Who do you think has been succesful in the music industry from the 70's til today?
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Eagles Eric Clapton Aerosmith Rolling Stones Elton John Phil Collins  OZZY!!!!!!!!!!\n\nFYI: Nirvana Led Zepplin & Beastie Boys all broke up & Eminem is from the 90's
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I couldn't agree more, look at the music industry, people like.. 50 cents, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson (oh please don't tell me with a voice like that she has talent!), Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, blah blah blah.. Crap music everywhere and I could go on for days!! I think good music will extinct in a few years time, that's really sad..
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My opinion...Tim McGraw.  He's just as popular today as he was 10 years ago, and I'm sure he'll be as popular 10 years from now.
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40's: Modern musical culture did not exist\n50's: Elvis\n60's: The Beatles\n70's: Pink Floyd\n80's: Madonna\n90's: Nirvana\n00's: Too early to say.\n\nPlease note that I in no way consider these the BEST musicians of their decades (except the Beatles). Simply the most influential.
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Beatles.\nThey took music from nowhere to somewhere. They said it was "OK" to bring in more than 4 instruments. ie"A day in the life." They brought in Indian instruments...Ravi Shankar's Sitar. They did a bunch of stuff that was never done. Everyone else has taken their scraps and bones and run with it. Music wouldn't be like it is today without them.\n\nBest song...(s)...a day in the life...revolution... sgt.pepper...etc.
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Oh my god. I totally agree with you. I am 20 years old and the only thing I listen to is classic rock. I am a huge Styx fan and they came out in the 70's.  The first three preset stations on my car radio are all stations that play 70's and 80's.  I listen to very little out now.  The music out now is pretty much all about the bass and how loud you can make it and pretty much question and answer and rap are the most popular.  Sex is talked about a lot, and music from the seventies and eighties was just simpler and easy to listen to and you can do other things and just forget you have it on. Anyway, I totally agree with you that the music from the 70's and 80's is better than the music out now. I agree with everyone who said that it was because the music now is just so mindless that it has no meaning and twenty years from now, no one is gonna know what the hell it means, whereas the music from the sixties thru to the late nineties with the invasion of the boy bands and modern music is good.  But overall the music from the sixties to the early nineties is the best by far.
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The Beatles!\n\nOh it's those darned flashbacks again. Sorry!
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I agree.  I love nearly all era's of music, but the stuff from the 60's, 70's, and 80's is better by far than most of the music today.\nI personally like Led Zeppelin, they had a great guitarist, and a great drummer, and could play rock, blues, and a lot of other styles of music as well.  For example D'yer'maker (hope I spelled that correctly) almost sounds a bit like calypso, "When the Levee Breaks" is a classic blues song, "Stairway To Heaven" is probably one of the greatest rock songs ever.  Not only could they play a variety of music styles their lyrics were intelligent and intriguing.\nAnother of my all time favorites was and is Bob Dylan, the man is a lyrical genius, and he has inspired more musicians than any other singer/songwriter.\nTodays music just doesn't compare.  They simply regurgitate their songs and their goal is to make money.  Back in the 60's - 80's people were actually writing songs that meant something, and they were trying to say something.  Today's artists might tell you that is what they are attempting to do, but IMO they have failed misserably.  They simply parrot what the mainstream media and entertainment industries spew out and say that they are trying to make a difference.\nThere are only two "modern" bands that I like, one of them broke up (Rage Against The Machine), the other is U2
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that's hard to say......there are many great artists...so many categories. \n\nSinger? Musician? Band? Rock? Alternative? Classic? Pop?\n\nI'm sure who I like, you and many others will not care for. \n\nMany say Dave Matthews is the greatest. Others are still die hard Sprinsteen fans. Eric Clapton is still considered the best. Again....a matter of taste.
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the 80's definitely\nThats my era and the music is second to none :)
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Having grown up in the 70's - I can tell you that American culture was a bit crazy - we were dealing with the Tail-end of Viet Nam, the worst environmental pollution in history and Richard Nixon being impeached for Watergate. At the same time, we were not the most fashionable, it was a time of wide-collar polyester shirts with loud print and corduroy pants - all with tennis shoes! Still, what we lacked in sophistication we more than made up for in fun! Southern Rock was at it's apex (Lynard Skynard, 38 Special, CCR), R&B was a blast with groups like the Commadores and Earth, Wind and Fire, and Disco was beginning to emerge (the BeeGees).  Drugs were primarily psychadelic in nature: LSD, PCP, Heroin - and lots of pill poping. People were promiscuous - AIDS had not made it's official debut yet - so sex was rampant. All in all, the 70's was a crazy, wacked out decade. Still - I feel that it was a much less damaging era than what we face today!
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not in the history of rock.the answer would be very simple JOHN BONHAM
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I would say The Velvet Underground.  They have been one of the most influential bands of all time but acheived very little commercial success.
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pop-music or popular music as some say, have always reflected the values and the lifestyle of its audience at the time it is produced.\n\nthe problem with pop is, at this very moment, it is still doing the same thing, reflecting what people think and care about.\n\nhowever it is a much different issue right now. with MTV's rise in 80's people started to be driven with the idea of consumption instead of production.\n\nfeelings that drove many rock artists to write wonderful stuff are now downgraded into very primitive forms and being sold to as many people as possible. because everyone can understand tustin jimberlake, that is what it sells and what is being advertised. not led zeppelin nor floyd.\n\nto conclude, people are driven to be people who buy buy and buy, and do not think about even themselves
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AWESOME! Rock is a powerful force in the past causing parents, politcians and naysayers to go nuts! Especailly in the 1980's. The '70s, not so much controversy, but still one of the better eras full of Black Sabbath, Zepplin, Judas Priest, Dio. The '80s had tons of awesome acts like GNR and Def Leppard. I still love some of the strange lyrics and songs of the '90s much of which is Stone Temple Pilots and Alice in Chains with a bit of Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's sad to me that rock music isn't pissing enough people off and some of it is just terrible. Sure bands like Velvet Revolver, Audioslave and Red Hot Chili Peppers are great, but we need some new blood in rock! Hopefully more bands like Avenged Sevenfold will come out soon.
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I'm sure the obvious answer is The Beatles. I mean, if you look at the sales, the impact as well as the frequency of them appearing in all those various Top Artists Ever lists (most often as number one), then it should be clear.
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Came to mind instantly: Trent Reznor & Jim Morrison. David Bowie is up there, too.