POLL - The WEAKEST LINK of AMERICAN BANDS - (Championship) ROUND 4

F Me In The Brain said:

mickeyrat said:

 

interesting. in all these weakest link polls, I dont recall any them being about most influential etc....

its all subjective and kinda arbitrary. seeing how age range is presenting itself era or groups folks were most drawn to initially etc...

True.  I think the influence piece comes in when/if the band or artist a person likes is not winning, or was previously voted out.  (See, sour grapes.).

I think I was the one who brought influence into it, and I kinda thought we were supposed to try to be as objective about this as possible, not just vote our favourite band. that's where the influence piece came in for me. But I guess we're all voting different criteria, which is ok. 

F Me In The Brain said:

mickeyrat said:

 

interesting. in all these weakest link polls, I dont recall any them being about most influential etc....

its all subjective and kinda arbitrary. seeing how age range is presenting itself era or groups folks were most drawn to initially etc...

True.  I think the influence piece comes in when/if the band or artist a person likes is not winning, or was previously voted out.  (See, sour grapes.).

I dunno, it seems like a pretty standard thing to consider since about every similar poll I’ve ever read uses it.

DewieCox said:

brianlux said:

DewieCox said:

Soundgarden is more influential than Petty. 

Surely you are kidding?

Nah, like I said, I don’t really think Petty is all that influential and I think Soundgarden deserves their fair share of credit for  grunge/alt explosion in being one of the earliest bands to get ears and eyes turned towards Seattle and almost a guiding force for a lot of those bands on a personal level. Petty always had his rootsier sound but was never hesitant the follow trends with his 70s and 80s material and I don’t feel like they inspired many acts to follow their lead on a musical front.

Id really put both in more of 1b tier but unquestionably 2 acts worthy of all the adulation they’ve received.

I think the difficult thing for younger generations (and I’m one of them in this case) to understand is that according to the cadgers and music magazines from the time, NO ONE sounded like Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers when they hit. Record stores didn’t know how to classify them and put their releases in the punk section (the Patti Smith Group, too, for that matter!).

They were already established and trying out new-to-them sounds by the time I was old enough to get into them (Southern Accents), so though I hear the above statements and read them a lot, it’s just difficult to understand, having not lived through it. I mean, their videos were in heavy rotation on MTV at the point I was introduced (not the Patti Smith Group’s, though!)

The most recent comparison I can think of is Arcade Fire. If I recall correctly, people didn’t know how to classify them for a while.

dankind said:

I think the difficult thing for younger generations (and I’m one of them in this case) to understand is that according to the cadgers and music magazines from the time, NO ONE sounded like Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers when they hit. Record stores didn’t know how to classify them and put their releases in the punk section (the Patti Smith Group, too, for that matter!).

They were already established and trying out new-to-them sounds by the time I was old enough to get into them (Southern Accents), so though I hear the above statements and read them a lot, it’s just difficult to understand, having not lived through it. I mean, their videos were in heavy rotation on MTV at the point I was introduced (not the Patti Smith Group’s, though!)

The most recent comparison I can think of is Arcade Fire. If I recall correctly, people didn’t know how to classify them for a while.

they didnt break here til they came back from england after breaking there first. similar to hendrix.