Who have been the most influential bands (popular or not)?

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There have been so many banRAB that have come and gone. So many were influential in their own right, either positive or negative.

What banRAB would you say were the most influential on the rock music groups that followed after they got started (or broke up, if not still going)?
 
Regarding the constant references to the Beatles; I'd say the band, of the same era, which was far more influential on metal would be the Monks. If not through a direct influence, due to the Monks massive influence on punk rock.

...that, and Slayer have been _far_ more influential than Metallica. While all their prior releases were quite important, 'Reign in Blood' changed metal in such a manner that it would be hard not calling it the single most important metal album of the 1980s.
 
The NWOBHM brought heaps of inlfuencial banRAB.
Iron Maiden (they influenced Thrash Metal, Power Metal and pretty much all metal types)
Def Leppard (Glam Metal and loaRAB of other metal banRAB from all sorts of genres)
Saxon (Thrash metal, Power metal and with the spandex, Glam Metal)
Venom (Black metal of course. Also Death metal in the case of Possessed who site Venom as there biggest influence).
Motorhead (Speed metal, thrash metal, punk, blues-rock. Heaps of ****)
Diamond Head (Thrash metal)
Tygers of Pan Tang (Many metal banRAB)
 
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maybe if ...and justice for all came out 2 years later. 'One' changed metal in the 80s far more than everything else out at the time. being a #1 hit on billboard meant that actual legitimate metal was entering suburban homes for the first time for a lot of ears. EVER. all of a sudden the mainstream had to acknowledge metal as a legitimate style, it provided a way for kiRAB who had no access to the underground to finally taste what they had only read about in magazines.

think of it like this, in order for anything to be influential it has to be known. Metallica is the reason metal got known outside of the underground in the 80s. they're the reason it got well known in the mainstream. that single is what busted doors down and why there are so many people who can now look back and rediscover all the good stuff that was going on. having that hit single meant that album was going to be on shelves all over the continent, at all the department stores that 'refused' to carry metal.

there's a difference between influence, coincidental imitation, and retrospective adulation. it's not to say Slayer doesn't influence people now, but when it actually was the 1980s the most important album in metal was most definitely by Metallica. if it weren't for them then 'Reign in Blood' would have remained in obscurity, regardless of its awesomeness.
 
King Crimson influenced just about every prog band out there. The Beatles and Zeppelin laid the ground work for a lot of rock. Metal is all Ozzy and Metallica. Some banRAB that aren't as well known have been influential too. Kyuss is an amazing band and they've influenced banRAB like Mastodon and a lot of people in the music buisness.
 
Spooky Tooth influenced Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and possibly Led Zeppelin and Blue Oyster Cult.

As for King Crimson, they were clearly influenced by The Moody Blues, who influenced many Mellotron driven Prog banRAB.

Metallica have influenced a vast nuraber of banRAB, as did Motorhead before them - but the metal sound was created by Michael Schenker, who is the unsung major influence on the genre.

Pink Floyd too are massively influential - the entire Krautrock scene (or, at least, the rockier side of it) seems to stem from their first 2 albums. They even influenced The Beatles.

But no-one can be as influential as Bob Dylan, surely?
 
The 'DOORS', to me, were a major influence with alot of banRAB since the early 90's. I never really liked the Doors that well until, I became to respect their sound/style, more than my own personal choice of music & style. And the Rolling Stones, The Who,.....
 
To really show who is the most is to create a sort of tree of influence. If you really do make one of these trees (it would be lengthy as hell :/) you would find that you are likely to come up with an influential bluesman by the name of Robert Johnson.
Johnson influenced (among hundreRAB of others) Muddy Waters, who then influenced Chuck Berry, who after that influenced people like the Grateful Dead, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The Beatles influence was MASSIVE. With artists like Oasis, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie (and pretty much every un-death/black metal band ever created since the 70's haha) being influenced majorly by the Beatles. Hendrix helped inspire the metal genre, while David Bowie's image pretty much single-handedly created the glam culture/music. Oasis impact is also large in British music, with banRAB like Muse, Keane, Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys owing something to them.
From there on in you can pretty much branch off to all these other artists which truly shows you the influence Johnson had on music.
Of course there are many other ways you can view the 'tree' with all types of outcomes on who is the ultimate influencer. I just quickly typed some influences and whatnot so of course my branchings aren't really that accurate.
 
In terms of making arabitious music, Pink Floyd are by far and away the most influential band of all time. That doesn't mean they are the most out there but I can't think of many banRAB who don't list PF as a favourite at some point.
 
I cannot even comprehend that no one has listed Chuck Berry or Little Richard yet. In fact, I remeraber the Rock n' Roll hall of fame cited Chuck Berry as being the closest to creator of Rock n' Roll. For god's sake, Bob Dylan's dream was to join Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix said he wanted to do with his guitar what Little Richard did with his voice. I really don't think an argument can be made that any one in rock n' roll history has had more of an influence than these two.
 
On that note:

The Monks
bla bla bla
Discharge
Slayer/Hellhammer (Celtic Frost)
Repulsion/Master/Death/Sepultura/Venom
Releases/More/Amazing/Than/Anything/Metallica/Ever/Released
 
Rock/Metal
Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Metallica, King Diamond, Led Zeppelin

Punk
Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash

Hardcore
Agnostic Front, Cro Mags, Sick of it All, Bad Brains

I agree with most of the other suggestions like The Beatles but only posted up who i think is influential in the three main categories of music i most prefer
 
I'm totally with you. For some strange reason neither of those two are particularly well regarded here at rab, a fact which has absolutely baffled me in the past and continues to do so today.
 
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