Influences List
The bigger influences are differentiated by a numer of factors: the longer time spent listening to them, the greater enjoyment and challenge they've provided, and that we've tried to immitate more aspects of their music than any other bands.
The longer list has artists that were only significant in small doses (a few songs, for example).
The Big 5:
The hundreds of others:
- My Bloody Valentine
- New Order / Joy Division
- the Stone Roses
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Sonic Youth
The hundreds of others:
- Adam and the Ants
- Alternative TV
- Animals
- Apples in Stereo
- Archers of Loaf
- Ash
- B52's
- Bad Brains
- Bark Psychosis
- Bauhaus
- Beat Happening
- Belle and Sebastian
- Beta Band
- Beulah
- Big Black
- Bjork
- Black Flag
- Blue Rodeo
- Blur
- Boston
- Brian Eno
- Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Buffalo Tom
- Buggles
- Built to Spill
- Bush x
- Butthole Surfers
- Buzzcocks
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Can
- Captain Beefheart
- Cardigans
- Catherine Wheel
- Chainsaw Kittens
- Chameleons
- Chills
- Coheed and Cambria
- Contortions
- Cramps
- Cure
- Daft Punk
- Damned
- David Bowie
- Dead Kennedys
- Depeche Mode
- Derek Bailey
- Devo
- Dinosaur Jr
- Dismemberment Plan
- DOA
- Duran Duran
- Emperor
- Entombed
- Faith no More
- Fall
- Fear
- Feelies
- Felt
- Flaming Lips
- Fleetwood Mac
- Flipper
- Flying Burrito Brothers
- Fugazi
- Gorillaz
- Guided by Voices
- Happy Mondays
- Hawkwind
- Helium
- Hellacopters
- Human League
- Husker Du
- I Mother Earth
- Interpol
- Jane's Addiction
- Japan
- Jeff Buckley
- Jesus and Mary Chain
- John Cale
- Katatonia
- Killing Joke
- Kraftwerk
- Kyuss
- Love
- Love and Rockets
- Madonna
- Magazine
- Manic Street Preachers
- MC5
- Medicine
- Mekons
- Mercury Rev
- Metallica
- Michael Mcdonald
- Minutemen
- Morrissey
- Motorhead
- Mr. Bungle
- Muddy Waters
- Neil Young
- Neu!
- Nick Drake
- Nirvana
- NoFX
- Oasis
- Our Lady Peace
- Pantera
- Pavement
- Pearl Jam
- Pere Ubu
- Pet Shop Boys
- Pillows
- Placebo
- Prince
- Psychedelic Furs
- Public Image Ltd
- Pulp
- Queens of Stone Age
- R.E.M.
- Radiohead
- Red House Painters
- Replacements
- Rocket from Tombs
- Rolling Stones
- Roxy Music
- Shellac
- Sigur Ros
- Siouxsie and Banshees
- Slayer
- Sleater Kinney
- Slint
- Slits
- Smiths
- Soft Boys
- Soilent Green
- Soundgarden
- Spacemen 3
- Split Enz
- Strokes
- Suede
- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Swans
- Talking Heads
- Talk Talk
- Tom Waits
- Tones on Tail
- Tortoise
- U2
- Ultra Vivid Scene
- Uncle Tupelo
- Undertones
- US Maple
- Velvet Underground
- Verve
- Violent Femmes
- Weezer
- Wipers
- Wire
- X
- X-Ray Spex
- XTC
- Yardbirds
- Yo la Tengo
- Young Marble Giants
- Zwan