Who influenced your music the most?

[Armadillo]

let's see.....

techno/dance:
Leftfield
Prodigy
Fatboy Slim
Basement Jaxx
Crystal Method
Hybrid
BT
Chemical Brothers
KLF
Sorten Muld
Moby
Andy Hunter

RnB:
Timbaland (produces: Brandy, Aaliyah, Miss Elliott)
Destinys Child
TLC
Out of eden

Nu-metal:
Evanescence
Il nino
Linkin park

[MickGael]

...Henry Cow

What, no Slapp Happy? How about the Residents and Snakefinger?

[Emerald Tablet]

probably the music i listened
to the most often in my life
in no particular order :

Tchaikovsky
Fitzgerald
Buckley
Goodman
Debussy
Jobim
Sting
Drake
Satie
Sade

oooops how could i forget Kate Bush
i`ll never forgive myself

[aMUSEd]

...Henry Cow

What, no Slapp Happy? How about the Residents and Snakefinger?

Never heard of Slapp Happy or Snakefinger and I've only got one Residents album - Eskimo but never listen to it.

[Sam C Spacey]

Depeche Mode, Omd (old stuff), Jean Michelle Jaree (early stuff), Yazoo, Air, Tori Amos, Kraftwerk.

[Glassback]

just curious, how many people have listed only artists they like? (I did, but also said every artist and every song) I am strongly influenced by artists I dislike as well...

Yeah - you can hear the Spice Girls and Britney Spears in every song I write.

Seriously - you got me there.
Why would you want to compose in a style you personally don't like?
Genuinely curious cos this is a new one on me...

I didn't say I wanted to compose a style I don't like, I said I was influenced by artists I didn't like. That was my whole entire point, not all influences are positive. Tell me you haven't scrapped a project that sounded too much like a band you dislike. Bands and artists we dislike also influence us, it has to be. IMO you can't have one without the other...

Ah, now I see where you're coming from.
Thanks.

In which case, to answer your question; no, I don't think I'm influenced by people I don't like.
I've scrapped projects, sure (sometimes you have to let a tune go) but usually cos it's crap in the first place and I can't take it anywhere.

[Glassback]

...Henry Cow

What, no Slapp Happy? How about the Residents and Snakefinger?

Residents!
Of course!

Snakefinger - one of the best guitarists that ever lived.

Don't know Slapp Happy though.


And Henry Cow, aMUSEd.

[Glassback]

...Henry Cow

What, no Slapp Happy? How about the Residents and Snakefinger?

Never heard of Slapp Happy or Snakefinger and I've only got one Residents album - Eskimo but never listen to it.

Snakefinger was often the guitar you'd hear on many Residents albums.
His solo albums (which I don't have any more since they were pinched) are awesome. Snakefinger; most apt name...

I wouldn't know where to start to recommend a good Residents album, they're all pretty obscure and brilliant. Definitely not everybody's cup of tea though.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

In no real order, although it does somewhat follow my guitar player/bass player/keyboard player transition:

Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
Cream
Y&T
The Cars
Oingo Boingo
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Billy Sheehan
Patrick O'Hearn
Weather Report
Tangerine Dream
Type O Negative
Depeche Mode
Peter Gabriel (up to Security)
Nine Inch Nails
Front 242
Gary Numan

No wonder I'm such a mess!

[pHz]

ET ...

... its a lovely picture and everything but ...

... sort your sig out mate !!!

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44705

slainte rob

[Hink]

just curious, how many people have listed only artists they like? (I did, but also said every artist and every song) I am strongly influenced by artists I dislike as well...

Yeah - you can hear the Spice Girls and Britney Spears in every song I write.

Seriously - you got me there.
Why would you want to compose in a style you personally don't like?
Genuinely curious cos this is a new one on me...

I didn't say I wanted to compose a style I don't like, I said I was influenced by artists I didn't like. That was my whole entire point, not all influences are positive. Tell me you haven't scrapped a project that sounded too much like a band you dislike. Bands and artists we dislike also influence us, it has to be. IMO you can't have one without the other...

Ah, now I see where you're coming from.
Thanks.

In which case, to answer your question; no, I don't think I'm influenced by people I don't like.

of course you are, how can you know what you like unless you define what you don't like as well?

[Guitarjeff]

UFO and Micheal Schenker
Thin Lizzy
Toto/Lukather/Porcaro Bros.
Steely Dan
Earth Wind And Fire (Phil Bailey Rules!!)
Isley Bros.
Al Dimeola
Uli Jon Roth and early Scorps.
Dave Meniketti
Kansas
Boston
Journey
Foreigner
Ted Nugent
Rick Springfield
Hall and Oates
Survivor/Jim Peterik
.38 Special
Judas Priest
Yngwie
Vinnie Moore
Gary Moore
Pantera
The Tubes
Norman Brown

Im sure many more too.

[palomo]

http://perso.club-internet.fr/vinuesa/p ... uences.htm
but non exhautive

today I have listening too can-eno-zappa-soul coughing-prefab sprout-brian wilson-eels-weather report-leo brouwer-pascal dalmasso

[aMUSEd]

...Henry Cow

What, no Slapp Happy? How about the Residents and Snakefinger?

Residents!
Of course!

Snakefinger - one of the best guitarists that ever lived.

Don't know Slapp Happy though.


And Henry Cow, aMUSEd.

Henry Cow were brilliant. As for Residents - I did listen to a few things by them but maybe not enough. I bought Eskimo because I liked the last track but got bored with it. What I've heard of their's sounded clever but failed to make any real emotional contact with me - seemed a rather dry exercise in cleverness for it's own sake. But I'm open to suggestions if someone want's to prove me wrong.

[Hotbop]

My favorites in no particular order:

Bach
Queen
Genesis
Return to forever (Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke....)
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff
Paco De Lucia
Supertramp
Flora Purim
Frank Sinatra
Yes
John Scofield
Camarón de la Mancha (one of the best cante jondo singers)
Jobim
Caetano veloso
Vinicius de Moraes
Maria Creuza
John Patitucci
Dave Weckl
Wes Montgomery
Jimmy Raney
Joe Pass
Herbie
Miles
Michael Brecker
Bill Evans
Grieg
Pablo Casals

...and many more