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Originally posted by Gilmour/Lifeson
Hopefully that's meant to be sarcastic, unless by important you mean challenging the freedom of speech and censorship of music, otherwise they're contributuions to music have been pretty useless
Musically I think their "importance" ranks right up there with Sugar Puff Daddy. |
They were quite instrumental in the evolution of rap music, which I happen to like. They helped the acceptance of turntable scratching (which, skillfully done, is about as hard as becoming a good lead guitarist) as a musical instrument in its own right. They made some damn good rap records, and you're right, they did make some bounds in the world of censorship of music. They (along with NWA) made rap a serious form of music.
So I consider them quite important.