Ooh, we are talking about a pop singles shop. I thought we were talking about a music shop. No really, there is a difference.
Here we have a shop called The Free Record shop, stupid name, and they only sell the most popular of popular music. They also sell DVD movies, games, anything popular, anything that sells well. Now they don't actually sell music. I mean, I couldn't find a record I like if I tried, their collection is so narrow.
And now they are going to sell vibrators. Yes, really, no yoke.
I have the feeling that the UK is a bit messed up in terms of music. I once went there with my soccer club, living for a week with a family of child of a English soccer club. So our two soccer clubs had a relation. Each year some would either go there or they would come here. And while I was there that person bought a single of a, for us, very old hit and played it over and over and over. It was really terrible.
Of course this is a meaningless personal experience. But isn't it true that the UK market is the biggest and most important one of Europe?
The UK itself doesn't have a real classical music history itself. I mean, not as much as germany and Italy. In germany hard rock is almost mainstream. Also, all those composers are part of the national heritage or conscience.
Then France has all its rap, many of it made by minorities. This also makes France a bit of an oddity.
In Norway music is a strong part of the education. There are many many bands in that country. Scandinavian countries are all famous for their hard rock and metal and other bands.
Japan is karaoke and electric guitar crazy. Flashy hard rock is very popular. Of course western classical music is also relatively popular. Japan is a very strange country. It has always been isolated, developing its strange samurai culture. But now, in modern times, it has soaked up so much western culture. It is kind of hard for me to understand why.
India is probably the country with the richest musical heritage. I am not so sure about how they view different kinds of music. I have never been there but two of my friends claim they saw very little signs of music. But then again, there do live an incredible number of people there. Just as in China. I have read here on this forum that China will soon have 120 million pianists.
In China western classical music is the only music that is understood. Remember the 'famous' first performance of the Rolling Stones in China? I have been told that the audience consisted largely of foreigners. Chinese people do not seem to care about this music.
And hard rock in the middle east is kind of a way of life for teenagers and students that rebel against the whole system. I mean, any form of western music would equal 'punk'.
India is probably the country with the richest musical heritage. I am not so sure about how they view different kinds of music. I have never been there but two of my friends claim they saw very little signs of music. But then again, there do live an incredible number of people there. Just as in China.
So it seems the UK is just strange.
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