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Votes for the most influential bands.
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--- Quote from: ""Froderik"" ---The Velvet Underground were absolutely unique and original, but I don't know if their scope of influence can compare with the musicians named.
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I think they were VERY influential, although not very popular. Like the saying goes, "The Velvets only sold three thousand records, but everyone who bought the record started a band." I think they are at least as influential as the Beatles on what is considered popular music today. They pioneered the use of noise, and touched subject matter no one had even dreamwed of singing openly about before Velvet Underground and Nico came out.
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Yeah, VU was influential, but aside from Sonic Youth who did they directly (or indirectly) influence? Perhaps I'm overlooking something here.
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Pick a band from the CBGBs or Max's Kansas City scene, and there's your Velvets influence. Also any of the industrial/noise bands have a debt to them, as do the Stooges. And the subject matter can not be overstated--they were singing about things that no one else had sung about before. Their influences in that department would be too numerous to mention.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Waitin' for RTP"" ---Pick a band from the CBGBs or Max's Kansas City scene, and there's your Velvets influence. Also any of the industrial/noise bands have a debt to them, as do the Stooges. And the subject matter can not be overstated--they were singing about things that no one else had sung about before. Their influences in that department would be too numerous to mention.
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So you're saying that they influnced The Ramones & others from that scene like Television & Patti Smith? I see what you're getting at, especially with the "subject matter" thing... The Velvets openly sung about the dark underworld of heroin use, sadomasochism, etc and The Ramones wrote songs about sniffing glue and being retarded...
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Waitin' for RTP"" ---Pick a band from the CBGBs or Max's Kansas City scene, and there's your Velvets influence. Also any of the industrial/noise bands have a debt to them, as do the Stooges. And the subject matter can not be overstated--they were singing about things that no one else had sung about before. Their influences in that department would be too numerous to mention.
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So you're saying that they influnced The Ramones & others from that scene like Television & Patti Smith? I see what you're getting at, especially with the "subject matter" thing... The Velvets openly sung about the dark underworld of heroin use, sadomasochism, etc and The Ramones wrote songs about sniffing glue and being retarded...
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That's it, as I see it. Without the Velvets to open the door, none of that stuff would have happened. The world would still be full of Jackson Browne hippy-derived crap. The Velvets saved rock and roll, though they didn't know it at the time (or maybe they did....)
starry-eyed pirate:
1. The Beatles
2. Black Sabbath
...and what about the Wailers...?? They influenced some pretty influential bands themselves, such as the Clash and the Police and Eric Clapton.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""starry-eyed pirate"" ---1. The Beatles
2. Black Sabbath
...and what about the Wailers...?? They influenced some pretty influential bands themselves, such as the Clash and the Police and Eric Clapton.
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Absolutely! That brings us up to 9 now...
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