Are these the most important/influential artists of each decade?

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lady gaga's career is over

No.

Change gaga to mc ride

who

60s: The Velvet Underground
70s: Brian Eno
80s: Sonic Youth
90s: Nirvana
00s: Eminem
10s: Kanye West

Change gaga to tyler joseph

This has to be the most white suburban thing I have ever seen.

kill yourself my dudes

>60s: beatles

2010s: Adele or Taylor Swift

Change edgelord to Britney Spears.

Britney has zero longevity.

>1960s
>not the Velvet Underground
well then

yeah that's why we're still talking about her in 2016, right? Over a decade after Baby One More Time?

So? Doesn't make her less influential
She shaped an entire generation of pop stars (sluts, but still) and everybody was talking about her, 10 year olds and perverted old men.

>10s
>not Kanye
>not Kendrick
>not Taylor Swift


Yes

Michael Jackson and Madonna shaped all pop stars. Britney was influential but she did nothing new.

Yeah but there weren't any major female pop stars around her time, and she essentially sluttified the genre. Wich

How the hell did that Wich part get in there? I'm sorry.

literally who

???
What about Madonna, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, etc.?

>Bob Dylan
>70s
How about kys

Influential idk, but important it probably is

>60s - the beatles
>70s - pink floyd - led zeppelin
>80s Michael Jackson

The others may be correct.

>60s
Velvet Underground, how can you even argue this?

>70s
Really tough, its between Bowie and Eno here, maybe throw Can, YMo and Kraftwerk in the middle too

>80s
Another tough one, but I'll go with the not so obvious choice Cocteau Twins.

>90s
My Bloody Valentine. No contest.

>00s
Thats another tough one. I'm thinking The Avalanches. Daft Punk as well. Sheena Ringo maybe

>10s
Macintosh plus so far.

They weren't really slutty though, Britney Spears was straight up porn on MTV

60s: Frank Zappa
70s: Kraftwerk
80s: Swans
90s: Nine Inch Nails
00s: Animal Collective
10s: Grimes

>Really tough, its between Bowie and Eno here, maybe throw Can, YMo and Kraftwerk in the middle too
>ignoring punk

>Another tough one, but I'll go with the not so obvious choice Cocteau Twins.
lmao indie drone detected

>My Bloody Valentine. No contest.
It was objectively Nirvana

>Thats another tough one. I'm thinking The Avalanches. Daft Punk as well. Sheena Ringo maybe
No, Kanye West

>Macintosh plus so far.
You're a meme.

Eminem was the most popular/important/biggest artist in 00s but he was not influential at all.

Why did this go from influential to ''Edgy music I really like that has no impact whatsoever.''

>not the beatles
>not the strokes

being this contrarian hurts

who dis

The Velvet Underground was objectively the most influential and important band of the 60s

Any band could have been the Beatles. The Velvets were truly vital to everything that came after.

t. meme

do pixies or pavement instead of nirvana for 90s

60s: Beatles
70s: Kiss
80s: Phil Collins
90s: Pearl Jam
00s: Eminem
10s: Kanye West

No real people give a fuck about your ULTRA-IMPORTANT niche indie bands btw.

60s: The Beatles
70s: Bowie
80s: Madonna
90s: Nirvana
00s: The Strokes
10s: Kanye

FUCKING /THREAD

b8

nice bait

both surfer rosa and doolittle came out in the 80's

also

>pavement
pic related

I don't understand why Kanye is so important, please someone explain. Is it just a meme?
Also I think its strange no one has mentioned 2pac yet, I mean he was pretty influencial in the 90s.

>80s: Madonna

Yeah I fucked up when I said Collins for the 80s. Madonna deffo owned that decade.

I bet you think Animal Collective are important lmao.

60s: The Velvet Underground
70s: Ramones
80s: Michael Jackson
90s: Nirvana
00s: Kanye West
10s: the decade isn't even fucking done yet, there's no way to know who will be influential on music that doesn't even exist yet

>nice bait
Not bait, Velvet Underground >>>>>>> the Beatles in literally every way

ok

60s Bob dylan
70s led zeppelin
80s public enemy
90s Cypress Hill
00s Bonecrusher
10s Tyler the Creator

But Lady Gaga wasn't that popular after 2009

>60s: The Velvet Underground
>70s: Brian Eno
>80s: Sonic Youth
>90s: Nirvana
>00s: Eminem
>10s: Kanye West

Not being

60s: The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Miles Davis
70s: Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Pink Floyd
80s: The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths, NWA
90s: My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead
00s: The White Stripes, Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens
10s: Kanye West, Bon Iver

>I don't even know who that is in the 2010s
Maybe I should turn the radio on sometime.

