Who influenced your music the most?

[Sascha Franck]

In order of (personal) appearance (I don't necessarily like them, but they were an influence for sure)
- Beatles
- Rolling Stones
- Elvis
- Some old gospel records my parents used to listen to
- Lynyrd Skynyrd (plus some other southern rock bands a friend introduced me to)
- Allman Brothers
- Weird early german Krautrock such as Kraan and Atlantis (no, they don't have much in common)
- Pink Floyd (a BIG one I must admit, my vinyl of "dark side of the moon" has been so scratchy due to playing it at least 1000x)
- Some questionable fusion music, such as Jean-Luc Ponty
- Some even more questionable elevator fusion music such as Al Jarreau, Crusaders etc.
- Several disco music things, namely CHIC or Kool and the Gang, also EW&F
- Frank Zappa (most likely without any impact on my music per se, but with a load of impact on what music is all about)
- Some stuff of Miles Davis (Garret allready mentioned the Gil Evans things, those are kickass)
- Grunge music more or less in general
- Funk music more or less in general
- Certain jazz guitarists, namely Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, John Scofield, Pat Metheny (his older works)
- Some "electronic" music along the lines of Portishead and Massive Attack
- Some modern artists such as Moby or BT, who actually don't seem to give a damn about any stylistic genres

[egor]

So many hundreds of influences... But here are those that have had lasting impact (in alphabetical order):

Beatles (John Lennon, mostly)
Bellini, Vincenzo
Emerson, Keith (The Nice, mostly)
Goblin
Greenwich, Elli
Morricone, Ennio
Pink Floyd (Syd Barret, mostly)
Residents, The
Spector, Phil
Weill, Kurt

[TVD]

Here My List:

Prince
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Roger & Zapp
Kraftwerk
Rick James
Teena Marie
Cameo
Ready For The World
George Clinton
Sly & The Family Stone
The Human League
Heaven 17
BT
Uberzone
New Edition/Bell Biv Devoe
The Deele
Dr.Dre/Ice Cube/N.W.A.
Timberland
The Neptunes/N.E.R.D.
Rick Rubin
KISS
Aerosmith
Poison
Guns N Roses
Mariah Carey (during the 90's)
Janet Jackson (from Control to The Velvet Rope)
En Vogue
TLC
The Spice Girls
Enya
Full Force
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Daryl Hall & John Oates
OutKast
The Black Eye Peas
The Beatles (during The White Album/Abbey Road era)
...and most artists from the Latin Freestyle era.

Basically, the best music came from the 70's & 80's (and maybe 90-93). The Time Of My Life.

[TVD]

Lunatique quoth Name the most obvious/strongest influences on your music.

I doubt if any of them would be obvious. And most of those that are strong aren't really so in a musical sense, but in an 'idea' sense.

Ive probably listed most of these before, because this sort of thread has turned up before, but there's no harm in doing it again...

BBC Radiophonics Workshop - the first realisation that I had that sounds were incredible things, and, to me, much more attractive from an 'I want to do that' point of veiw than music.

Punk (all of it) - the idea that music wasnt a precious artform restricted to those who were lucky and pretty.

Peter Hammill - one of the most cutting edge and forward looking songwriters ever to write music. An incredible singer and musician, and a constant pusher of boundaries.

Tangerine Dream - For me, their earliest-to-70's stuff took those things called 'synthesisers' and made landscapes from them. And I wanted to make landscapes too.

The Cocteau Twins - there was a lesson there about never being afraid to just keep adding effects until you got something unearthly. Pity Robin Guthrie was such a twat though.

The Loved One - a band I read about in a music-and-recording magazine I cant even remember the title of, who used to have a regular section called 'Home Recording is Skill in Music'. There were two guys who had produced an album called 'Locate and Cement' which was abstract collages of sounds and noises, and they'd recorded it on a 4-track portastudio. I ordered it that day. (Same way I heard about/bought stuff by Danielle Dax. actually) Insane stuff; dark, menacing, fragmented. And incredible. I only know one of one other person who has actually heard anything by them (Scot Solida), but the album was copylefted, so one day I'm going to get it off vinyl and onto the web...

Wire - On 'The Ideal Copy' at the start of one track, there's a sound. Just a sound which gets played just two or three times. And it raises the hackles on the back of my neck. It is a perfect sound. Oh yeah, and there was a Bruce Gilbert track on some magazinbe tape I had which was called U-mu-U or something. Awesome rhythmic noise from nothing mroe than a few guitar pedals.

