Who would you consider to be the most influential musician of the past 30 years?

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Ian Watkins.

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

tone loc

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bill Clinton.

― B-Rad, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Grandmaster Flash

― JM, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whoever was the first to use a drum machine instead of a drummer.

― Aimless, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

David Bowie.

― toraneko, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kraftwerk

― brg30, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you mean who has made the most influential music since 1972, my vote is for Grandmaster Flash too, as he more than anyone invented the DJ as we now know him. However if you mean who has been the biggest influence on the music of the last 30 years, I would say James Brown, but obviously a lot of the music that he made that has been massively influential was made before 1972. Does anyone understand what I'm on about?

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, I'm with you there, Martin -- had it been forty years I think I would have said James Brown as well. And the Grandmaster Flash argument also makes perfect sense. I guess I choose Moroder for the sheer impact of transforming ideas from Kraftwerk, JB and so forth and pointing forward more fully to an explicitly electronic-but-openly-pop future. (Though of course the drumming on something like "I Feel Love" was from Keith Forsey, I believe, rather than a beatbox.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steffan Dennis

― Lynskey, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Prince. Or somebody from Kraftwerk.

― j.lu, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Carnie Wilson

― Matt, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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