American Reacts to Top 10 Classic British Bands to Crack the US 

My sisters boyfriend back in the day, at the Mountford Hall, had Def Leppard as their backing group I was only 12 or 13, it was amazing then. That's when band from liverpool played everywhere and anywhere. Takes me back, what memories what great Britush bands. So blessed 🎶🎤🎸🙏🇬🇧

America Loves British bands ! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🤘🏼

@@timbaker6540 🇬🇧👍😊

@@andypandy3678 🏴‍☠️👎😐

Agreed, my bro is so eclectic. I thought I was weird for being so eclectic but I say music has no singular base, crosses the hearts of everyone.

Hasn’t he? He hasn’t just reacted, he’s immersed himself and he has a terrific memory! I raised my kids on a lot of this stuff but J has them beat already.

@@petelloyd5307 only the first two albums count. Everything after that was pure crap. 🤣

@@petelloyd5307 I listened to it in 1982. It was awful. Dickinson ruined a once great band. He's also the kind of twerp that votes to leave the EU, then complains about restricted movement for musicians. What an idiot

Dire straits are australian

@ Saphia, no they aren't. Where the hell did you pluck that from?

I'm American and I'm too lazy to list the 500 great British bands. There are too many; personally I like the MOODY BLUES and TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

@Elizabeth Chapman. Not only has Britain produced talented musicians, but how about the vintage comedy TV programs. I live in the U.S.A, in the State of Minnesota. Living not far from the Canadian border, I grew up watching a television station from Winnipeg, which offered the clearest reception. I long for those days, when my favorite programs were on the air. THANK YOU!

It's the back-and-forth that made all that amazing music possible. Rhythm and blues came up out of Black culture to sweep through America, changing popular music, which then crossed the pond and influenced music being made in Britain, creating that great flowering of the 60's, and that music jumped over again and changed American music, making it fuller, giving it more plasticity, etc., etc. It's like a fantastic balloon being batted to and fro, caught and spun and tapped back by all the wonderful, talented people who had the reach. :)

It has produced a while lot of shit as well.

My favorite was left out of your list too, Jethro Tull and also ELP. Both of these bands were massive favorites in the US but didn't do well in the AM top hit music markets because they tended to put out longer more complex songs that were far more popular with the FM format at the time.

My mother was British...from Bedford England!

Slade can't be on this list, they never made it in the USA. You could put Foghat on it, cracked the State's, flopped in their home country.

Well the Beatles do have more worshippers than Gawd. The Kinks should definitely be there due to their volume of great tracks and the influence they have had and so should Deep Purple for Smoke on Water alone, the riff in that one is the best known on Earth. BTW went to a blues festival once in Maryport in Cumbria where the main event was hosted by the guitarist from the Moody Blues, he did play and he was pretty good live TBH. I'd also have Motorhead in there too, absolute monsters of rock. RIP Lemmy, I'll join you in Hell one day and we'll rock out among the flames.

@@juliemanarin4127 I know Bedford quite well, it's a 20 minute drive if I ignore speed limits.

Supertramp. Favourite band of all time! Jimi Hendrix, the greatest of all time on guitar (closely followed and maybe surpassed by Jimmy Page?) like Bonham, greatest of all time on drums, (closely followed by Neil Pert from Rush)

lol should be what usa bands cracked outside usa besides kiss and guns and roses lol

@@paulsmirk2046 Hendrix is American

@@murray7584 He certainly is. Jimmy Paige (the Brit) was almost as revolutionary a guitarist is Jimmy in my opinion

I grew up listening to the Moody Blues; ''Tuesday Afternoon'' is one of my favorite songs.

Yeah, I agree.

Duran Duran were appalling. Average songs driven by style over subsatnce and all pushed by glam videos. Le Bon was a dreadful singer too.

Same! DD is definitely more popular than the Clash or the Cure

@@spanishpeaches2930 I remember a lot of ugly dudes who couldn't play music didn't like them... Lots of Led Zeppelin and Bon Jovi fanboys

It does say classic in the title

David Bowie, Dire Straits... the list goes on

Incredible really 😳

Its going by the most successful in the States.

@@jasonturner8509 Yeah, but Def Leppard had a lot more success than The Cure, if we consider album sales for example. Still they don't make the top 10...

I think they were trying to include a range of styles, so some of the more obvious bands didn't make the cut.

Australian though!

@@susancolman7911 Nope. Born on The Isle of Man to English parents, raised in Manchester. They relocated the Australia later in life.

