What band/music has influenced you most?
What band/music influenced you the most, what was it about the music that did influence you and does it still have the same effect on you todayas it did then?
Wow, good stuff. Um, well, it's pretty hard to narrow it down to one band. I think most people will say the Beatles. I wanna say REM, but it's difficult to be influenced by a band if you can't understand half their lyrics. I almost wanted to say Petra, the Christian rock band. Living Colour carried me for a few years. In the last few years, Rufus Wainwright and Amy Winehouse have been very inspiring for me.
Still, in the end, if I could see anyone perform, living or dead, I would say Luke Kelly, the Irish folk singer from the 60's/70's. His voice cuts right to the soul. The feeling in his music can move me to tears. Especially when he sings about The Town I loved So Well or Scorn Not His Simplicity. Absolutely love his music and wish I could have seen him live.
Frank Zappa. Maybe not as much for his music as for his philosophy. He was one of the great minds of the Twentieth Century and most people just see him as some weird transgressive rock star. I could engrave at least twenty of his off-the-cuff quotes in stone, that's how smart he was. He basically gave the finger to anyone who wanted him to be someone they wanted him to be in any sense or fashion. And that's helped me a lot because I struggle with outside expectations and what I feel in my heart. Frank did what he knew inside himself was right, and it ended up working for him insanely well. A true talent and inspiration today.
I'm going to bore you. The big three for me (in chronological sequence) are the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Radiohead. I think Pink Floyd and Radiohead still affect me the same way-- I think I overplayed the Beatles for decades. The dead spaces for me include American pop before the Beatles, Disco, Rap and now. Occasionally, something interesting arises, but the music business seems intent on cranking out sausages.
by shazwellyn 15 years ago
Let me start .. Joy Division, because of unique sound. There really wasnt anything like it at the time and since. Many bands model themselves on them and they are thought of as highly influencial. If it werent for Joy division, there may not have been Editor and Interpol, for example.
by Jim Dorsch 13 years ago
PhoenixV wrote a hub with this title, and concluded that the answer is Led Zeppelin, for various reasons.I countered that the Beatles were most influential because they wrote their own songs, something almost unheard of at the time, and that this changed bands forever by removing the songwriters...
by Wayne Brown 13 years ago
Will there ever be another marked influence in rock music?Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Presley influenced the music of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and those groups in term influenced rock for many more years to come and still do to a degree....
by Brandon Bailey 11 years ago
What is Your favorite band and why? Have they influenced you as a person?
by Mr. Phantasm 13 months ago
I think they're the two greatest bands in history, but only one can be the best. In my opinion, the Beatles were better. They evolved so far in such a short amount of time, and so much of their music paved the way for bands that came years after them. Everyone from Lynyrd Skynyrd...
by Animosity Reborn 12 years ago
What is your favourite music band of all time?
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