'Pioneers of their sound'

[incubliss]

Can people recommend me bands that were seen as the pioneers of certain movements.

I really don't care about genre, I want to get into some more inspiring new music. They should be very unique bands for their time, bands that stood out for their time. Any genre at all, any style, just some bands seen as the pioneers.

[Zion Gates]

don't really like them but Pink Floyd

[incubliss]

Ok, i've got a lot of Pink Floyd, they're great. Listening to some Can today aswell.

Television, Gang of Four, they're all good. More stuff like this, bands that basically invented their sound you know?

[Gilmour]

/execute Ozric whoring
The Ozric Tentacles basically defined Space Rock/Jam Bands/Electronica/insert a few more genres here.

http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=420589
Eggo uploaded a few songs here, and I uploaded Feng Shui

[Mr. Black]

Iron Maiden.

[Zion Gates]

Television, Gang of Four, they're all good.

Stiff Little Fingers, The Stooges, PiL (Public Image Limited)

[incubliss]

Cool, i'll check out some Ozrich, SLF, and PiL. Cheers guys.

[JonM]

Jane's Addiction

[Watchman]

Einsturzende Neubauten
Wire

Neubauten for industrial (to start with - they moved into all kinds of unclassifiable stuff throughout their time), and Wire for post-punk; for a start check out Pink Flag by the latter.

[incubliss]

Jane's Addiction, I have Rituola and wasn't very impressed on the whole. Some songs that really annoyed me on there. Any other albums worth checking out. I have Strays too.

I have Pink Flag, i'll check out Einsturzende Neubauten now. Cheers again.

[JonM]

Jane's Addiction, I have Rituola and wasn't very impressed on the whole. Some songs that really annoyed me on there. Any other albums worth checking out. I have Strays too.

I have Pink Flag, i'll check out Einsturzende Neubauten now. Cheers again.
Ritual is the best one IMO, so I'm surprised. I think Nothing's Shocking is more widely regarded as the best one, and it's certainly really damn good. I'm surprised you like Incubus and you don't like JA. There would be no Incubus without them.

[Zappa]

Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Ornette Coleman, Magazine, King Crimson, Talking Heads, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Husker Du, The Specials, Parliament/Funkadelic, Cynic, Death, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, The Stooges, Brian Eno, The Yardbirds.

[Excursions]

Television, Gang of Four,..

Wire, The Stooges, New York Dolls, Talking Heads, Suicide.

[sweboy]

Sublime.

[Happymeal]

Fela Kuti, Massive Attack.

[DemBonez]

Nickelback

[musicky_lover]

Creed

[incubliss]

Just go away you cunts.

I'm downloading a few tracks of all the bands mentioned in here, to see what I think.

[3rdplanet]

Aphex Twin?

[blueyxd]

The Postman Syndrome for giving some technicality and prog-ness to hardcore/emo. Try the song Hedgehog's Dilemma

[ToMsK]

Afrika Bambaataa/DJ kool herc-need i explain these?
Soul sonic force-first hip hop chart hit with 'Planet Rock'
James Brown/Graham Central Station basically pioneered funk
Black Sabbath, first proper heavy metal band
MC5, proto-punk
Slayer, pioneered thrash metal
Portishead/massive attack, pioneered the Bristol style of trip hop

some of them may help

[IAJP]

Candlemass / Cathedral - Doom / Sludge / Funeral Metal,
Rainbow - Power Metal (or what it would seem to be),
Television / The Velvet Underground - Posty-Punky,
Joy Division - (What is now called) Gothic Rock,
Death - Death Metal,
Kraftwerk - Electroni style music,
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Rap / Hip Hop,


Try those first.

[Zappa]

Candlemass / Cathedral - Doom / Sludge / Funeral Metal,
Rainbow - Power Metal (or what it would seem to be),
Television / The Velvet Underground - Posty-Punky,
Joy Division - (What is now called) Gothic Rock,
Death - Death Metal,
Kraftwerk - Electroni style music,
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Rap / Hip Hop,


Try those first.

The Velvet Underground and Television for Post-punk?

[Pale-Folklore]

im pretty sure kyuss were one of the pioneers of stoner/desert metal

[incubliss]

The Velvet Underground and Television for Post-punk?

I was gonna say that too, but then I would just love it if there was a genre called Posty-Punky :lol:

I'm not a fan of Candlemass but I already like the others. Thanks tho.

[downtown sasquash]

the mars volta, radiohead, horse the band, miles davis, nine inch nails, jimi hendrix

[JonM]

radiohead
Nah. Can pioneered their sound, so listen to Can.

[Watchman]

Just go away you squirrels.

I'm downloading a few tracks of all the bands mentioned in here, to see what I think.

Are we going to get feedback?

/me would like feedback

[Zappa]

But Can sucks balls.

[JonM]

Yeah, well, you're a Neu! person and I'm a Can person. Different strokes for different folks.

[ToMsK]

im pretty sure kyuss were one of the pioneers of stoner/desert metal

yeah them and Fu Manchu

[DrownedThought]

Korn
Rage Against The Machine
Beastie Boys
Gorillaz
Mindless Self Indulgence
Prodigy
Linkin Park
Soul Coughing
System Of A Down
Sublime
Red Hot Chili Peppers

I know alot of it's mainstream, but all the bands have their unique sound and influenced alot of bands in music today.

[Ladyshredder126]

INVENTORS/ EXPERIMENTALISTS

yngwie malmsteen- father of neoclassical guitar (first shredder)
chuck berry (blues/rock&roll)
bb king
eric clapton
beatles (given!!)
jimi hendrix -made the electric guitar popular
robert johnson- bluesman
korn- numetal
the rolling stones
nirvana- grunge
black sabbath- metal
the first band considered metal was iron butterfly
the who
the doors

[Kayetan]

The Durutti Column, maybe.

[King B]

the melvins-started both grunge and stoner rock

bathory-black metal

[Spouge]

Patti Smith

[sketchyjoe]

Chuck Berry
Hank Williams
Bad Brains
The Specials
Husker Du

[Floydfanatic]

the residents

[Shoehorn]

Well alotta the big pioneers were mentioned already but you might wanna check out Throbbing Gristle, Arnold Schoenberg, Xiu Xiu, Fugazi, or Yes. Throbbing Gristle pioneered the use of sampling and I think they recorded on of the first new wave songs, Arnold Schoenberg was one of the pioneers of atonal music composition, Fugazi spearheaded that whole washington punk sound I believe, Yes was one of the major prog-rock bands of the 70s, and I just haven't heard another band that sounds like Xiu Xiu yet.