I guess most of us listen to a variety of genres and many influences are indeed apparent in the music we make.
Nevertheless, I’ve come to realise that many of my favourite bands/genres haven’t made an (apparent) impact on the music I make. At least not in a way I can detect.
For example, since I was a teenager I listen a lot to bands such as Fields of the Nephilim, Bauhaus and Katatonia whereas the music I make is something like the following.
Do you have such examples?
Please post your favourites and some of your own music for reference if you like.
I still listen to Fields of the Nephilim and Bauhaus. I am sure they influence me but I still play a lot of guitar and I can see their style in some of the Post Rock I listen to.
I don’t think there’s a band that I actually like that hasn’t influenced my music in some way.
I mean, I make “noise” for lack of a better immediately recognizable descriptor….
…but I am definitely thinking about Thin Lizzy’s entire catalogue AND Kylie Minogue’s 2001 hit “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” at almost any given moment.
EDIT- I absolutely adore the bands you mentioned, and Daniel Ash helped my very young ears open up to playing guitar “different”
I guess I was trying to say that, no matter what I’m doing, I always save some minutiae regarding music I enjoy, production tidbits I read about Prince or Bowie, “oh, Sisters of Mercy and My Bloody Valentine liked that Yamaha reverb? Hmmmm” etc…
I never thought of it like this to be honest. I guess I tried to find similarities composition-wise, i.e. “could this Siouxie melody could be in an Autechre song? Probably not…”
On the other hand there is a bunch of kids songs that would be great as punk covers
