These 10 Obscure Artists Who Shaped Popular Music
Now, as hard as it might be to believe, we don’t have even a fraction of the bully pulpit that Kurt Cobain has, but if we did, we would use it to tell the world of these 10 artists and how the landscape of music as we know it would suck if not for their invaluable contributions to it.Link Wray had one hit in 1958, and it was the first instrumental track to be banned from radio stations.
John Lennon once called Wray one of the “great unknowns of rock n’ roll.” Iggy Pop said he “left school emotionally” when he first heard “Rumble.” Pete Townshend once said that he wouldn’t have picked up a guitar were it not for “Rumble.” Electronic music trailblazer Wendy Carlos brought electronic music to the mainstream with her landmark 1968 album. That same year, New York experimental outfit Silver Apples integrated electronic music into psychedelic rock in a self-titled album that is often credited with bringing electronic music to the world of rock and pop.
Blondie guitarist Chris Stein recalled the band picking Funky 4 + 1 as the episode’s musical guest, saying in an interview with, “The people on the show were so nervous about them doing it. I remember trying to explain to them how scratching worked, trying to verbalize what that is for someone who has no idea. It’s really difficult.”Along with Beat Happening, Lois Maffeo is one of Olympia, Washington’s, foundational underground artists of the 1980s.
The name seemed to be coincidental, as Maffeo herself once said the name came “straight out of nowhere.”
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