Who were the most influential musical artists besides The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley...

Who were the most influential musical artists besides The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and The Rolling Stones?

HARDMODE: No blues artists

U2 are up there somewhere

Faust

basically brought an entire country back onto the music map

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Suicide
Can
Captain Beefheart

not even close
go suck more scaruffi cock you mindless drone

Kanye west
808s and heatbreak basically remade the sound of pop music, and more than eight years later we're beginning to see alot of music - especially hip-hop and pop - beginning to sound like 808s and Heatbreak. It's influential, be is good or bad influence. Influence is influence.

>Suicide's albums of the late 1970s and early 1980s have now become regarded as some of the most influential recordings of their time and helped shape the direction of indie rock, industrial music, and dance music. Among others, Steve Albini (Shellac, Rapeman, Big Black), Panthére, Gang Gang Dance, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Sisters of Mercy, She Wants Revenge, Henry Rollins, Joy Division/New Order, Soft Cell, Nick Cave, D.A.F., Erasure, the music of Giant Haystacks, The KLF,[16] Ministry, Nine Inch Nails,[17] OMD, Pet Shop Boys,[16] Tears for Fears, Cassandra Complex, Mudhoney,[18] Nitzer Ebb,[19] Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Radiohead, Kap Bambino, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Angel Corpus Christi (covers of Dream Baby Dream and Cheree with Alan Vega guest vocals), Michael Gira, MGMT, Sky Ferreira, Sonic Boom, Loop, The Fleshtones (both of whom have recorded cover versions of "Rocket USA"), Ric Ocasek of The Cars, Mi Ami, Depeche Mode,[20] Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Devo, Ultravox, Massive Attack,[21] Air, Autechre, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Aphex Twin[22] and The Kills, U2 and Bruce Springsteen have all listed Suicide as an influence

Sadly you're wrong.
Suicide are barely influential.
CAN basically pushed Krautrock into the US, despite Faust doing it in the UK earlier.
Captain Beefheart is also barely influential, people have tried to copy his original sound with the Magic band but failed miserably, that's not Influence.

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