i cant understand how anyone can disagree with the beatles having the biggest impact. even in terms of psychedelia the beatles are the band that elevated this sub-genre to the public conscious. considering the terminology "psychedelia" in a musical context has been around since the Holy Modal Rounders in 1964 it wasnt until the release of sgt. peppers in 1967 that it became a mainstream phenomenon - much like nevermind did for grunge.

Jesus Christ.

1: Logical argument with an insult thrown in.
2: Logical argument ignored, insult is picked at.
3. Repetition of logical argument.
4. Ignoral of logical argument on the grounds of elitism.
5. Repeat.

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Edit: I skipped a couple pages. Best to let sleeping dogs lie... Yep the Beatles certainly changed everything. :)

thank you providing us with a narrative overview.

:clap: WOOooooo!

I would say Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Green Day, Pink Floyd, and Slayer.

Slayer haven't done that much. They've influenced quite a few metal bands around but hardly a huge overall impact.
Green Day have hardly had time to impact on a mass scale. They weren't exactly glamourised for their earlier better stuff, while their later stuff is getting all the glory but it isn't that flash, it just suits the trends of modern punk pop rock today, a trend which will hopefully mature sometime soon.

The others are good and worthy contributors to a mass of music but I'd again stick with the Beatles. Analogy: A building would crumble without a solid foundation. The foundation for bands started with the Beatles.

Thats the way I see it anyway, sure there were others and some are more interesting musically then the Beatles but there simply had to be some band which truely was considered the building blocks for the bands of today, and to me thats the Beatles.

Green day also stole their sound from the 70s punk movement and on terms of influence the Ramones beat Green Day anyday.

I think impact depends on the genre (or culture) someone helped popularize, so looking at it that way, i would say.

Rock N Roll - Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley.
Hard rock - Rolling Stones, Cream, The Who, Led Zeppelin.
Pop - Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna.
Funk - James Brown, Funkadelix, Sly & Family Stone.
Soul/R&B - Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin.
Thrash/Speed Metal - Metallica, Pantera, Slayer.
Metal - Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest.
Pop Metal - Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue.
Punk - The Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols.
Hardcore - Misfits, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys.
Pop Punk - Green Day, Blink 182.
Prog - Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson.
Alternative Rock - Velvet Underground, The Smiths, REM, U2.
Indie Rock - Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine.
Grunge - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden.
New Wave - Blondie, Talking Heads, Devo.
Electronic - Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Depeche Mode.
Disco - Bee Gees, ABBA, Donna Summer.
Psychedelic - Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Love, Jimi Hendrix.
Jam Bands - Grateful Dead, Phish.
Country Rock - The Eagles, Gram Parsons.
Southern Rock - Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers Band, CCR.
Goth Rock - The Cure, Joy Division, Shoixie and The Banshees.
Reggae - Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh.
Pop Rock - Fleetwood Mac, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Rod Stewart.
AOR - Boston, Meat Loaf, Journey.
Folk Rock - Bob Dylan, The Byrds.
Rap/Hip Hop - Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, NWA.
Glam Rock - David Bowie, T Rex, Mott The Hoople, Iggy Pop.
Britpop - Radiohead, Oasis, Manic Street Preachers.
Trip Hop - Portishead, Massive Attack.
Rock Music In General - The Beatles.

Well you get the point, i could cover every genre in existence, but i think i've done enough. :D

Wow......plain and simple huh heh....well....I believe most of those are pretty much correct and would entirely agree with all of them....but not the rock music in general lol just no

I didnt mean ALL rock music, its just that The Beatles have influenced many genres, that it would take a while to list them all, so im basicly saying that ever since the 60s, pretty much every genre of rock music has had some influence from The Beatles in one why or another.