@@ThisCharminManc at the age of 5

@@MON-ud7sw so not Australian then.

Their careers started in Australia

England 🤣 UK when Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are doing good but England when it’s English having success. We really do need independence from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@@Peelywalley I agree with you 100%. I'm in Canada, 53 now 😱 but was raised in Belfast until I was 12. I have a lot of Scottish friends, people in England say they want to move to Scotland the way Americans say they want to move here to Canada 😂🤣😂😂🤣

@@Peelywalley the person making the comment above is obviously not British. These replies are silly. What are you two even talking about?

@@Peelywalley I have seen plenty of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish claiming their own talents when it comes to music etc, why is it different if the English do it? Stereotypes and xenophobia rampant in the UK as always! Does it make a difference that every band shown in this video are English? Maybe they should just rename the title and paste a nationalist culture warning for the soft hearted!

@@Peelywalley All of these bands are English, so maybe they are offended they're classed as British bands too! I'm not interested in your nationalist issues, I just like good music!

We are brilliant and not just pop groups! Must be something in the water 😄

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No not really. At heart we're just a little bit crazy as a nation, and that when it's allowed out is expressed in a multitude of ways. Creativity has always flourished when it's not boxed in and restrained...

No isn't it and we are tiny island with a big punch, when it comes to music, film, stage and literature. I think it is just our DNA, that we are creative. I think our eccentricity helps too. We are alloweed to be creative . I could list many, many more bands and sols artists.

@@elizabethchapman9523 You could never beat USA at Movies and TV Series And hence you watch far more American movies and tv than the other way around.

Or maybe a top 10 by year...

No we should apologise for coldplay.. I can't stand attention seeking fake chris martin.. I genuinely would prefer to stick pins in my testicles rather than listen to an entire coldplay song.

Yeah I was very surprised Def Leppard weren't there too

you could easily do a top 200

Well, Def Leppard made it huge in America with their previous album "Pyromania" and "Hysteria" got big outside of the US first - it didn't get big in the US until "Pour some sugar on me" became a belated hit.

I think your memory is playing tricks,am pretty sure he played Let it be.

Watched it on video..It was AMAZING!!💥

Paul McCartney sang Let it be, not Hey Jude at Live Aid 1985, I was there too 😊 His Mike didn't work properly, Queens technicians didn't plug the leads back properly. Felt sorry for Macca, he stopped touring 5 years, had no rehearsal either....

True....the narrator said all the bands were from London!! Black Sabbath also from the Midlands......🤭💃💃💃

‘London based’ means the band was formed in London which it was regardless of where the members come from

Well l hope no idiots tear it down! Where exactly do you live then???? ♥️🤭😄

And Jimmy Page was from Epsom Surrey and John Paul Jones was from Sidcup Kent. Not London.

Yeah but I could say the same for Canada, produced some truly amazing artists/bands /singers Bryan Adams is a legend and I'll fight anyone who says Sum 41 aren't one of the best skate punk bands ever lol

the problem with the NWOBHM which they were lumped into was a second wave of bands that were already there like Purple, Sabbath etc. So they didn't "break" into the US so to speak.

Fantastic. I saw then when they were backing other Liverpool bands, superb, amazing. 👍🇬🇧

And the drummer was one armed. That's really impressive

Still a pretty grim place.

@@MyBelch having lived it and new no better than looking back at it , all I can say is fuc# the good old days .the only good think was the music

I agree 1000% mate.

@Bert Smith - I am talking population not land mass either way we punch well above our weight.

The Beatles themselves reference america as their inspiration In fact the Beatles named their band after an american band - Buddy Holly and the crickets They are masiv fans of american music Paul McCartney is to this day.

@@BertSmithLondon Most genres were invnted by america Rock and roll was invented by America. So was Blues, R and B, Pop, Grunge etc.

@@neilboulton9813 The entire British music scene was a direct descendant of America If you don't believe me, ask the Beatles themselves.

The police were two thirds English . The drummer Stuart Copeland was American.

Yeah they don’t get enough credit because Sting isn’t considered cool but their music is timeless, original and lyrically brilliant!

I would put a strong case of England to football as we invented it and have the best football league in the world, but we're definitely top with our music.

@@OblivionGate Brazil

Italia??? Lol Mexican and Peruvian

Vigilante Cold96, Brits care more about everyday football (club football) than Brazilians.

And we adore your Wienerbrød. Fair swap.

