Forget Band A vs. Band B- who had the biggest impact on YOU musically?
 

What musicians . bands have had the stongest influence on your life?

see now, this is the better question :)

The bands that have the strongest impact on MY life:

R.E.M.
Placebo
The Buzzcocks
The Sex Pistols
The Undertones
Sweet
TRex
The Cure
Depeche Mode

there are more but I could live off of those if I had to

Megadeth
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones

Mmmm... actually it was The Beatles :Graucho

and a few others

Pink Floyd
Cabaret Voltaire
Bob Marley
most recently Muse

Nirvana, placebo, stereophonics, oasis.

Edward Wolfgang Van Halen

Queensryche
Dream Theater
Led Zeppelin
Boston
BB King
Ted Nugent
The Hollies
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Type O Negative
Extreme
Whitesnake
NiN
Bon Jovi
GnR

All of these are awesome groups/people. Each one has had a different impact on my musical psyche. :thumbsup

Led Zeppelin.
Metallica.
Lords Of Acid.

I know I'm goign to mess up and remember something later:

David Bowie - first tape I ever bought, I played it until it broke and I cried

New Order - I made a tape for a boy who asked me to a school dance, he listened to it and then stood me up

Circle Jerks - the first punk rock tape I ever bought

The Clash - because I know I'll always love them and I can imagine myself slow dancing to them when I grow old

Dead Kennedys - No matter how much of a hahahaha Jello Biafra actually may be, when I think of my teenage years it's all I hear in my head

Crass - really lit the fire for me to become politically active

Social Distortion - there seems to be a song for every mood

sigur ros

AC

Bob Dylan is a huge one for me too. My uncle and I used to really rock out to positively 4th street whenever something was getting us down. We saw Dylan in Vegas a few months before he was killed. So Dylan is also a milestone.

Also the Specials / the English Beat / Madness. 2nd wave UK ska really helped keep spirits up when dealing with boneheads.

Need to add Operation Ivy to that too- even though they weren't 2nd wave, same pricipal.

I remember listening to cool old shit of my mom's when I was a kid, Elvis and Dion and the Belmonts. That cat could sing his ass off!

This is when I was a REAL little kid, as far back as I can remember. Spinning 45's on my little tiny record player lol.. I'd be like 7 years old and singing 'Ruby Baby' dancing around in my undies :)

Okay, we can be friends. I love every single band on that list.

Beatles and Beeges, hands down :thumbsup

Thanks :thumbsup

Biggest influences would be:

Elvis Presley
The Who
Alice Cooper

House of Pain - First tape I ever owned

Sublime - I"m getting closer to my owning a bar on the beach dreams....=)

downtime music:

Dandy Warhols
Staind
Smashing Pumpkins
The Cure
A Perfect Circle
Nirvana

mosh / hard music:

Rage Against the Machine
Slipknot
Sepultura

1. The Beatles (especially John Lennon...he is/was the greatest songwriter in the world)

2. Nirvana

3. Metallica

Depeche Mode
Tool
Perfect Circle

Village People :glugglug

:helpme

Bob Dylan is alive.

in chronological order

Hall & Oates - when I was a kid
Queensryche - in high school
Pink Floyd - early 20's
Tori Amos - " "
TOOL - mid 20's
Jeff Buckley - " "

:1orglaugh

My uncle was shot in the head last year after giving up his car, his ATM card and his pin number... but thanks for caring. :thumbsup

:1orglaugh classic but i think she meant her uncle died