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Alex Scoble
What musicians or bands most influenced your musical tastes? In other words, what bands or musicians would make your life suck if they didn't exist?
April 24
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Michael Jackson.
- Mona Nomura
My life would genuinely suck without Incognito (http://incognito.org.uk/)!
- Rene Wirtz
Chocolate.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
For me it's: Kraftwerk, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Front 242, Sex Pistols (and various other punk era bands like Talking Heads), 311, New Order/Joy Division and Depeche Mode.
- Alex Scoble
John Cale, Robert Wyatt, Blaine L Reininger, Holger Czukay
- Majento
The Beatles (because they're the best group in the history of music) and Phil Keaggy (because he's the best guitar player that ever lived).
- Jim Hearts FF
The Clash, The Rolling Stones, Floyd
- teh Dork Knight
Early life: New Order, Rush, and Led Zeppelin. Lately: Sum 41, Billy Talent, The Offspring, Yellowcard, and many others of that ilk.
- David Muir
John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Joe Pass. Eddie Van Halen, SRV, Andre Segovia, Steve Morse, Jaco Pastorius, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, Joe Henderson, Wes Montgomery, Betty Carter, Michael Brecker, The Beatle, BTO, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Duke Ellington, Prince, Albert King, Albert Collins, Larry Carlton, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Jackson 5, Aerosmith, Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Randy Rhoads, John Scofield, Gorge Duke, George Benson
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Van Halen, King's X, Duran Duran, Journey, Def Leppard, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Tears for Fears, John Patitucci, Pat Metheny Group, New Order, Depeche Mode, Scritti Politti, Michael Jackson, Earth Wind and Fire, Pink Floyd, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Miles Davis, John Coltrane.
- Josh Haley
None. I have no doubt in the absence of the performers I already like I'd just find other. There's no one I'm that attached to.
- Soup
The Skatellites, Duran Duran, Billie Holiday, A Tribe Called Quest (actually, I'd rather say Prince Paul) , Tito Puente, Miles Davis, Price Buster (grrr, I admit it!), Mudhoney, Aretha Franklin, Desmond Dekker, Joy Division, Chick Korea, The Supremes. I recognize these bands/people as highly influential. They inspired so many other awesome bands/musicians.
- Anika
The Cure, The Smiths, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, NWA, The Beatles, Jamiroquai ...edit: and 7 Seconds
- Bren, Photophobe
Fats Domino, The Platters, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Judy Bright, Janis Joplin, Nana Mouskouri, Demis Roussous, Dire Straits, Talking Heads and many Yugoslav bands....
- Bora Zivkovic
The Beatles, The Rollling Stones, Allman Brothers, Phil Nimmons, Boss Brass, Ellington, Coltrane, Oscar Peterson, Ed Bickert, Jay McShann
- Brian Sullivan
The 60's folk music my parents listened to when I was a kid (though I didn't realize it at the time), Pixies, Cure, Sugarcubes, Pulp, Lone Justice/Maria McKee, X (the Los Angeles one, not X Japan), Miles Davis, Sundays
- Jeremy Brooks
Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Sid Barrett, Miles Davis, David Grisman, Bill Monroe, Bob Marley, Toots, to name a few
- Bill Scherer
Oh I forgot Guru. His Jazzmatazz series introduced just about all of the 'neo-soul' artists and nerd-hop rappers that we know today.
- Anika
Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson and Motown, BeeGees, Beatles...my musical tastes are varied. I thoroughly enjoy Girl Talk, if that says anything about me.
- Mike Nayyar
Falconer. They showed me what music could be.
- i80and
New Wave and New Romantics stuff of the early 80s. Love techno now, and think that listening to bands like Ultravox and Visage contributed. Also like Gary Numan -- but the more obscure stuff, i.e. *not* "Cars." Can also recall the first time I listened to "Lone Rhinoceros" by Adrian Belew. Wow. My tastes today are pretty varied.
- Sue Radd
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Who, Miles Davis, John Coltrane
- Paul
from twhirl
Ted Nugent, Alanis Morrisette, Debbie Gibson, Quiet Riot and Antonio Vivaldi. I know strange; but honest.
- Larry
Metallica, Rush, Black Sabbath, Satyricon, Emperor, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Monroe, Bobby Bland, Earnest Tubb, Dissection, Slayer, Pink Floyd
- metalerik
just about every pop/R&B/hip-hop artist who was hot from the late 1950s through about 1989. a lot of that is my parents fault. dad had a ridiculous funk-R&B vinyl collection. i think he still does. i can't name them all and i have revised them with age. stuff i didn't like as a kid (ex: p-funk and Nina Simone) is stuff i jam to regularly.*BUT* if i had to narrow that down, i'd say parliament/funkadelic, michael jackson, gap band, cameo's later stuff, and quincy jones, jamiroquai, ATCQ, grandmaster flash...
- tiffany
... sugar hill gang, public enemy, paul simon (er, *just* his graceland concert/album), dave brubeck and tito puente. EDIT how could i forget james brown and earth, wind & fire? EWF = the sh*t.
