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[Dazed]

Pretty much, I was just mainly listing rock because it's what I (kind of?) know. Need more specifics before I can break it down further.

[Thrillho]

Not one of you mention Prince? Not one! Or Bob Marley! BOB FUCKING MARLEY!

Also, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye pretty much have to be in the list for the 70's. Also, Stooges. Also, Beach Boys. Also, Johnny Cash.

Basically I think we can conclude that this is pretty much impossible without sub-division into genres.

I mentioned the Stooges.

[nufan]

I mentioned the Stooges.

Fair enough, the second list was bands that needed to be repeated. Still, you'd think someone would have thought of Bob Marley.

[Alex C]

It's the 5 band limit nufan, trust me. Khar and I were talking about Johnny Cash on gabbly the other day and basically came to the conclusion that it should be more like 50 bands per decade.

I thought of Bob Marley, but I was trying not to make my list into a list of bands that I think people overlooked. As for Prince, it's really neat how he's blended so many things together, but he's so strongly influenced by so many different sources that it's tough to gauge how truly influential he is outside of the '80s.

As for Johnny Cash, one could argue that it's equally ridiculous that Merle Haggard wasn't mentioned anywhere. Or Willie Nelson or Loretta Lynn. I mean, seriously, Willie wrote something like a billion songs over the years.

[KharBevNor]

I can easily imagine Tool and Meshuggah influencing each other, because they're both kind of shit.

If you think Tool are heavy metal you have no real idea what heavy metal is as a discrete genre and aesthetic. It's not a matter of taste or debate or elitism or anything. Whether something is metal or not has no reflection on its quality, though I'm not personally much of a fan of Tool, it is just a fact. Saying Tool are metal is just as ridiculous as saying, for example, Big Black or KMFDM are metal.

[Thrillho]

As for Johnny Cash, one could argue that it's equally ridiculous that Merle Haggard wasn't mentioned anywhere. Or Willie Nelson or Loretta Lynn. I mean, seriously, Willie wrote something like a billion songs over the years.

Willie did a lot of other people's songs, though. But I'm okay with letting that slide because I'm adding Elvis to the list. He - or rather, the Colonel - is basically responsible for popular music.

[Dimmukane]

In my eyes Tool have always been a prog band, which is why I thought the Meshuggah comparison they made was strange.  They're just so far removed from prog than most of the other bands out there, so that's where the uncertainty comes from.  They haven't done anything that paints them as a metal band other than use lower keys and distorted guitars, which is something many non-metal bands are guilty of.  What they have done is taken complicated/busy music and made it listenable/enjoyable for people who can't follow everything that's going on, and that might be how they're influencing other bands.

For the record, Tool's okay, I have to be in the right mood to listen to them.

[Joseph]

Not going to make a list of my own at this point, but I'll suggest two names which haven't come up at all, which really should be on the list if you're going to acknowledge that hip-hop exists.

Gil Scott-Heron
The Last Poets

[Alex C]

Willie did a lot of other people's songs, though. But I'm okay with letting that slide because I'm adding Elvis to the list. He - or rather, the Colonel - is basically responsible for popular music.

I'm not sure what you mean there. Do you mean that he wrote songs for a lot of other people or that he performed a lot of songs written by other people? I suppose it doesn't really matter though, because both are true. I should mention that when I was saying "If we say Johnny Cash, we may as well mention...", I wasn't intending to mean that as any kind of slight towards Cash. I just really intended to highlight that we're being needlessly reductive no matter how we handle this.

[Thrillho]

What I meant was that a lot of Willie's most notable songs are covers, as with Elvis.