My theory is, that the difference between UK and US fans regarding 
the Darkness, is due to the voices we are used to listening to.  I.e, 
IMHO, UK accents are much more musical and expressive, compared to 
the "average" US accent.  So if you want humorous UK vocals that 
overexpressive, you really need to go way over the top.  This may be 
too far for the average US listener, and ends up sounding silly and 
annnoying to us, rather than humorous.

And this leads into one of my pet peeves regarding present day 
vocals.  Compare pop vocalists with, let's say, 1960s pop vocalists. 
Where are the great unique and expressive vocalists?   US rock and 
pop vocalists from that era were often expressive with distinct 
accents, i.e.  southern or countryish.  Even if they had weak songs, 
you always had the vocals to listen to.  And look at what started the 
New Wave era.  UK vocalists, and US vocalists that had distrinctive 
vocals (i.e. strong NY accents, such as the Ramones).   However, 
nowadays, I turn on any radio station playing modern music, and no 
vocalist catches my ear at all.

And this leads to my present situation.  After 40 years of listening 
to music, I've finally gotten to the stage where it's very rare for 
me to find a new album, that has something distinctive enough for me 
to want to pay money for.  It's seems like I've heard it all.  Same 
vocals, same guitar sound, same lyrics, etc.  Which leads me to 
wonder, has pop music reached the limit as to be able to create 
different sounding music?  Unless you had a unique vocalist, the only 
other possibility would be to spend a ton of effort in production, to 
create different sounds for each song.  In other words, it would be 
the equivalent of a movie that had a huge budget to spend on special 
effects.  Unfortunately, few people seem to have the time and money 
to do that.  And why spend the money to do that, when you have a host 
of novice music listeners that still are willing to send money on 
generic sounding music,

On the other hand, I do feel great that I now have more money 
available to spend on other interests. so I guess I shouldn't be 
complaining.