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View Poll Results: The Most Influential Rock Artist
The Rolling Stones 12 3.74%
The Beatles 152 47.35%
The Who 12 3.74%
Led Zeppelin 28 8.72%
The Kinks 4 1.25%
Bob Dylan 41 12.77%
Jim Hendrix 37 11.53%
The Velvet Underground 35 10.90%
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Old 11-24-2008, 03:23 PM   #161 (permalink)
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Agreed. It's pretty ignorant to say you don't listen to music influenced by The Beatles, I just think The Kinks, VU, and Dylan have PROBABLY influenced better music.
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Old 11-24-2008, 03:46 PM   #162 (permalink)
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I voted for Hendrix, although in hindsight I probably should have voted for The Beatles simply based on their sheer ubiquitous presence in pop music.

Having said that Hendrix was hugely influential upon guitarists and pioneered the use of distortion and effects pedals. I'd say his incursions into psychedelic were far more convincing than The Beatles.
And I don't think it would be stretching it to say that he had a massive influence on prog rock's formation and the increase in technicality that came with the genre.
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Old 11-24-2008, 10:37 PM   #163 (permalink)
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Every Britpop band in existence.
The Beatles influenced about every Power Pop band also in existence and much of early Progressive Rock

Cheap Trick
Badfinger
The Rasberries
The Knack
Big Star
The Cars
Gin Blossoms

Yes
Adrian Belew of King Crimson
Syd Barrett
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead "The Beatles were why we turned from a jug band into a rock and roll band," said Bob Weir.
The Moody Blues
Kurt Cobain and David Grohl
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys was inspired by Rubber Soul that he created Pet Sounds
Radiohead- "Karma Police" is based on "Sexy Sadie" and "Paraniod Andriod" is based on "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Beck - "New Pollution" rips off "Tomorrow Never Knows"
The Chemical Brothers- has at least songs influenced by "Tomorrow Never Knows" including "Setting Sun" and "Let Forever Be"
Oasis
The Jam
Blur
Queen
Bono- calls the Beatles his biggest influence.

If you type on the beatles biography from answers on google. There is a list of Beatles followers which is about the combined amount of followers of the Kinks and the Velvet Underground combined.
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Old 11-25-2008, 03:51 AM   #164 (permalink)
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I don't go around remembering all bands that are not just influenced by the Beatles, but actually also say so to the media, so I had to do a search. Here are some of the more known bands / artists that came up.
  • Oasis
  • Panic at the Disco
  • Ozzy Osbourne (black sabbath)
  • Richard Ashcroft (from the Verve)
  • Dave Matthews (from Dave Matthews Band)
  • Billy Joel
  • Tommy James and the Shondells
  • Jonas Brothers
  • Stone Sour
  • Cheap Trick
  • Andy Burrows (from Razorlight)
  • Roger McGuinn (from The Byrds)
  • The Ghetto Brothers

Note this is more than you asked for .. I also found many more, but not as big names. I'm sure more biggies would have come up if I'd spent a little more time, though.

Listing the bands influenced by the Beatles would obviously be a practically impossible.

"You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off" ~ Billy Corgan
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Wow, you're rather ingenuous. You could win an award for that or something.
What the hell is your problem?
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Old 11-25-2008, 06:16 AM   #165 (permalink)
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The best example is the Byrds and partly Dylan going electric because of the Beatles chord progressions.
When ever was the Beatles' chord progressions stated as a reason for Dylan (or the Byrds for that matter) going electric? Folk rock was never the Beatles' idea.

And for the last time, the Beatles weren't doing anything particularly unique or groundbreaking with chord progressions in 62-65. It was just more interesting than the useless Merseybeat and other rock'n'roll/r&b acts of the same early 60s era.
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Elvis Presley

Before Elvis, there was nothing
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Elvis Presley

Before Elvis, there was nothing ...except good music.
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The fact that there was tons of good music pre-elvis, and music that wasn't influenced by Elvis.
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The fact that there was tons of good music pre-elvis, and music that wasn't influenced by Elvis.
Right. But you can't deny that there was tons of good music influenced by Elvis as well.
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