What bands do people rate as having been influential in the music scene?
Here are some that I rate:
The Beatles (defined "Britpop" for all those 90's bands to rip off, by blending the sounds of Negro soul, and White-boy wig-outs).
Nirvana (defined, and popularised the chorus-verse-chorus, and loud-soft-loud movement of the 90's).
Sex Pistols (popularised punk - sold, but not sold out).
Joy Division/New Order (initiated the "gothic" movement, as well as introducing sythentic dance beats and sounds to punk rock - creating a distinctive sound all of their own which has become a much worked template by other bands).
R.E.M. (one of the fore-founders of alternative - need we say more?).
Smashing Pumpkins (mastered the production rooms, giving birth to the "layered" and guitar sounds of most current rock acts and the "perfectionist" trends across a wide spectrum of current music, along with rejigging the "expected" from a rock act by combining genres to form new genres/sounds).
Sonic Youth (challenged alternative music with the concept of atonality, along with the introduction of various new ways to produce sounds).
Of course there are a lot more, but these are just a few to get things started. Anyone with any thoughts on the bands I've mentioned, or in regards to other bands on the topic of "influence"??
Here are some that I rate:
The Beatles (defined "Britpop" for all those 90's bands to rip off, by blending the sounds of Negro soul, and White-boy wig-outs).
Nirvana (defined, and popularised the chorus-verse-chorus, and loud-soft-loud movement of the 90's).
Sex Pistols (popularised punk - sold, but not sold out).
Joy Division/New Order (initiated the "gothic" movement, as well as introducing sythentic dance beats and sounds to punk rock - creating a distinctive sound all of their own which has become a much worked template by other bands).
R.E.M. (one of the fore-founders of alternative - need we say more?).
Smashing Pumpkins (mastered the production rooms, giving birth to the "layered" and guitar sounds of most current rock acts and the "perfectionist" trends across a wide spectrum of current music, along with rejigging the "expected" from a rock act by combining genres to form new genres/sounds).
Sonic Youth (challenged alternative music with the concept of atonality, along with the introduction of various new ways to produce sounds).
Of course there are a lot more, but these are just a few to get things started. Anyone with any thoughts on the bands I've mentioned, or in regards to other bands on the topic of "influence"??
The Chair's audience has grown with them rather than just grow out of them and drop off when they get older.
why can't ppl like both of them like me!
and it is thanks to them we have the creatins of Five, westlife etc etc. 
Or that 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' sounds uncannily like 'Wonderful' 
