the 25 bands who had an impact on my life are....

[pattentank24]

Rules

-Bands must have 2 albums(ep's don't count)
-Bands must be during your lifetime,not before,their debut album must be during your life not before as well(ex I'm 1978 so the Clash is not on the list because their 1st album was out in 1977)
-No spinoff bands if you list a band you cannot list a a second band featuring the same members(ex. Rage is on your list No Audioslave,Gorilaz,No Blur)
-Bands should have some sort of emotional attachment to yourself,not just catchy songs or trying to be cool or hip
-No Solo Artists

[luke]

Smashing Pumpkins
Tupac
Nirvana
Alice In Chains
Weezer
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sonic Youth
Motley Crue
Stone Temple Pilots
Guns 'N Roses
Garbage
Local H
Pearl Jam
Velvet Underground
Modest Mouse
Sloan

hmmm...this is hard, that's all I got right now..."favorites" and "impact" is a huge difference...

[pattentank24]

Background on me before my first pick
M,25,(1978 On) Atlanta,Ga

#25 Basement Jaxx

I fought over which electronic dance music I would pick Underworld,Massive Attack,Chemical Brothers,etc.
All deserved consideration(espicallyMassive in the bedroom)
but I chose Basement Jaxx for the reason when it comes to either house parties or riding around on a Friday Night since 1999 it's always been part of the experience,this popcorn flavored house music always puts me in a great mood and makes me forget any problems, it's an escape.

In 1999 when I first heard Remedy I had my let's get crazy album for 2 yrs till Rooty hit and became a standard dancing in front of a mirror soundtrack along with the parties over let's close the door we want to be alone now jam.Kish Kash was playing "Good Luck" when I was throwing parties next to an X-girlfirend's apartment and conveyed all the things I tried to say at the time.

I'm a bit suprised with myself being a former raver that I would pick such hooky house music on this list but I can't deny the effect it has given me,the good times,a sense of anticpating while watching other people rejoice in the dance, and just being happy to be among friends

Basement Jaxx
3 Albums(1999-)

Favorite Song
"Get Me Off"(Rooty)

Favorite Album
Remedy

# Times seen live
1

[Philemon]

In chronological order ... More or less !!

- The Beatles ... (like DUH !!!)
- The Rolling Stones
- The Who
- The Yardbirds
- The Kinks
- Jefferson Airplane
- John Mayall and The BluesBreakers(Eric Clapton)
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Velvet Underground ... (hated them)
- Mothers of Invention ... (him tôô)
- The Doors
- Jimi Hendrix Experience
- The Band
- Janis Joplin and the Big Brother Holding Cie
- Cream
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Pink Floyd ... (in a big way !)
- Can
- Genesis
- Chicago
- Crosby, Still, Nash & Young
- Deep Purple
- Jethro Tull
- Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Santana

[Kensterberg]

OK, the bands who were the most influential on me ... in no real order after the first three ... BTW, I was b. 12/2/1964.

1. The Clash. Since the Beatles don't qualify for this list (debut single in '62, first UK LP the following year, dominated the US charts the year of my birth), this is easy. The Clash saved my life, galvanized me into being something better than I was prior to discovering them, and generally are to blame for an awful lot of the way I am. R.I.P. Joe.
2. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
3. The Jam.
4. U2.
5. R.E.M.
6. Talking Heads.
7. Elvis Costello and the Attractions (I'm talking just about the albums El made with his original backing band here -- so I guess this run would cover from My Aim is True through Blood and Chocolate).
8. Creedence Clearwater Revival.
9. The Velvet Underground.
10. The Police.
11. The Who (although I'm not sure that their first singles didn't predate my birth, I'm reasonably sure that The Who Sing My Generation didn't come out till '65).
12. X.
13. David Bowie (OK, I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna follow that "no solo artists" rule: my musical development just doesn't make sense without Bowie).
14. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
15. The Replacements.
16. Husker Du.
17. The Band.
18. The Sex Pistols.
19. The Waterboys.
20. Midnight Oil.
21. Nirvana.
22. Pearl Jam.
23. Prince (he's a whole group by itself!)
24. Ramones.
25. Wilco.

