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Whether it be the Streets, Lily Allen, Eliza Doolittle or DubStep, I'm in love with the stuff coming out of the UK right now.

You should check out Florence and the Machine.

I love Florence and the Machine!

Ive been into the folky indie stuff with the likes of Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, Mumford (way over exposed right now though), The Cave Singers, and Akron/Family, etc.

Folky indie stuff bores me nowadays but Florence and the Machine is as close as I can get to it these days. Random fact, a teacher in my high school played drums with Iron & Wine on what I believe was their first album.

Other than Florence and the Machine I'm basically only been listening to Radiohead, Autolux, and PJ Harvey's new album.

Of the ones you mentioned, I am a ****ing huge Lily Allen fan, I love her mockney accent, LOVE IT! I really enjoy a wide range of her stuff, but the hook from The Fear is probably my favourite bit.

Plus her music mashes surprisingly well with Tupac

That's fucking awesome Seek. It does mash well. The Fear hook is what got me into her stuff a lot. You should check out Eliza Doolittle, kinda similar sound but less angry and jaded.

I haven't really gotten into Mumford and Sons but they've been all the rage. What I have been listening to Ra Ra Riot. Apparently the lead singer from that group also did a indie electronic album under a band named Discovery which is fucking awesome and has a track with the dude from Vampire Weekend.

Oh and pampalmoose. I find her oddly cute and attractive.

A VERY odd coincidence that you mentioned Eliza Doolittle, I just watched My Fair Lady on Friday; and was considering posting about it.

I remember, like, 13 years ago, when I suddenly realized that 80% of the stuff me and my parents listened to was British, including some of the electronica I was starting to listen to:

Led Zeppelin
King Crimson
Yes
Chemical Brothers
Orbital
The Orb
Camel
Gong
Jeff Beck
Garbage
Rush
The Who
UK (duh!)
Genesis / Peter Gabriel
The Police / Sting
Fatboy Slim
Curve
Republica
Fluke
Future Sound of London (duh!)
Sneaker Pimps
Massive Attack
Radiohead

All British. All of that. Most of these were big favorites of mine, too.

Imakeholesinu wrote:I love Florence and the Machine!

I did like half of my dissertation work in this one coffee shop in Blacksburg. A girl who worked there had this song in a mix, and it really stuck with me. This version is an amazing live performance.

Actually, Garbage is an American band formed in Wisconsin by Butch Vig - Shirly Manson was recruited for vocals and is the only member of the band from the UK (she's Scottish).

Rush is 100% Canadian. I guess Canada is kind of like the UK.


Anyway, for older British stuff - I have always liked the New Wave and Post Punk scene of the late 70's and 80's. Any music that has an element of fun in it.

I loved this 1983 rendition of Helter Skelter by Siouxsie and the Banshees

"Well you may be a lover but you ain't no fucking dancer!"

She's Lost Control by Joy Division in '79 is an interesting place to start with this band


And their successor band, New Order - which is a less artsy, more emotional, more fun - but still captures the same general spirit. While Blue Monday is the soong I seem to hear covered the most, my favourite New Order song is their 1987 single True Faith -


Game's Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush is another one of my favourite UK hits from the 80's

My dad was always a fan of The Tubes, even though it was completely against his usual genres. I was never much of a New Wave fan, but I could at least see the talent with these guys without actually liking them. To me, it characterized what was wrong with the 80's.

The XX remixing Florence and the machine. AWESOME!