The Eagles provided the soundtrack to so many of my summers, and likely many of yours, too. Paul Mealor says: The very greatest composers are able to sustain us in our darkest moments as well as making us laugh and filling us with joy. He is one of the most original bass players ever. You try to play this stuff and you'll see they had chops. What about those people we done forgot about, like Wolf? The Shirelles had a "sound," a word that people from the Sixties vocal-group era use with a lot of reverence. We all know that she faced some rough times in her life. They had an amazing ability to change between records. In addition, they could rap, they could sing and they could play instruments. It wasn't heavy metal. I'm sure people told them it was too long or had too many movements. Sort by: View: 49 names 1. Of course, the best thing about all his albums is his guitar. It's a great trick it's impossibly catchy, people play it at their weddings, but it's a stalker song. Women responded overwhelmingly to his profoundly respectful and sensitive approach. Sting already had a career and a degree when the Police made it; he wasn't afraid of sounding like a grown-up. I keep it on my black velvet top hat. Jimmy Page must have looked at Cream and thought, "Fuck me, I think I'll do that," and then put together Led Zeppelin. And here is the list of most influential artists by cityin order of cities with the most artists, and categorized by either where a band was formed or an individual musician was born. To me, 'Pac was more of a poet than a rapper. They have a phase one, a phase two, maybe even a phase three and four. And Ronnie ran that band with an iron hand. We were both fans of the Drifters even before we started writing, and later producing, for them. But that nomination process is somewhat arbitrary, beholden to an international voting body of more than 900 as well as results from an online fan vote. It was a voice that could play roadhouses without amplification, that could cut through barroom crowds. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Eight groups have multiple rock stars on the list, and four of those have three, including one group, the Yardbirds, that featured. Jimmy and Tom decided to give me "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," which they had written with Campbell. Chess Records is a landmark. They were professionals who came up during the punk era and found their messages later on. This was a group that hadn't sung together in years, but they sounded heavenly. We sang "Let's Stay Together" on that stage, and it was a milestone in my short, unimportant career. There are no train wrecks in Radiohead; every album and performance is wrenching. Obviously, he had great musicians on those albums: Bootsy Collins on the bass; Bernie Worrell, the best keyboard player I've ever heard. Stevie is largely considered one of the most influential singers and musicians of all time. You'd come back to town from a 51-night tour, and the first thing you did was shower and head back to Hitsville. There is a whole generation of musicians coming up who can't play their instruments. He gets inside your head, and he doesn't let go. I don't think this generation has a clue what classic Aerosmith was all about. There's a Jerry Lee Lewis flavor to the way he just gets in there and lets it rip: His rocking stuff has a lot of raw power, a real physicality. When she asked, "Where did our love go?" She also didn't play it up although many of her songs are about sex. It's Clapton's most original interpretation of the blues, because the hellhounds on his trail had a face: unrequited love. was totally a going concern. Sabbath records do that for me, too, but they're simple. And it all sounds good. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song let alone album after album. Each of the Beastie Boys has a different personality. Most guitar players like to go crazy, but Steve picked his spots, and when he spoke, it was profound. Carlos isn't the lead singer, but he is the maestro. The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time - Google Books Dre has a whole coast on his back. Backstage, Carl was very nervous about coming out with us. When I sang backup for Don Henley in the early Nineties, it was a surreal experience, supplying vocals every night to Eagles songs. Later, when Holland-Dozier-Holland left, I co-wrote "Still Water (Love)" with Frank Wilson for the Four Tops. I still ask artists in the studio to "sing this like Diana Ross would." It was sold out. