How to save British music by making sure it sells in the States

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Which happened to be the subject of discussion here.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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"The problem is that the Brits just don't export enough good songs. The Americans have their own manufactured rubbish, they don't need to import it from us. We have to give them good quality stuff."

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

calum to thread!!

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

then julio!!

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok that was a joke!!

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh my God. I've seen the Virgin Megastore ad campaign in question. They're selling canonical hits past and present for the dubious bargain of 13-14 bucks. Curiously, one CD that was unambiguously part of this sale -- with stacks of them with the Union Jack stickers and the reduced price alongside the Blur and the Oasis and the Who CD -- was America's A Horse with No Name.

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

And to highlight the problem, they cite the fact that the Stereophonics aren't very popular in the US. Pah! How could Mr Yankee fail to see their charms?

― Mr Swygart, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Do you think it'll ever occur to them that they might get more success hyping the So Solid Crew or Mis-Teeq or Ms. Dynamite? Do they think they're just not "British" enough?

Ohhhh...actually, this sale now explains to me why the last time I was in a Virgin Megastore they were playing the Clientele. Who I've just decided aren't bad at all.

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

''And to highlight the problem, they cite the fact that the Stereophonics aren't very popular in the US. Pah! How could Mr Yankee fail to see their charms?''

At first you think that yes, ''americans have common sense here'' and then you think that this is the land where nu-metal came from. Oh well...

mark s- it's a bad joke. If British 'music industry' died tomorrow then i would be very happy...unfortunately, it won't be happening.

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

it is funny how the solution to everything is a newly formed government bureaucracy, sheesh.

― keith, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

all my jokes are bad :(

― mark s, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

How about making import singles less than $13.00? I buy mine from amazon.co.uk, which is still pretty expensive (international shipping, but you don't have to pay any tax), but it's at least cheaper than buying them from a store here.

― lyra in seattle, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

it is funny how the solution to everything is a newly formed government bureaucracy, sheesh.

Oh yes, just like those French officials who have made their country's films such a major part of the American movie marketplace.

― j.lu, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

the Americans have enough trouble keeping up with their own crap music to have to sort through the UK's too.

― Jack Cole, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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