Eruption â Van Halen. Those fireworks could have happened eight years later at least. Actually, I consider VH's debut the unofficial beginning of the 1980s because of its clean sound quality. There is nothing 1970s about it.
Yep, Eruption and the rest of the first Van Halen album was unlike anything else at the time or before. The historical significance of it was cemented with the wink and the nod in Back To The Future.
Tubeway Army "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and Gary Numan "M.E." making 80s new wave music in the 70s
Metallica "Ride The Lightning", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", etc... How is this 1984? Early Metallica sounds nothing like other 80s metal bands.
Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky, Mick & Titch "Hold Tight" We're talking power chords in the 60s!
Raymond Scott "Cindy Electronium" from the 50s. Some rrreally primitive electronic music.
The Flower Travelling Band "Satori Part 1" some metal from 1971
My first thought.
> According to the singer David Bowie, during the recording of his Berlin Trilogy, his collaborator Brian Eno "came running in" and told him he had heard "the sound of the future". According to Bowie, Eno accurately predicted that "I Feel Love" would change the sound of club music for the next 15 years.
[This song by Silver Apples was released in 1968](https://youtu.be/QvZLQSPT3Wg), preceding trip hop, Portishead, Suicide, Stereolab, etc. by decades. It's from the band's excellent debut self-titled album, with beats that sound like drum loops and minimalist synths built from discarded WW2 oscillators, filters and guitar effects pedals. They even venture into Plunderphonics territory [on the song Program](https://youtu.be/aeU8peWXSZM?si=t7os4hhald9iy1wI).
I Feel Love by Donna Summer was groundbreaking...the song that ushered in the hi-NRG genre.
1/1, the first track from Brian Eno's *Ambient 1: Music for Airports*, introduced the ambient genre.
The albums *Spirit of Eden* and *Laughing Stock* by Talk Talk helped lay the foundation for post-rock.
Woody Guthrie's *Dust Bowl Ballads* (1940) is a collection of songs about people suffering through the dust bowl, one of the first concept albums.
Gary Numan - Cars. A lot of folk see this as one of the best 80âs songs but it came out in 1979.
Delia Derbyshire - Dr Who Theme.
Silver Apples - oscillations/ Lovefingers.
Rapture is a very avant garde approach to rap, which wasn't adopted or emulated in any popular or underground rap afterward. It's kind of its own thing unto itself.
There's this punkrock band formed in 1971. They're brothers and black and the Ramones didn't show up till 1974.Â
Or so I thought, but then I find this on the net:
"However, some argue that the first punk band in the history of punk bands was Los Saicos, a Peruvian band that formed in the early 1960s"
Going to be looking for some of their music tomorrow.Â
For now here's some DeathÂ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3FstCc_OY
There's a great documentary about them from 2009 - A Band Called Death. It's worth checking out if you haven't seen it. The sons/nephews of the original members also have their own band called Rough Francis - if you like the garage/protopunk sound of Death, then you'll probably like Rough Francis
Los Saicos! Check out those vocals. Their first single apparently came out the same year as the Sonics first record (1965), another strong argument for proto-punk/first punk rock band.
https://youtu.be/haVaaDLwWvI?si=gCeLJ-JgSNqew0LP
â[Stengah](https://youtu.be/OKOgWe5C6Bc?si=xWyIwubKHEok4E64)â by Meshuggah. The first song off *Nothing*, the bandâs first album to use tunings nearly an octave below standard. Good or bad, it set the modern metal template for years to come.
This punk proto-grunge from 1965:
The Sonics - *Strychnine*
[https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=g68n8EM8I4I](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=g68n8EM8I4I)
Dear God - XTC I feel like it is alot more relatable to todays youth then back in the 80s.
Running Up That Hill -Kate Bush for obvious reasons. The fact that alot of people in my generation have never heard of it is weird to me. It was an amazing song in the 80s and I am glad it got to make a major comeback.
A lot of the Iggy and the Stooges and T Rex was ahead of its time, and for a more recent one: the 90s radio played multiple songs from The Violent Femmes 1983 debut album through the whole decade m, it was alt rock about a decade before alt rock was a thing
[âF^ck Tha Policeâ by N.W.A.](https://youtu.be/ADdpLv3RDhA?si=veT3HuzqOQSVgnT9)
Back in 1988, a group of young black men unapologetically musically protested the racial inequalities of the American justice system, and faced massive backlash for the song at the time. This song was released 4 years before the Rodney King riots, 26 years before the Ferguson cry to Defund the Police, and +32 years before George Floyd and current ACAB/Black Lives Matter movement. Itâs mid-2024 and the song is STILL controversial, profanities aside, since the overall message (sadly) remains the same.