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. It was not made in Hollywood. As you read this book, remember: This is what we have to live up to. They survived in a world where survival didn't seem possible. Everything about the songs was great, even the intros every one of them had a distinctive, memorable intro, which was a hook in and of itself. The truth is that when Tina came back in the Eighties, she became much bigger than she was the first time around. We used to have these Blue Mondays in Chicago that would start at seven o'clock in the morning. Rock music is all about being phony sometimes. He knew his stuff before he met us. When you heard him play, you knew it couldn't be anyone else. Pain and hurt can be a muse for great art. Gram and I both loved the songs of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant the Everly Brothers stuff they wrote. Basically, we hung around together, like musicians do. But I never did. And he could express it all the music from Nashville and Bakersfield, California, the stuff from Texas in his singing and songwriting. But he also had intelligence and honesty. PRESENTS The 40 Most Groundbreaking Albums of All Time SPONSORED BY Scroll Down From Kanye West to Woody Guthrie, the monumental musical statements that changed the world 2008 Kanye West 808s &. I'd hear the man's voice and try to picture what he looked like. Booker T. pioneered a lot of sounds on the organ. They knew he knew. I had a photographer friend, and he told me, "There's a really hot band from Seattle you have to see. TIME presents its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, from artists and leaders to pioneers, titans and icons "Roxanne" is blatantly about a hooker it's not about how Sting loves her and broke her heart, it's just about how she's a hooker. It was very down-home at its root. Some time later, Kurt reached out to me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Somebody left an 8-track tape of Queen's Greatest Hits in a car the one where they're wearing leather jackets on the cover, and Freddie's got the mustache. In making The Downward Spiral, he encouraged the computer to misconstrue input, willed it to spew out bloated, misshapen shards of sound that pierced and lacerated the listener. He was fun to be around, great to play with as a musician. But they weren't afraid to create a mood. They were an integrated band half white, half black. My big awakening happened when I was 14 years old. The day may come, if you're a young rocker, when you'll hear one of Clapton's mellow, contemporary ballads on the radio and think, "What's the big deal?" Duff McKagan is like the bass player in AC/DC: His parts were fairly simple, but they made the band an unstoppable force. Our first cut writing for the Drifters was "Ruby Baby," which Nesuhi Ertegun produced and Johnny Moore sang lead on, in 1955. He's the definition of a true talent: Dre feels like God placed him here to make music, and no matter what forces are aligned against him, he always ends up on the mountaintop. As a companion piece to Baudelaire's "To the Reader" the preface to his Flowers of Evil and second to the Velvet Underground, there has never been better soul-lashing in rock. You can hear their sound reverberating throughout the whole industry today especially since hip-hop guys sample so much of what they did back then. These are TIME's 100 most influential pioneers, leaders, titans, artists and icons of 2020. Just write some great songs that's what you do." You hear his voice and it lights everything up. Trent's music, built as it is on the history of industrial and mechanical sound experiments, contains a beauty that attracts and repels in equal measure: Nietzsche's "God is dead" to a nightclubbing beat. She had such a strong sexuality, but she didn't feel the need to deny that part of her in order to be taken seriously. Eric Clapton we don't have to talk about it's obvious how amazing he is. And when I played at Bonnaroo with my 10-piece band, we did two covers, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and "Sultans of Swing." His lyrics were a big part of it like Woody Guthrie and Merle Haggard before him, Ronnie knew how to cut to the chase. You could sing his solos like songs in themselves. I couldn't get in. was more melody-driven I'm sure he wrote his shit without a pen, and over the music but 'Pac was just hashing out his life. People are born to do certain things, and Al was born to make us smile. They created this following that grew and grew, and they did it without compromising themselves. It burned with the abandon of the blues singer and an almost feminine longing, at once powerful and deeply personal. He was just a stunning and singular musician who was gone way too soon. It is an inexplicable, awesome thing, and I bow down to it. He's a pioneer of Latin rock & roll: His music was something new, but it was intertwined with everything else that was out there at the time Sixties rock, Latin jazz and more. It presented this facade that everything around us is solid and real and going to be here forever, even though we know we created it. Turning 14 years old is already a heavy combination of things. Murmur, Reckoning even Dead Letter Office, with its beer-soaked goofs and discarded B sides, provided a much-needed insulation against the cruel, Queensrche-and-Garth-Brooks-listening world. "They're jogging because they just went through a breakup."). When they said Jimmy Iovine, I got Jimmy, because I wanted my solo work to be as much like Tom's as possible. My parents had basically nine vinyl albums, all greatest hits: the Beatles' red/blue albums, Carpenters, Neil Diamond, Elton John, the Beach