The Fall? Television? Is their one band or artist that represents the ultimate "underground music" or counter-cultural signifier more than any other and has also maintained that status consistently? Who are the candidates?
― Cunga, Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:11 (sixteen years ago)
Velvet Underground or Throbbing Gristle.
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Display Name), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)
The Velvet Underground?
― zeus, Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)
steely dan
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)
VU def
― otm in new york (G00blar), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)
Sonic Youth in a different way
― otm in new york (G00blar), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)
Kraftwerk has never fallen out of fashion, have they?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)
The Velvet Underground might be the obvious answer to my question.
― Cunga, Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:58 (sixteen years ago)
It's gotta be VU.
― Mark, Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:07 (sixteen years ago)
cant possibly be velvet underground
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 29 March 2009 22:52 (sixteen years ago)
my suggestions: Kraftwerk, James Brown, Parliament, Miles Davis, Velvet Underground, The Ramones, The Clash. i'm sure there's more, but those ones stand out to me as the people who are just about always mentioned by people across many genres as "influential" or whatever.
― pipecock, Monday, 30 March 2009 02:01 (sixteen years ago)
the minutemen
― just DO THE STANKY HOOS plain and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 30 March 2009 02:03 (sixteen years ago)
um, The Beatles?
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 30 March 2009 02:04 (sixteen years ago)
nothing remotely underground about the beatles
definitely VU
― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Monday, 30 March 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah plenty of kids today who think the Beatles are either daggy, or worse, havent even heard of them (which is o_0)
― one art, please (Trayce), Monday, 30 March 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, I guess I was thinking more in terms of "influential" than "fashionable." Can't really beat The Velvets here, though I think The Stooges might be catching up.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Monday, 30 March 2009 02:17 (sixteen years ago)
if they're always being called influential, i think that leads to them being fashionable amongst the people following the artists who cite them as influences. the stooges probably deserve to be on the list as well.
― pipecock, Monday, 30 March 2009 02:25 (sixteen years ago)