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The most influential/important bands of each decade
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 27 Nov 2008, 18:07 ---Over all, I find these lists so far hilariously lacking in R&B and black people in general.
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And yet for your 60s list you mention the Rolling Stones but not Muddy Waters? I mean no, he wasn't a product of the 60s, but he was active then and it was in that decade that a thousand English kids started paying attention to him.
Also Sam Cooke.
Alex C:
If we had started this up any earlier than the '60s he would have been in. I mean, really, dude had been 'round since the '40s.
David_Dovey:
Tool are an incredibly influential band. There are approximately one kajillion metal and alt-rock bands that are jacking their ideas out there. Don't let your personal distaste for Tool or most metal cloud your judgement people.
Of course Tool did steal a lot of ideas from King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra and Led Zeppelin and so on, but art isn't created in a vacuum.
Spluff:
I feel more like Muddy Waters influence came mainly to the surface in the sixties - The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Cream, Hendrix were all massive, and inspired by him (and I'm sure these bands boosted Water's fanbase just by association- kind of like how people started listening to alternative bands via Nirvana). If this went to the fifties, he'd be there, but he really didn't do much during the sixties.
StaedlerMars:
I feel like Sugarhill Gang, if not, than at least the song Rapper's Delight, should be included in these lists. R&B and Hip Hop are quite clearly the predominant music type in today's charts, and have been for the past ten years or so. Rapper's Delight, I feel, definitely kick started this popularity.
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