Boys' Endless Summer, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot and Creedence Gold. All of us on the East Coast loved Tupac. You hear the frustration of not being able to do that in his Sixties guitar work. But the thing that caught my eye: She was wearing a Fables of the Reconstruction T-shirt. I had heard that they hadn't seen each other in quite a while, so there was some apprehension when the three of them took the stage. It's amazing how one band could take all those influences country and rock, of course, but also soul, R&B and folk and still sound so distinctive. But you have to say, they did pretty well. But what disappoints me about a lot of current music is that you don't hear any history in it. I'll go on record as saying they're the greatest rock & roll band of all time. We used Brian May amps and wrote songs with different movements. Otis Redding had his sound, Sam and Dave had theirs, Albert King had his own thing. All the compelling themes are on Black Sabbath's records: beauty, atrocity, the seven deadly sins. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic and crap like that. But she influenced people who became stars. 1. To this day they still have the best album covers I've ever seen; they would sustain you as much as a video would today. Real recognizes real. But Clapton's guitar playing is still terrific. The difference between John Lydon and a lot of other punk singers is that they can only emulate what he was doing naturally. and the soul numbers ("Long As I Can See the Light"). 200 Best Singers of All Time - Rolling Stone By Pitchfork. Gram was everything you wanted in a singer and a songwriter. It hits you in waves: driving rhythms with brass and strings countered by down-in-the-alley funk. It didn't have to be about music. I only met him once, after a show in San Francisco. REX Their melodies and harmonies have always been instantly familiar. They rocked without rushing and they managed melody without being insipid. Tina's story is not one of victimhood but one of incredible triumph. Seeing them perform makes me even angrier. The Stooges' sound was so evocative yet so simple. His music hits right to the pump right to the heart. I was simply staggered by the amount of equipment they had: by Ginger Baker's double bass drum, by Jack Bruce's two 4-by-12 Marshall amps and by all of Eric Clapton's gear. At 15 minutes, it was so long and so good, it made you feel like now was the time. The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. But you could see them the band was right in the window. From Bon Iver to J Dilla to Beyonc, these are the musicians who made the biggest impact across Pitchfork's lifetime so far. The Velvet Underground is several times more influential than more easily recognizable top artists like Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen; Madonna, one of the biggest pop stars of the last few decades, is not high up at all. The 100 Most Influential Artists, according to NME It's, like, from 1982.". He asked me to produce a track for the Game. And Santana is the light. There's nothing like it. Foghat? On their very first national tour, they opened for the Who. In the songs he wrote with Robert Hunter, and in Bob Weir's stuff too, you're also hearing music from 40 years ago. When a person gets rocking to their music, everything else disappears, and that person is just one with the rock. Phil Spector could be the greatest of these. His job isn't just holding down the root notes he and the drummers, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, are moving all over the place. That's when we'd all get together after playing and just do a conversation, man. Excitement would still not have peace. Elvis' songs say, "I see you, and I know what you're doing." That integration was a sign of things to come. There would be this moment this collective breath from the audience as he walked over, picked it up and started playing the most ripping, beautiful solo. And so, that year, I heard Lynyrd Skynyrd making their Atlanta debut at a very dangerous club on Peachtree Street called Funocchio's. When they played their first gig, in 2003 at Coachella, the first thing Iggy did was start jumping in the air, flipping the bird to the crowd "Fuck you, fuck you and fuck you." She was gorgeous and skinny and this was back in the Twiggy days, when skinny was new and she had that big, beautiful hair. I heard a rumor that Wolf and Muddy didn't get along I never saw that. I also remember being on a long cross-country family road trip as a kid, driving across the Texas desert at night. He's got some serious babymaking music. The next year, I was meeting all of the great blues musicians: Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf. He was the last example that I can think of within rock & roll where a poor kid with no family backup from a small, rural area effected a serious emotional explosion in a significant sector of world youth. It has perhaps the Dullest Expensive Album Cover ever, with the foldout profiles of the band members, but it sat proudly next to Devo, Kiss, the Yardbirds, the