23. The Good, The Bad & the Queeen -- The Good, The Bad & the QueenEnglish music is known for two things: mirroring back American Rock n' Roll louder and harder, and expressing a profound romantic bleakness. Sometimes, instead of sucking deep of Yankee rhythm, the Pommies take the same instruments and play a raw yet gentle music full of the kind of un-nameable yearning that C.S. Lewis called Northern-ness, or Joy: a grey savoring of all the cold truths of the world. The Kinks, after the initial ramalama of their early songs, did this kind of music best, and you can also hear it in later songs of Kinks-revivalists the Jam (check out "English Rose" for an example).