60s - The Beatles
70s - Led Zeppelin
80s - Madonna
90s - Pearl Jam
00s - Kanye West
10s - Prince

ur so cool, look at him, he doesn't even know popular stuff, truly you are patrician

I feel so fucking retarded for not knowing the current pop trends. I used to be a fucking poptimist back in the 90s, Christina, Britney and all that other trash. I think Pop has recovered from that era but the last time I turned on the radio it was mostly EDM and some weird underground hip hop mixtape.

Rolling Stone are so out of touch it's fucking hilarious

60s: Beatles
70s: Led Zeppelin
80s: MJ or Madonna
90s: Nirvana or Mariah Carey
00s: Eminem
10s: Adele or Taylor Swift

60s captain beefheart
70s brian eno
80s tom waits
90s bjork
00s joanna newsom
10s kendrick lamar

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objective list based purely on influence on other musicians coming through

>60s: Velvet Underground
>70s: Marvin Gaye
>80s: The Smiths
>90s: Nirvana
>00: Nobody
>10s: Lil B

I guess this list was made in 2011 or 2012.

>10s Grimes
>80s Swans
>00s Animal Collective
Just off yourself.

60's: Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan
70's: David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd
80's: Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2
90's: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins
00's: Eminem, Green Day, The White Stripes
10's (so far): Kanye West, and maybe Kendrick Lamar

Yeah 90% of population in the world cannot even name one song by Kanye.

This

You must be literally retarded. Everyone knows the Beatles, just like the Rolling Stones or Nirvana. Your taste is not important in this case

I guess it's babby's first week in Cred Forums

60s - TVU, Beatles
70s - floyd, joy division
80s - who cares
90s - nirvana, radiohead
00s - strokes, arcade fire, anco
10s - women

Frank Zappa literally invented music

This user is right

Most important/influential artists:

60s-The Velvet Undergound, Miles Davis
70s-Brian Eno, Black Sabbath
80s-The Smiths, Pixies, Sonic Youth
90s-My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Wu-Tang Clan
2000s-Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Radiohead
2010s-Death Grips I guess

How dare you tell someone their taste is not important? You're literally evil. We're all human beings here.

I meant that this list is based on popularity and influence. Personal taste doesn't matter when making a list like this

60s: Bob Dylan (EVERY '60s bands/singer was inspired by him)
70s: Kraftwerk influenced the '80s (techno, etc.)
80s: Michael Jackson no contest
90s: Sonic Youth
00s: no idea: The Strokes ?
10s: Beyoncé or Kanye

based purely on commercial success
60s: Beatles
70s: idk
80s: MJ
90s: Mariah Carey
00s: Eminem
10s: Adele
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>Sonic Youth 90s

How can you fuck up this badly.

This is probably the most accurate list in this thread

This.

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you sound 15

Zep or Floyd imo

right. put Mayhem instead.

60s: Beatles
80s: Michael Jackson = Madonna
90s: Nirvana
00s: Eminem
These are undebatable. I don't know about other decades.

Are you doing infulential or popluar?

60s: Beatles, Bob Dylan
70s: David Bowie, Pink Floyd
80s: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince
90s: Nirvana, 2pac, Britney Spears
00s: Eminem, Beyonce
10s: Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar,

All things considered

>10s - Prince

Then you are so goddamn erong it fucking hurts.

Lady Gaga flopped nowadays but she's more influential than Adele or TS.
And Eminem is not that influential.

for the 00s/10s I'd pick some artist/producer influential in the electronic AND hip-hop world: kanye? dr Dre?...

If your answer for the 70's is anything other than David Bowie or Pink Floyd, you are wrong

also - 80's (see Talk Talk)

1960's : Beatles >obviously
1970 : Queen >obviously
1980: Michael jackson >probs idgaf
1990: correct nirvana
idgaf about the rest

>kanye we
you started off so good tho
>00s: Eminem, Beyonce
>10s: Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar,

Where is Max Martin

Okay who do you consider widely popular and influential in those decades?

I don't understand why kendrick lamar is so important.

THIS
and Dr Dre

lol at adele, kendrick and taylor swift these people are not influential

>Michael Jackson = Madonna
holy shit

The obly reason we're "talking about her" is because you're retarded enough to bring her up. Literally nobody else is.

Velvet Underground
Pink Floyd
Prince
Nirvana
Radiohead
Kendrick Lamar


That was easy

But they are popular

KL is not widely popular tho.

This list is about artists that actually represented a decde, so Beatles, Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Eminem and Taylor Swift.