- tiffany
The Beatles.
- Laura B coughin'
Al Jourgensen.
- Mark H
Prince, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Duran Duran, Funkadelic/Parliament, Isaac Hayes, Jimi Hendrix, Ice Cube's first solo album, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Morrissey/The Smiths, Digital Underground, Eric B. & Rakim, The Beasties, Kurtis Blow, LL, Jackson 5, Nirvana, Bob Marley and the Wailers...I dunno; I'm all over the place.
- Derrick
Willie Nelson and Robert earl Keene Jr.
- Cody Heitschmidt
The Who, BB King, Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath, Astor Piazzolla
- John Dupuis
Beastie Boys, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, Santana, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, Beethoven, U2, Norah Jones, Queen
- Rodfather
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Steely Dan. There are other bands I would miss if they didn't exist -- too many to list, really -- but those three are essential to me.
- Kevin Shaum
Top 5: Bach, Beatles, Dire Straits, Cranberries, and Miss Peggy Lee. There are others, but these would be most missed.
- Michael W. May
The Beatles and Kraftwerk, of course :D
- Baard @ Pixum
Jacques Brel
- Pierre Lindenbaum
The Beatles, Judy Garland, J.S. Bach, The Cardigans, Rilo Kiley.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Bach, Beethoven, Zappa, Peter Hammill, SRV, Gentle Giant
- Kevin Johnson
the pixies. blondie. steeleye span. led zeppelin. the damned. jesus and mary chain. the ink spots. hank williams.
- edythe
Charlie Parker, Dizzy, Ellington, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Ella, Billie, Jacques Brel, Brassens, Leo Ferré, Aznavour, Barbara...
- directeur
Chaka Khan.
- Ms_Krista
Ms_Krista, you're watching "arte", aren't you? [saw her 5 minutes ago on arte, the franco-german TV channel]
- directeur
Chopin, Saint-Saen, Robert Johnson, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Front 242, Human Drama, Johnny Cash, Throwing Muses, Pink Floyd (Roger Waters era), Blue October, Mark Lanegan, Nirvana, Ella Fitzgerald, and a lot more
- William Harryman
Boney M, Phil Collins (ok, maybe just "In the Air Tonight" - truly the Stairway to Heaven of the Miami Vice Generation), Slayer (still the greatest HARD rock band of all time), Eazy-E, Skatallites, Alton Ellis, Wu-Tang Clan, M.I.A.
- Adrian
Outkast
- fijidaddy
I totally forgot about Wu-Tang and Outkast
- Rodfather
Zepplin, Kiss, BT, Pink Floyd, Tiesto, Motley Crue (yep), Guns n roses, Tool, Most classical, A whole lotta Jazz, Industrial, Skinny Puppy, Sixx AM (now), The Smiths, The Cult, Depeche Mode, Prince, The Cure, Duran Duran, Faithless, Fluke, Marvin Gaye, and the many many others
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Most recently, I can't listen enough to Amos Lee & Eric Hutchinson
- Dennis O'Neil
Depeche Mode, Laurie Anderson, Kansas, The Cure, REM, U2
- Gunny Wallen
crap, how did I forget The Cure and U2, not to mention Black Flag
- William Harryman
Take out all the one-word musicians and you have a highly diverse and high quality musical landscape.
- Alex Scoble
Brit pop bands such as Oasis, old school rap by Run DMC and Beastie Boys, grunge acts such as Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden, and ambient music made by groups like Boards of Canada
- Dave "Freedom 35"
The Beatles, BDP, Madonna, Pedro Infante, Police, ATCQ, Beastie Boys, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Julio Jaramillo, Rage Against the Machine, Jill Scott, Ozomatli, Eric B. & Rakim, The Supremes, Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand, Flans, Selena, Journey, Sade ... I'm gonna keep thinking about this and no doubt I'll wish I'd included others but this is what's coming to mind now.
- ♥patricia♥
smashing pumpkins, tool, radiohead, bjork, lamb of god, kittie, perfect circle, billie holiday, catpower, azure ray (most i dont listen to daily anymore but they did influence my taste for sure)
- Briana Franco
+1 for Edythe for the JAMC, they were the one band who influenced what I did on stage. Apart from them - My other influences: Moe Berg, Dan Treacy, Wim Mertens.
- Iain Baker
I grew up in the 90s, so there were TONS of cool acts to listen to.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Johnny Cash, Jimmie Hendrix, Elmore James, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Armstrong and last but not least Simon and Garfunkel.
- Kim Landwehr
Motley Crue (of old), Pantera, Dream Theater, In Flames, Opeth, Tori Amos, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Vivaldi
- Christopher Galtenberg
Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Feeder, Stereophonics, Nirvana, INXS (with Michael Hutchence), Blur, Oasis, Paul Weller, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and David Bowie
- Emma
Madonna (cher, phil collins, 80's .. ) couldn't live without that great musical/ romantic music .. decade!
- David Lynch
Carlos Santana, Rob Thomas, Don Henley - very talented writers as well as musicians.
