no surprise that Frank Chickens (and Bo Ningen?) never made it in the country they were born in considering they never lived there when their bands existed and never made an attempt to push their band in the country they were born in.



I don't know who Rich Hall is.
 
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