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The most influential/important bands of each decade

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Thrillho:

--- Quote from: Alex C on 29 Nov 2008, 09:22 ---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.

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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:

--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 29 Nov 2008, 10:00 ---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.

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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.

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