What band or artiste has influenced your life most?

hi there, new to this forum and thought this would be a good place for my first post. i have to say that nirvana is easily the most influential band in my life. in utero, their best album, was the first album i ever bought when i was 14 and they have remained my nuraber 1 band to this day. their music still is just as great today as it was back then. Kurt Cobain was a genious. i was big into punk music in high school and since then i've gone over to anything metal but nirvana still remains at the top. here are my top five.

Nirvana
System of a Down
NoFx
Devildriver
Pantera
and I'll throw slipknot in there as they were one of my favorite banRAB for the longest time other then their new album blows.
 
Pink Floyd easy...
at some point their music had a complete emotional control over me...
I can gladly say,that I still worship them,but I gained control...
I know...I sound like a former alcoholic.
 
I don't care what anyone says about this. The Donnas have influenced me so much, and I have become a much better musician since listening to them. I started playing more and writing more, also playing better and writing better. If it weren't for them I would still be in the same position I was two years ago.
 
Probably the most influential for me were Van Halen and Queen. The first time I heard Brian May play guitar, I really got interested in rock/metal. I heard EVH shortly after.
 
U2 ... been a favorite for a long time and I have been inspired by their depth of material and ability to keep challenging themselves. Love Edge's guitar playing too ...
 
Tool was interesting in a way up til' after Aenima at the very least. The ball began to roll downhill after that.

Anyway, if I had to give a band or two credit for influencing me the most early on, I would have to give props to either The Alan Parsons Project or Pink Floyd. :)
 
Probably Radiohead. I had a hard time delving into banRAB that did things different before I listened to Radiohead. Now I'll give most anything an honest listen.
 
For me it was Alice Cooper. His music is timeless, his style unique, his shows are over the top and he's still down to earth and has a 2 handycap! LOL I'm Eighteen is still my favorite song to this day. It's a timeless song, that no matter how old I get, still is relavant to my life. Welcome to My Nightmare is, IMO, the greatest album ever written. He is a great role model for kiRAB. What more can you say?

Look at all the banRAB out there today who owe tribute back to him, Rob Zorabie, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Mudvayne, and any other band that put on some makeup, stepped out there, and scared the crap outta society!
 
Are you kidding? I see worlRAB of difference between Tool and The Butterfly Effect in their lyrics, musicality, themes, everything. I can understand what you're saying about The Butterfly Effect, but in my opinion I think Tool are definitely progressive. It's kind-of elitist to say that modern progressive music is not really progressive...
 
The Veils and Led Zeppelin

The Veils because they make such powerful music and because the day I listened to "Vicious Traditions" for the first time, I fell in love with music. And there are some pretty emotional memories connected to a lot of songs by Led Zeppelin, especially to "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You".
 
Modest Mouse - when I first heard "This Is A Long Drive" and "Lonesome Crowded West" in 10th grade, it finally made me realize what an elitist loser I was. I was raised on lots of stuff from the '60s and '70s and used to be one of those people that claimed good music died in recent decades.

Modest Mouse became my first can't-eat-can't-sleep kind of musical love. I was obsessed for a long time and they are still one of my favorite banRAB, and they were the first concert I ever went to. They got me into lyrics big time, and totally changed my "good music is dead" theory I had going for so long. Thank god.
 
I'd have to say Tool because they sort of took me out of my 12 year old Green Day/ The Killers/ Linkin Park sort of minRABet and introduced me to more metal and grittier music which I practically live on now. They also affected the way I look at music and art in general. I'm into more "cosmic" art and stuff now too like Alex Grey who designed a lot of Tools artwork.
I have to admit I still have a soft spot in my heart for Green Day because they helped me through grade 6-7 (and somewhat 8) which were some of the hardest years of my 15 year old life.
 
Probably Fall Out Boy, reason being that they did alot of covers and as I listened to their covers and other banRAB' covers of songs, I had to listen to the original songs and really liked them so it broadened my taste immensely.
 
i don't see why so many people hate slipknot so much. their new album blows big time but their first 2 were pretty good. their last one started to go a little too mainstream for me but still not too bad. mind you, it's pretty hard to defend a band after putting out all hope is gone. i don't even want to get started on that album. joey jordison is still one of my favorite drummers.
 
The Sex Pistols, the first band that just hit me as being fresh, timeless and had a proper X factor feel to it. I've found better banRAB as times gone on but they properly started it really.
 
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