very roughly:
- Blink 182
- Green Day, Offspring
- NOFX, Bad Religion, Rancid, ska-punk (the genre)
- Ramones, The Clash
- Descendents
- Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Bad Brains
- Minutemen, Husker Du, Fugazi
- Sonic Youth (the main band that basically changed my ideas about music)
- Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Jesus Lizard
- Velvet Underground, Stooges, Television, Talking Heads
- British post-punk and NY no-wave
From there, I got into all sorts of things at once, really. Post-punk was the centrepoint of my taste in music.
- I checked out The Jesus and Mary Chain, which led to My Bloody Valentine, and shoegaze
- Fugazi led to Unwound, Rites of Spring and Drive Like Jehu...and then onto experimental "emo" and post-hardcore music.
- The Fall, This Heat and Swell Maps led to "krautrock" like Can and Faust
- stuff like Pere Ubu led to Beefheart, The Residents, and from there onto generally weird and experimental music.
by this time I was also checking out indie and alternative classics like Slint (which led to "math-rock" i guess), Pavement, Pixies and Beat Happening.
Overall, post-punk has probably been my biggest musical influence.
that was fun!
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