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I don't mean most influential, I mean like directly ripped off. I think Radiohead has a pretty good claim right now.

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Beatles

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I'd say the Beatles, and ripped off through their various eras to.

We've already had the Monkees ripping off their pre-Rubber Soul stuff/images ripped off, but bands like ELO ripping off Sgt Peppers.

Also Kraftwerk by the entire Hip-Hop phenomenon.

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I thought when it came to imitators that Elvis would reign supreme!

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Following Elvis, I am pretty certain, it is Abba, and third I would put the Beatles.

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How could it not be Elvis?

There's a whole industry built around Elvis impersonators!

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I wasn't considering guys like "Big Elvis" who sings Mon-Thurs from 1-5 at the Barbary Coast.

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Parliament Funkadelic

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Pearl Jam

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Elvis ripped off Carl Perkins...

You have to have Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bill Haley on any credible list, IMHO....

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Miles

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Fraiser's brother??

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Fraiser's brother??

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Davis

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Niles

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-- TME

To clear this up, you don't mean having an impression done, like an Elvis tribute act, right? You mean where riffs/style/vibe/music is lifted wholesale, right?

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black people

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For current fashion rock, Atreyu started a trend that pretty much ruined music.

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I don't mean most influential, I mean like directly ripped off. I think Radiohead has a pretty good claim right now.

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Just curious, who has ripped off Radiohead? Im a big Radiohead fan, but Ive never seen it. Im sure its out there but Ive never noticed it.

And for the poster that mentioned Parliament.. You rule. I thought I was the only one that liked them. I think they were the precedent for a lot of the rap out today. Outkast reminds me alot of them in certain ways...

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Big Star
Velvet Underground

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the number of people in the early 80's who ripped off the sound of the Police is staggering -

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Beatles and it's not even close.

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All popular music today is a direct descendent of all the black rhythm and blues singers (male and female) performing from the 20s through the 50s and Hank Williams Sr. Lots of people think "Rock Around the Clock" was the first rock song. I'd nominate "Move it on Over" by Hank, which was recorded almost 10 years before Bill Haley was a gleam in anyone's eye. To me the progression goes like this: black R and B, Hank Sr., Elvis, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sugarhill Gang.

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I don't mean most influential, I mean like directly ripped off. I think Radiohead has a pretty good claim right now.

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Just curious, who has ripped off Radiohead? Im a big Radiohead fan, but Ive never seen it. Im sure its out there but Ive never noticed it.

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A lot of the soft-cock rock British bands ripped off the Radiohead sound circa The Bends. Travis, Coldplay, etc.

More recently, Muse's album before their latest.

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Let me throw my hat in the ring with The Strokes, who of course themselves were largely derivative. But they started a huge trend.

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Surprised no one's mentioned Bowie -- the whole 80's music scene borrowed liberally from him. The Cure, Smiths, Tears for Fears, Simple Minds, etc. Maybe nobody listens to that kind of music anymore.

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Yeah, you're right about Bowie. He kicked off the whole New Wave/Punk scene. I guess he'd be considered more important if that whole genre hadn't have died off. I don't think his influence is as great as that of Elvis, Hank, and Buddy, etc. But he was responsible for almost all of the music of the 80's. I gotta agree with you on that,

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velvet underground deserves more recognition in this department than the one or two mentions they have received thus far.

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Zeppelin gets ripped off quite a bit.

Or is it only from the Beastie Boys?

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All popular music today is a direct descendent of all the black rhythm and blues singers (male and female) performing from the 20s through the 50s and Hank Williams Sr. Lots of people think "Rock Around the Clock" was the first rock song. I'd nominate "Move it on Over" by Hank, which was recorded almost 10 years before Bill Haley was a gleam in anyone's eye. To me the progression goes like this: black R and B, Hank Sr., Elvis, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sugarhill Gang.

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If you take this discussion to this level, we are in agreement about one thing......

Virtually ALL of the popular music from the 50's on in the USA (and much of the rest of the western world) has its' roots firmly based in blues, r&b, gospel, country & jazz....and most of that was at the hands of black performers from the 20's through 50's.

The "British Invasion" of US pop music in the mid-60's (which was the springboard for the incredibly creative & ecletic music that followed in tha late 60's - early 70's)was firmly based on black music from that era, and many of the artists involved (Beatles, Stones, Clapton....etc.) freely & openly give credit to this fact.

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Black Sabbath

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what trend would that be?

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I can't believe this hasn't been said yet. You should all be ashamed.


Creed.




That is all. Thanks for ruining the radio cockbags.