- Janet
My life would certainly be very different if Glen Campbell didn't exist.
- Glen Campbell
Haha Glen.
- Rodfather
Mozart, the Beatles
- Kate Foy
Iraimbilanja (a band from Madagascar), Boston, Led Zep, Van Halen, Nicolo Paganini, Joe Satriani, Téléphone, Louis Bertignac
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Bumblefoot, The Smashing Pumpkins, Prince and Michel Polnareff.
- Brome
The Fiery Furnaces / Matthew Friedberger, Beck, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Pulp, Of Montereal, The Beatles.
- Martin Bryant
Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Velvet Underground, Hendrix, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Uncle Tupelo, Nirvana, Weezer, Outkast, Tribe Called Quest, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Magnetic Fields, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, The Streets...lately The Walkmen, White Stripes, Strokes, Ratatat, Iron & Wine...and dozens of other acts *deep breath*
- Jeffrey Marsh
A lot of these bands are here because at the point in time when I was listening to them, my life would've sucked without them: Simon and Garfunkel, Indigo Girls, Sarah McLachlan, Madonna, Beatles, Green Day, Nerissa and Katrina Nields, Common Rotation, The Submarines.
- Lis Miller
I have pretty eclectic taste in general but I don't think I could do without The Smiths, Morrissey's solo stuff, The Cure, Suede, Siouxsie, Cocteau Twins, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Stevie Wonder and Ozzy.
- adf
Miles Davis, Soft Machine, Joy Division, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Radio Massacre International
- andrei_c
To name a few: | **Newish**: Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Offspring, Dave Matthews, Metallica, Green Day, Creed, Staind, Linkin Park, NIN, Korn, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, White Zombie, Sublime, 311, Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg | **Oldish**: Frank Sinatra, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Allman Brothers, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, The Doors, George Thorogood, Guns N' Roses, The Rolling Stones
- David Cook
The Mountain Goats; Neil Young; The Swell Season
- Mark Traphagen
The Smiths/Morrissey, Beastie Boys, Sublime, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, STP, Chemical Brothers, EPMD, Ice Cube, Marvin Gaye, Interpol, Alice in Chains, Third Eye Blind, 311, Radiohead, U2, Prince, Blink-182, Fishbone, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, 2Pac
- Live4Emma (L4S)
KATE BUSH, Depeche Mode, Ben Folds, the Pogues, Tom Waits, the Beatles, Chaka Khan, U2, Radiohead, Ultravox, the Cure, the Smiths, Sade, Cocteau Twins, the Sugarcubes, the English Beat, the Specials, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Snow Patrol, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Tori Amos, the Jam
- Helen Sventitsky
Taking it to the root (as in without these artists I can't imagine other artists that followed registering or even existing) - The Jacksons, Aretha Franklin, Bjork, Stevie Wonder, New Edition, Oingo Boingo, De La Soul, Sleater-Kinney, Nina Simone, the Nuyorican Soul album, James Brown, The Brand New Heavies, Sergio Mendes, Roy Ayers, Dee-Lite
- Jason Toney
Tom Jobim, Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies (cool to see those already listed here!), and Jason's also right about the Nuyorican Soul album. Pharcyde & Nas, and a few years before them, ATCQ and De La. If I were really really honest, there would be some not-that-great acts who I liked at the time and were introductions of a sort to genres where I then found better acts.
- Andrew C
Nine Inch Nails, The Chemical Brothers, Beastie Boys and Stevie Ray Vaughn
- Christian (Simply X)
The Cat Empire, Public Enemy, Blu & Exile, The Beatles, The Go! Team, Gogol Bordello, Burial
- Louis Simoneau
The 'foundational' stuff, in no particular order: Jean Michel Jarre, REM, The Police, U2, Oingo Boingo, Devo, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, The The, The Cure, Talking Heads, Tori Amos...
- Anthony Citrano
Current 93, Einstürzende Neubauten, Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Nursery, Mannheim Steamroller, and Jean Michel Jarre more than any other. Also, J.S. Bach, Philip Glass, and Arvo Pärt. And, to a lesser extent, Meat Beat Manifesto, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. Oh, and life without Ruins (and any of Tatsuya's other projects such as Korekyojin) and Merzbow isn't a life worth living.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Michael Jackson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nina Simone, Prince
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
George Clinton, Sly Stone, Prince, Patrice Rushen, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, De La Soul, Sade, Rick James, EPMD, Digital Underground, NWA, Steely Dan, Genesis, Rufus, The Police, Brand New Heavies
- Bryan R. Adams
Noir Désir, Nada Surf, Radiohead, Girls in Hawaii
- Stanislas Jourdan
John Lennon, Billy Joel, Pail Simon, REM, Led Zepplin. Common theme - lyrics.
- Steve C
Megadeth, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, The Bee Gees, The Mothers of Invention, not really a band but Wagner.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Sonic Youth
- Philip Tomlinson
Beatles, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, The Alman Brothers, and Jimi Hendrix
- Brent - Long Live Rock