[strat-0]

Nice lists, guys. I can especially relate to Phil's and Ken's. Now, check your PMs, Ken!

[Kensterberg]

Strat -- I got your message ... I just haven't put together a response yet! Yeah, I've got some opinions on the (apparent) demise of the boards at Rolling Stone ... just not sure exactly how to put 'em down on paper (so to speak) at this point.

But hey, I've just posted more today than in the last two weeks, so that should count for something, right?

[ScottsyII]

Oooooo... this looks like a tasty topic! I am just about to compose my list of 25 artists... next post from me!

[ScottsyII]

R.E.M
The Church
Midnight Oil
The Go - Betweens
U2
Tool
Doves
Hunters and Collectors
The Whitlams
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
Something for Kate
Faith No More
My Friend The Chocolate Cake
Things of Stone and Wood
Foo Fighters
Crowded House
Bluebottle Kiss
Augie March
The Fauves
Radiohead
The Underground Lovers
Big Heavy Stuff
Blur
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Ok, that list was not completely in order of importance... that's just too darn difficult to do!

The first three or four bands are probably the ones who have made the most impact though...

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

Hmmm, I'll kick off with the first five bands I ever got into for now, but I'll come back to do the other 20 at some point:-

I was born in 1971, West Midlands, England..

The Smiths - they made it okay to go around school quoting Oscar Wilde, and indulging in some vague misogeny when the nuns walked past. They also led to a boom in the sale of gladiolas, which helped my uncle who was a gladiola salesman. Finally, when my then girlfriend slipped into a coma, I had a song that really spoke to me, you know?

Soft Cell - The first band I was into. I suddenly realised that if I'd been a little bummer boy, I too could have worn mascara. And that feeling of choice is important, even if I chose not to.

Adam & the Ants - see above, but substitute "mascara" with "a stupid fucking white stripe across my face".

Duran Duran - See, my childhood days were spent far too much in the company of New Romantics. But who cares when you're 10 years old and humming "The Chauffeur" instead of Nena's "99 Red Ballons"? In my book that makes me fucking cool. Admittedly my book is biased.

Joy Division - The first alternative band I was into. They'd lead me down a depressive path of murky post-punk that would inform nearly half of my musical listneing choices from 1982 right up to Interpol today. Although Interpol obviously sound nothing like Joy Division. Obviously. No way.

[pattentank24]

Thanks for playing along gang


#24 Guns N Roses

Yeah this a strange pick for someone who was 9 when they first came out with Appetite,but I was never just like all the other kids,my future uncle was a dj and gave me my first lesson on music,He mad me mix tapes with The Clash,U2,Public Enemy,EPMD,Replacements keep in mind I'm only 9 kids were listening to Poison,Def Lepard,Vanilla Ice and I'm listening to PE? I had my influences and no peer pressure was going to change that.

So In 1988 we finally have cable in my house and I see "Paradise City" video and can feel the energy of a GNR live performance I had my uncle buy me a copy of Appetite since I couldn't due to the PA stickers,or lack of money for that matter.GNR became the idea I had always heard about rock bands Dangerous,Rebelious,Dark Sense of Humor and I embraced everything I could get including being sent home from middle school for wearing the GNF----R's shirt

I fought with my friends over their shitty taste in music(Extreme,Hammer,etc) but we always could agree on "GNRr f--- Rocked" the videos to this day made me believe in the ideal of cryptic messages and amazing videos and images. and then the capper...

"I Lost My Virginity at My best friend's House with his next door neighbor listening to "Use Your Illusion 2" I was 14 she was 15"

Read that again... We were discussing first kisses and due to curoisty ended up having sex while "Breakdown" was playing it was awful and neither one of us had a damn clue what we were doing so it counts and yet isn't really that memorable or worth more than we were friends and curious.It's still a bit odd when I have seen her since high school (she's married with kids)

Still that's quite the impact,The Spaghetti Incident never happened hear me. So in closing GNR is on the list for those two reasons alone and if you got a problem with that Get In The Ring MF

GNR
4 Albums(NO SI)1987-92

Favorite Song
"Dead Horse"(Use Your Illusion 1)

Favorite Album
Appetite For Destruction

# Times seen Live
0(was too young)

[PC]

I'm not sure if I can even do this, since I was born in 1984. There have been a lot of good bands since then, but I don't think I could list 25 that I've had a strong attachment to.