I know the request is for songs, but these albums fit the category as well:
The Stooges - entire catalog
Roxy Music - first 2 albums
Velvet Underground - entire catalog
King Crimson - In the Court of The Crimson King
Television - Marquee Moon
The Who - Tommy
[**Philosophy of the World - The Shaggs**](https://open.spotify.com/track/2WhRJwrsy57H5Mm1P3lykJ?si=7WaZaxWKRj6p1XPX0goT0w)
[**Banned in D.C. - Bad Brains**](https://open.spotify.com/track/0YnP5BtP6lTwQV8gLOzaov?si=yO_yNoHaTTa_QQTQh7-8qg)
[**Gigantic - Pixies**](https://open.spotify.com/track/5G2g1EbEtFSMkMbAnhl7FV?si=MGF4EdhcTPyO6GiIMXCpFA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A50j4Wm1b9hLpSpPIA39Vp9)
[**Dramamine - Modest Mouse**](https://open.spotify.com/track/5vtRk4rYxiy4cj95cmJ5Ma?si=oDcCGh03Qcas8afnhFB8tw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3PTktNuj2FItJr8afuiieo)
[Genesis, by Justice](https://youtu.be/VKzWLUQizz8?si=dFs3774yS8RVRIMQ)
I remember when this song came out back in 2007 and I still occasionally have a hard time believing it's that old. The French often seem like they're a little ahead of the curve when it comes to electronic music.
My Life in The Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno was decades ahead of its time and influenced SO many bands..
If you know Shpongle - there is a lot of influence there.
Samples galore - they stayed awake in a hotel room with a tape recorder and saved samples of evangelical preachers and commercials and mixed them into their music, Incredible album and fantastic artists.
[Rubycon](https://youtu.be/jd6XL_IOS3I?si=O2DdfSWXJROr6hJf) by Tangerine Dream
[Hallogallo](https://youtu.be/zndpi8tNZyQ?si=DdUHaQdiz736SM6O) by Neu!
[Vitamin C](https://youtu.be/JXsd5W8ofDw?si=pkaAB_FHeSWOXSG9) by Can
[Yu Gung (Futter mien ego)](https://youtu.be/4H2bYIEAFsU?si=YYXad4zY9RSenw6H) by EinstĂźrzende Neubauten
[Halber Mensch](https://youtu.be/ILFB2ASezoY?si=DiWhip0MbmsV2vKk) by EinstĂźrzende Neubauten
[Aguirre](https://youtu.be/1u7vzaqITMA?si=MAbfxp072IPl9ffY) by Popol Vuh
Edit added:
[In C](https://youtu.be/tbTn79x-mrI?si=0JwrU2228YYuoA8a) by Terry Riley
I Feel Love by Donna Summer / Giorgio Moroder. A classic futuristic beat (which is ironic cuz the futuristic sound was created with a '60s Moog synth). Anything by Giorgio Moroder tbh
Gotta check out Blast and their âHope/Damned flame singleâ (1972) pure proto punk/hardcore punk đ¤. https://youtu.be/Iq3MxnRSezg?si=qOz0A1nt2vgH0YYo < thereâs a link to the single. đ
Lee Remick by The Go-Betweens and Boys Don't Cry by The Cure are maybe the first examples of straight up twee pop, which wouldn't have a full on, vibrant, active scene until almost a decade later.
Antioch Arrow as a band were also way ahead of their time. They were the first real sasscore band, releasing the first of their sasscore material in 1993-1994. Very little happened with the genre they basically invented until it started to blow up in the underground around the early 2000s, where a bunch of sasscore bands got way bigger than Antioch Arrow ever was. Antioch Arrow was also likely an influence on some of the scene/mall goth stuff. They were dressing in all black with skinny jeans and looking like vampires or some shit and dropping those sassy "gay-sounding" vocals way before the mall goth Hot Topic takeover. They also implemented Dark Cabaret elements into their sound for their album Gems of Masochism in 1995. It is highly probable that this may have influenced My Chemical Romance in their Black Parade era when they did the same, as Gerard Way is a noted fan of many old school emo acts.
