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Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Facetious — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:33:51 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 12/16/2012 14:33

Happymeal wrote:

How bout that one band? I seriously forgot their name, just like that!

I think they're like Jane's something....

Weezer had the opposite effect actually. Pinkerton only became critically acclaimed years after it's release. The blue album had the opposite situation as Pinkerton.

Jane's Addiction?

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

ButterThumbz — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:33:48 GMT

Author: ButterThumbz

Posted: 12/16/2012 13:33

Jasonconfused wrote:

Immediately, one that comes to mind is Nirvana. People were tired of the 80s glam metal and wanted something more real.

And that immediately made me think of Oasis, who didn't perhaps do anything particularly original but became popular, in the UK at least, because they were the perfect antidote to grunge.

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Cymro2011 — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:47:45 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 12/16/2012 12:47

The Velvet Underground. They changed the future of music when VU & Nico came out.

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:04:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/16/2012 11:04

How bout that one band? I seriously forgot their name, just like that!

I think they're like Jane's something....

Weezer had the opposite effect actually. Pinkerton only became critically acclaimed years after it's release. The blue album had the opposite situation as Pinkerton.

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Necharsian — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:20:52 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 12/16/2012 06:20

Mayhem. They fueled a lot of the early 90s black metal that came out of Norway and paved the way for many of the best black metal bands.

As far as their music, it's nothing special. But important to the genre nonetheless.

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:39:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/15/2012 03:39

Elvis Presley

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Jasonconfused — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:25:34 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 12/15/2012 02:25

Borve Baunehoj wrote:

Pantera were only important to the process of creating nu metal

This is in no way true... at all. I'd say you're looking more for bands like Faith No More, Tool, even Anthrax had more to do with nu metal than pantera.

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:29:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/15/2012 01:29

If many of the shitty indie folk/indietronic bands of today (these bands are a minority in terms of shittiness) were from a previous era, they would be forgotten and those who remembered them would hate them. So those artists are important due to their time period. On another note, if Kraftwerk (love their music) made their music today, they would be considered really bad. It's because of their time period that they are so acclaimed. I would still like their music though.

*None of this information can be proven, this is just a hypothesis

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

sheep21 — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:23:18 GMT

Author: sheep21

Posted: 12/15/2012 01:23

In their day Blue Oyster Cult were pretty original and important. Now hardly anyone knows them and they have crap music, so why would anyone?

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Secondsoul — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:58:41 GMT

Author: Secondsoul

Posted: 12/15/2012 00:58

Nirvana were a breath of fresh air. As were The Smiths when they burst onto the scene in 1983!

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:33:27 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/15/2012 00:33

Pantera were only important to the process of creating nu metal

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Jasonconfused — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:26:28 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 12/15/2012 00:26

I don't necessarily think that any artist that did something original was successful due to their relevance. I'm talking more about artists that were culturally necessary. There are a ton of bands that have been original, musically, but how important has that innovation been to the overall times or the culture of people of that time in general? There have been a ton of great artists but not all of them have been NEEDED.

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:38:51 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/14/2012 23:38

Pretty much all bands and artists were right people in the right place.

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

L Lawliet — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:36:56 GMT

Author: L Lawliet

Posted: 12/14/2012 23:36

Any band that ever did anything "original"

Re: Artists that were important due to their time period.

Defago — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:23:32 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 12/14/2012 23:23

The Beatles.

EDIT: I read the question wrong. I guess Talk Talk and Slint were essential to post-rock. Probably there wouldn't be any without them. I'm also pretty sure krautrock had more influence than people seem to think on the development of music through the decades.

Artists that were important due to their time period.

Jasonconfused — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:02:51 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 12/14/2012 22:02

I'm not suggesting that any artist that gets mentioned would have been bad if they were around any other time, just that the time period they were in was extremely important to their success. I guess another way of asking would be, which artists have been the MOST relevant?

Immediately, one that comes to mind is Nirvana. People were tired of the 80s glam metal and wanted something more real. (On a side note, I actually enjoy some glam metal)
Also, to a much lesser extent than Nirvana, but possibly thanks to Nirvana, Pantera! They were the only really heavy metal band of the 90s that was able to make it big. The reason being that grunge had pretty much killed off any large-scale interest in metal.