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Originally Posted by gualbert
A band whose music becomes popular is innovative?!
It has already been done before..
I can hear a lot of influences in Radiohead's music ( Magazine, The Smiths ), but nothing personnal.
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No, for the way they became popular.
Essentially, Sonic Youth didn't do anything
new either, but they brought it out in a new way. If you base "innovation" on completely new ideas, then it becomes extremely limited. Intentionally working their way up the charts as a standard act, then turning around and pulling in ideas that were unconventional for
popular music is innovative. Kid A was nothing new in a musical sense, but it was incorporated in a very new way, into popular pop/rock. Like most forms of innovation, it was simply a mixing of existing ideas.
The way "innovation" is defined in the original post is impractical, as I don't think I could find anything innovative period.