All good points.
Something interesting with a band like, say, Nirvana is how they were able to take huge influence from bands like the Wipers, the Pixies, Vaselines, etc, yet go in a different direction than what they did originally.
Another example is the influence of Sonic Youth: Polvo, Unwound, Blonde Redhead, and the Swirlies all are obviously influenced by SY, but do something different with it, yet you could compare the bands to each other even though they all sounds distinctly different. I think Sway said it best in his last post.
~Jeremy~
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