European music artists of any worth.

[Napster]

Napster in liking Boyzone/Westlife/B-Witched shocker.

I am a man of the people.

 

[Eastblack]

From Germany:

Nena
Falcao
Milli Vanilli
Haddaway
Sash!
Snap
Lou Bega
Rammstein

From Italy: Giorgio Moroder

Are Milli Vanilli musicians or mime artists?

 

[Crawliano]

Norway - Annie (she really could give a dog a bone)
Poland - Republika
Germany - Boney M, DAF
Sweden - Dr Alban
France/Spain - Gipsy Kings

 

[Cricko]

Boney M were cool........Brown Girl in the ring la la la ...damn that will be in my head all afternoon now. :sad:

 

[markw]

Iceland-Bjork

Scandinavia seems to be doing ok

 

[Uncle Leo]

Soundtrack Of Our Lives are a pretty decent Swedish band.

Spain has not produced a single good band, ever.

 

[Supernaut]

Spain has not produced a single good band, ever.

Italy fairs badly when it come to pop music too, although they did give us Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai which more than makes up for their pop shortcomings.

 

[Napster]

Italy fairs badly when it come to pop music too, although they did give us Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai which more than makes up for their pop shortcomings.

Giorgio Moroder! Three Oscars, Three Grammys!

 

[MK Shrimper]

If we're dredging the bottom of the barrel, how about Zucchero from Italy?

 

[Pubey]

Good point about Spain.

Italo disco was pretty influential (and still great), but that was a genre rather than a specific band.

[video=youtube;k1KkmwI8c3E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1KkmwI8c3E&feature=player_embedded[/video]

Giorgio Moroder has had a comeback with the new Daft Punk album.

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Boney M were cool........Brown Girl in the ring la la la ...damn that will be in my head all afternoon now. :sad:

I work with a girl called Holly, and on the year planner her time off has been marked as "Holly Holiday" As soon as I saw it, I sang it!

on a lighter BoneyM note, here's some classic 70s dancing...

[video=youtube;QtxlCsVKkvY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxlCsVKkvY[/video]

 

[Supernaut]

Giorgio Moroder! Three Oscars, Three Grammys!

Exactly - 1 producer.
For a country of their size I'd have expected at least half a dozen credible bands.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Exactly - 1 producer.
For a country of their size I'd have expected at least half a dozen credible bands.

I think you need prolonged exposure to miserable weather for kids to pick up a guitar, hence why Medditereanean countries have a rather dubious output when it comes to music. All that sun, sand and girls in bikinis....must be tough.

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Again I said of note. :stunned: Someone HAS to be an arbiter of taste on these boards :winking:

2Unlimited was a bit tongue in cheek, but the others? Focus are awesome, how many other bands get to perform a rock track with yodelling in?

 

[Napster]

I think you need prolonged exposure to miserable weather for kids to pick up a guitar, hence why Medditereanean countries have a rather dubious output when it comes to music. All that sun, sand and girls in bikinis....must be tough.

yeah that's why you never see Californian bands. :hilarious::hilarious:

 

[MK Shrimper]

2Unlimited was a bit tongue in cheek, but the others? Focus are awesome, how many other bands get to perform a rock track with yodelling in?

Oh can't disagree with Focus. 2Unlimited have the award for the worst lyric ever - I'm as serious as cancer when I say rythmn is a dancer. :stunned:

 

[MK Shrimper]

yeah that's why you never see Californian bands. :hilarious::hilarious:

Ah, but America has a history of pop music that Spain/Italy etc just don't have. :raspberry:

Maybe the fact that we share a language has something to do with it and English is THE musical worldwide language.

 

[Napster]

Oh can't disagree with Focus. 2Unlimited have the award for the worst lyric ever - I'm as serious as cancer when I say rythmn is a dancer. :stunned:

which was Snap. Do keep up.

 

[MK Shrimper]

which was Snap. Do keep up.

Was it? Shows that they're all poo on my flipflops if I can't tell them apart.

 

[Uncle Leo]

If we're dredging the bottom of the barrel, how about Zucchero from Italy?

And Eros Ramazzotti!