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Five Best Musical Artists...
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...in the world at this current time. Solo Artists, bands, composers, whoever you think has done the most to define music over the past few years, and will continue to do so for a while yet.
Mine:
The Arcade Fire
The Flaming Lips
Radiohead/Thom Yorke
Bright Eyes
Kanye West
Mine:
The Arcade Fire
The Flaming Lips
Radiohead/Thom Yorke
Bright Eyes
Kanye West
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Snow Patrol
Robert Plant (he counts )
1) Bill Hayley - there would be no rock and/or roll without him
2) Captain Beefheart / Frank Zappa - did more for music than anyone will ever truly realise
3) Lennon / McCartney - most of the stuff written today is based on stuff they wrote 40 odd years ago.
4) Zep. Obviously.
5) The Who - ignoring the Stones who always copied what the Beatles did, the Who were the real innovators, pushing the boundaries of what rock could accomplish. And my favourite band of all time.
Past few years there has been fuck all really. But at a push...
1) Rage Against The Machine - bringing a conscience into metal
2) System of a Down - made metal contemporary and non-old sounding.
3) Sum 41 - interesting one but the only people who have pulled off the whole punk rock/metal/pop thing well and vaguely originally.
4) Faith No More - no rap metal, no prog metal or any post- movement would exist without these guys. Mike Patton is an annoying genius.
5) Guns N' Roses - perhaps the last great rock band.
Motorhead
The Who
The Kinks
Slayer
Anthrax
Frank Zappa for pure ingenious wit
Zack de la Rocha for his politics
Paul McCartney for just being a member of the most influential band ever
Oasis for writing good working class indie music
Morrisey for his lyrics even though he is a twat
Gang of Four
Juan Atkins/Derrick May/Mad Mike/other Detroit techno bods
The Clash
Nick Cave
mars volta
We Are Scientists
The Zutons
Richard Ashcroft
Snow Patrol
Kasabian.
Well define 'the last few years'? Few doesn't exactly mean an exact quantity (though my severely moronic brother did once try to convince me that few meant three).
prodigy
slipknot
dr dre
dj hixxy
Slipknot
Avenged Sevenfold
Funeral For A Friend
Evanescence
Exactly, and Slipknot aswell?
The Flaming Lips
The Beta Band
Sufjan Stevens
Ben Folds
The Specials
...and my bonus answer is Michelle McManus
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Joanna Newsom
Rufus Wainwright
Jeff Buckley
Modest Mouse
There is absolutely no connection with emo music and slipknot. I used to be a fan in my teenage days and they are pretty influential to a certain group but they're not pioneers or nothing.
The Postal Service
Muse
Interpol
Prodigy
What? Dude, learn some music history!
Though the origins of all musical genres are open to huge debate, usually held in the pub, nu-metal is generally agreed to have spawned around the time of, and largely because of, Faith No More. From there, the bands to really cement it were Korn and the Deftones. Slipknot were just following in the wake of those three. Some people would stick Rage in there aswell though I wouldn't.
Emo and Love-metal spawned by Slipknot? Take a step back and read that again. For the record, people are generally split over who it actually was that kick started emo. Some think Weezer, some think the Foo Fighters. Some people even look as far back as the Cure for the defining characteristics of emo to show up. I personally think it was Weezer but it's all open to debate. There's no such thing as love metal - just the stupid little sub-genre Him have invented for themselves so they don't have to characterise their music by 'conventional' terms as that would be totally conformist.
for 5 bands...
muse
sikth
cradle of filth
tool
coheed
I think those 5 are all doing something original and it all works really well.
ha ha.
artists such as RATM, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Leftfield and DJ Shadow, but i feel their influence hasn't been as great since the end of the 90's.
within the last 5 years or so, im not so sure. I would put RJD2 on this list, and possibly rappers such as MF Doom and Aesop Rock, but i doubt they're known well enough.
Kasabian have the potential to do something great in the coming years. i really cant think of much else from this decade though. There seems to be a lot of one/two hits from the next big band/singer, but then you never hear from them again.
maybe christina aguillera? dangermouse (of Dangerdoom, Gorillaz and Gnarls Barkley)? maybe not......erm...........im stuck.
QOTSA
Foo Fighters
~The Shins
~Ben Folds
~Bob Dylan (old stuff...i haven't listened to anything recent of his)
~Bloc Party
~David Bowie
plus Death Cab for Cutie
Markus Schultz
Digital Witchcraft
Armin Van Buuren
Sander van Doorn