NME's 100 Most Influential Artists - Music

meruizh

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Age: 32

Here is the list.

100. Deerhunter
99. The Cure
98. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
97. Iceage
96. Country Teasers
95. Dirty Projectors
94. Richard Hawley
93. Black Lips
92. St. Vincent
91. Foals
90. Flying Lotus
89. Simple Minds
88. Oneohtrix Point Never
87. Billy Bragg
86. The Triffids
85. Black Flag
84. Nine Inch Nails
83. The Jesus and Mary Chain
82. Massive Attack
81. Animal Collective
80. Dusty Springfield
79. Suicide
78. Stevie Wonder
77. Best Coast
76. Vampire Weekend
75. The Wedding Present
74. Slint
73. Wu-Tang Clan
72. Grimes
71. Rilo Kiley
70. Pharrell
69. Nick Lowe
68. The National
67. Jay Z
66. The Slits
65. Diplo
64. The Zombies
63. Talk Talk
62. The Stooges
61. DJ Shadow
60. DJ Rashad
59. Chic
58. Black Sabbath
57. James Blake
56. Happy Mondays
55. The Chills
54. Aphex Twin
53. The Fall
52. Nas
51. Television
50. Sufjan Stevens
49. Death From Above 1979
48. Bat For Lashes
47. The Cars
46. Wiley
45. T Rex
44. Bikini Kill
43. New Order
42. PJ Harvey
41. Led Zeppelin
40. Tame Impala
39. Brian Jonestown Massacre
38. Dr. Dre
37. Kraftwerk
36. My Bloody Valentine
35. TV on the Radio
34. Depeche Mode
33. The Knife
32. Pavement
31. Bjork
30. Bon Iver
29. Bruce Springsteen
28. Pixies
27. The Stone Roses
26. Fleetwood Mac
25. Nirvana
24. Queens of the Stone Age
23. Burial
22. Sonic Youth
21. Hole
20. Prince
19. Neutral Milk Hotel
18. Aaliyah
17. Blur
16. The Velvet Underground
15. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
14. The Clash
13. Joy Division
12. The Breeders
11. The Smiths
10. The xx
09. Nick Cave
08. Kate Bush
07. The Gun Gun Club
06. The Flaming Lips
05. The Strokes
04. The White Stripes
03. Kanye West
02. David Bowie
01. Radiohead

*If you are wondering where are The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floys, etc. NME said:

"When the idea was first floated of an issue celebrating the most influential acts in music today, one question was paramount: where do you put The Beatles? Obviously modern music wouldn’t exist in its current form without them, virtually every facet of NME’s world can be traced back to ‘The White Album’, they’re clearly the most influential act in rock history. End of argument, right?

But how many bands today turn up to a rehearsal room plastered with posters of Ringo, neck a load of brown acid and plug in planning to write a 21st Century ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’? Far fewer, we reasoned, than want to write their own ‘Seven Nation Army’ or ‘Crystalised’. Ditto Dylan, The Stones and The Who, et al. These are acts whose influence is written in stone, the very bedrock of the form, but who aren’t necessarily directly informing the music being made today any more than Chaucer is influencing Buzzfeed. Influence is a fluid concept, so rather than simply tipping our caps to the legends (again), we set out to quantify which are the biggest influences on today’s music scene.

There was a certain amount of science to it. An entire week of work experience students left the office thinking that cutting-edge music journalism in 2014 mostly involves calculating which bands have been mentioned most in NME in the past two years, then hunting out references to the bands that influenced those acts online and finally adding up the number of times each influence came up. This gave us a rough list which our editorial team - heads swimming with all of the bands that Wolf Alice (or whoever) have raved on about over 4am ciders - then took to the pub, tore into shreds, fought and shouted about and finally reconstructed in the rundown of 100 you see in the mag today. The Beatles didn’t make it. Sorry."

We should make BEA's 100 Most Influential Artist, and see how different this list can turn out.
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CubaZed

Well I mean..... it doesn't have a lot of classics and the list is very poorly ordered, but it's nice that a major music magazine is giving shout-outs to more publicly "obscure" bands like Slint. I'm not one to ever take these lists seriously (I just use them occasionally for recs and such) but I could imagine people using this to expand their musical knowledge and that's pretty cool.

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CubaZed wrote:

Well I mean..... it doesn't have a lot of classics and the list is very poorly ordered, but it's nice that a major music magazine is giving shout-outs to more publicly "obscure" bands like Slint. I'm not one to ever take these lists seriously (I just use them occasionally for recs and such) but I could imagine people using this to expand their musical knowledge and that's pretty cool.

This, pretty much.

Though I love the top 3!

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meruizh wrote:

96. Country Teasers

I can kind of see why most of the bands on this list are here but the inclusion of the Teasers is lost on me.
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ShaneSpear
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What a peculiar little list.

I was a fan of Aaliyah, but I can't imagine that if Aaliyah had lived that we'd be sitting around talking about her classic albums, much less how much of an influence she was. She was already treading ground that had been blazed by Brandy, Monica, and TLC, and I can't be convinced that she would have ever been at the level Beyonce is now.

RepoMan

Haha! That list is easily better than our Top 100 Overall. Laughing

I'd say that list is pretty fucking awesome. Cool

edit: And by better, I just mean more interesting to look at.

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I'm with what Cuba said, nice to see a band like The Fall on there.
I'm still shocked it wasn't an Arctic Monkeys and Oasis one-two though knowing NME...
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ShaneSpear wrote:

What a peculiar little list.

I was a fan of Aaliyah, but I can't imagine that if Aaliyah had lived that we'd be sitting around talking about her classic albums, much less how much of an influence she was. She was already treading ground that had been blazed by Brandy, Monica, and TLC, and I can't be convinced that she would have ever been at the level Beyonce is now.

aaliyah could sing a slow song without sounding retarded. beyonce can't do that

floydpompeiilp5

Patman360 wrote:

I'm with what said, nice to see a band like The Fall on there.
I'm still shocked it wasn't an Arctic Monkeys and Oasis one-two though knowing NME...

it is surprising supercrap i mean oasis isn't there, there must be hundreds of shitty bands that look up to oasis