Most Influential Artists / Bands Of All Time

[zacspeed]

Go on then, give us your top 5 most influential artists / bands of all time, not just your favourites. As a noob, I suspect this topic is as old as the hills, but go on, humour me.
Mine would have to be (in no particular order):
1. The Smiths
2. Fleetwood Mac
3. Marvin Gaye
4. Nirvana
5. Muddy Waters

Jeez, This is harder than I thought.

[Z]

the beatles?...i dunno. :P

[djong1]

Elvis
Michael Jackson (my favourite)
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[ezyryder]

Thinking of this from an influence prespective and NOT perhaps what I like (altho I do :) )

1: Chuck Berry did engineer a new style of guitar
2: Jimi Hendrix, he took this further and his creation of feedback/effects/whammy bar/wah wah and tone, touch can still be heard
3: Beatles. I think we all know what they done
4: Nirvana started off the whole grunge-nu metal phase
5: Anthrax/Chili's Began the whole Rap/metal sorta thing

that will do for now, my brain is too tired

[carbert]

descendents/bad religion influenced a lot of the bands i listen to

[Icebound]

no beethoven? :o

[artmaster88]

Run DMC

[marlowe_is_dead]

j.s. bach
w. a. mozart
l. van beethoven
f. chopin
chuck berry

[sojoko]

Working on the basis that the period up to 1910 is ignored!!!

1. Robert Johnson
2. Elvis presley
3. Beatles
4. Sex Pistols
5. MARRS
:D
Hundreds of other influential artists/bands but....

[ezyryder]

ah, how could I forget the king of blues himself! Robert Johnson, the crossroads man who only appeared in two pictures :)

[soopaman]

Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash for mixing break-beats together and using record decks in an innovative fashion by scratching and cutting. They invented Hip Hop and I can only thank them for that.
:D

[Ad]

Thease bands influanced me alot

Crowded House
Led Zepplehn
Beatles
Faith No more (growing Up)
Stone Temple Pilots (growing Up)

[alan36uk]

The Jam !!
Nuff said ;)

[Th£ Bo$$]

The Beatles,The Jam and Kool Herc

[opivy]

Nirvana
Sex Pistols
Jimi Hendrix
Beatles

[Bass]

Stuart Hamm
Mark King
Jaco Pastorias
Geddy Lee
John Entwhistle


jaco & John, RIP.

(can you include dead people?)

cheers,
Bass. :ph34r:

[zacspeed]

[QUOTE](can you include dead people?)
Sure, dead people must be in the list to make it a true reflection B)

[sArA]

@Bass.....surprise surprise, they are all Bass players I believe!!!!

[Bass]

Hello Sara,thought you might be with your intelectual buddies on the Iraq conflict thread.I did post a reply,but my verbal deffication skills are a bit sloooooow today. :D
How are you my dear,and how are the kids?
I`ll be sending a few movies with Ant for you,well, 1 for you and 2 for the little people,so you should get em tomorrow.
So, WHAT ARE YOUR MOST INFLUENTIAL ARTIST/BANDS?.............
1. MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..................... :lol:




SEE YA LATER .
Dave.

[soopaman]

Most Influential Artists:

Kevin Saunderson

Derrick May

Juan Atkins

These 3 are the Godfathers of Detroit Techno. Truly influential artists responsible for practically the entire Techno/House/Dance scene past, present and future.

I salute them. B)

[neil1967]

top 5

not in any specific order mind, and let's face it you can't help putting youre
own favourites in.

the velvet underground(advertising cars and things now/beggers belief)
of course the sex pistols and elvis(only because if you were not a jazz
fan in the late fifties and didnt like the ink spots rock n roll was the teen rebels choice) james brown(good god!) and just for bass, james jamerson,
(i don't know the name of his tribute website of the top of my head but if
you like bass youll love james, check him out).rant over.

[Jayhawk]

MILES DAVIS

[Kid1A]

Queen

Bruce Springsteen

U2

[death0matic]

Nirvana - Without Nirvana I just can't think of anything else
Led Zeppelin[B]- I Still Listen to LZ
Jimi Hendrix - Hell Yeah
The Beatles - I'm not a fan of dem but yea one of the most Influential
The Doors - Hey i'm only 19 Years Old.
The Clash[B] - oh yea sex pistols n the ramones :ph34r:

[Benno]

The Beatles
Queen
Jimi Hendrix