Most Important Bands of AT

[smoggs03]

Nirvana were a big influence to my generation, but I still see their music or at least T-shirts are popular with todays young uns

 

[Ziggy]

Kraftwerk
Jimi Hendrix
Miles Davis

Miles did it at least 3 times

 

[h_m_boro]

Dead Kennedys
Stiff Little Fingers
Public Enemy

For me.

 

[speckyget]

Love them mate but did they change society??

I believe they set a musical direction for a generation of bands. Didn't overthrow a government, didn’t feed the hungry or heal the sick. But they did capture a moment and they documented better than anyone before or since what it meant to be Northern and working class.

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

Kraftwerk

I'd add Tangerine Dream alongside them.

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

Love them mate but did they change society??

Yes. They caused an outbreak of mass vegetarianism.

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

Stock, Aitken Waterman by discovering that you can polish a turd with no musical talent and dominate the charts with it, resulting in a lot of the crap we have today.

Honourable mention to Tony Wilson as an antidote.

 

[parmoboy]

Oasis
The Strokes
The Libertines
Arctic Monkeys

 

[Scrote]

Madonna
Robert Johnson
Django Reinhardt

 

[Bororeddaz]

Going back to the OP, most of the bands mentioned so far are heavily influenced by the Beatles or the Sex Pistols

 

[Bernies_quiff]

NWA…. Loved them at the time, but they just copied other ‘gangster’ rappers, Ice T was doing it way before them.
They were essentially a boy band puppeted by a white Jewish fella

Sex Pistols for me

 

[italianjob]

Stock, Aitken Waterman by discovering that you can polish a turd with no musical talent and dominate the charts with it, resulting in a lot of the crap we have today.

Honourable mention to Tony Wilson as an antidote.

Kylie has a few talents

 

[changingman]

Further votes for Velvet Underground and Miles Davis. Kraftwerk a very good shout too. Obviously really dependent on genre and context but I'd probably add the following:

MF Doom
Radiohead
Kendrick Lamar
Joy Division
John Coltrane
Talking Heads

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

I like MF Doom, but can you really say he "changed history, culture, fashion etc" ??

For me it's probably The Beatles, Bowie and the Pistols.

 

[Ironops]

The New York Dolls

 

[Flood]

The Cure - influenced loads of Alternative bands since the 80's, biggest band in the whole Goth movement, loads of top tunes, singer is instantly recognisable/iconic

 

[changingman]

I like MF Doom, but can you really say he "changed history, culture, fashion etc" ??

For me it's probably The Beatles, Bowie and the Pistols.

Fair enough, misread the earlier post - thought it was more about influence musically.

If we're talking fashion I haven't seen the Bay City Roller's name mentioned yet

 

[EI_Owen]

It has to be Velvet Underground for me personally. Not only were they absolutely different to anyone else at the time, they also influenced many of my favourite acts…Bowie, Talking Heads, Iggy, The Fall, even Belle and Sebastian, to mention a few.

 

[Ratedr69]

Oasis. Dragged everything away from boy bands back to guitar indie music.

Blur did that first tbh

 

[Ratedr69]

Would add depeche mode to that list. Influenced all different genres and made electronic music cool.