I used to think Nirvana, now I believe Radiohead. What do you guys think?
2007-10-25 11:10:10 · 17 answers · asked by imperialism 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Guys seriously Rage Against the Machine let's be realistic here...
2007-10-25 11:22:59 · update #1
Bands today sound much more like Radiohead than Nirvana, but Nirvana influenced more bands during the 90's. I would also with Greenday because so many bands are now pop punk, and NIN because they influences so much of what we hear on the hard rock stations.
2007-10-25 11:19:40 · answer #1 · answered by Vultureman 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nirvana started a whole new phase of music and style did way more then Radiohead dont get me wrong they are a good band and had an impact but nothing close to Nirvana
2007-10-25 11:14:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rage against the Machine. Influential they were.
Edit
Mozillak... Nirvana made it bigtime made grunge known to a bigger audience but in no way were the trigger. As far as I know there were others before them and lasted longer, so I guess they were the "influentials". Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden..
Edit 2
You asked for influential bands. If I understand that correctly that means bands that inspired others to play similar music or take it one or two steps further. I think the whole rap-rock thing of the early 00's was influenced by Rage. Now if u like it or I like it is irrelevant, the influential part was the question. As to Nirvana I must insist, they were not the first, and the ones that followed were there before them so they were not influenced. But this is my opinion and u may disagree.
2007-10-25 11:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by darkwood67 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nirvana.
In the 90's, I highly doubt Radiohead were as recognized today. And Nirvana started the whole grunge movement really. They created the popular music of the 90s.
Radiohead honestly weren't mainstream enough.
2007-10-25 12:05:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nirvana for sure, maybe red hot chili peppers. not radiohead. and possibly rage against the machine as #3.
2007-10-25 12:14:59 · answer #5 · answered by the color tate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go with Nirvana, there might have been earlier bands but they busted the door off the hinges for a good portion of the decade
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2007-10-25 11:28:45 · answer #6 · answered by Huevo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to look at the two driving forces in music: America and Britain.
In America it was definitely Nirvana who took a distortion guitar and used the chord progressions of the Pixies and put catchy - Beatles-on-heroin - vocal hooks on top of them.
In Britain it was Oasis who took a distortion guitar and used Beatles chord progessions with catcy -Beatles-gone-punk- vocals on top of them.
Wow, I guess you could say the Beatles were the most influential in a post-mordem kind of way.
2007-10-26 04:58:05 · answer #7 · answered by sirkusrock 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nirvana - opened the door for grunge to commercially acceptible
NIN - helped expose Industrial
Radiohead
Pantera - saved metal from how it was in the late 80s
Red Hot Chili Peppers
2007-10-25 14:48:27 · answer #8 · answered by Dani G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pearl Jam
Oasis
Smashing Pumpkins
Red Hot Chili Peppers
U2
2007-10-25 11:56:59 · answer #9 · answered by Lucci 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you asked for influential, yet I'm just reading popular. listen to music today and see if you can spot any bands that sound like radiohead or nirvana, I don't hear a single one.
I do hear supergrass quite a bit in bands like muse, the fratellis, franz ferdinand, etc, so I'm gonna say supergrass
2007-10-26 00:09:02 · answer #10 · answered by Dan A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