Re: NME's top 20 Influential Musicians. The actual issue arrived this week, but when I read about it on the net a couple of weeks back, well, I was ranting and raving. Bowie as #1, that's a good choice. Radiohead as #2 is just sick. Radiohead more influential than Kraftwerk? Kraftwerk invented just about everything, whereas Radiohead invented an effective method of shoving their collective heads up their asses and recording the air rush of their own farts streaming through their empty heads. I knew that there was NOTHING that the magazine could say to convince me to budge one bit. So I bought the mag, and it goes something like "Just about every band in Britain are making music under the influence of Radiohead, they made stadium rock cool, etc.". First of all, if there's ANY prevailing trend in British rock right now, it's the popularity of bands writing simple, catchy, guitar pop, and THAT trend was popularized by Oasis (who were not in the top 20). Once Oasis became massive after the public chose their three chord jingles over Blur's more compositionally involved approach, it marked an end for cleverness and wit in mid-90's mainstream British rock. Second, stadium rock was cool long before Radiohead did it -- there was a REASON that they were constantly compared to U2 around the time of "The Bends". Third, countless "leftfield" British guitar bands of the last ten years were heavily influenced (to the point of outright COPYING in many cases) by My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses or the Smiths. All of them have been more influential than Radiohead, but the first two didn't even make the top 20!!