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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

-iggy solo: not only he pushed performance to new extreme levels, he also wrote/co-wrote tons of songs with david bowie, his songs have been used for soundtracks and commercials, the idiot is cited as one of new wave's most influential albums and cited by millions of bands as an influence himself.

-the bad seeds: influenced goth bands since their first album, helped the resurgence of the murder ballad, helped popularize einstürzende neubauten for a new audience.

-the grateful dead: helped with the adoption of country into rock, popularized the jam band concept, long shows, improvisation, personified hippiedom for thousands, inspired phish and all those craptastic bands, spawned a guitar hero adored by generations, probably the first band fans would follow on tour, seminal to bootleg trading.

-a) cream: popularized the power trio format and long form improvisation, first band of rock musicians to be "virtuosos", one of the first bands to have a poet as a lyricist.
b) derek and the dominos and blind faith: some of the first bands to be called "supergroups".
c) clapton solo: first rock dinosaur to adopt reggae, one of the first solo guitarists to achieve stardom.

-the dead boys: arguably not seminal, if seen as just another garage band in a long sucession since the 60's; yet many punk bands still consider them the epitome of punk itself and influential to their attitude (as generic as it was). maybe this one is not clearly seminal but probably the most boring band out of that scene.

the dead also probably are responsible for rave, in that their shows were at big outdoor fields where a buncha young folks (and later, pathetically old folks) get out of their heads on psychedelic drugs and dance to dumb music. i actually enjoy some of the deads improv live stuff though, and ive been to raves, im not pretentious enough to say i dont like eating a buncha ecstasty and dancing with dumb girls holding glow sticks, its pretty liberating. im a retard i know.