10 most influential bands and why

Here are mine ( in no order )

1) Ramones, for obvious reasons I think
2) Sonic Youth – 20 years, my ears my ears; do I need to say more and well, look at all the bands who supported them over the years.
3) Pixies, in a way that Kurt said that with Nevermind he basically tried to copy Surfer Rosa. Still the blueprint for the indie scene.
4 Velvet Underground, yesssssss and in their wake the Jesus and Marycahin
5 the Smiths, well I´m not a big fan but there are certainly a lot of bands in Britain who want to be the new Smiths
6 Stooges. I think the whole Scandinavian Rock´n´Roll scene would be unthinkable without the Stooges
7 Talulah Gosh, They invented Indie Pop in 86
8 my bloody Valentine,- now this would take too long to explain, but there would be no Stereolab without my bloody Valentine
9 Blondie- Blueprint for perfect pop and finally
10 the Doors, the blueprint for your common band of wankers. Now the doors are probably the most overrated band of all and if good old Jim hadn´t snuffed it in the seventies they would be completely irrelevant by now, yet that doesn´t stop sad acts like the Cult trying to copy them.
Yes I´m very tolerant and you can love what you like but the Cult are beyond redemption.
gruss
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Oh yeah, and I should add, that this is a very personal list. Of course I know that the Fall, Joy division, Kraftwerk and the Birthday Party were more influential than Talulah Gosh, but they are so obvious choises. And I blame much of the Crossover bullshit on Faith no More, but this is an influence I could well do without. I only threw in the Doors for good measure .

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Yeah, let me explain. Early Stereolab where a bit more like mbv, but the main thing is, that years ago (two years after Loveless) I came across the first album of Rocketship in the recordshop of my choice. No one had heard of rocketship (and I don´t think they´ve ever made it big time) and in order to encourage you to buy it the dealer had writen a little tag and attached it to the record and it said: "Very good, like Boo Radleys and Stereolab", when in fact it was exactly like my bloody valentine (ecstacy period) and I thought it was interesting that my bloody valentine were obviously completely forgotten, while the bands that were influenced by them cited as referencepoints.
I like your list eggwater, after all, there would be no Fall without Beefheart.
gruss
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Talulah Gosh are not too well known in north america,I know one of their tunes and I know they eventually became Heavenly.Their influence on twee pop/cuddlecore bands is quite great.The Talulah song I know is the one with the lyric"some of my best friends are bastards like you"what`s the name of that tune dimpfelmoser?
Slint`s influence on 90`s indie rock is great,alot of bands picked up on Slint`s sound,which was a reinterpretation of Sonic Youth and Big Black.
No one mentioned the Cocteau Twins?they pretty much invented the shoegazer stuff,bands like MBV added a more noisy approach than the Cocteaus,mixing SY and JAMC in there as well.
The MC5 and Stooges influence is wide to alot of bands,and VU deffinitely was also.
Alot of good bands mentioned there.

salamiguy,
can you hum along to it, being German I´m really bad spotting songs from snipets of lyrics.
It might be "break your face" but I´m not too sure.
Heavenly eventually became Marine Research after Mathew Fletcher (drums) the brother of Amelia (singing/songs/guitar) commited suicide. However, they never ever reached the velocity of Talulah Gosh again.
gruss
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Actually, we call it Wimpcore!
gruss
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1. Neu (influenced Bowie, Sonic Youth, invented punk on their Neu ’75 album, now they are a big influence on bands like Tortoise)
2. Ramones (prototype punk)
3. Minutemen (inventors of punk-funk-jazz)
4. Neil Young (prototype grunge)
5. Leonard Cohen (a very big infuence on my own humble person…)
6. Husker Du (raw power and great songs)
7. the Gun Club (dark Americana)
8. Lee Perry (invented a complete new form of freaked out dub-reggae)
9. James Brown (well, he’s probably the most-sampled guy in history, so he’s infuential!)
10. Captain Beefheart (well he influenced everyone from Zappa via PIL to Tortoise…)