Music 'beats faster' in the north - A Musical Map Of Britain

too much wtf to deal with

Music bought and listened to in Scotland has an average speed of 190bpm

not sure i've ever heard metal this fast

That map is totally wrong anyway with the lack of indie and bloke rock in Scotland.
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I think this survey must be from 1990 ,steve. It's so out of date.

Scots prefer anthemic Celtic rock

at 190 bpm? Fucks sake.

hahaha

There's probably some dodgy happy hardcore version of Runrig from about 1992.

I really don't think this guy has been in Scotland for about 15 years. He mustv'e been to the Rez once and based his facts on that.

I'm guessing he might be wrong about elsewhere too

lol at the bat

while it increases to 160bpm in Hull.

Ok Noodle Vague what do you dance at?

x-post and there's loads of goths in Glasgow too.

Yea, sheesh, I thought this was out of date. Nice inforgraphics tho

<i> while it increases to 160bpm in Hull. </i>

That's East Hull. This side of the river is 148bpm, thought everyone knew that.

OT hey look everyone I know HTML.

I thought it would be all goths in Hull

Does South Wales not have any tempo at all or what? I'm sitting here in Newport thinking "So, what speed should I be doing?"

(Yeah, besides the obvious joke reply there, of course)

I like the fact all the hard rockers are on the east coast and none elsewhere. I never knew all these people at gigs were from Edinburgh

And why do Aberdonians dance faster than the rest of Scotland? To keep warm?

And Mr Lewis found that heavy metal was "the closest to a national genre of music".

"It's pretty popular everywhere," he said.

I wonder what the general public would think if they knew heavy metal was the national form of music. Iron Maiden to play at he Olympics?

I just noticed that the map says r n b is only popular in the south. What nonsense, the whole thing is so wrong.

It's taken you that long to realise that? Well done.

Music taste varies as well, with country music hugely popular in Northern Ireland, while the Scots prefer anthemic Celtic rock

C+W pretty damn popular in Scotland too! Hardly surprising that C+W would be popular in Ulster+Scotland, back to where it all started...

I like the fact all the hard rockers are on the east coast and none elsewhere.

Aren't most of the British big heavy metal names from Birmingham?

I thought it would be all goths in Hull

No, that's Leeds, according to my copy of Melody Maker which has just arrived from 1988.

yep definitely no goths here in Hull

Noodle Vague might have been a goth in 1988

If articles like the one quoted are representative of Ucunt's current editorial policy/style, I'm glad I don't read it anymore! I can't imagine anything more boring!

They must be pissed off no one listens to Alt.Country anywhere (apart from my house)

pissed off that no-one reads their stupid, boring magazine anymore moar liek.

I've never bought it.

you're still reading it though.

load of shite

I only nicked this article from the bbc. I cant even remember when i last read it in a shop. I read Mojo reviews and thats about it, not uncut. Is there any difference between the 2?

I read Mojo reviews and thats about it, not uncut. Is there any difference between the 2?

In Mojo, the latest Bob Dylan album is always "brilliant". In Ucunt, the the latest Bob Dylan album is always "phenomenal".

hahahahaha

I always assumed, going by the front covers, they just had the same acts in it as each other every month.
I'm pretty sure they had the exact same extracts from the Nick Drake book in Uncut and Mojo as features one time.

Aren't most of the British big heavy metal names from Birmingham?

-- Geir Hongro, Tuesday

It's not about bands, it's about the fans of such genres.

I read Mojo reviews and thats about it, not uncut. Is there any difference between the 2?

Uncut only writes about the well-known major names from the past that people already know anything about. And then a bit of Americana. Plus Uncut hates UK music.

Mojo writes about considerably more obscure stuff from the past. And they cover a lot of recent stuff (including stuff that none of their core readership have any interest in reading about at all). Plus Mojo has considerably less of an American bias than Uncut.

Plus Uncut hates UK music.

don't they always have the beatles and the stones on the cover(in between all the bloody Bob Dylan covers)? Plus i remember seeing smiths , stone roses and joy division covers.

And who could blame them if they ignore current UK music and the britpop/dadrock of the last 10 or so years

this months = that tennessee alt.country group "Rod Stewart and the Fcaes" (oops type, actually, keep)

pointless and inaccurate generalisations are not really a way to convert people to your way of thinking, guys

(even in a thread whose premise is pointless and inaccurate generalisations)

(even in a thread message Board whose premise is pointless and inaccurate generalisations)

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don't they always have the beatles and the stones on the cover(in between all the bloody Bob Dylan covers)?

Way too rarely compared to Dylan. Plus The Rolling Stones were musically more American than most American acts.

And who could blame them if they ignore current UK music and the britpop/dadrock of the last 10 or so years

Anyone with a good taste for music would. Brit music was in a considerably worse blind alley from the mid 80s until the early 90s. The past 10 years have been brilliant, although 2007 was not a particularly good year (Hopefully people will get over Arctic Monkeys soon and move on to something better and more melodic again)

like Scouting For Girls?

Thinking more along the lines of something like Coldplay, Travis and Keane. Only Travis released anything at all in 2007.

Hopefully Coldplay and Keane will get the mainstream attention they deserve this year.

Also, are OneRepublic a band designed solely to taunt Geir?

Who?

One Republic ft Timbaland, "Apologize". #3, October 2007.

Oh right. Yeah that one republic