Startled Insects - I had a mate who was into Thirlwell and all sortsa similar stuff. This band's album 'Curse of the Pehermones' was harder and more brutal and more interesting than anything he'd ever played me. Lesson - propoganda is bullshit. The end result is what counts.

Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium. Avante garde death metal... the usurping of a whole (somewhat cliched) genre into something wonderful. Lesson - anything can work with anything else if you do it right.

Throwing Music - the really dark stuff is people's lives, not black leather, shades and combat boots.

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Back to landscapes, but with a whole narrative built in, driven by dynamics that I hadnt heard since Van Der Graaf. Poignant and dark.

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Good Answer. Here in America, I remember the Doctor Who theme like it was yesterday. But right at the final season of The Tom Baker era, they had to ruin it with the remix version for The Peter Davison era.

But none the less, Tom Baker rules!!! And rest in peace to Jon Pertwee.

[vurt]

Brainticket

jeez! don't think I've ever encountered anyone else who's actually heard them!

Maybe more of us than you think...

...and Scott as well.

Braiiiin-ticket
Braiiiin-ticket
Braiiiin-ticket

aarrgghh!!

I used to have "Cottonwoodhill" on vinyl - had to sell it along with most of my other records to buy food! Haven't heard it since 1993!

then theres me and putte too,i have a few bits on tape from my uncles collection and a few cds

[vurt]

plus bigtime i even got a few mentions in here thanks olddevil and prog,what a list of stars to be listed with

[rsmus7]

to be honest:

my lack of making popchart compatible music

I really can´t play any instrument better then a beginner, so I have to do something I´m capebale of.

And my love for exploring myself and the sounds that can come out of a synth.

and all the music I heard in my life,

from my mother singing in my first days
till the music cafe at KvR now
uncountable artists

and my greatest love in music are the
"beautyful losers"
like
Leonhard Cohen
Marianne Faithful
Tom Waits
Nick Cave

and
many electronic sound makers
like
Klaus Schulze
Pete Namlook
PinkFloyd
JM Jarre
Kraftwerk
many trance songs (yes yes)


and
ethnic musicians:
Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn

but my influences aren´t necessarily what you hear in my music, it is just what makes me making music.

[CypherOne]

Orbital.

[Modeler]

Depeche Mode - Short of developing a big blonde afro and wearing eyeliner I want to be Martin Gore.

Mike Oldfield - As I only write instrumentals, most tunes end up sounding like Tubular Bells II. D'oh!

Dubstar - Fusion of synths and guitars. I will never be able to create mixes so dense and sophisticated. Check out 'Just A Girl She Said'.

Martin Galway (!) - Anyone who had a Commodore 64 will know who he is. Sad I know but to me the MOS6581 is like a god or something. It has clicked, whined and miaow'ed it's way into my subconciousness. I hear SID tunes in my sleep.

[pacoz]

nine inch nails
future sound of london
the cure
tool
queensryche
portishead
the verve
radiohead
pink floyd
fugazi
nirvana
tricky
spiritualized
alice in chains

[putte]

for my "feel" for music in general:

morricone
mancini
radiohead
free design
beach boys
bacharach
the smiths
steve reich
philip glass

for my guitars:

szabo gabor
sonic youth gitars
nick drake

for my singing:

steve malkmus´ singing (pavement)
mark e smith (the fall)
karl (underworld)
lou reed (velvet underground)
thom york (radiohead)
jochen from blumfeld

for my bassplaying:

the basses of the band Can

for my beats:

prodigy
chemical brothers
a bit of aphex twin

putte

[pHz]

TIM york(E) ???

you on the happy juice / pills again puttster ???

slainte rob

[putte]

TIM york(E) ???

you on the happy juice / pills again puttster ???

i know why i confuse it: there´s a dude in the logic sonikmatter forums having the nick "tim york" ..

sorry for that

putte

[opiadream]

list queens

[bugs]

Josquin
Palestrina
Monteverdi
Wagner
Debussy
Jerome Kern
Prokoviev
Scriabin
John Cage
Kurt Weill
George Crumb
Steve Reich
Wendy Carlos
Morton Subotnick
The Steve Miller Band
The Rolling Stones
The Moody Blues
Frank Zappa
Philip Glass
Ennio Morriecone
Bernard Herrmann
John Barry
Bjork
and...Mozart, of course.