| Etkilendikleri | "We are a portion of all we've ever loved"
So this is a list of what we've loved; not all of it has yet fed back into our wide canon.
Most prominently, perhaps: The Divine Comedy, Depeche Mode, Suzanne Vega, Elvis Costello, Ivor Cutler, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Henry Mancini, Billy Bragg, Boards Of Canada, Pram, Broadcast, Pulp, Morrissey, Madness, Lucia Pamela, Little Marcy, Frank Sidebottom, and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band...
also John Shuttleworth, The Housemartins, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths, Sparks, The Cure, Erasure, Robyn Hitchcock, Squeeze, Lorraine Bowen, Half Man Half Biscuit, Pink Floyd, Belle and Sebastian, Syd Barrett, Plone, The Kingsbury Manx, Ben Folds Five, Joni Mitchell, w/trem, The Kinks, Loudon Wainwright III, Tiny Tim, Michelle Shocked, Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia, Blur, Robert Wyatt...
also Stereolab, Volcano The Bear, Multi-Panel, Badly Drawn Boy, Soft Cell, Stereo Total, The Fall, Van Der Graaf Generator, Monade, Peter Hammill, Kristin Hersh, The The, Kraftwerk, Victoria Williams, Endgame, Gary Numan, Air, Delia Derbyshire, Schulte/Eriksson, David Bowie, Martin L. Gore, Simon & Garfunkel, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Magnétophone, Caravan, Goblin, The KLF, Marc Almond, Tori Amos, The Beatles, Jake Thackray, Bob Dylan/The Band, Kevin Blechdom...
on a different tack: Dennis Potter, David Lynch, Doctor Who, World In Action, Fry & Laurie, Stella Street, Monty Python, Mark Thomas, Kenneth Williams, The Divine David, Kenny Everett, Tony Benn, Germaine Greer, Valarie Solanas, Jan Svankmajer, public information films (PIFs), Sir Clive Sinclair...
Most definitely the incidental stylings of Ron Geesin, much of the KPM and De Wolfe libraries...
oh and Mme. St Onge, Leonard Cohen, Max Tundra, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Joe Meek, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Ayres, Wesley Willis, Julian Cope, Talking Heads, Thea Gilmore, Bleak House, White Town, The Flaming Lips, Jandek, The Durutti Column, The High Llamas, Ladytron, Malcolm McLaren, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Frank Zappa, They Might Be Giants, The Magnetic Fields, The Beautiful South, Soft Machine, Echobelly, Carole King, Babybird, King Crimson, M, Electrelane, Amon Düül, The Sisters of Mercy, Chicks On Speed, Cole Porter, Ken Nordine, BOB, Manfred Mann, Kathryn Williams, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Sleeper, Tape-Beatles, John Oswald, Chris Rea, Iannis Xenakis, Daniel Johnston, Martin Denny, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Martin Simpson, Piney Gir, Earwig, Nick Cave, People Like Us, The Beta Band, Sonic Youth, The Teardrop Explodes, Now, Neu!, Kirsty MacColl, Napoleon XIV, Lydia Lunch, Kevin Shields, Bruce Haack, Kate Bush, Jimmy Somerville, Adam and The Ants, Peaches, Orbital, Gary Le Strange, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Yoko Ono, Fallen Music
(NB: some of these influences are rather more subliminal than others) |
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