Good lists everyone!

[Weeping_Guitar]

The fact that I can't put the Beatles at the definitive top of my list forces me to boycott this. The Beatles Anthology on TV in '95 is THE definitive musical influence of my life.

[Ryosuke]

VU were around during lukeÕs liftime? I never knew!

pattentank - Born in 78, eh? Same here, so I guess I can kind of identify with you, in that I thought Extreme, MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice were way cool back then. Oh, and Milli Vanilli.

Here is my list, in order not of preference, but chronological. Not necessarily according to the period they were around, but the period I got into them.

1. U2
The first band I feel in love with, enough said.

2. REM
I think for almost everyone around my age, unless they had cool older brothers that introduced them to My Bloody Valentine or something, U2 (circa Achtung Baby) and REM (circa Out Of Time and Automatic For The People) were the first bands that made them aware that music can actually mean something beyond "this is the way I want it cause this is the way I like it" (that line just came to me, who the hell sang it anyway?).

3. Nirvana
I suspect that they just happened to be at the right place at the right time (compared to their less successful peers), but as someone who was in his early teens when they broke big with Nevermind, I can say firsthand that the impact was huge.

4. Smashing Pumpkins
It never occurred to me when I was hugely into this band that I would eventually, several years down the line, listen to some of the songs from Mellon Collie and go "man, what a pretentious wanker". But wankery or no wankery, I think they were the best band to come out from the grunge/alternative scene.

5. Nine Inch Nails
Like all teenagers in the 90s, I had a bit of angst in me, though I have no clue why.

6. Suede
My high school years were spent almost entirely during the Brit-pop explosion, and if I had to choose one band, it would be not Blur or Oasis or Pulp, but Suede. It's funny, because coming back to Japan from the US, I had been listening to stuff that most American kids my age were listening to (Nirvana, Pearl Jam and the like), but all the Japanese kids that were into music were like "fuck America, British music is the shit". And so peer pressure forced me to listen to these bands, and I ended up liking quite a few of them.

7. Radiohead
When I heard OK Computer for the first time, I knew that I was in the presence of greatness.

8. Sunny Day Service
They were the first Japanese band I fell in love with, so in terms of the size of impact, they'd probably rank second just behind U2. I had been living in Japan for about 4 years before I first got into them, but it never occurred to me, in my close-mindedness, that there is actually some good music in this country if you bothered to look beyond the crud on the surface.

9. Blankey Jet City
All three members of the band ooze with coolness and charisma.

10. Soul Flower Union
Japan would be a better country if more people listened to this band. I'm serious.

11. Mayumi Kojima and her band
I'm including her band here to circumvent the "no solo artist" rule. Hell, they deserve mention anyway, since they play such an integral part in her music. I had actually already developed an appreciation for the Japanese retro-pop sound by the time I became a huge Mayumi Kojima fan, but she just took it to a whole different level IMO.

And fuck, that's it. I mean, there are obviously craploads of other bands that make my shitty life worth living, but as others have pointed out, there's a difference between loving a band and being impacted by a band. I love, love, love bands like the Pixies, Delgados, Stone Roses, Smiths and countless others, but IÕm not sure how much "impact" they've had on me.

[Thorngrub]

First 25 that come to mind - In Chronological Order (roughly) :


aerosmith
pink floyd
the beatles
led zeppelin
bob dylan
jethro tull
yes
rush
david bowie
X
sex pistols
buzzcocks
patti smith
iggy pop
T-rex
velvet underground
peter murphy
nick drake
neil young
waterboys
pearl jam
smashing pumpkins
tool
rage against the machine
korn