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In reply to the discussion: Bands with very distinctive sounds that could never be replicated [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)To this day "Closer" is a blood-freezer, some of the darkest, most melancholic music ever recorded. I think it was the huge empty or sparsely populated spaces in JD's music that made them sound unique.
Emerson Lake & Palmer. There is only one Keith Noel Emerson. The King of Prog Keyboards.
Genesis with Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett. 'nuff said, as Stan Lee put it.
Can - the great German avant-gardists of the 1960s and 1970s. There's nothing like them anywhere - never has been and never will be again.
Van Der Graaf Generator. Organ, sax, drums and Peter Hammill's 3-octave voice.
Soft Machine. A less imposing Can with English whimsy rather than Teutonic and modernist intellectualism.
For a solo artist, Mike Oldfield. He invented what he does and no one else can copy it.
I am sure I am missing several more innovators.