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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
That really depends what you mean by "point of reference". If you mean recognizable musical influence from other musicians, I would say Wesley Willis is pretty hard to peg. Certainly he was influenced by pop culture as a whole, but he didn't ever sound the slightest bit like anyone else I can think of.
Jandek is also pretty hard to trace any direct influences to. You could say "influened by the blues" or "influenced by folk music" but you won't hear a direct reference to a single other artist in his music.
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i understand what you're saying, and what i'm saying is kind of hard to define. As far as wesley willis goes, repetitive keyboard styled rock and roll music was done by suicide before that. and of course, wesley doesn't necessarily sound like suicide (prob. never even heard suicide) but i just think of it as a continuum, an always evolving, but continuous set of ideas. never heard jandek, but i'll check it out.