Ahh but if it wasn`t for the Stone Roses none of those bands would exist ....probably.

Prolly so, sorry, i forgot to mention them. :o:

I put Slayer because practically every fast metal band out there I have seen them state the Slayer has influenced them. Green Day has influnced basically every pop rock/punk band of today though whether that is good or not, I am not sure and I dont think that needs to be debated in this thread.

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God , don`t start all that off again

Stevie Ray Vaughan had a huge impact on blues. He brought it closer to popular music and still kept it real.

I say it's a tie between The Beatles and Led Zepplin. Both have influenced the music market, and both are still finding new fans today...

Slint and Neurosis had a big impact on the music i like.. most wouldnt exist if it wasnt for them, pioneering post-rock and atmospheric metal respectively.

obviously there were bigger influences further back but i dont know them.

I'd say Black Sabbath, this is probably the top influence in metal.

I'd say a toss up between Sabbath and Zeppelin. Pantera are in there too for keeping metal alive and popular in a time when it might have died out.

Depends on the music style...

Obviously Elvis, he basically introduced rock and roll. Led Zeppelin and The Beatles carried that on.

Pink Floyd were impactful because of their great lyrics. Black Sabbath introduced a heavier type of rock.

Metalllica and Megadeth introduced pure heavy metal music and dominated that industry. Then System of a Down, Disturbed and Slipknot (even though I hate Slipknot) introduced a new trend in Nu Metal.

And quite a few other bands were very impactful.

Where's my Bowie?

WTF?:( Nirvana essentially killed hair metal. Simple lyrics maybe, but an entire generation of kids and young adults took notice. Nirvana was to Rock n Roll in the 1990s what Led Zepplin was to Rock N Roll in the late 60s early 70s. It was a revolution. Kurt Cobain had heart and that was something that the hair bands didn't/never had.....this is of course my opinion.

I remember Nirvana before they were big (I live in the Seattle area) and I knew they were going to go far because they didn't try to copy any other bands. Influenced by other bands maybe, but never copied.

I actually admit that I do like Bowie and Elvis Costello....seriously.

I'm not going to argue with you on this. My posts earlier on in the thread already cover pretty much my entire feelings on the matter.

And thanks for making me re-read this thread, I'd almost forgotten why I put boo boo on ignore.

Defintely KURT COBAIN

Kurt Cobain isn't a band.

Van Halen and Queen!

I would have to say the most impact to create a rock like sound would be the Beatles. And I think that metal was created through the music of Led Zepplin.

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KURT COBAIN=NIRVANA

...Cobain = Lead guitarist/vocalist
Krist Novoselic = Bassist
David Grohl = Drummer

As you can see Cobain might have started Nirvana and wrote their lyrics but he does not make the whole band

I like the way he talks of Nirvana as if no-ones ever heard of them before.

I think The Beatles, in terms of impact on me The Smiths. Before them i listened to music every now and again for fun, after i found them it became an obsession.

:cool: There is no doubt that it is the Beatles

It's without a doubt The Beatles.

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Zepplin
The Stooges
Metallica

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Thats one thing i hate..everyone spells it wrong.

the indivivual with the most impact on 20th century music would have to be Louis Armstrong

as for the bands you mentioned i'm not sure

I want to say Pixies for my own biases but that is well wrong. You can't deny their huge impact on music today though. Anyways, The Beatles because good pop music is the easiest way to influence anyone.

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Of those mentioned on the list---the Beatles.

Even if you hate him, Elvis Presley should've been on the list. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones have both admitted that their bands would've never been if it hadn't been for Elvis.

"Before Elvis, there was nothing."--John Lennon

Before Elvis, there were a bunch of black guys doing the same thing.

BB King and Elvis.

You gotta say the Beatles.

Gotta say would not have had motley crue on this list. I'd say van halen has accounted for many more kids taking up guitars in the name of rock than they had. Like the music or not that whole 80s metal scene came straight out of the 1979 release of Van Halen 1.

And yeah elvis should be on the list and so should chuck berry.

Led Zepplin get's my vote.

Tie between Zeppelin and SAbbath. The Beatles come in pretty close though, also.


PLus, it sorta depends....because they're different types of music. They all had big impacts in their genre...for exapmle the pistols were a huge punk band and so forth.

The Beatles had the biggest impact overall.

John Coltrane and the velvet underground.

New Kids On The Block took music and marketing to "a ho 'notha level"

Like it or not, it is a fact