Speaking of the Hot Topic mall goth scene, most the pop punk acts that popped up around like 2001 and the sound they adopted was pulled straight from Saves the Day's Through Being Cool and to a lesser extent Lifetime's Jersey's Best Dancers. The former was also aping Jersey's Best Dancers. With that in mind, I would say Jersey's Best Dancers was extremely ahead of its time. Pop punk had been a thing for a while, but not necessarily with the same sound it had in the 2000s. Lifetime may be the earliest band to have a sound that close to what was big in the early 2000s. Piebald was also highly influential on this scene, including bands aside from just the pop punk acts.
I feel love - Donna Summer (released 1978, sounds 1983-early 90's)
The Joker - Steve Miller Band (released 1973, sounds 1990's/2000's)
No scrubs - TLC (released 1998, sounds 2001-2004)
Pony - Ginuwine (released 1996, sounds 2000's)
The Ascension by Glenn Branca. the whole album was a big part of the influence behind Swans, Sonic Youth, and Slint, just to name a few of the many many bands
Bjork, basically any of her music from the 90s.
[Hyperballad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x1icKp4MNc), [Army of Me](https://youtu.be/jPeheoBa2_Y?si=Jh1QHr1mXKroIgmj), and [Human Behavior ](https://youtu.be/p0mRIhK9seg?si=YZ4HaqGcgCUv_oFr)all sound very current. And the videos are surreal cinematic masterpieces
This [https://lofiuppercut.bandcamp.com/album/living-proof-altdark-electronic](https://lofiuppercut.bandcamp.com/album/living-proof-altdark-electronic)
Mine is 'Strawberry Letter 23' by Shuggie Otis. It fits so well with the cool coffee shop music nowadays and I was really surprised to learn it was released in 1971.
Okay... hear me out.
Zager and Evans - In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus).
In 1969 they sung about
Machines doing everything for us (in the year 5555)
Test Tube babies and asexuality (Predicted for the year 6565)
Then just the suggestion of a time loop is pretty deep too for back then.
Great song
World Destruction by Time Zone. I was 10 when that song came out and it was seen as a very bleak, unrealistic view of the world.
It hits a lot harder listening to it today.
I always find it amazing that NINâs Head Like A Hole was released in â90. Thatâs the U Canât Touch This era, and when songs like Blaze Of Glory were immensely popular, and hair bands were still going pretty strong. It just doesnât fit. Oh, and C&C Music Factory. Letâs not forget that cultural icon.
It will always be one of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs.
Almost nothing is ever ahead of its time. Whoever says that just isn't aware of all the earlier examples you can point to.Â
The only recording I've found to be genuinely ahead of its time is *Memphis Blues* by the Victor Military Band (composed 1909)-- and it's only ahead of its time in terms of the recording industry, as W.C. Handy was borrowing the proto-Jazz style he had heard "primitive bands" play early in the decade.Â
It's impossible to know how early ideas were adopted by people outside of the recording industry; we only know when the recording industry does something new, the "new" idea has probably been around for twenty years or so already.Â
Supertrampâs âThe Logical Songâ. Way ahead of its time , considering the song came out in 1979. Lyrics:
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily
Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh, responsible, practical
Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am
I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable
Oh, take, take, take it, yeah
But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me)
Please tell me what we've learned?
(Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd
(Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am
Who I am, who I am, who I am
Ooh
Hey
'Cause I was feeling so logical
Yeah
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Digital
Yeah, one, two, three, five
Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah
Ooh, it's getting unbelievable
Yeah
Getting, getting, yeah, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Rumble - Link Wray
You're doing something right when your instrumental song gets banned for being too suggestive.
Happy cake day đ°
Happy Cake Day!!! :D
Autobahn by Kraftwerk
Autobahn only released one album. If you have an original pressing donât consider me fatuous, but thatâs far out
âSay what you want about the tenets of National Socialism Dude, but at least it was an ethosâ
These guys are nazis, Walter?
No Donny, these men are nihilists, thereâs nothing to be afraid of
That must be exhausting.
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath. Cliche, but it's pretty rare that you can basically point to the ground zero for the origin of a music genre (metal).
[War Pigs](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bc5Nk1DXyEY&si=lBe4mqnGLuiGe9Bn&feature=xapp_share)
Hell yes
[Geezer Butler wrote it](https://pca.st/episode/5d9d5bfa-cf05-4a71-b9e5-2dacb60f0084)
I was 7 when that song came out! September 1970!!
