• School Project - "Music in other countries"
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Heyho, I need your help. I've got a project at school about music culture in Seattle, Tokyo (baaaad timing) and London and I need some statments about the music culture in your city (the best would be the cities named or a city nearby) The statment are really important for the project and I really need first-hand information. I hope facepunch can help me.
I listen to Frank Sinatra.
It would've been better if you did Munich instead of Seattle.
I live in the Seattle area, after the grunge music boom of the 90's the music scene had a slump of about 5-10 years. Where pseudo, "i wanna be Nirvana" bands tried to be Kurt Cobain. Fortunately, there has been a great revival of local bands as seen in Bumbershoot, Sasquatch, and other music festivals. If you walk down some streets of Seattle at night you get a really good music sensation, because there's tons of local places for smaller bands to get gigs. Much like Nirvanna did when they were starting out and even when Hendrix was first playing. Hope this helps. Oh and that extends up and down the Puget sound region.
[QUOTE=Inspecter;29002645]It would've been better if you did Munich instead of Seattle.[/QUOTE] It would've been better if I did Munich instead of Tokyo. [editline]5th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=avergejoe;29002741]I live in the Seattle area, after the grunge music boom of the 90's the music scene had a slump of about 5-10 years. Where pseudo, "i wanna be Nirvana" bands tried to be Kurt Cobain. Fortunately, there has been a great revival of local bands as seen in Bumbershoot, Sasquatch, and other music festivals. If you walk down some streets of Seattle at night you get a really good music sensation, because there's tons of local places for smaller bands to get gigs. Much like Nirvanna did when they were starting out and even when Hendrix was first playing. Hope this helps.[/QUOTE] Great, thanks!
Bump. Now I need statments from Tokyo and London. Would be great if you can help me.
In Tokyo we pretty much just listen to J-pop and OddZilla, an up-and-coming rap star. Unless you're including the karaoke scene, in which case we all inexplicably love Deep Purple. "I'm a highway staaaaahh!"
[QUOTE=GrickleGrass;29030701]In Tokyo we pretty much just listen to J-pop and OddZilla, an up-and-coming rap star. Unless you're including the karaoke scene, in which case we all inexplicably love Deep Purple. "I'm a highway staaaaahh!"[/QUOTE] Thanks! Now I need a statment form London.
[QUOTE=tempotempo;29030762]Thanks! Now I need a statment form London.[/QUOTE] The Kooks, Wombats etc etc
Grunge is still pretty popular here in the Seattle area. The scene here now is mostly instrumental/progressive rock and post-hardcore stuff.
Finland [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ[/media] [IMG]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ[/IMG]
Pssht thats not Finnish music. :colbert: THIS is Finnish music [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P9VNjaOXE[/url] :classic_fillmore: It´s a classic Finnish song about shooting Soviet soldiers in the middle of the eyes. Its a propaganda song made in the 40´s when the huge USSR attacked tiny Finland. Spoiler: Finland won USSR: 126,875 dead or missing, 264,908 wounded, and 5,600 captured. they lost around 2,268 tanks and armored cars. Finland: 26,662 dead and 39,886 wounded. Finland was out numbered in every possible way 1000 to 1. Finland had 32 tanks and 114 airplanes. USSR had ~6000 tanks and 3800 airplanes. [img]http://www.karjalainen.fi/karjalainen/Uutiset_maakunta/5760877.jpg[/img] In picture: Finnish Jaegers fighting against Communists in Winter War
[QUOTE=Dr. Strangelove;29031847]Pssht thats not Finnish music. :colbert: THIS is Finnish music [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P9VNjaOXE[/url] :classic_fillmore: It´s a classic Finnish song about shooting Soviet soldiers in the middle of the eyes. Its a propaganda song made in the 40´s when the huge USSR attacked tiny Finland. Spoiler: Finland won USSR: 126,875 dead or missing, 264,908 wounded, and 5,600 captured. they lost around 2,268 tanks and armored cars. Finland: 26,662 dead and 39,886 wounded. Finland was out numbered in every possible way 1000 to 1. Finland had 32 tanks and 114 airplanes. USSR had ~6000 tanks and 3800 airplanes. [img_thumb]http://www.karjalainen.fi/karjalainen/Uutiset_maakunta/5760877.jpg[/img_thumb] In picture: Finnish Jaegers fighting against Communists in Winter War[/QUOTE]As nice to know as that is, he asked for the kind of music found in one's own city, not the history of the Winter War. [editline]7th April 2011[/editline] There [i]is[/i] more to Finland than the Winter War.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;29032089]As nice to know as that is, he asked for the kind of music found in one's own city, not the history of the Winter War. [editline]7th April 2011[/editline] There [i]is[/i] more to Finland than the Winter War.[/QUOTE] I apologize for my sudden off topic outburst. It wont happen again.
NYC has a shitty hipster-rock scene, but hopefully it will die out. We used to have a lot of thrash metal, hardcore punk and crossover genres, but that is no longer prevalent. In the subway stations, the city licensed performers to play, who are predominately jazz musicians. Most big bands come to Madison Square Garden to perform, though little bands usually perform outside of the city, either near New Joisey or Long Island. And we have Juliard. And Carnegie Hall. And Radio City. Man, we are pretty lucky. Basically, in NYC, you can find most genres if you look hard enough. Though European genres(power-metal, symphonic metal, turbo pop) are not that prevalent. Still, the city's music is shitty, since is just way too urban. They basically took stuff that was underground(hip-hop) and turned into mainstream auto-tuned bullshit, using token black people who completely lost their identity to assimilate into this evolutionary pop world. Same goes for a lot of rock bands. The stuff here is pretty generic at times because it is over-saturated, but you may find a little gem eventually.
I'm from Liverpool and don't listen to The Beatles.
[QUOTE=avergejoe;29002741]I live in the Seattle area, after the grunge music boom of the 90's the music scene had a slump of about 5-10 years. Where pseudo, "i wanna be Nirvana" bands tried to be Kurt Cobain. Fortunately, there has been a great revival of local bands as seen in Bumbershoot, Sasquatch, and other music festivals. If you walk down some streets of Seattle at night you get a really good music sensation, because there's tons of local places for smaller bands to get gigs. Much like Nirvanna did when they were starting out and even when Hendrix was first playing. Hope this helps. Oh and that extends up and down the Puget sound region.[/QUOTE] Theirs about 15 billion places to play here in seattle. My band played at a place called the tiger lounge last night. Op should write about my band >.>
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