American acts that are/were a lot more popular in the UK than in the US

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Needing a thread for the other way round, and this is somewhat tougher:

Starting off with:

Randy Crawford
Terence Trent D'Arby
Orson

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Suzy Quatro

Bill Magill, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

scissor sisters

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

kevin saunderson

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Blackfoot

Bill Magill, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

rather inexplicably Fun Loving Criminals. Wtf bought that shit?

Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Laurie Anderson

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the Terence Trent D'Arby who had a #1 in the US with Wishing Well, won a Grammy and sold 2,000,000+ copies of his first album?

Billy Dods, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

Walker Brothers

henry s, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

pixies. back then, anyway.

Binjominia, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

probably throwing muses as well.

Binjominia, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

PJ Proby

sonofstan, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Armand Van Helden

blueski, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

eric b and rakim

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Moby (90s at least)

blueski, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sonique

blueski, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

the walkabouts

stephen, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Kelis, or at least she was a few years ago.

Matt DC, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

The Killers?

I mean, how are we to know? Old Lenny Kravist comes over here, tells us he is rich, famous and a big puller over in the US, how are we to know otherwise?

Mark G, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

it is a mystery

blueski, Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Sonique's from Crouch End. How is that America?

danzig, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

Blondie was big in the US & UK but Deborah Harry as an solo artist was more popular in the UK

that's not my post, Friday, 11 January 2008 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

uh, all of Northern Soul

jaxon, Friday, 11 January 2008 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

Benedict Arnold

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 11 January 2008 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

The Gossip
Amerie

musically, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

Sparks

dan selzer, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

black rebel motorcycle club

electricsound, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

(i assume)

electricsound, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

Strokes

svend, Friday, 11 January 2008 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

Rocket From The Crypt

gr8080, Friday, 11 January 2008 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

Wheatus

Maltodextrin, Friday, 11 January 2008 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

the osmonds

gershy, Friday, 11 January 2008 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

How'd it take so long to get to Sparks?

Cunga, Friday, 11 January 2008 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

Almost every American house and techno artist, right?

Tuomas, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sonic Youth in the '80s

stephen, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:39 (eighteen years ago)

am i REALLY the first to mention the eels here?!? i guess that i am.

Eisbaer, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:42 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't LCD Soundsystem American?

Tuomas, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, hadn't Sparks moved to Britain before they even released their debut album? If they've lived there throughout their whole recording career, I don't know how "American" they really are.

Tuomas, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, I'm wrong, according to their biography they did move back to US at some point. For some reason I've thought they'd lived in Britain ever since the early 70s.

Tuomas, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh oh oh
oh i don't know, i don't know, oh, where to begin
we are north americans
and for those of you who still think we're from england
we're not, no.

jaxon, Friday, 11 January 2008 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Beautiful South

Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 11 January 2008 08:32 (eighteen years ago)

The Dandy Warhols

mike mike, Friday, 11 January 2008 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

kings of leon

J0rdan S., Friday, 11 January 2008 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hold on, The Beautiful South are surely British?

Tuomas, Friday, 11 January 2008 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

Faith No More?

chap, Friday, 11 January 2008 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nirvana

burt_stanton, Friday, 11 January 2008 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

At least up until Monterey '67: Jimi Hendrix

1977 - 1981-ish: Blondie, Devo, Dickies, Heartbreakers, Richard Hell, Iggy & The Stooges, Pere Ubu, Ramones, MC5, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Suicide, Talking Heads, Television....

Stewart Osborne, Friday, 11 January 2008 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^ wuhhhh?? 90% of those bands were huuge back in the day. Run into a 50 year old and they'll tell you how they saw Patti Smith open for Suicide while the Talking Heads stood around throwing Cheetos at Lou Reed

burt_stanton, Friday, 11 January 2008 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

Hold on, The Beautiful South are surely British?

Ugh. Didn't read the title correctly. Thanx.

Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 11 January 2008 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

"^^^^ wuhhhh?? 90% of those bands were huuge back in the day. Run into a 50 year old and they'll tell you how they saw Patti Smith open for Suicide while the Talking Heads stood around throwing Cheetos at Lou Reed"

Not until '81-ish, unless maybe they happened to lived in NYC....

Blondie single placings:
Denis: UK:1 US:-
Presence: UK:10 US:-
Picture This: UK:12 US:-
Hanging On The Telephone: UK:5 US:-
Albums:
Blondie: UK:75 US:-
Plastic Letters: UK:10 US:72

Ramones album placings:
Leave Home: UK:45 US:-
Rocket To Russia: UK:60 US:49
Road To Ruin: UK:32 US:-
End Of The Century: UK:44 US:14

Stewart Osborne, Friday, 11 January 2008 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Popular" may be stretching it, but the Long Ryders?

Emily S., Friday, 11 January 2008 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Nirvana???????? Come on

Bill Magill, Friday, 11 January 2008 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

uh, all of Northern Soul

Didn't Northern Soul include Motown?
In which case, The Supremes and The Temptations, in particular, were much more popular in the US than in the UK.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

No.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 11 January 2008 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

I've been listening to Rose Royce recently and, bizarrely (or maybe not) it looks like they were more popular in the UK than the US - even if you compare the US R&B charts with the UK singles charts, they still had more Top 20 hits in the UK. "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" was #2 in the UK but only #32 in the US charts (#5 in the R&B charts). Most strikingly of all, "Greatest Hits" was a #1 album in the UK (#204 in the US(!))

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 12:29 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

Seasick Steve. I've never heard him mentioned or seen his records here, but in the UK and elsewhere he gets nominated for awards, tours, plays fastivals, and makes tv appearances. I guess he plays blues music? He looks like what I imagine a non-US person would think an American redneck looks like, and according to wikipedia John Paul Jones is his bassist.

city worker, Sunday, 18 December 2016 17:58 (nine years ago)

In a nutshell.

Mark G, Sunday, 18 December 2016 18:01 (nine years ago)


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