Stones' early albums (they were cheap), the Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack and the Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. The Velvet Underground is several times more influential than more easily recognizable "top" artists like Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen; Madonna, one of the biggest pop stars of the last few. I could tell that Joni was a painter by the way she wrote lyrics. Intellectually, Clapton was a purist, although there was little evidence of it in the beginning. The reason I got a chance to play on sessions with him on songs like "Killing Floor," "Built for Comfort" and "300 Pounds of Joy" and a lot of musicians better than me didn't get those dates, was because they would come in thinking, "This is my opportunity to blow the Wolf offstage." Bands like the Clash had already mixed it with punk, but the Police did it flat-out it was like reggae for music geeks. The things that Lydon wrote about back in '76 and '77 are totally relevant to what's going on right now. In the early days of rap, the conventional wisdom was that only black people were supposed to like hip-hop and only white people were supposed to like rock. It goes, "Sometimes he's my best friend, even when he's not around.". The 2013 TIME 100. . They sounded fantastic. Back then the Four Tops were called the Four Aims. #31 of 311. But this was also the guy who did 87orchestral pieces like The Yellow Shark. But I still gave him a look like he was bugging. You know when I did "Shaft," with those 16th notes on the high-hat? I bought a 10-song Hank Williams collection on vinyl for $4.99. Espaol. The 1,000+ Best Musicians of All Time, Ranked And then his comeback with Supernatural shows how enduring his talent is. But at its best, it is still the sound of forward motion. Eminem lives, sleeps and breathes music he's a bit like me in that respect. Rolling Stone Magazine's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" And what they wanted was Jackie Wilson. Elvis Presley 4. There are a lot of Deadheads who were completely different people before they connected with the Grateful Dead. Nobody moved like the Tempts. But it's "Xxplosive," off 2001, that I got my entire sound from if you listen to the track, it's got a soul beat, but it's done with those heavy Dre drums. The thing is, he had seven years of the most extraordinary, historic guitar playing ever and 40 years of doing good work. The title song of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath has all of the stuff I'm talking about: It's rebellious and dark and wicked, but it's also gorgeous. Metallica's career is a huge, dynamic thing, and they have done it all. Later in life, in the early Nineties, I witnessed a wonderful moment, when the Shirelles were honored by the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. I became a fan right then. I met the Beastie Boys in Rick Rubin's dorm room at NYU. Check out TIME's annual list. And then you hear Guns n' Roses, and it's inspiring. Bands like Bon Jovi and Whitesnake were big then, but Guns n' Roses were different. The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get the best of both worlds. Clapton has followed in the footsteps of his mentors: He's become a journeyman. When we started to do the song and Eminem made his entrance, I got goose bumps, the likes of which I have not felt since I first saw Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, James Brown and Aretha Franklin. Metallica are fucking rad! We were tired, we'd been on the road. Sting played bass and sang, which you don't see very often. As I waited backstage to present my speech, I was approached by three women arguing with one another as to who should be the one to go onstage and claim the award that was to be given to Jackie. But everyone contributed material and incredible musicianship to the effort: Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon, then Don Felder, and later Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit. It was a thing of beauty. To me, it has always been paramount in singing. 100 most important bands since The Beatles - cleveland.com Her music is a healing thing. And it opened up my mind to the mighty force of nature that is Metallica. This is not to say that Jay-Z never wore tank tops, but he was (and continues to be) an exceedingly rare combination of intelligence, weirdness, seriousness and pop appeal. Jackie Wilson was key in helping bridge the gap between an old-style R&B and a new incarnation of soul. After I released my first solo album, I was doing a TV special in Memphis, and I called him and asked if he'd grace us with his presence. A lot of deep records like Pink Floyd's The Wall or Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile are dense, long journeys. But then they started writing anita kunztheir own rhymes, and when Licensed to Ill came out, it went to Number One. "When I was young and full of grace/And spirited, a rattlesnake/When I was young and fever fell/My spirit? Run-DMC gave "Slow and Low" to the Beastie Boys. And Tom is such a great singer and so charismatic onstage. Even his messes are beautiful. "Knee Deep" was their coming-out music. It sounds simple, but what AC/DC did is almost impossible to duplicate. In the MGs, Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn were the rock & rollers, but they also had the country thing covered, as well as the blues. The girl-group sound was everything to me. Shirley Alston Reeves, who did most of the group's lead vocals, wasn't a gospel shouter like Arlene Smith of the Chantels. I couldn't believe that it existed. