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user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Unpopular Opinion: Jack White Is the Worst Thing to Ever Happen to Rock & Roll | L.A. Weekly

You're just naming bad bands. None of them had/will have any particular longterm influence.





steve  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    None of them had/will have any particular longterm influence.

[tongue only slightly in cheek] The Monkeys... despite being a manufactured band had a longterm influence. Like it or not - in a weird sort of meta way... a lot of people can hum or sing the monkeys theme song.

cgod  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And the monkey managed to break the bonds of their evil masters and made some music that they cared about which was good

user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Some of them had a pernicious short-term influence, though. Late 90s-early 2000s alternative rock was so stupidly over the top we got a decade of twee and anemic rehashes of earlier eras we haven't quite recovered from as a reaction. Unlike the reaction to stadium rock, which was great, we got rock music that was afraid to... rock.

user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Point.

user-inactivated  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    None of them had/will have any particular longterm influence.

And that is why they're bad bands. Anything that is remotely good will inspire people to be creative, to emulate yet experiment. They'll be remembered 20 years down the road. Jack White? He'll probably be remembered and people will still enjoy his music.

The bands I've listed? They'll only be remembered for being awful. That's part of the problem though. They're awful bands that are easily marketable. They're out there to make the music industry a quick buck and they prove that band, easy formulas are the way to do it. In my opinion, that's 100 times more damaging to the world of music than anything Jack White has done.