Music Banter Hall of Fame: Induction Thread 2 (hip-hop, pop, rap)

Minstrel · 01-13-2009, 04:09 PM

Radiohead
Yes. They've made relevant, great music for a decade and a half, showing great versatility in sound while still remaining extremely high quality.

The Kinks
Yes. They created some of the best albums of the 1960s and their influence has been enormous.

The Beach Boys
Yes. Both their early surf pop career and their later sophisticated pop career were extremely influential. They not only influenced the melodic sound of countless bands (the root of the extremely common "sunny harmonies" in pop music), they also influenced the production side of pop music from then on, leading to much more complex, layered approaches.

Public Enemy
Yes. One of the most influential hip-hop groups, they were perhaps the biggest influence in socially aware rap, as rap went from merely a party music form to a conduit to express the experiences of people in difficult situations that many middle-class listeners had no real exposure to.

01-13-2009, 04:09 PM	#10 (permalink)
Minstrel Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 436	Radiohead Yes. They've made relevant, great music for a decade and a half, showing great versatility in sound while still remaining extremely high quality. The Kinks Yes. They created some of the best albums of the 1960s and their influence has been enormous. The Beach Boys Yes. Both their early surf pop career and their later sophisticated pop career were extremely influential. They not only influenced the melodic sound of countless bands (the root of the extremely common "sunny harmonies" in pop music), they also influenced the production side of pop music from then on, leading to much more complex, layered approaches. Public Enemy Yes. One of the most influential hip-hop groups, they were perhaps the biggest influence in socially aware rap, as rap went from merely a party music form to a conduit to express the experiences of people in difficult situations that many middle-class listeners had no real exposure to. __________________ "Blow your tuneless trumpet, the choice is yours / We don't want the glamour, the pomp and the drums / The Dublin messiah scattering crumbs"