Artists who were good but they inspired a load of absolute shite

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Joy Division - Vast swathe of 00’s era NME indie. Some good, some not.
Refused - Myspace era naff bands

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Oh everyone that wanted to be arctic monkeys

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Pearl Jam → WIHAAARMSWAHOPAHN

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I used to think this and then listened to more Faith No More. Very much a “when they were good, they were very good. And when they were bad …” band, imo.

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I’ll repeat the mantra, the Descendents opened the door to a whole wave of shit pop punk.

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Against The Machine? Rage.

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and when they were only halfway good they were neither good nor bad

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was half expecting that to be a link to the Disintegration State bandcamp page

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I was tempted

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Helmet

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What came first, Brian Eno or the whales

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Springsteen
Bruce Hornsby

anyone called Bruce really

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I think Angel Dust is one of those albums that possibly has too many ideas for its own good, but absolutely every one of those ideas was ripped off by at least one lesser band.

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Eno, before that whalesong sounded like this

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Deftones

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almost any popular band with a distinctive sound, other than those that are so good it’s impossible to rip them off

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The Beatles

/ends thread

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eg. The Beach Boys were never going to inspire a load of shite because to rip them off is difficult. The harmonic structure of Brian Wilson’s writing is deeply complicated in a way that you can’t just rip off. Whereas Oasis are fairly easy to rip off, pop songs played through big amps while saying arrogant things.

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Came here to post this!

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Beethoven