Lemmy won't let me expand the conversation to reply to the appropriate comment, so I'll just put it here. Yes, Throbbing Gristle is influential to the industrial music movement. Does that make them universally influential? Of course not, most people haven't even heard of the genre, much less the artist. Likewise, MIA can be extremely influential within her genre without having much affect on the world at-large, and can still be accurately dubbed a one-hit wonder. In this whoooole thread I still haven't even heard what her other hits are, so the epithet certainly still applies for me. Wu Tang and the Kinks permeated culture so effectively that they're still popular all over, I don't even agree with the premise that they're unpopular. Like, if the Kinks could magically reunite and tour again, do you really think they'd be opening for washed-up mediocre rock acts?