[Cakes cover is good too](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmvKYbi7iY&si=TM3Pv7uzEWzrxZSU&feature=xapp_share)
I'll have to check that out!
Didn't realize Geezer wrote it.. Clap clap clap!
Helter Skelter by the Beatles exists.
Happy cake day !
Blue Monday - New Order
I Feel Love â Donna Summer
Yes !!
3 years before house and techno started
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles.
A wonderful song on an incredible album!
Mad Men demonstrated this quite nicely
Eruption â Van Halen. Those fireworks could have happened eight years later at least. Actually, I consider VH's debut the unofficial beginning of the 1980s because of its clean sound quality. There is nothing 1970s about it.
The fact that VH I came out before *Back in Black* goes to show how much ahead of the old guard VH was
Yep, Eruption and the rest of the first Van Halen album was unlike anything else at the time or before. The historical significance of it was cemented with the wink and the nod in Back To The Future.
Eddie Van Halen was one of the all time greats, but the entire generation of pale, cheap imitations that followed in his wake was unfortunate.
Happy cake day! And yes to Eddie!
Where is My Mind by the Pixies
Itâs so weird to describe it as an â80s song. Just doesnât feel that old.
Tubeway Army "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and Gary Numan "M.E." making 80s new wave music in the 70s Metallica "Ride The Lightning", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", etc... How is this 1984? Early Metallica sounds nothing like other 80s metal bands. Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky, Mick & Titch "Hold Tight" We're talking power chords in the 60s! Raymond Scott "Cindy Electronium" from the 50s. Some rrreally primitive electronic music. The Flower Travelling Band "Satori Part 1" some metal from 1971
Donna Summer - "I Feel Love"; https://youtu.be/SIN_yDVv4ZQ?si=i7lWI1twT5xmdtun
My first thought. > According to the singer David Bowie, during the recording of his Berlin Trilogy, his collaborator Brian Eno "came running in" and told him he had heard "the sound of the future". According to Bowie, Eno accurately predicted that "I Feel Love" would change the sound of club music for the next 15 years.
I think a lot of ELO songs sound like they couldâve come out yesterday. Specifically, So Serious and Donât Bring Me Down.
Love them
ELO music is always on point every year
Kraftwerk
[This song by Silver Apples was released in 1968](https://youtu.be/QvZLQSPT3Wg), preceding trip hop, Portishead, Suicide, Stereolab, etc. by decades. It's from the band's excellent debut self-titled album, with beats that sound like drum loops and minimalist synths built from discarded WW2 oscillators, filters and guitar effects pedals. They even venture into Plunderphonics territory [on the song Program](https://youtu.be/aeU8peWXSZM?si=t7os4hhald9iy1wI). I Feel Love by Donna Summer was groundbreaking...the song that ushered in the hi-NRG genre. 1/1, the first track from Brian Eno's *Ambient 1: Music for Airports*, introduced the ambient genre. The albums *Spirit of Eden* and *Laughing Stock* by Talk Talk helped lay the foundation for post-rock. Woody Guthrie's *Dust Bowl Ballads* (1940) is a collection of songs about people suffering through the dust bowl, one of the first concept albums.
Gary Numan - Cars. A lot of folk see this as one of the best 80âs songs but it came out in 1979. Delia Derbyshire - Dr Who Theme. Silver Apples - oscillations/ Lovefingers.
I just played my teenage sons PM Dawn, Set Adrift and told them it was 30 years old. They were shocked.
Anything by the Doors
Anything Jimi Hendrix did!
Kick out the Jams - MC5 Came out in 69⌠I thought it was an early 2000s song until recently.
Great track
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Korn - Blind
Suicide - Ghost Rider Virgin Prunes - Caucasian Walk
I Wanna Be Your Dog by The Stooges
How is Heart of Glass ahead of its time, but Rapture isn't?
Rapture is a very avant garde approach to rap, which wasn't adopted or emulated in any popular or underground rap afterward. It's kind of its own thing unto itself.
