Who will go down as more influential: Coldplay or Daft Punk?

basically, you just want ilm to say "you're right"

I feel like coldplay has probably 'influenced' more musicians in total across the world

Who will go down as more influential: Coldplay or Daft Punk? Apples or Oranges?

I vote oranges

How many groups actually sound like Daft Punk?! This is obviously Coldplay.

coldplay are better and way less overrated than daft punk

(someone had to)

uh, a lot of groups sound like daft punk

agreed! what daft punk did for dance music is massive compared to whatever the fuck it is coldplay contributed to pop rock.

you should be not making dum ilm polls and buy a round for your friends

"Coldplay Is Playing At My House"

who would be the perfect artist for that song? please god not the twang

I'll show you the mopes kid, show you the mopes

Coldplay have won already.

(Unless Travis -------> Coldplay, which may well be the case, in which case Travis --------> Keane and Travis --------> Athlete and Travis --------> Snow Patrol too)

what time does Coldplay go on?

United State Of Electronica sounds like Daft Punk.. ummm Stardust does too lol

Coldplay were Radiohead Light anyway until RH went all experimental/IDM so really the better q is Radiohead vs Daft Punk.

I'm pretty sure this is gonna give Disney an idea for a Tron 2 song.

Thanks a lot.

if Daft Punk beat Radiohead in a similar poll, something would be truly awry in the state of ILM

not really

Radiohead may be a call, although I would consider them more influential on bands like Elbow and Muse. Coldplay are obviously very influenced by Travis though, plus there's a more obvious U2 element in their music than there has ever been in the music of Travis.

going to go with daft punk, because they are at least original, and originality has more weight in assessing true influence than "the number of acts sound just like you" as far as i'm concerned. an act nailing the daft punk sound is going to be a lot rarer than a bunch of goofballs cloning coldplay, yet daft punk have obviously inspired countless people to get involved in music.

But... Weren't Daft Punk mainly doing an early 80s soul weekender thing?

no

:rolleyes: (xp)

"I feel like coldplay has probably 'influenced' more musicians in total across the world"

the biggest new(ish) poppy rock band in indonesia is basically coldplay singing in indonesian, if that counts for anything. and there's no corresponding daft punk copycat band here that i can think of either

Critics and fans will claim Daft Punk as more influential, but clearly Coldplay's influence extends further, to more artists, to bigger artists, etc. It's just inevitable.

it's not really clear how you're measuring that. one band selling more than another means they're more influential?

more youtube vids of bad coldplay covers than dp

it's not really clear how you're measuring that. one band selling more than another means they're more influential?

Coldplay are more popular and widely heard, and they sell way more records, thus they have many more fans (strictly by numbers) and their influence extends further. Look at the majority of the shit that's appeared in NME over the past decade, and it's been Coldplay influenced.

Critics and fans will claim Daft Punk as more influential, but clearly Coldplay's influence extends further, to more artists, to bigger artists, etc. It's just inevitable.

why? what about, like, the velvet underground, who were heard by basically nobody while they were around. are they automatically less influential than the rolling stones? just because more people heard the rolling stones, it doesn't mean more were influenced to make music inspired by it.

more influential presumably doesn't always mean 'more popular'. how many bands owe their sound or other aspects to Coldplay really? the influence of DP seems a lot clearer to define in many ways.

yeah and besides how boring of a poll would "who's more popular: daft punk or coldplay" be?

it's not really clear how you're measuring that. one band selling more than another means they're more influential?

Not in itself. But Coldplay have also spawned a lot of copycat bands. Well, along with Travis, that is.

If Radiohead and Coldplay were to do a collaboration, would they call it Radioplay or Coldhead?

they would call it "Chris Martin gagged and bound in the corner"

Critics and fans will claim Daft Punk as more influential, but clearly Coldplay's influence extends further, to more artists, to bigger artists, etc. It's just inevitable.

basically, this.

fun fact: whenever someone uses the word 'clearly' they are full of shit

clearly!

or at least: i think it's for sure that DP will go down as more influential, cos they're the kind of band people like to talk about as being influential. But in terms of actual ~influence~ I don't really think there's any way of knowing.

Had to bump this because the results came in when the site was down. Vive le Daft Punk!

Much as I prefer Daft Punk to Coldplay, this is a pretty clear example of pathetic ILM blue skies thinking.