I love Danish music too ... "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world" is an all-time classic

Angles, saxons and jutes is from Danemark.

Awwww. I'm so sorry to hear this. 💔💔💔

@@catmother4214 Thank you. It was a very long time ago.. but I think about them often as I’d known them since I was 5 yrs old. I try to be positive and be the best I can possibly be as life is too short! 🥰

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I was surprised that Genesis wasn't on this list!

Please Genesis without Phil Collins😅🤣

@@Miristzuheiss Hasn't Phil always been with Genesis? He was the drummer then lead singer.

@Theheatherjane - Phil joined after their first album (From Genesis To Revelation Genesis) and left before their last studio album (Calling All Stations), but rejoined for the tours following the Calling All Stations tour.

@@ianfortier6796 I didn't know that, thank you.

BeeGees are Australian, as are Dire Straits.

@@abushenob Thanks. I never knew that. Being from that time period, I don’t recall their origins ever being mentioned. Not having the Internet then 😝 kids often made assumptions.

@@mdfield1 I know - I always thought any accent that was not Caribbean was British. I am even older than you, grew up in a rural area and knew nothing. Imagine my awakening when I arrived at college in my first big city ever (Washington) and first heard radio stations like "the Wonderful WOOK" that played mostly Black artists. I remember when the Beatles first arrived; I loved their hair but thought nobody would ever dare walk down the street with hair that long (now in videos it looks short to me). From the arrival of Elvis, Bill Haley and the Comets and Jerry lee Lewis through the mid 70s, popular music was on an exhilarating ride, getting more and more creative and wild all the time. Then - Disco. All good things come to an end - of course there continued to be good stuff, but the anything goes era had ended.

@@abushenob Born in Isle of Mann from English parents, moved to manchester and then emigrated to Australia

@@peterbailey6151 Thanks - I didn't know that. I think the first song I heard of theirs was "Holiday" and then "Massachusetts". I really liked their early stuff. It took me longer to warm to the music they did after "Saturday Night Fever" featured their music - but they were truly one of the greats.

@@BertSmithLondon Don was still recovering from the car crash and his memory was gone, but that only meant they couldn't learn or play any new songs. They lived and toured there for 2 years. I just don't think the Americans got it.

Slade were awesome but didn't make the transition. Status Quo who I would have thought would have been a crossover band due to the basic blues riffs....never did.

Agree, Slade should have but Don was recovering and Jim became ill. This was point where they were forgotten about in Uk hence their album when returning entitled Whatever happened to Slade. Loved them then…Love them now

@@gypsyroadhog they lost me after We'll Bring The House Down.

Too English in my opinion

Nice one, don't know who you are but as a 50+ year old appreciate the music and it being spread.

@@trikky2.2 I turned 51 the other day mate. 😉

Oasis never really cracked the USA... Depeche Mode did much better over there.

American acts that made it big in Britain Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Beach Boys, Grateful Dead, Nirvana, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Barbara Streisand, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Simon and Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Guns n Roses, Velvet Underground, Tom Waites, Billy Joel, Eminem etc the list is endless

You would've never gotten that argument from Americans who were around and who are old enough to have experienced the British invasion and subsequent 70s progression of the most incredible music.

@@lindazee Hi Linda hope that's the case this was 33yrs ago so no Internet etc but still? X

@@druidswillow1052 even with no internet, we KNEW our bands very well...who they were, where they were from, what they liked/hated, what they listened to, etc.. I sometimes think that the internet hasn't improved our relationship with information in a deeper, more meaningful way. We knew bands because so much information was available through the radio DJs, especially here in the U.S. on FM radio, music magazines, TV music programs, intelligent interview programs, and lastly, great, live shows. How the folks in the 80s got it so wrong, is a head scratcher for me. Even my kids who grew up in the 90s, are generally very knowledgeable about British-based bands. I'm glad to see all these artists get the recognition today that they still deserve. 😊

@@lindazee Hi Linda It's not just the U.S I was giving my friend's teenage son a lift into town and had my favourite Beatles tracks playing and he went "Who's this?" I thought he was joking and sarcastically said The Beatles and he went "Oh they're quite good" I mean "Quite good" is possibly the biggest understatement of all time! Teenager's have no excuse these days with all the music/info on Internet but like you say we used to obsess about bands we loved getting every scrap of info we could get from music mags & papers and TV, I watch a lot of young american's reaction channels and the thrill of someone hearing/seeing music that I love and grew up on makes me happy, watched young people literally start crying when they hear "Time" by Pink Floyd etc makes me quite jealous! I feel lucky growing up in the 70s what a decade Glam Rock, Disco, Funk, Soul, Heavy metal, Punk & New Wave, Prog rock etc if you click on my pic I think it takes you to my playlists feel free to have a look I'm sure there's something you'd like Cheers Jim, UK X