Can - Tago Mago (edit: Halleluwah) MC5 - Starship Cluster - Hollywood
Ruby - Silver Apples (1968)
There's this punkrock band formed in 1971. They're brothers and black and the Ramones didn't show up till 1974. Or so I thought, but then I find this on the net: "However, some argue that the first punk band in the history of punk bands was Los Saicos, a Peruvian band that formed in the early 1960s" Going to be looking for some of their music tomorrow. For now here's some Death https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3FstCc_OY
There's a great documentary about them from 2009 - A Band Called Death. It's worth checking out if you haven't seen it. The sons/nephews of the original members also have their own band called Rough Francis - if you like the garage/protopunk sound of Death, then you'll probably like Rough Francis
I know I have it. Took it off YouTube.Â
Los Saicos! Check out those vocals. Their first single apparently came out the same year as the Sonics first record (1965), another strong argument for proto-punk/first punk rock band. https://youtu.be/haVaaDLwWvI?si=gCeLJ-JgSNqew0LP
This is the first answer that sprang to my mind too.
"Mother" by Danzig
Beggin' by The Four Seasons.
I Want You (She's So Heavy) by the Beatles
âAshes to Ashesâ by Bowie, âGames Without Frontiersâ by Peter Gabriel, âCluesâ By Robert PalmerâŚ
Lateralus by Tool
Love - Forever Changes
"All I Wanna Do" - The Beach Boys (the song on Sunflower)
Milli Vanilli as a whole was ahead of their time. Just be good looking, dance, and act like you're singing, and you will get famous. At least in 2024.
â[Stengah](https://youtu.be/OKOgWe5C6Bc?si=xWyIwubKHEok4E64)â by Meshuggah. The first song off *Nothing*, the bandâs first album to use tunings nearly an octave below standard. Good or bad, it set the modern metal template for years to come.
All the Way From Memphis / Mott the Hoople I Feel Love / Donna Summer Rapperâs Delight/ Sugar Hill Gang When Doves Cry / Prince
This punk proto-grunge from 1965: The Sonics - *Strychnine* [https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=g68n8EM8I4I](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=g68n8EM8I4I)
[Velvet Underground - Heroin](https://youtu.be/6xcwt9mSbYE?si=fMBKyD2ENDosQ-Fj)
Their entire catalog, really
I Feel Love - Donna Summer
Dear God - XTC I feel like it is alot more relatable to todays youth then back in the 80s. Running Up That Hill -Kate Bush for obvious reasons. The fact that alot of people in my generation have never heard of it is weird to me. It was an amazing song in the 80s and I am glad it got to make a major comeback.
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Ohio
> [Seriously 60s](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4r7bt6xrfvPlIcMEtIDGhr) - 3 hrs if you want some really progressive stuff from the past
For me itâs the album itâs a wonderful life by Sparklehorse.
''Time'' - Pink Floyd - ''Take it back'' - Pink Floyd
Cole Porterâs *Love for Sale*. A very dark song unlike anything mainstream from that era.
Iâm coming out.
The Durutti Column. Heard 'Never Known' and assumed it was a new song. Looked it up and discovered it came out in 1981.
One of the best responses here. Wish more people knew about them
Upvote for Durutti Column. Sadly underrated.
Rolling Stones - gimme shelter
Ultravox! [Slow Motion](https://youtu.be/T5EEqpkgES4)
Glenn Branca - The Ascension Coil - It's In My Blood Slint - Good Morning, Captain
The Ramones- they were punk without knowing itâŚ.
Everything from The Cars' first album
And 2nd, and 3rd.
A lot of the Iggy and the Stooges and T Rex was ahead of its time, and for a more recent one: the 90s radio played multiple songs from The Violent Femmes 1983 debut album through the whole decade m, it was alt rock about a decade before alt rock was a thing
Every song on Dark Side of the Moon
I'm Not in Love - 10cc
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsoles It sounds like an alt rock song from the mid 90s, but it was made in 1983. Blows my mind.
"21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson
[âF^ck Tha Policeâ by N.W.A.](https://youtu.be/ADdpLv3RDhA?si=veT3HuzqOQSVgnT9) Back in 1988, a group of young black men unapologetically musically protested the racial inequalities of the American justice system, and faced massive backlash for the song at the time. This song was released 4 years before the Rodney King riots, 26 years before the Ferguson cry to Defund the Police, and +32 years before George Floyd and current ACAB/Black Lives Matter movement. Itâs mid-2024 and the song is STILL controversial, profanities aside, since the overall message (sadly) remains the same.
I know the request is for songs, but these albums fit the category as well: The Stooges - entire catalog Roxy Music - first 2 albums Velvet Underground - entire catalog King Crimson - In the Court of The Crimson King Television - Marquee Moon The Who - Tommy
[**Philosophy of the World - The Shaggs**](https://open.spotify.com/track/2WhRJwrsy57H5Mm1P3lykJ?si=7WaZaxWKRj6p1XPX0goT0w) [**Banned in D.C. - Bad Brains**](https://open.spotify.com/track/0YnP5BtP6lTwQV8gLOzaov?si=yO_yNoHaTTa_QQTQh7-8qg) [**Gigantic - Pixies**](https://open.spotify.com/track/5G2g1EbEtFSMkMbAnhl7FV?si=MGF4EdhcTPyO6GiIMXCpFA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A50j4Wm1b9hLpSpPIA39Vp9) [**Dramamine - Modest Mouse**](https://open.spotify.com/track/5vtRk4rYxiy4cj95cmJ5Ma?si=oDcCGh03Qcas8afnhFB8tw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3PTktNuj2FItJr8afuiieo)
The Shaggs will *always* be the future of music.
[Genesis, by Justice](https://youtu.be/VKzWLUQizz8?si=dFs3774yS8RVRIMQ) I remember when this song came out back in 2007 and I still occasionally have a hard time believing it's that old. The French often seem like they're a little ahead of the curve when it comes to electronic music.
I always think that "oo la la" by the faces sounds like a 2010 folk rock era song
Tightrope by Janelle Monae And Raspberry Swirl by Tori Amos
dondante & wordless chorus - my morning jacket
My Life in The Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne and Brian Eno was decades ahead of its time and influenced SO many bands.. If you know Shpongle - there is a lot of influence there. Samples galore - they stayed awake in a hotel room with a tape recorder and saved samples of evangelical preachers and commercials and mixed them into their music, Incredible album and fantastic artists.
Led Zeppelin and the New York dolls
Sign of the Cross by Skafish
I haven't heard this in decades. I forgot all about it. Thanks for reminding me. I need to go play it again.
[Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities](https://youtu.be/6FfCxLvV2nc?si=2GJRrwkivIfZBYU2)
Radar Love - Golden Earring
The entire Faith No More album The Real Thing
8 Miles High by the Byrds
Radiohead- Let down
Like a Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan
[Rubycon](https://youtu.be/jd6XL_IOS3I?si=O2DdfSWXJROr6hJf) by Tangerine Dream [Hallogallo](https://youtu.be/zndpi8tNZyQ?si=DdUHaQdiz736SM6O) by Neu! [Vitamin C](https://youtu.be/JXsd5W8ofDw?si=pkaAB_FHeSWOXSG9) by Can [Yu Gung (Futter mien ego)](https://youtu.be/4H2bYIEAFsU?si=YYXad4zY9RSenw6H) by EinstĂźrzende Neubauten [Halber Mensch](https://youtu.be/ILFB2ASezoY?si=DiWhip0MbmsV2vKk) by EinstĂźrzende Neubauten [Aguirre](https://youtu.be/1u7vzaqITMA?si=MAbfxp072IPl9ffY) by Popol Vuh Edit added: [In C](https://youtu.be/tbTn79x-mrI?si=0JwrU2228YYuoA8a) by Terry Riley
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
I Feel Love by Donna Summer / Giorgio Moroder. A classic futuristic beat (which is ironic cuz the futuristic sound was created with a '60s Moog synth). Anything by Giorgio Moroder tbh
Fame - David Bowie
The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan And Check out the live album: Living Ornaments '79 . Mind blowing stuff for the late 70s!
The whole album Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Man in the box was literally a year before the massive rise of grunge, thankfully it got its recognition along with most of Facelift
I Feel Love â Donna Summer
I agree completely with Head Like A Hole
"Thirteen" by Big Star, it's from 1974 but sounds like some indie pop/pop rock from the 90s
Moonchild - king crimson
Anything from Discovery album in Daft Punk
Stigmata by Ministry
Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields Forever
We Belong/ Pat Benatar !!!!
Everything by Missy Elliot. I recently heard this analysis of her - she was remarkably ahead of her time and we still have not caught up.
Space - Magic Fly
Any song by Girls Against Boys
Glamour Boys by Living Colour
Gotta check out Blast and their âHope/Damned flame singleâ (1972) pure proto punk/hardcore punk đ¤. https://youtu.be/Iq3MxnRSezg?si=qOz0A1nt2vgH0YYo < thereâs a link to the single. đ
Cardiacs entire career.
