Donnerstag, 9. Aug 2007, 21:02

China: Faye Wong, cold fairyland (冷酷仙境)

Iceland: bjork

England: xtc, david bowie, kate bush, peter gabriel, the beatles, fairport convention, jethro tull. gentle giant, richard thompson, genesis, brian eno, porcupine tree, strawbs, peter hammill, steeleye span, squeeze, joe jackson, jade warrior, yes, led zeppelin, the moody blues, richard & linda thompson

Australia/New Zealand: split enz

Japan: yoko kanno, the pillows, puffy

US: death cab for cutie, tori amos, the walkabouts, wendy carlos, happy the man, modest mouse, emily bezar, the green pajamas, funkadelic, miles davis

Mexico: cafe tacuba, cabezas de cera

Senegal: youssou n'dour

Finland: varttina

Norway: motorpsycho, jaga jazzist

Wales: super furry animals

Italy: banco de mutuo soccorso

Sweden: garmarna

Various/mixed: king crimson (started in England, plus US members later), gong

Maybe later I'll think of some comments and observations about this. It would be cool to plot it on an actual map somehow. And it would also be interesting to expand it to the top 100 artists.

Thanks to ichigogaaru for the idea.

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That's 13 countries represented, plus France if you count some members of Gong. I'm counting Wales separate from England here.

England: 22 (3 of which involve Richard Thompson)
US: 10
Japan: 3
China: 2
Mexico: 2
Norway: 2
Australia/New Zealand: 1
Iceland: 1
Italy: 1
Finland: 1
Senegal: 1
Sweden: 1
Wales: 1

Since Neil finn and crowded house seem to have dropped off the top 50, the southern hemisphere is looking a bit scarce.