European music artists of any worth.

[Tangled up in Blue]

Soundtrack Of Our Lives are a pretty decent Swedish band.

Spain has not produced a single good band, ever.

Nonsense.Los Bravos Black is black was all right.

My kids quite like La Oreja de Van Gogh too.Can't say I'm a fan myself though.

 

[TrueBlue]

Yes look up Icelandic singer Yohanna and a song is it true

 

[Benfleet A1]

No mention of Trust, the French rock band? Not really a surprise, they were bloody awful. They once supported Iron Maiden in the very early 80's when Paul Dianno was the frontman. What the hell possessed Ed Force One to even consider them as a support band is something I'll never know.

 

[BaileytheQuitter]

Ludovico Einaudi from Italy. Music used most famously on the This Is England series.
The Radio Dept from Sweden. Dream Pop music.
Daft Punk from France. Obvious.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Frieheit -Germany
Opus -Germany
Focus - Holland

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

HIM (Finland), Pussy Riot (Russia), Royksopp (Norway), Sondre Lerche (Norway), Jaga Jazzist (Norway), The Knife (Sweden), Jens Lekman (Sweden), First Aid Kit (Sweden), Peter, Bjorn & John (Sweden), Robyn (Sweden), Efterklang (Denmark), Mew (Denmark), Air (France), The Raveonettes (Denmark), Refused (Sweden),

 

[Napster]

Kojak from France

 

[Supernaut]

A quick trawl through my iPod turned up some more...

Germany - Wolfgang Voigt, Moritz Von Oswald, Basic Channel, Ash Ra Tempel
Greece - Aphrodite's Child (with Demis Roussos on bass of course!)
Iceland - Olafur Arnalds
France - Air, Colleen
Italy - Goblin
Estonia - Arvo Part
Norway - Lindstrøm

 

[Uncle Leo]

Nonsense.Los Bravos Black is black was all right.

My kids quite like La Oreja de Van Gogh too.Can't say I'm a fan myself though.

Ha! Knew you'd bite.

Seriously though, when I was growing up in Spain, any time a song by a Spanish artist came on the radio, it was time to switch over.

 

[Rob Noxious]

From the early 1970s, those Dutch boys with sh*t lyrics but great tunes ... Focus. Whoops, just seen Mad Cyril beat me to it. Whoops #2 - and Crabby Shrimper too! Don't think anyone has mentioned Nene from West Germany though? Red Balloons, 1984 - a number one, wasn't it? Hmmm.

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

HIM (Finland), Pussy Riot (Russia), Royksopp (Norway), Sondre Lerche (Norway), Jaga Jazzist (Norway), The Knife (Sweden), Jens Lekman (Sweden), First Aid Kit (Sweden), Peter, Bjorn & John (Sweden), Robyn (Sweden), Efterklang (Denmark), Mew (Denmark), Air (France), The Raveonettes (Denmark), Refused (Sweden),

HIM,now thats what i call bad memories of seeing them live and being the oldest person there by about 30 years,the things you do for your kids eh.

 

[maninasuitcase]

I used to listen to an album called Medusa bythe dutch band Clan of Xymox in the late 80s. I haven't heard it for a while so it may have dated horribly since then.

 

[Pubey]

A quick trawl through my iPod turned up some more...

Germany - Wolfgang Voigt, Moritz Von Oswald, Basic Channel, Ash Ra Tempel
Greece - Aphrodite's Child (with Demis Roussos on bass of course!)
Iceland - Olafur Arnalds
France - Air, Colleen
Italy - Goblin
Estonia - Arvo Part
Norway - Lindstrøm

Great call, Nah und Fern is one of my favourite ambient albums.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

A quick trawl through my iPod turned up some more...

Germany - Wolfgang Voigt, Moritz Von Oswald, Basic Channel, Ash Ra Tempel
Greece - Aphrodite's Child (with Demis Roussos on bass of course!)
Iceland - Olafur Arnalds
France - Air, Colleen
Italy - Goblin
Estonia - Arvo Part
Norway - Lindstrøm

Arvo Part - the 'Cantus for Benjamin Britten' or the 'sound of things falling down' as I like to think of it, is my fav classical choon ever. AND his music soundtracks 'Dead Man's Shoes' which is my fav Brit flick. Good call.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Nonsense.Los Bravos Black is black was all right.

My kids quite like La Oreja de Van Gogh too.Can't say I'm a fan myself though.

Miles Davis did somes nice sketches about Spain if that helps

 

[Davros]

Sweden - Steve Angelo, Axwell, Sebastian Ingroso (ie The Swedish House Mafia), Eric Prydz
France - David Guetta, Daft Punk, Laurant Garnier, Martin Solveig
Holland - Tiesto, Afrojack, Fedde Le Grande, Hardwell

Its fair to say the above 3 countries produce a good share of DJ's/Producers!

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Oui Oui (Michel Gondry's band, France). Anybody mentioned Falco (Austria) yet? They did Rock Me Amadeus.

 

[markw]

Sweden - Steve Angelo, Axwell, Sebastian Ingroso (ie The Swedish House Mafia), Eric Prydz
France - David "im a massive ****" Guetta, Daft Punk, Laurant Garnier, Martin Solveig
Holland - Tiesto, Afrojack, Fedde Le Grande, Hardwell

Its fair to say the above 3 countries produce a good share of DJ's/Producers!

Thats better....

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Einstürzende Neubauten (Germany)

 

[MK Shrimper]

We up for a battle then? If so I bag Germany :thumbsup:

Remember no UK and I forbid Abba on the basis it's like picking Sarah Beeney in the Totty Cup. :winking: