What band or artiste has influenced your life most?

[antman_xp]

Me too...when I bought London Calling (only about a year ago unfortunately, wish I'd found it sooner), I knew that my music taste was changed forever. I loved the album from front to back and listened to it obsessively for a while, and then went on to buy the other Clash albums. I can thank the Clash for getting me into reggae (other than Bob Marley's "Legend"), some ska, along with lots of other punk banRAB.

And to think, I bought it cause I liked the album cover. I mean, I knew it was supposed to be a great album but I didn't know anything other than Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay, which aren't even on it.

[gary r]

I think you're supposed to give some kind of reasoning...

[Devolution]

I'm no expert on post-punk, this is just going by what I've heard.

[KE-KE]

I can understand not liking Savatage but Victims of Deception is classic thrash.

[MrGizmo757]

I am not a fan at all (not because of what they are seen to represent BTW) but I do think that 'Spit It Out' is a phenomenal track. Very successful Metal banRAB that have a predominantly young teen audience are frowned upon by an older generation who just were'nt a part of that. Not all of course but some banRAB get a bad wrap because of this. Many people who grew up on Slipknot may well diversify and be into less mainstream music now that they are older and that can only be a good thing.

[Mona Lisa]

I've got to go with Serj Tankian/SOAD, simply because they were the first rock/metal (whatever you want to call them) band that I ever liked, and they're truly the reason that I'm into metal today.

[BettYbOOpBaBY]

Wow, I was finally going to post in this thread and you had to have the same band. ****.

I heard Toxicity and got into metal. The rest is history.

[TallGlass]

Nirvana introduced me to some of the worst music ever and I continued to listen to it religiously for ten years thereafter. I've since renounced my ties to shitty alternative rock but it's what I grew up on.

[Travy Boy]

Music affects us all, and for some of us hearing that one song or album or band can change our lives completely. So it was with me and Marillion: this band opened up whole new vistas of imagination I had never before envisioned, and every album was a journey of discovery.
So what music artiste(s) would you say influenced your life (in a positive or negative, but hopefully positive) way, and how?