Here are some samples of the foundational bands who created the gen x sound. All really great bands.
Alternative music owes much to Siouxsie.
Pretty much every indie rock band since 1985 has influence from the Talking Heads.
Joy Division is to 90s punk-influenced genres as the Velvet Underground and the Stooges were to punk influenced scenes/music of the 70s.
Devo, a giant influence on "indie pop" music.
Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads) introduced hip hop beats into other music styles which would be the ancestor of trip hop and R&B fusion genres: Mariah Carey would sample this beat in two of her number 1 hits: Fantasy and Heartbreaker.
Synth pop was born of the Human League and Gary Numan.
Blondie pioneered a variety of popular music styles that would be big throughout the 80s and 90s. Like the Talking Heads, they were widely influential to a large number of musicians
Many late 80s and early 90s punk/grunge bands owe their sound to this band.
Gogos solidified the New Wave era power pop sound after Blondie pioneered the New Wave version of it. Belinda Carlisle would go on to have some of the most enduring 80s hits, particularly Heaven is a Place on Earth.
New Jack Swing which would be the largest influence on the most popular music of the 1990s.
I mean, technically this is 6 years after he debuted under New Edition in 1983 (Bobby Brown essentially told him to go F himself and became the new song writer for the band) and Maurice Starr replaced New Edition with the white version, New Kids on the Block. My Prerogative is when the style hit boiling point.
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