Most innovative band ever

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

by innovative you mean they invented something ?

well guns n roses,  the darkness, surely didnt invent anything.

rage against the machine, faith no more, queen,  ... but at the end, there will always be a obscure non-famous band that did IT before the big ones.

mozart and his friends (i"m sure he had friend) was kinda innovative

[Dave_Rose]

guns n roses and queen!!!

[D]

Mars Volta i have listened to a couple of their songs and they are strangely weird but great!

I think the Chili Peppers are innovative
Prince is innovative because he fused so many different styles into one and was the youngest artist to ever be allowed to produce himself.

His videos and style were also innovative plus was one of the first artists to use the internet as a means to break away from record labels.


look at the new way he sold his Musicology cd

that was innovative

he included the cd with every ticket sold and it counted towards albums sold

so if he had 4 concerts in a week and sold 40,000 tickets that counted as 40,000 copies of the cd sold

new innovative way to beat the internet

gotta love that!

[fesxine]

David Bowie was and is innovative and inventive.

[estranged88]

Judas Priest. While Sabbath created metal, Priest kept it alive and going during the UK punk era. Zeppelin and Sabbath were going downhill fast in the late 70's and sounding very dated. Metal may have died out as a 70's fad if not for their work! Priest was probably the first band to have great, classical style singing (Halford would not sound out of place in an opera!). Power metal singers owe their style to Halford, combining classical singing with metal.

At their time, Priest was the fastest metal band around. Sabbath was slow and droning. Priest was very fast, they used dual guitar melodies unequaled for their time, and they were still a very dark band. Their leather look gave metal an image and identity. They did have some pop-ish songs like United or Take on the World to bring in the masses, and then bring on Beyond the Realms of Death or Victim of Changes to blow them away! 

While I look to Maiden as the greatest metal band ever and Sabbath as the originators of the art, Judas Priest had the greatest role in perfecting it and keeping it alive. 2nd place I would give to Bathory, because I like black metal.

Mr. Bungle, meh, that's good music, but it's weird for weirdness's sake. Priest gets credit because they deserve it.

YOU BEAT ME TO IT!......


Sabbath forged the metal........PRIEST SHARPEND THE STEEL!

[Mikkamakka]

David Bowie was and is innovative and inventive.

I like Bowie, but he's more a trend-follower than an innovative person.

[the dirt]

Well there are those who say he started glam, if not in musical substance, then with the look at least.

[Captain Obvious]

Whoever thinks GnR is one of the most innovative bands ever needs to stop smoking the pipe.

[kj_jive]

Kevorkian, I agree with the Ween and Mr. Bungle.  Finally another Ween fan, they are one of my top five bands!  Emerson, Lake and Palmer were another innovative band as they fused classical, jazz, psychadelic and rock into one beautiful mix.  Beck is another who doesn't fail to provide always fresh sounding music.  And of course, Floyd, Radiohead, Beatles and Beach Boys all pushed the envelope in terms of original ideas and studio greatness.  And whoever said that Bowie was more of a trend follower than starter, fuck off.  That's a completely ignorant statement.  Wilco is also a current band who is always trying new things.

[Mr. Dick Purple]

If you hear Sad Wings of Destiny you can hear an influence by Queen, so Judas Priest at the Time would have heard Queen, Guns N Roses have Influenced by Queen, and Queen were influenced by The Platters, Jimmy Hendrix, The Beatlles, Opera and stuff like that, if we dig a little more the beattles were influenced mostly by Elvis Presley, elvis presley were influenced by Bobby Darin and his 50's culture of Pop, gospel and R & Blues culture, so I have to give my vote to Elvis.?

Have u managed a post where u don't mention Queen?

I'll give you a dollar for every post you find  , even though I gave my vote to elvis 

[journey]

Whoever thinks GnR is one of the most innovative bands ever needs to stop smoking the pipe.

They may not be the "most" innovative band ever, but that doesn't mean they lack innovation. You can't deny that the video trilogy was innovative. And the way the UYI 1 & 2 albums were released, was also something that had never been done before.

I think the song "Madagascar" is innovative. The incorporation of movie quotes to tell a story is different, but it works and makes the song interesting.

[BP]

Whoever thinks GnR is one of the most innovative bands ever needs to stop smoking the pipe.

& put on some headphones to listen to the Dark Side of The Moon... all done on Tape. No digital nonsense. This page has a few albums that technically blows away most of the bands listed so far
http://www.magictails.com/cdpink.html  -BP

[Pryor Murphy]

Sister Flo is quite Innovative and original. Download some of their songs in their web site and see what I mean when I say original.(I recommend song called "White Noise" )

http://www.hansoovoice.com/sisterflo/
 

[kj_jive]

Whoever thinks GnR is one of the most innovative bands ever needs to stop smoking the pipe.

& put on some headphones to listen to the Dark Side of The Moon... all done on Tape. No digital nonsense. This page has a few albums that technically blows away most of the bands listed so far
http://www.magictails.com/cdpink.html? -BP

wow, more pink...Pink Floyd has been listed numerous times before.  Nobody's even arguing their credibility.

[Mikkamakka]

Sister Flo is quite Innovative and original. Download some of their songs in their web site and see what I mean when I say original.(I recommend song called "White Noise" )

http://www.hansoovoice.com/sisterflo/
 

I can't hear why they would be innovative. To tell the truth there is nothing innovative.