Greatest British rock band(s) that didn't meet success across the Atlantic

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  1. gary191265

    gary191265 Forum Resident

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    I ignored nothing, you're just not right!
     
  2. limoges

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    Dodgy had seven consecutive singles in the UK top 30, and "Good Enough" reached #4.
     
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  3. seed_drill

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    The Sweet had five top 40 hits, which makes them the most successful British glam rock act. Though a couple of those hits were more than a year after they'd had their run on the UK charts.
    Nazareth is pretty much known for two songs in America, their hit cover of Love Hurts and the FM stalwart, Hair of the Dog.
    Status Quo, definitely a one hit wonder. Once they traded in their kaftans for blue jeans, they were forgotten.
     
  4. scousette

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    The Kinks had huge hits in the 60s here. All Day and All of the Night, You Really Got Me, Tired of Waiting for You, Sunny Afternoon, A Well Respected Man are among those hits.
     
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  5. seed_drill

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    Have Travis, Cornershop and Kula Shaker been mentioned yet?
     
  6. scousette

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  7. seed_drill

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    Yes, totally. But those hits were before the negative effect of the performance band took effect. Many of the Kinks' best songs missed the US top 40 because they were unable to promote them.
     
  8. scobb

    scobb Forum Resident

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    What is it you don't get about the British isles? Did you read the link? Is it wrong?
     
  9. qm1ceveb

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    The great Family, a unique band that bridged the gap from Brit psychedelia to early Progressive sounds.
    It would have been unlikely that they broke the U.S. market. Their music was very British and their idysioncratic awesome lyrics hardly commercial stuff. They survived several line-up changes by keeping the core Chapman and Whitney presence. In the process they attracted top-notch musicians who added significant touches to their sound. So they managed to add one great album after another, an unparalled stretch during 1968-1973.
    All worth investigating further, including their BBC recordings.
     
  10. wildstar

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    But the OP didn't ask "who had less success in America than in the UK" or "who was a one hit wonder in America"

    The question was "Who didn't (have) success across the Atlantic"

    As far as your claim that "Mainstream/Modern Rock charts don't mean much of anything." :biglaugh:

    By that logic Nirvana was a "one hit wonder" with only one top 10 hit on the pop charts. So - no lasting impact. right? No one remembers them at all, right? Their seven top 10 hits on the Mainstream/Modern Rock charts say absolutely nothing about their wider success beyond those who only listen to Top 40 radio, right?

    There's a massive number of bands who have nearly every one of their albums reach #1 on the album chart, while never hitting the top 40 or often not even the Hot 100 with as much as a single entry. How do they manage #1 albums with no hit singles on the "pop" charts?

    Check out their stats on the Mainstream/Modern Rock charts, and then come back and tell me again that the "Mainstream/Modern Rock charts don't mean much of anything"
     
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  11. gary191265

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    Sure the British Isles is made up of a whole bunch of islands, however you're not 'British', just because you happen to come from one of those islands. Capeesh?
     
  12. qm1ceveb

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    The great Family, a unique band that bridged the gap from Brit psychedelia to early Progressive sounds.
    It would have been unlikely that they broke the U.S. market. Their music was very British and their idysioncratic awesome lyrics hardly commercial stuff. They survived several line-up changes by keeping the core Chapman and Whitney presence. In the process they attracted top-notch musicians who added significant touches to their sound. So they managed to add one great album after another, an unparalle stretch 1968-1973.
     
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  14. TwentySmallCigars

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    Nazareth were HUGE in Canada in the 70's with many Top 40 hits and remain popular (although not to the same extent) to this day.
     
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  15. Say what now? Was this a Bizarro World Kinks or something?
     
  16. wildstar

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    :wtf:
     
  17. Jim B.

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    Statistically, opinions aside, the right answer is probably either Slade or the Jam.
     
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  18. humpf

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    I like The Stranglers.
     
  19. humpf

    humpf Allowed to write something here.

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    But the right answer is naturally Art Bears.
     
  20. wildstar

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    Yep - their Greatest Hits album went platinum in Canada, and pretty much everyone I knew (or their parents) had a copy. Also 'Love Hurts" was a number one single here.
     
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  21. clarkydaz

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    The Stone Roses never went to the states for their first album. And when they eventually did in 95' for Second Coming, Reni had left the band
     
  22. seed_drill

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    A UK poster asked about the Kinks' US success. They were big in '64 and '65 and then crashed in America due to the performance ban. I'm sure this wasn't the case in Canada. After the ban was lifted, they returned to having top 40 hits.
     
  23. Oh I know this stuff, but had no idea "Should I Stay or Should I Go" was a Kinks song...
     
  24. yarbles

    yarbles Too sick to pray

    Cabaret Voltaire
     
  25. qm1ceveb

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    Issue is that you got the song's name wrong!
     
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