When Travis discharged their second collection 20 years back it was "butchered" by the pundits yet it proceeded to be a huge achievement which affected an age of pop stars.
Keane, The Killers and Amy Macdonald are among the specialists who refer to The Man Who as a significant effect on their melodic style and profession.
Coldplay's lead artist Chris Martin is on the record as saying Travis were "the band that concocted my band and heaps of others".
In BBC Radio Scotland narrative The Man Who at 20, Travis' frontman Fran Healy says Coldplay "bodysnatched" their sound since it was the most famous music around in 1999 when they were recording their presentation collection.
Healy says Coldplay stay at the highest point of the music business two decades later on the grounds that they have since rethought themselves by embracing the hints of other large names, for example, U2 and Arcade Fire.
He says his very own band, then again, arrived at the highest point of the music business, viewed - at that point returned.
The Glasgow band have discharged six studio collections since The Man Who however have never arrived at the statures of that record, which highlighted tunes, for example, Writing to Reach You, Driftwood and Turn.
In spite of its possible enormous achievement, Travis' subsequent collection was not a prompt hit.
It was not as peppy as their first and was initially expelled as "dismal, tragic, discouraging, relaxed and truly calm", says Healy.
He said it was not what the music press were expecting and they pounded it.
The Man Who arrived at number five when it was discharged in May 1999, yet before they played Glastonbury toward the finish of June it had been tumbling down the outlines.
Jo Whiley, who introduced the TV inclusion of the celebration, informed the narrative concerning the critical minute when Travis played their melody Why Does It Always Rain On Me? also, "the sky opened".
"It resembles an enchantment melody with extraordinary superpowers that made the sky open and downpour," she says.
The exhibition got the open's consideration and the collection moved to number one, where it would go through nine weeks.
Inside a year Travis had won the best band and best collection grants at The Brits.
A year after they made it downpour, they came back to Glastonbury as main events.
For what reason Does It Always Rain On Me? was written in Eilat in Israel, Healy tells the narrative. The tune alludes to the reality it was pouring in such a bright nation, while the stanza catches the more allegorical downpour of his sentiments about their first collection not progressing admirably.
A ton of the tunes on The Man Who were composed for their first collection, Good Feelings, yet Healy says they couldn't record them appropriately on the grounds that they were "not excessively sort of band". The tunes expected to "age".
Travis' individuals portray their leap forward collection as the sound of "being dumped".
Tom Chaplin, from Keane, another band who hit on the scene as Travis were enjoying some real success, says he fell head over heels in adoration with The Man Who.
"I thought the songwriting was extremely excellent," he says. "They turned into a huge motivation for us setting out on the beginning of our fantasy."
'A significant effect'
Scottish pop star Amy Macdonald instructed herself to play Travis tune Turn on the guitar when she was around 12.
"Nothing had as quite a bit of a significant effect on me as that collection did at that a great time," she says.
At the point when the collection turned out in May 1999, the band couldn't get captured, says Healy.
Inside a year the music business needed each band to seem like them.
One of them was Coldplay.
Healy says: "Something I saw was Coldplay and the ringing guitar. I thought: 'Gracious my god, they completely took Andy's sound'."
The Travis artist says the distinction between the two groups was that Chris Martin of Coldplay needed them to be the greatest band on the planet.
"I think Travis needed to be the best band on the planet," says Healy.
"REM are the best band on the planet. Some portion of their voyage included going up to the highest point of Mount Everest and going 'that is a decent view, the air is somewhat slim, can't inhale - we should return down'.
"There is nobody up there and it is very fruitless and desolate. Be that as it may, Chris is still up there. He's up there playing tennis with Bono."
He says Martin has taken mainstream developments in music all through his profession so he can stay at the pinnacle.
"In any case, you must ask yourself, for what reason would anybody need to stay at the highest point of Mount Everest where there is nobody to converse with?
"You can't generally compose from the heart up there. You should be on the ground.
"At the point when individuals have contrasted us with Coldplay I have consistently believed that is very interesting in light of the fact that I couldn't consider two progressively various ways to deal with craftsmanship."
Travis: The Man Who at 20 is on BBC Radio Scotland on 25 December at 14:00.
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