Most influential band in recent history
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Most influential band in recent history
Which band has had the most influence on music in the 20th and 21st centuries? It can be for music as a whole, or just a particular genre.
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Beatels, ABBA or any other of the megasupergroups.
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That really depends. Metallica has annoyingly had a good deal of influence in terms of file sharing and DRM. Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, et al have had a good deal of influence in rock/metal. This really is a bit of a vague question.
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Then you've got the Backstreet Boys ushering the age of the Boy Band! Ew.
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Oasis were certainly one of first bands who started off the whole Indie rock sub genre, despite their many, many faults.
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New Kids on the Block where first.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Then you've got the Backstreet Boys ushering the age of the Boy Band! Ew.
I'd go with The Beatles, no other band in this world influenced more types of music. Even Ozzy says they where a major influence on his career.
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Beatles, Run DMC, Nirvana.
the first for the sheer range of people they influenced, the second two for ushering in new styles of music
the first for the sheer range of people they influenced, the second two for ushering in new styles of music
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The Beatles are the big name in modern Western musical song structure, in my humble opinion. Black Sabbath have already done all the best riffs. I would also defer to the Beatles overall for most shaping the music of the second half of the 20th century.
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No, that would be The Beatles and their millions of screaming fans.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Then you've got the Backstreet Boys ushering the age of the Boy Band! Ew.
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What? One of the first?? Oasis was about 25 years too late to be a first and they're anything but an indie band.Dartzap wrote:Oasis were certainly one of first bands who started off the whole Indie rock sub genre, despite their many, many faults.
What about all the underground folk and psychedelic blues bands in the 60's?
What about all the DIY punk rock in the 70's?
Or the new wave and college rock stuff in the 80's?
Besides, the album that made them famous was on a major label, iirc.
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Regarding the OP, and to not repeat what's already been said...hmmm
60's - Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath
70's - Bad Brains, Clash
80's - REM
All bands that helped start or mature their respective genres.
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Moving on from the early rock era which the major players have been listed (except for The Doors - FOR SHAME PEOPLE!), I'll say Run DMC - they brought Hip-Hop to the mainstream, popularised it and proved that it could be an enormous commercial success.
From them we get so much (good and bad) that its hard to go past them as iconic.
From them we get so much (good and bad) that its hard to go past them as iconic.
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Hell ya, RunDMC rocked.
You know, to be historically accurate, NWA should be mentioned in the Rap/Hip-hop catergory too. EazyE, Doctor Dre and what-his-nuts. They really changed the face of rap. Before them we had Grandmaster Flash and The Sugar Hill Gang rapping things like "come on everybody, clap your hands, 'cause we bad, oh yeah, we bad." Then NWA comes out saying things like "Straight outta Compton, mutha fucka, yo fuck the po-lice".
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Hell ya, RunDMC rocked.
You know, to be historically accurate, NWA should be mentioned in the Rap/Hip-hop catergory too. EazyE, Doctor Dre and what-his-nuts. They really changed the face of rap. Before them we had Grandmaster Flash and The Sugar Hill Gang rapping things like "come on everybody, clap your hands, 'cause we bad, oh yeah, we bad." Then NWA comes out saying things like "Straight outta Compton, mutha fucka, yo fuck the po-lice".
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I read the title and assumed of the last 10-20 years, so I'd say Nirvana (It's been sixteen years and they're still a primary influence on new rock bands, after all), and since the focus of mainstream rap in the last decade seems to have shifted from talking about thug life to talking about material goods, whichever rapper was first to do that (Ludacris?)
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You mean rap actually talked about anything besides guns, killings, money, cars, hos and drugs?Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I read the title and assumed of the last 10-20 years, so I'd say Nirvana (It's been sixteen years and they're still a primary influence on new rock bands, after all), and since the focus of mainstream rap in the last decade seems to have shifted from talking about thug life to talking about material goods, whichever rapper was first to do that (Ludacris?)
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Yes! Although rap has sadly devolved into thug-life machismo, the following is one of the first 'rap' songs ever, from 1971:General Zod wrote:You mean rap actually talked about anything besides guns, killings, money, cars, hos and drugs?
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No, that would be the Monkees. I don't count the Beatles because they could actually play their instruments, whereas the Monkees were there to look pretty.Lord Pounder wrote:New Kids on the Block where first.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Then you've got the Backstreet Boys ushering the age of the Boy Band! Ew.
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Oasis re-enlivened the indie genre they didn't start it, indie grew out of the post punk scene in the early 80s with the indie scene initially getting going with bands like the Smiths, it's kept on going ever since with bands like the Stone Roses, Oasis & the Arctic Monkeys breaking through to the mainstream every once in a while and inspiring a whole bunch of copy cat bands.Dartzap wrote:Oasis were certainly one of first bands who started off the whole Indie rock sub genre, despite their many, many faults.
As for the most influential band of recent history I'd look to people who actually kickstarted broad genres. After the likes of Chuck Berry got rock and roll going everything the Beatles, Led Zepplin, Sex Pistols, Nirvana... did was variations within the template he and other rock and roll pioneers set out.
The next thing to come along and radically change popular music was probably hip-hop with maybe Grandmaster Flash as good a pioneer as any to focus on.
He's not the best known figure but I'd also put Frankie Knuckes the guy who did more than any other to create 'house music' which has spawned a varied and massively popular range of music styles right up there in terms of influence.
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Would Ray Charles and his band count? (He all but invented a new style of "Gospel" influenced Jazz, though I'll need to double-check to see that he was the first, and wasn't outdone by others).
Also I'll add another "vote" for "The Beatles" (Literally everyone has heard of them, you can't tell me that they haven't influenced many a budding artist), as well as "Pink Floyd", Queen & David Bowie (To a slightly lesser degree).
I've heard that Bruce Springsteen might also be applicable in terms of Country rock/music at the least (My dad is a huge fan)
Also I'll add another "vote" for "The Beatles" (Literally everyone has heard of them, you can't tell me that they haven't influenced many a budding artist), as well as "Pink Floyd", Queen & David Bowie (To a slightly lesser degree).
I've heard that Bruce Springsteen might also be applicable in terms of Country rock/music at the least (My dad is a huge fan)
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