nuno75 wrote:I think it sounds more American because the chords are all pretty standard. English stuff, especially the Wildhearts, seems to not stick to the standard stuff... coloring within the lines, so to speak... as much as Americans do. At least that's the best I can come up with to describe that distinctly English feel that shows through in so much music over the years.
Even all the way back to early Beatles... you sit down and take a chord progression from one of those songs and compare it to someone like Buddy Holly, and you'll see that Holly's progressions are all pretty much "by the book" and the Beatles stuff would be a lot of stuff that makes you say, "Wow... how did they make that work? That should sound terrible".
The Pixies, Fugazi, Shellac, All, Pavement...... all that 'math rock' stuff, there's loads of American bands that don't use 'standard stuff'
I think that's a pretty bad generalisation, I know what you are getting at though... but I think it's something else, I don't know what though!!!
