[Music] Most prolific artist after MJ?

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Necronic

Necronic

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Who do you guys think was the most important musician to show up after Michael Jackson made it big, say mid 80s onward? And, maybe as an addon, do you think there has been another musician that has been as singularly significant to the music industry as MJ, after he showed up (meaning no Beatles or LZ).
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I don't really see much influence that MJ had on other artists. He kinda did his own thing and was well respected by the industry, but he did not get many imitators. Justin Timberlake is about only person that I can think of that really sounds like MJ.
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Jay-Z is likely to be the new Quincy Jones.
 
Tress

Tress

In no particular order:
Madonna
Nirvana
N.W.A. / Dr. Dre
New Kids on the Block*
Metallica
Eminem
Jay-Z
Green Day*
Van Halen

*(you didn't say the influence had to be positive)
 
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Soliloquy

jwhouk said:
It's not the most INTENTIONALLY viewed and widespread music video of the digital age.
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I think you're just unwilling to accept that its unique method of delivery allowed it to break boundaries and reach viewers who would have never even considered watching music videos before.
 
Necronic

Necronic

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sixpackshaker said:
I don't really see much influence that MJ had on other artists. He kinda did his own thing and was well respected by the industry, but he did not get many imitators. Justin Timberlake is about only person that I can think of that really sounds like MJ.
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Jay-Z is likely to be the new Quincy Jones.
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m888888888

MJ is the single most succesful pop musician in world history, by a longshot. Pop musicians would be idiots NOT to be influenced by him.

But anyways. I like JayZ as a choice. I was thinking that someone from the Hip Hop movement deserved a nod (like the RUN DMC one as well.)

What about Trent Reznor? Granted it's an isolated genre, but it's effected a lot of other genres.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I only came into this thread to state that prolific is not the same as influential or important. Creed and Nickleback are both prolific, but this does not mean they are necessarily good.
 
Frank

Frank

Maybe not the most important by any stretch, but Rush is definitely one of, if not the most prolific artists of all time. They just released their 20th studio album.
 
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Soliloquy

Ravenpoe said:
I only came into this thread to state that prolific is not the same as influential or important. Creed and Nickleback are both prolific, but this does not mean they are necessarily good.
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Ravenpoe vindicates my choice!
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

The biggest problem with tracking sales is that, nobody tracks sales. It is only what the record label claims to have sold.

PS. the Beatles and Elvis sold a lot more records than Micheal.
 
Tress

Tress

sixpackshaker said:
The biggest problem with tracking sales is that, nobody tracks sales. It is only what the record label claims to have sold.

PS. the Beatles and Elvis sold a lot more records than Micheal.
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P.S. he clearly asked for prolific artists after Michael Jackson, so Elvis and The Beatles aren't really relevant.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Don't forget that Usher is moving into the management biz and he brought fourth the unfortunate pop juggernaut that is Justin Bieber.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I'd also have to put Madonna up there for prolific artists after MJ. She's still pumping out albums. They aren't good, but she's pumping them out.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Prince is still cranking out albums as well. If you're just going by songwriting credits, Prince would win by a landslide. He wrote songs for practically everyone for 2 decades.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Milli Vanilli has had the largest impact on music today.

Nobody sings in concert anymore.

How you look became far more important than how you sound.
 
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Amebix

This is difficult to be objective with, since there is going to be a bias towards our personal preferences. I manage some record stores and worked in some others so I hear people debate this shit daily, sometimes talking over me while I try to usher them the fuck out of the store. If we're going to be petty would you count "post MJ" after his output ceased or after he died? A handful of years isn't a lot to show lasting importance or I'd just say reluctantly Lady Gaga.

She at least has been seen with G.I.S.M and Doom patches, points for that.

If it's post MJ's major contributions to pop culture sans kid fucking jokes the impact probably has been most felt by Nirvana. Bands like The Black Keys etc, while probably talking about 1970's garage rock as influences, wouldn't be as palatable to a lot of audiences if it weren't for Nirvana's breaking through in the 90's. Also helped a lot of people dig deep into the indie and punk scenes, sort of how coffee can gateway to coke. Sort of. Can we use meth as a metaphor for people with shitty taste?
 
ElJuski

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Pretty much agree. If we're talking major revolutions in breaking through to new markets, Nirvana is probably one of the biggest catalysts post-MJ of taking the harder sound and finding gold in widespread masses. Beyond them, maybe Eminem? It's hard to think of anyone making such a giant splash as MJ--all these other bands pale in comparison to the major tectonic ship in pop-culture as Micheal.
 
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Amebix

Prefabricated pop acts have momentary cultural significance which will make them seem like they will have a direct hand in shaping the zeitgeist( I hope that means what I'm thinking) but that shit rarely stays relevant a year or two into it. I seriously can't think of much music post mid 90's that have had any kind of "movement" feel to them. I saw nu-metal impact our local mobile home culture but that fire's been contained and put out. I don't think anyone's going to base their cultural revolution on Nickleback. Counter cultures are so cleaned up and gentrified that anything deep is mostly preaching to the choir. And what the fuck are all these kids doing on my lawn?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I would like to point out that the title of this thread is who was most "prolific," not "influential."
Until then, I stand by my choice.

--Patrick
(semi-retired grammar Nazi)
 
Tress

Tress

PatrThom said:
I would like to point out that the title of this thread is who was most "prolific," not "influential."
Until then, I stand by my choice.

--Patrick
(semi-retired grammar Nazi)
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And I'd like to point out that the very first line says "important." So, you are wrong. :p
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I know! And that was my dilemma, so I decided to go with the thread title. Because the answer to that one was less subject to debate than that other one.

--Patrick
 
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