Who has been the best / most influential band of the last 30 years?

The Strokes and Libertines kick-started the whole garage rock revival thing that happened during the early 00's and pretty much saved guitar music. If it hadn't have been for those bands there never would have been an Arctic Monkeys.
 
The answer is Daft Punk, but they don’t meet the requirements of +three members unless you count the two spare guys they dress up as robots to do gigs for them.

Four albums, three totally distinct sounds, and apart from the third album which was a bit of a joke, each album had an unbelievable influence on not only mainstream and underground electronic music, but rippled across pop music, hip hop and r’n’b. It’s hard to get your head around in retrospect, but following the release of each Daft Punk album, the next five years pretty much sounded like people from pop bands to underground DJs trying to sound like Daft Punk - until the next Daft Punk album rewrote the script.

Genius, visionaries, and the most influential band of my lifetime.

There’s been some brilliant guitar bands but it’s all derivative, the sound hasn’t moved on since maybe the mid 90s. The Strokes were very influential but the whole band is an impression of late 70s NY garage punk-pop. Oasis was a new sound, but again, pick any critically acclaimed indie / rock band of any year and it’s the same sound as one that’s gone before it. Someone like LCD Soundsystem are a bit different, because they wanted to sound like Daft Punk. Radiohead are great, but it’s just indie with a bit of Aphex Twin.

The other huge zeitgeist-creating artist of the last 30 years is Kanye West, love him or hate him. Again, all pop and hip hop music copied his sound from the first few albums, he changed sound, everyone copied him again, so he changed sound again and again and again. I don’t really like the state of modern hip hop / r’n’b but Kanye pretty much invented it with The Life of Pablo.
 
parmoboy said:
The Strokes and Libertines kick-started the whole garage rock revival thing that happened during the early 00's and pretty much saved guitar music. If it hadn't have been for those bands there never would have been an Arctic Monkeys.
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Yeah, although The Strokes influenced The Libertines. The Libertines were almost a twee acoustic outfit before that. Their manager Banny Poostchi pretty much heard The Strokes and her and Doherty influenced the band to change their sound and image after that, took them to rough trade and that’s The Libertines as we know them. The rapid change in image and sound was a direct influence from The Strokes
 
HiredGun123 said:
Yeah, although The Strokes influenced The Libertines. The Libertines were almost a twee acoustic outfit before that. Their manager Banny Poostchi pretty much heard The Strokes and her and Doherty influenced the band to change their sound and image after that, took them to rough trade and that’s The Libertines as we know them. The rapid change in image and sound was a direct influence from The Strokes
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Aye, the legs 11 demo shows they were a very different band back then, to the one that was eventually signed by Rough Trade.

Pete said in an interview that they had the songs but they just needed speeding up, with loud distorted guitars. Apparently Time for Heroes started off as a slow tender ballad.

This is how they started out...

 
DrummerMan said:
Some basic outlines:

• Bands formed since 1990
• Three or more members
• Probably 'success' on both sides of the Atlantic

For me personally, it's hard to look past the Foo Fighters, I guess some would say Nirvana but didn't they form in the late 1980s?

Others would say Oasis, but did they really 'crack' America? They are mainly a one-hit wonder for Wonderwall

Then you have the 1990s - early 2000's pop punk stuff - Greenday, Blink 182, etc - they were all successful and quite influential

The same could be said for the nu-metal era - Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, etc

I guess you could also mention bands like the Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Muse, etc as well
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Oasis one hit wonders? I despair 🤢
 
I’ve just stumbled across this thread. The only remotely interesting band mentioned by anyone is Daft Punk.
The rest are all boring indie tosh geee-tar bands that churn out constant mush. Although I did go see the Killers once.
Arent opinions on music brilliant?
 
Many of these bands were formed pre 1990 and don't meet the criteria set by the OP. Even Shalamar sadly Nobby. So out of those who were not pre 90 I would have to say Oasis although their influence on music has long faded same with Strokes and Libertines I'm sad to say. If not Oasis then I would choose Arctic Monkeys.
 
jonny_greenings_sock said:
The answer is Daft Punk, but they don’t meet the requirements of +three members unless you count the two spare guys they dress up as robots to do gigs for them.

Four albums, three totally distinct sounds, and apart from the third album which was a bit of a joke, each album had an unbelievable influence on not only mainstream and underground electronic music, but rippled across pop music, hip hop and r’n’b. It’s hard to get your head around in retrospect, but following the release of each Daft Punk album, the next five years pretty much sounded like people from pop bands to underground DJs trying to sound like Daft Punk - until the next Daft Punk album rewrote the script.

Genius, visionaries, and the most influential band of my lifetime.

There’s been some brilliant guitar bands but it’s all derivative, the sound hasn’t moved on since maybe the mid 90s. The Strokes were very influential but the whole band is an impression of late 70s NY garage punk-pop. Oasis was a new sound, but again, pick any critically acclaimed indie / rock band of any year and it’s the same sound as one that’s gone before it. Someone like LCD Soundsystem are a bit different, because they wanted to sound like Daft Punk. Radiohead are great, but it’s just indie with a bit of Aphex Twin.

The other huge zeitgeist-creating artist of the last 30 years is Kanye West, love him or hate him. Again, all pop and hip hop music copied his sound from the first few albums, he changed sound, everyone copied him again, so he changed sound again and again and again. I don’t really like the state of modern hip hop / r’n’b but Kanye pretty much invented it with The Life of Pablo.
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People also forget that Kanye was producing and writing tracks for other artists well before he released his debut LP .
 
HiredGun123 said:
The Strokes have to be up there, maybe not hugely groundbreaking musically but they pretty much kickstarted the whole 00’s guitar bands thing, which so many bands gained success from such as Arctic Monkeys and lots more. You could reel off a big number of bands that had success in a that period after all the record companies were looking for bands like that after The Strokes appeared.
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Yup it's gotta be The Strokes. Even new bands and artists now still reference The Strokes as an influence on them. Great band.
 
I think Oasis were very influential at the time (albeit few of the bands they influenced did much).

By the end of the decade the commercial tied had turned towards Coldplay, Travis et al - themselves very influenced by Radiohead.
parmoboy said:
Aye, the legs 11 demo shows they were a very different band back then, to the one that was eventually signed by Rough Trade.

Pete said in an interview that they had the songs but they just needed speeding up, with loud distorted guitars. Apparently Time for Heroes started off as a slow tender ballad.

This is how they started out...

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Absolutely love that early stuff, wish I'd seen them at that stage. Still hoping for some sort of official vinyl release of their earlier, jazzier moments.

The Strokes' ascent was definitely a "lightbulb moment" for the Libertines but I think also played with the Vines quite early on who may have had an impact as well? The Hives were quite well known in certain circles at that point and had been going for a few years in Sweden by that point.
 
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