@@druidswillow1052 hahaha that truly is a major understatement. Music education here in the States has taken a huge hit these last few decades. I'm glad that, at least, the interest in music from other eras appears to be buoyed by reaction content online Thanks so much, Jim. I'll be sure to check out your playlist!🎵🎶

Brothers in arms is my all time favourite song.

Queen belongs at No1

Maybe it's because the UK is a FREE country, and the usa isn't a real country but just a big business.

A lot of the metal came out of the industrial midlands, working class lads born in grime and pollution. The edge was real because they grew up with discontent.

@@darthwiizius Yes, it mostly came from hard working class towns or areas in cities. Pubs had a lot do with it I think, all gone to the shitter now though.

Both the Beatles and the Stones cited American Black Music as major influences. Their Twist and Shout was a cover of an Isley Brothers song, for instance.

@@ashyclaret Unfortunately I fear you are correct.

Really? I always thought they were Australian

@@sarahjane8146 born in Manchester England, moved to Redcliffe Queensland at a young age.

The Bee Gee's were actually born on the Isle of Man, a British Protectorate to both English parents and moved to Manchester England. When they were 12 they moved to Oz for 9 years then moved back to England... So yes the Bee Gee's are definitely British.

Yes they are and I cannot understand it myself

Jeff lynne is a rock god. He’s in his mid seventies now,where’s the fucking hell is his knighthood?

@@johncorrall1739 he definately deserves one

Or the amazing status quo

Of course they're British!

yes but they were american doing british accents, but did a fantastic job of it.

@@rumbled5461 (I know - I'm just being naughty. It's a fine line between being stupid and clever)

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I don't know if they ever achieved the musical heights of The Bonzo Dog DooDah Band though.

My bet is that it got blocked for The Beatles portion of the video. Notice how the music is not audible on that section of the video, which tells me he muted it and then re-uploaded to pass the RU-vid algorithm.

US has Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Beach Boys, Grateful Dead, Nirvana, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Barbara Streisand US has masiv music contribution.

Taken from us way too soon.

Yep, agree. A total icon, not just for his music

ELP Yes and Genesis are up there with the best.

Where is Bowie?

@@patriciabailey1937 ....so many more...(?) You know what's funny though, (and you just reminded me of it) I was a flag twirler in HS and at Flag Camp we had a competition and we did our routine to Bowie's Fame. We won!

More like a top 100. I would add Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Minds, The Moody Blues, The Communardes, Squeeze, Marillion. Dr Feelgood, Orchestral Manaeovers in the Dark, The Human League, The Smiths. I could go on but l won’t.

@@lizbignell7813 Completely agree :)

Make room for Status Quo please.

@@esclad I'm incredibly proud to be American Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Beach Boys, Eminem, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Guns n Roses, Nirvana, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel and so on the list is endless Not to mention the Beatles themselves were masiv fans of American music. They literally named their band on Buddy Holly and the crickets, an American band.

That bassline on Magnificent Seven,awesome.

All of London Calling is worth doing. Their debut album is great too.

all true except it opened in 1968 with small shops down there and buskers.

I met and photographed Joe in Select-a-disc, Nottingham in 1985? (this is in a book somewhere) What a top bloke and super nice guy, I was 20 I think. I still have the photographs. So humble and gracious and had an aura. Well missed.

He was also the son of an admiral and pretended to be working class.

@@johnholt9399 Wrong and wrong again, at least get your facts right before spouting lies.

@@cpj93070 my mistake his father was an MBE and senior secretary in India with the civil service so pretty similar level to an Admiral and he went to boarding school from 10 at the City of London Freeman’s Public School school. So I am glad you clarified for me his working class roots - loads of working class people go to independent boarding school at 10 and have daddy’s with MBEs - still a total total fraud !!

It's based on pre-1990 which leaves out bands such as Radiohead, Coldplay, Muse, Oasis, and Arctic Monkeys. Duran Duran should have had some sort of honorable mention. And perhaps they should have explained how U2 is technically not part of the UK, being that their an Irish band. I think most people consider them "British"

@@bryanstarke2931 good points