| REM brought indie music to the main stream. Ask your mom who Bob Mould and Husker Du is and she will look at you funny. Even my mom knows who REM is.
Are they as musically creative as some of the bands listed no. But their influence on music industry was far greater then any of the bands you list. Without REM the bands we all know and love probably would have all existed but nobody would be playing their records on the radio nor putting out their CD's. REM made record companies and radio stations play independent music.
That aside up until Green the made really good music to. |