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Kasabian: 'Americans Are Deluded When It Comes To Music'

Some of them any way...

  • by Jason Gregory
  • Friday, July 24, 2009
  • Photo by: Carsten Windhorst
  • filed in: Electronica
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Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has claimed some Americans are deluded when it comes to music.

The singer said music fans in the US, a country where Kasabian have yet to make a big impact, tend to think they're more ahead than they actually are.

Meighan told XFM: “We're like a cult band over there. You have to be U2 or Coldplay to get radio play.

“Americans are deluded - not all of them - they think they're ahead, but musically they're not. They're 30 years behind."

As previously reported on Gigwise, Kasabian's third album 'West Pauper Ryder Lunatic Asylum' was nominated for the Mercury Prize this week.

The album topped the charts upon its release in the the UK last month, but only made number 126 on the US Billboard chart. 

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  • ...or possibly you could be Muse, Phoenix, Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode or Placebo (to name a few other UK/Euro bands whose current releases are doing OK in getting airplay in the States). Kasabian's 2006 'Empire' release did reasonably well on radio Stateside, but their current disc doesn't have any really strong tunes which may at least partially explain the relative lack of success.

    ~ by MSOLdn 7/24/2009

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  • And their debut album had a bunch of songs played on radio there, Clubfoot being the most successful of that lot. They are no longer making an impact in America because they are no longer making good music, and the American press isn't blowing smoke up their asses telling them that they are better than they are like the press do here. I think Kasabian are deluded. You can't generalize a whole country because they don't like your music, especially if your music sucks. Wankers!

    ~ by Angelina 7/25/2009

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  • First of all...Kasabian are not true musicians, are they educated can they play every style of music with stylistic integrity and receive a wage for doing it? I think not! Secondly, as an American musician here in the UK I've found most british musicians to be not too bothered to even respond to emails or phone calls. It's an environment of passive interest with these cats again, not every one but most of my experiences have fallen in that ravine. Kasabian is just another band noth

    ~ by Devman 7/26/2009

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