Band/artists good enough that you will buy and listen to their imitators

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Prince

Aphex?

Sabbath!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Uggh, the grammar in the title of this thread is HORRIBLE.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

you sound like an evil hypnotist!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Look into my eyes, you WILL buy AND listen to their imators, buy and listen, buy and listen...and when you wake up you will remember nothing.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a reason I've got all these neoshoegaze bands around.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I have bought records by Suede and Gene.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Genesis, Yas and King Crimson. I wd buy shoegaze imitiatorz, but don't know who any ov them are. Oh, Tangerine dream as well.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose Pavement at one time or another. Is this fair to Archers Of Loaf? Or did they in fact pre-date Pavement?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

DJ Shadow. Joy Division. The Stooges. Tubeway Army. Rakim.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The Velvet Underground, Neu!, Spacemen 3, Stereolab...

Hang on a minute...!

― kate, Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Led Zeppelin

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Shall someone get Sundar a Kingdom Come album for his birthday?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus.

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

David Bowie/Roxy Music. Take away their imitators, and my record collection shrinks considerably.

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Darkthrone. There are hundreds of imitator bands, everyone advertises in mailorder distros with "raw & primitive like Darkthrone" slogans, and every time I get fooled again and buy some shitty album by a bunch of no-skill garage crawlers without any trace of the Darkthrone magic...

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Runaways, the Archies, TLC, Giorgio Moroder.

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

dizzy rascal. ludacris.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Van Halen, Joy Division, The Kinks

Ned, I thought the guy in Kingdom Come swore he'd never even heard Led Zeppelin (yeah, it sounded ridiculous in 1989, too).

― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 19 January 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The Stooges, Heroin, The Jesus Lizard, The Minutemen

― Ian Johnson, Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Miles Davis = Talk Talk = Bark Psychosis. Not bad.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

no one

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

early XTC

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Interp-

― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Joy Division. At least I hear all bands that are labelled with "The next Joy Division"... (Interpol are really good!)

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 19 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, and "the next Pixies" too. All that has "like the Smashing Pumpkins" is a good signing call as well.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 19 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything which genuinely shows Beefheart influences.... unfortunately there are far more bands / musicians who claim Beefheart as an influence than there are bands / musicians who actually display any discernible Beefheart influences.

Also Can, Faust, and a couple more votes for Joy Division, Neu!, Pixies and The Smiths.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Rolling Stones

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I've had it with all this. I want room service. I want the club sandwich. I want the cold Mexican beer. I want lots and lots of good Cluster 71 imitations.

― jot eff pe, Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

sonic youth, galaxie 500, house of love, kraftwerk

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, I thought the guy in Kingdom Come swore he'd never even heard Led Zeppelin (yeah, it sounded ridiculous in 1989, too).

The late eighties was truly a sad time in ways. One day there needs to be a retrospective of all the second tier bands Atlantic signed called Music to Eat Shit To.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Neu!'s music, but think that imitating them just couldn't be worth doing. I've never heard anyone come close, no matter how technically easy it should be to do it and how many times I've heard what must be people trying. I don't think you can work backward from the end product or you just get further and further away from what it sounds like; you'd really have to not care what you sounded like to make anything similar that's worthwhile. I don't think that's only true for Neu!, but they're a good example for me.

― tom (other), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:38 (twenty-three years ago)

ditto to what Sean in SF said upthread re David Bowie -- a rather large portion of my CD collection is either Bowie, those who influenced Bowie, or those influenced (or ripped off, take yer pick) Bowie. the only other important-to-me musician who comes close is Brian Eno (and there's obvious overlap between the Eno and "those who influenced Bowie" categories).

very little Zappa-influenced stuff, though (unless you count Ween, certain Krautrock acts, and Public Enemy).

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Pulp. Not that I've ever heard any real "imitators" as such, but we live in hope (and Spearmint don't count).

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 20 January 2003 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Drexciya - Barry White - Devo - Space Art

― Hayden (Hayden), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fall!

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

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