NME looking a but of attention so they put out a shit list to get people riled up. The only trick they have.
NME: Aaliyah is more influential than The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna & Prince.
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Originally Posted by vauxhall1964:
“in what parallel universe are Depeche Mode more influential than Kraftwerk?? When I pick the NME up at a tube station I'm always faintly embarrassed by it. How it's fallen since its 80s heyday.”
“in what parallel universe are Depeche Mode more influential than Kraftwerk?? When I pick the NME up at a tube station I'm always faintly embarrassed by it. How it's fallen since its 80s heyday.”
Depeche Mode are my favourite band but that is definitely a case of putting the cart before the horse.
Originally Posted by Whitehouse95:
“It's worked!”
“It's worked!”
Why not I suppose? The Mail have made a fortune out of it!
So there's no The Who on this list, even though they influenced the likes of the Jam during the mod revival and in turn the entire Britpop generation.
No Queen even though they are confirmed influences on artists such as Judas Priest, the Darkness, Foo Fighters and Muse.
Anyway, this list is completely irrelevant, as are the NME. Last I heard they couldn't even give it away!
No Queen even though they are confirmed influences on artists such as Judas Priest, the Darkness, Foo Fighters and Muse.
Anyway, this list is completely irrelevant, as are the NME. Last I heard they couldn't even give it away!
I don't really pay much attention to the NME. I never bought the mag but I had some copies from 2009 which my uncle gave me as he thought I would be interested in them since I like music 
I found it to be a load of rubbish. I mostly like pop music (but am open to other genres as long as it isn't heavy metal, opera, wailing cats or boys with guitars) but NME seemed to be mainly about boys with guitars bands and alternative stuff. I haven't seen a copy of the mag for a long time.
I found it to be a load of rubbish. I mostly like pop music (but am open to other genres as long as it isn't heavy metal, opera, wailing cats or boys with guitars) but NME seemed to be mainly about boys with guitars bands and alternative stuff. I haven't seen a copy of the mag for a long time.
Originally Posted by Inkblot:
“Well, for example, you might expect Sly and the Family Stone to be on the list because they made amazing music, they were in the forefront of politically aware pop, they fused soul, funk, pop and psychedelic rock, they had a mix of black and white musicians and their bass player Larry Graham invented the slap bass technique. All of which influenced many artists from the 1960s to the present day.
But they're not on the list, which suggests that being influential is not necessarily the main qualification.”
“Well, for example, you might expect Sly and the Family Stone to be on the list because they made amazing music, they were in the forefront of politically aware pop, they fused soul, funk, pop and psychedelic rock, they had a mix of black and white musicians and their bass player Larry Graham invented the slap bass technique. All of which influenced many artists from the 1960s to the present day.
But they're not on the list, which suggests that being influential is not necessarily the main qualification.”
nme readers = 15 - 30 year olds mainly (?) = millennials = snowflakes... wadda you expect?
Aaliyah has been a huge influence, I doubt Beyoncé would be where she is now had Aaliyah still been alive.
Saying that Radiohead shock released an album before Beyoncé... hmmm. Maybe that list was compiled by a Beyhive member?
Saying that Radiohead shock released an album before Beyoncé... hmmm. Maybe that list was compiled by a Beyhive member?
While being a rubbish list, I also do think Aaliyah would have been as big as Rihanna is now, although more classy probably, she had just stepped into the main public's eye just before her tragic death. She was already cutting loose from her RNB image and together with Timbaland she surely would have progressed into even more crossover and boundary pushing pop stuff.
A lot of people saying this is a rubbish list but what would be a 'good' list? One that appeals to an individual's own personal taste or perspective?
Any list reflects on the people putting it together, so a disproportional number of alt rock bands appearing probably does probably reflect the demographic profile of the NME writers.
But lists like this are supposed to push boundaries and suggest artists that might have fallen under the radar in a popular sense. But including Simple Minds and not U2 is silly or Jonathan Richman above The Velvet Underground is the same when we know the chronology of influence. And Neutral Milk Hotel but no Talk Talk or Sigur Ros?
So much modern popular and alternative music is a footnote to The Beatles or Kraftwerk.
Any list reflects on the people putting it together, so a disproportional number of alt rock bands appearing probably does probably reflect the demographic profile of the NME writers.
But lists like this are supposed to push boundaries and suggest artists that might have fallen under the radar in a popular sense. But including Simple Minds and not U2 is silly or Jonathan Richman above The Velvet Underground is the same when we know the chronology of influence. And Neutral Milk Hotel but no Talk Talk or Sigur Ros?
So much modern popular and alternative music is a footnote to The Beatles or Kraftwerk.
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