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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
It's an interesting question this. They influenced an enormous amount of people, yet the most SY-sounding bands are probably in their bedrooms right now, working out 'alternative tunings', and how to get weird sounds off their guitars, maybe suddenly realising that that is not like that that it should be done.
They aren't a band like The Beatles, say, where a certain type of melody is very much their own and you borrow wholesale.
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Well said, dear.
Sonic Youth has created such a massive discography that ranges in style so much, nearly any artist/group can be influenced. Anywhere from Arab on Radar's herky-jerky mentality to Pavement's whinings could be attributed to Sonic Youth.