Who Is The Greatest Artist of all Time?

[TheSilence]

Title speaks for itself 

Edited July 21, 2015 by TheSilence

[kaosmark2]

 

Speaks for itself.

Edited July 18, 2015 by kaosmark2

[lost]

Not sure how you define greatest? is it favourite? best selling? most influential/important? I've gone for the later and voted for kraftwerk

Edited July 18, 2015 by lost

[kaosmark2]

most influential/important? 

 

 

Talking Heads

[When Jokers Attack]

Dylan

[BlackHole2006]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-9kt-qi1g

Edited July 18, 2015 by BlackHole2006

[Wooderson]

The Nal voted for Queen

[Bisque]

[sdvruxk]

Not sure how you define greatest? is it favourite? best selling? most influential/important? I've gone for the later and voted for kraftwerk

Best selling and influential surely has to be The Beatles?

[kaosmark2]

If The Beatles hadn't been born another group would have received similar success and acclaim. Culture was desperate for a musical shift and they were in the right place at the right time. This isn't to say they weren't a good band, but without them, I don't think music would be that different. Talking Heads changed the use of rhythm in music. They created a bigger and less forseeable shift.

[sdvruxk]

That first sentence is absurd. So The Beatles never exist and some other band come along get the initial success and then what? Does that band write Revolver, Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road too?

I wonder how many of the artists we have today would list The Beatles as an influence.

[lost]

Best selling and influential surely has to be The Beatles?

 

I pretty much agree with this when it talks about pop music:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9837423/Kraftwerk-the-most-influential-group-in-pop-history.html

 

On top of that there is industrial, hip-hop, synth-pop, techno and house, basically all electronic music

 

When you look at where most music is now ( as in 90% of the stuff you'll hear day to day), kraftwerk are much more influential that the beatles and that's coming from someone who isn't a massive fan.

Edited July 19, 2015 by lost

[sdvruxk]

See you've listed the many genres Kraftwerk have influenced but ignored other genres that The Beatles have influenced. To write it down as pop and nothing more is a slight dishonour I think.

[TheSilence]

Yeah, I definitely think The Beatles are the most influential band that has ever been, and I'd argue it wasn't just because the culture at the time was "desperate" for them. 

 

They wrote four of the best albums of all time, that, in my eyes nobody has even come close to. Some other band would not have mimicked their success because no other band would ever have been good enough:) 

[Wooderson]

Yeah, I definitely think The Beatles are the most influential band that has ever been, and I'd argue it wasn't just because the culture at the time was "desperate" for them.

They wrote four of the best albums of all time, that, in my eyes nobody has even come close to. Some other band would not have mimicked their success because no other band would ever have been good enough:)

Which four?

[Rufus Gwertigan]

ABBA?

[TheSilence]

Which four?

Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road of course Magical Mystery Tour is also a 10/10 actually

[TheSilence]

Wonder who all the "Someone else" votes are for. I feel like I must have left someone important out. I tried to fit all the biggies one in the maximum of 20

[kaosmark2]

Dylan and Kraftwerk have already been mentioned as someone else's.

 

And who in their right mind would vote for The Eagles.

[the_hedge]

U2    but out of that list The Beatles

[mjsell]

Dylan for me...

[windy_miller]

Salvador Dali?

[5co77ie]

Banksy?

[fred quimby]

It does say Artist and then lists bands with probably several artist in them

[mjsell]

Yeah I had hoped this thread was actually about artists - I was going to come in with the joke of Prince... that didn't turn out the way I'd planned when I opened the thread