Best artist who influenced the worst music

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― voodoo chili, Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:59 PM (fifty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's a bleary 4AD-style record by the TVOTR producer, the songwriting is obviously peerless, and ScarJo has an affectless post-punk delivery that everyone jizzed over when Italians Do It Better was doing the same.

voodoo I am jacoby shaddix just try to keep a low profile

trying to think of ground zero for the awful rinkydink uke/xylophone/toy piano sound that has defined music used in commercials, TV and movies for the last 15+ years, and coming back to the Mark Mothersbaugh's Wes Anderson soundtracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kDYZ5CzfGg

impossible to hear that music today and not hear a voice going "think all credit monitoring apps are created equal? think again."

maybe i should also renege slightly on the Waits covers: I've never heard one I can safely say improves on the original. None of the Wire ones float my boat

I rather like Sarah McLachlan's cover of "Ol' 55", Ramones cover of "I Don't Wanna Grow Up", and Holly Cole made an entire album of jazz-trio Waits covers that most people kinda dump on but I think is vg

I wouldn't consider them one of my favorite bands or anything but Mr. Bungle influenced a lot of nu metal and Disco Volante is a pretty solid album (the others have their moments, too).

Stockhausen influenced a lot of third-rate "avant-garde" rock artists like Frank Zappa.

and ... The Beatles

Zappa might be the worst artist who influenced far better music than they made themselves (argument begins...now). Probably another thread though.

good call on the rushmore soundtrack one eye open

and ... The Beatles

― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:40

my first thought when i saw this thread

Every influential artist ever.

true.

Dylan or the Beatles. That just comes with being massively influential - it's hard NOT to influence a lot of bad music when you're that famous and celebrated.

I thought what we're focusing on here is the (negative) quality of the bad music, not the quantity...

Whoever was responsible for post-grunge.

I wonder whether post-grunge really is the most hated genre of all time or if it's just an ILX affectation.

Tom Waits was a pretty good influence on things up until the late 90s. That's almost 30 years. It started going south with Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello.

not sure if this is correct, but I feel like a lot of extremely tepid 90s and early 2000s music was influenced by REM

I went to Cesky Krumlov one time and spent the weekend hanging out with (among other people) the singer from a Tom Waits covers band, he was a nice guy and very funny but had also just done a load of acid and was only just about holding it together the whole time. I saw his band in Prague a few months later and they were pretty good, spoke to him afterwards and he had absolutely no memory at all of me or the weekend.

I think the problem with post-grunge is that it was still a thing until the mid 00’s so it lasted for a better part of a decade. Also, it was hard to ignore because it managed to sneak in hits into mainstream radio.

That wasn’t a problem with say, nu metal because it hardly had radio airplay (were there many crossover hits? I think Linkin Park was the closest one) and it didn’t really last for a fucking decade.

Whoever was responsible for post-grunge.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:38 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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