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time - Wikipedia Slash plays what's needed for the song, as opposed to trying to make the tune a showcase for his technique. Edith George watching from New York. Shirley was more sentimental and street. And it was loud, even outside. When Paul's Boutique came out, it didn't sell as well as their debut. I wrote a song about him I've never recorded, but I will someday. Matlock was cool, but Sid was everything that's cool about punk rock: a skinny rocker who had a ton of attitude, sort of an Elvis, James Dean kind of guy. The audience broke into screams. When Muddy died, they interviewed me on television, and they asked me, "What should be done?" Nothing gets in the way of the push-and-pull between the guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd. He didn't get the breaks he deserved; hard luck seemed to follow him around. Of course, the Attractions were really important to his music if you're going to cram a whole book into one song, it helps to have a steady groove. He incorporated his culture into the music, and he mixed English and Spanish in the lyrics. At the same time, Mick was listening to what Gram was doing. There have been bottleneck-guitar players forever, from the Twenties through the Sixties, but Duane began doing things no one had ever done before. I slowly became aware of the house music and that it was infuriatingly familiar. I had to suffer the philistines stealing my band silently. Phish tried hard to do that too: to take our four little instruments and do as much as we could with them. To include the Sex Pistols and Jay Z without BC is laughable. The Beatles 2. There's a damaged quality to David Bowie's original mix that is way ahead of its time. It's amazing how many rock bands with serious grooves are made up of skinny English dudes. Joni had an edginess that not many women expressed then. We got to go back and do some digging. I knew the Byrds from Mr. Tambourine Man on; the Stones had worked some shows in California with them back then. That warmth and wit came through in his music. A lot of groups if they're lucky just have a phase one. Tupac was like a camera. Greatest of All Time Artists - Billboard. This is a band getting very strung out, putting so much blood and soul into what it's doing, and for the most part looked upon as trash. When he soloed, he wrote wonderful symphonies from classic blues licks in that fantastic tone, with all of the resonance that comes from distortion. But I believe that his guitar playing changed radically in the early Seventies because singing and songwriting became more important to him, and Robert Johnson had a lot to do with that. He was sweating it looked like glitter sweat and he had a chipped tooth. After all this time, he's still at war. Compared to the prog-rock groups they get thrown in with King Crimson or Yes or Genesis their music is actually very simple. They also came up with the cutting-edge dance routines. Take a song like "Fat Old Sun," from Atom Heart Mother. Oscar Wilde said that an artist has succeeded if people don't understand his work but they still like it. One night, at Madison Square Garden, Bruce Hornsby who was playing keyboards with them pulled us up onstage and sat us behind his piano. We're trying to do the same thing with Los Lonely Boys make a lot of different types of music into something our own but he did that first. He had a terrible car crash on the way to The Ed Sullivan Show when "Blue Suede Shoes" was breaking really big. Aerosmith had an aggressive, psychotic, drugged-out vibe, but at the same time they had a Stones-y blues thing going on. We continued the process until additional iterations led to few additional artists; while some artists were likely missed in our process, the data are broadly representative. Now people realize it's one of the best albums of the Eighties. For example, The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time begins with medieval music theorist Guido d'Arezzo and ends with Jay-Z. They learned from the blues, and they continued to interpret the form in their own manner. And he would ball that fist up. Eminem is a true poet of his time, someone we'll be talking about for decades to come. From the very onset, NME eliminates acts such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, because "they aren't necessarily directly informing the music being made today (Genres like hip-hop have already embraced this cross-plane influence, with many musicians citing teenage acts and 80s rappers alike as inspirations.)
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