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Bryan

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Great things, bad influences
« on: September 30, 2008, 11:25:02 AM »
They did it right, but inspired lots of horrible, horrible imitators.

Writers:
Charles Bukowski
David Foster Wallace

Artists:
Chris Ware
Andy Warhol

Music/Musicians:
Bob Dylan (specifically his hot streak of Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde)

Movies:
Pulp Fiction
Rushmore

Gibby

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2008, 12:19:36 PM »
Slint
Gram Parsons
Mark Rothko
Lester Bangs
"How do they see you when there's no light?"

Stupornaut

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2008, 12:27:45 PM »
The Ramones.
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Gibby

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2008, 12:29:43 PM »
Napoleon Dynamite
Chris Morris
The decline in Christianity ( ::))
Airplane!
"How do they see you when there's no light?"

masterofsparks

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2008, 12:38:13 PM »
Joy Division
I'll probably go into the wee hours.

Beth

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2008, 12:52:43 PM »
Rites of Spring

Julie

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2008, 12:58:57 PM »
Welcome to the Dollhouse
I have a long history of booing

namethebats

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2008, 01:09:03 PM »
Upper Deck
Illmatic (thinking mostly of the "let's get a song by every hot producer" approach)

iAmBaronVonTito

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2008, 01:14:44 PM »
Garden State
The Real World (tv)

cutout

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2008, 01:17:48 PM »
Led Zeppelin inspired an entire generation of terrible blues-rock bands.

Todd McFarlane also spawned ( 8)) many many bad imitators.

Chris L

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2008, 03:35:01 PM »
Rites of Spring

Minor Threat, Fugazi

Patrick

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2008, 03:36:39 PM »
black sabbath
nirvana



what bad art, besides his own, did mark rothko inspire?  
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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2008, 03:58:40 PM »
New Kids on the Block?

Shaggy 2 Grote

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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2008, 04:23:43 PM »
Jack Kerouac.  Including much of his own later output.
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Re: Great things, bad influences
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2008, 04:34:46 PM »
Karl Marx
Jesus
Howard Stern
The only Wire I care about is the one that recorded Pink Flag.