Bands that Begot Bands
Submitted by lenin on Wed, 04/21/2004 - 05:21
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- Velvet Underground: The Modern Lovers, Sonic Youth, REM, Television, The Feelies
- Comment: There are countless other bands, but these are what come to mind. The Feelies, in particular, evoke VU-esque music.
- Led Zeppelin: Countless metal bands
- Comment: I think that it is ironic that so many people think that LZ has been historically ripped-off by most 70-80s metal bands, when in fact, LZ brazenly ripped-off the blues musicians who came before them.
- Beatles: One magazine said it best-"if you can imagine a band morphing from the Backstreet Boys to Radiohead/Pavement in the span of six years" you have an idea of the range of influence.
- Roxy Music-David Bowie, U2, Edwyn Collins
- Comment: It's not so much the Eno thread that runs through, but the emphasis on atmospheric vocals and lounge singer motif. U2 occassionally gets there.
- The Doors-Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen
- Comment: Somewhere along the way, they transformed themselves from blues purists to push the envelope of dread and drama.
- CSNY: The Jayhawks, Wilco, Son Volt
- Comment: Not so much the alt-country blueprint, but the great harmonies.
- Joy Division-Romeo Void, Interpol, The Cure, the Smiths
- Comment: Despite the enormous influence, no band will possibly ever reach that level of icy, steely sonic power.
Roxy Music and David Bowie were contemporaries, no? I agree that they had a major influence on his glam style, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that they begot him at all. He seemed at least somewhat set-up by the time they had any major influence.
Very good point, I stand corrected. I guess that my view was Roxy Music made a certain style of music popular again, something that Bowie tried to emulate.
I always felt like Led Zeppelin was still hard rock. They have a different sound than, say, Black Sabbath, who really were the ones who influenced the metal sound.