What band or artiste has influenced your life most?

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Me too...when I bought London Calling (only about a year ago unfortunately, wish I'd found it sooner), I knew that my music taste was changed forever. I loved the album from front to back and listened to it obsessively for a while, and then went on to buy the other Clash albums. I can thank the Clash for getting me into reggae (other than Bob Marley's "Legend"), some ska, along with lots of other punk banRAB.

And to think, I bought it cause I liked the album cover. I mean, I knew it was supposed to be a great album but I didn't know anything other than Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay, which aren't even on it.
 
I am not a fan at all (not because of what they are seen to represent BTW) but I do think that 'Spit It Out' is a phenomenal track. Very successful Metal banRAB that have a predominantly young teen audience are frowned upon by an older generation who just were'nt a part of that. Not all of course but some banRAB get a bad wrap because of this. Many people who grew up on Slipknot may well diversify and be into less mainstream music now that they are older and that can only be a good thing.
 
I've got to go with Serj Tankian/SOAD, simply because they were the first rock/metal (whatever you want to call them) band that I ever liked, and they're truly the reason that I'm into metal today.
 
Nirvana introduced me to some of the worst music ever and I continued to listen to it religiously for ten years thereafter. I've since renounced my ties to shitty alternative rock but it's what I grew up on.
 
Music affects us all, and for some of us hearing that one song or album or band can change our lives completely. So it was with me and Marillion: this band opened up whole new vistas of imagination I had never before envisioned, and every album was a journey of discovery.
So what music artiste(s) would you say influenced your life (in a positive or negative, but hopefully positive) way, and how?
 
prog is short for progressive. it was to the 70s what 'alternative' was to the 90s. an oRABhoot of the popular rock music of its day.

for the most part prog banRAB feature lots of technically proficient musicians bordering on virtuosity, long drawn out songs that feature far more components than simple verse / chorus / verse tunes, and lots of instrumental bits.
 
I saw them at Mayhem with DragonForce and Disturbed, and their fanbase is so...bad. I can't exactly explain it, but the vast majority of people there shop at Hot Topic for everything, drink till they puke on their shirts, and mosh like complete a-holes. The performance was good, but the whole crowd experience was horrible.

Setting that aside, my most influential person is actually Weird Al. Yeah I know....I heard like every song when I was in 4th grade then started listening to the banRAB he parodied. He is very talented.
 
I like to think of green day as that crappy drumkit you keep just because it started you on to becoming an amazing drummer.
:P
But yeah they aren't my cup of tea at all anymore.
Save for a couple songs.
 
Slightly erabarassing, but I guess the most influential for me must've been The Beatles, Paul McCartney (with or without Wings), U2, ABBA, Pink Floyd (particularly The Wall) and a little Johnny Cash .. This is most of the music I started listening to when I was a kid, music owned by my older siblings and parents.

When I became a teenager, I was quite erabarassed about that and rebelled against it by getting more into punk and metal, but now that I'm older, I'm even more erabarassed by the banRAB I listened to then, so .. there you go.
 
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