>10s
>not K Dot

there are more than one important artist in a decade

Most objective list so far

Hi

I think Calvin Harris has changed the pop landscape to EDM since '10-'11 or so

>60s
>Velvet Underground, how can you even argue this
1. VU was unheard of in this time, they don't deserve to be the posterchild
2. they aren't NEARLY as influential as the Beatles, id like to see you argue otherwise
3. VU wasn't NEARLY as influential as they are presented, their exposure was nil and they didn't even get recognized until the late 70s. The main reason their mentioned as "influential" is because their influence somehow eclipsed their exposure (which, again, is over-stated by media), their sound aged pretty well, and they've grown as an influence on music because of their recent exposure in documentaries and name-drops. IN reality, VU probably doesn't crack the top 10 in "influence" during the 60s

itt: embryos squabbling over who was the most "influential" rather than the actual quality of the music

TVU really only influenced art/underground/punk/etc rock. They have little influence outside of that (admittedly huge) side of rock. Bob Dylan and The Beatles both have more feet in other genres and circles.

>60's : Bob Dylan
>70's : Joy Division
>80's : Sonic Youth
>90's : NMH, NIN, or Smashing Pumpkins
>00's : Animal Collective
>10's : Death Grips

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OK FINAL EDITION

60s: Beatles, Zappa, and Bob Dylan
70s: David Bowie, Pink Floyd
80s: Michael Jackson and Soniic Youth
90s: Nirvana and Radiohead
00s: Arcade Fire and Kanye(no idea tb.h)
10s: Death Grips and Kendrick

>60s
The Beatles. Sgt Pepper's approach to signal processing in the studio is probably the biggest studio move ever in music and a thing that still exists to this day in almost all forms of music that is recorded or produced today.

>70s
Brian Eno. His general push for more electronic approaches to music has been huge, and why there are very little if any real musicians in a typical studio room at all unless it's rock/jazz/classical.

>80s
Michael Jackson. And by Michael Jackson I don't even really mean Michael himself, but everyone associated with that name; everyone on his team of people from Quincy Jones who made a lot of his music in his best times to the guy who made the video for Thriller to the people responsible for his advertising. The way the mainstream music industry is approached changed completely and thus the way the system has been for almost 30 years now is due to Jackson and his peeps.

>90s
Dr. Dre. The epitome of someone who's able to have great production and great manipulation of aesthetic image while not have vocal talent not really matter at all in the music. This is eventually huge in that the need for a very talented vocalist with a high range wasn't needed and this goes into EDM, hip hop/trap, pop music, etc. So it's not something that stayed just within its own realm. Not to mention the people Dre would pick up like Snoop, Pac, and Eminem which also helped keep his brand very popular.

>00s
Kanye West. There was this thing a few years ago where big time major label executives talked about a work that was very influential to how they make music and how they market it and all that stuff. 808s and Heartbreak was that record. That's not even to mention that Kanye's also interesting in that he in general broke a lot of barriers down in terms of who's allowed to make which type of music.

>10s
Autechre. Their output this decade has been groundbreaking. Character limit reached.

Some of you just listed the most popular artist of each decade. It makes no sense.

I totally agree with this post. I love VU but like this guy said barely anyone knew them at the time. they were playing bars and clubs in the 60s.

Hendrix was very influential, but I don't see how you can say anyone who isn't the beatles. Their sound is still so copied and prevalent in music today. VU is too for sure, but they still are not on the same level as the beatles in terms of importance/influence.

why the fuck is dylan there for the 70s

literally all of his influential stuff was from the 60s

>60s: The Beatles
>70s: Cheap Trick
>80s: REM
>90s: Nirvana
>00s: The Strokes
>10s: Skrillex

60s: The Beatles
70s: Black Sabbath
80s: R.E.M.
90s: My Bloody Valentine
00s: Kanye WEST
10s: too early to tell

It does not make me happy
But yeah
This is the truth

Is Autechre really that important? I always brushed it off as just another IDM artist like Aphex Twin.

Yeah. I didn't have space to explain since I said I reached character limit in the post, but Autechre's really taking timbre manipulation to the next level. Generative music has existed for a while now, but not to the extent Autechre has been doing it where they are not just generating the music, but the music that's being generated is changing, too. Autechre has been messing generative style stuff since like 2001 with their release Confield, but their output from this decade (Oversteps, Exai, AE_Live, Elseq 1-5) has made it so the music is not just linearly generative, but quadratically generative, too.

Based entirely on number of musicians influenced, and no other consideration:

60s: The Rolling Stones
70s: Gamble and Huff
80s: Jandek (started in 70s, but his influence begins here)
90s: Korn
00s: Kode9
10s: Dunno yet.

>Eminem is not that influential.

I think he is in that he pretty much introduced rap music to white america contributing to its rise in popularity over the turn of the century.

bait

No, you see... 'influential' means how many musicians were influenced, not how many units were sold.

Influential can mean a host of things from impact on the genre to actually shaping a culture or sparking a movement. I'm saying Eminen was in large part responsible for Hip Hops shift in popularity not to mention the fact that every major rapper since then cites him as an influence.