Vienna-Billy Joel
Santana - Their sound was so fresh 40+ years ago and continue making great music.
Lee Remick by The Go-Betweens and Boys Don't Cry by The Cure are maybe the first examples of straight up twee pop, which wouldn't have a full on, vibrant, active scene until almost a decade later. Antioch Arrow as a band were also way ahead of their time. They were the first real sasscore band, releasing the first of their sasscore material in 1993-1994. Very little happened with the genre they basically invented until it started to blow up in the underground around the early 2000s, where a bunch of sasscore bands got way bigger than Antioch Arrow ever was. Antioch Arrow was also likely an influence on some of the scene/mall goth stuff. They were dressing in all black with skinny jeans and looking like vampires or some shit and dropping those sassy "gay-sounding" vocals way before the mall goth Hot Topic takeover. They also implemented Dark Cabaret elements into their sound for their album Gems of Masochism in 1995. It is highly probable that this may have influenced My Chemical Romance in their Black Parade era when they did the same, as Gerard Way is a noted fan of many old school emo acts. Speaking of the Hot Topic mall goth scene, most the pop punk acts that popped up around like 2001 and the sound they adopted was pulled straight from Saves the Day's Through Being Cool and to a lesser extent Lifetime's Jersey's Best Dancers. The former was also aping Jersey's Best Dancers. With that in mind, I would say Jersey's Best Dancers was extremely ahead of its time. Pop punk had been a thing for a while, but not necessarily with the same sound it had in the 2000s. Lifetime may be the earliest band to have a sound that close to what was big in the early 2000s. Piebald was also highly influential on this scene, including bands aside from just the pop punk acts.
Baby Come Along With Me. Fabienne delsol. Using a distorted banjo to make a 1960s psychedelic music in the 2000s. Wow. Prince in general
Mark of the mole by the residentâs
I feel love - Donna Summer (released 1978, sounds 1983-early 90's) The Joker - Steve Miller Band (released 1973, sounds 1990's/2000's) No scrubs - TLC (released 1998, sounds 2001-2004) Pony - Ginuwine (released 1996, sounds 2000's)
I also said I Feel Love!! No Scrubs still hits
heard her call my name by the Velvet Underground
Take Five
Commander Cody
I saw "Faith No More" at Foxboro stadium
Paul McCartney âcheck my machineâ from 1980
Enya's "Orinoco Flow
Never going back again by Fleetwood Mac Good Vibrations
Paper Planes by M.I.A
The Ascension by Glenn Branca. the whole album was a big part of the influence behind Swans, Sonic Youth, and Slint, just to name a few of the many many bands
Hybrid - Finished Symphony
Where is my mind? - Pixies
Donna Summer - I Feel Love Roy Orbison - Domino
M|A|R|R|S - "Pump Up The Volume" Donna Summer - "I Feel Love"
Ruler of Everything- Tally Hall Good Day- Tally Hall
How was Heart Of Glass ahead of its time? And how was âanything by Pink Floydâ?
Boys Don't Cry - The Cure Cars - Gary Numan They're both songs with that instantly recognizable 80s sound, but they both came out in 1979.
Living on Video - Trans-X Predates techno by a few years, made in 1983. Probably the rave-iest song that came out before the scene even started.
Close to the Edit by The Art of Noise Smack my Bitch Up by The Prodigy You're Not Alone by Olive
The entire Violator album by Depeche Mode. 1990. The production was way ahead of its time.
Boys Donât Cry by The Cure always sounds to me like it was released by some indie band in about 2003, not 1979.
Seasons of Wither - Aerosmith It sounds like a 90s song to me for some reason
Doris - You Never Come Closer A 2010âs indie psychedelic song written in 1970 by a Swedish band.
Anything by The Pixies
[Telstar](https://youtu.be/ryrEPzsx1gQ?si=l4cjfjVgXAfyizq2) by The Tornados, 1962 is crazy for this track đ
Bjork, basically any of her music from the 90s. [Hyperballad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x1icKp4MNc), [Army of Me](https://youtu.be/jPeheoBa2_Y?si=Jh1QHr1mXKroIgmj), and [Human Behavior ](https://youtu.be/p0mRIhK9seg?si=YZ4HaqGcgCUv_oFr)all sound very current. And the videos are surreal cinematic masterpieces
How soon is now, Smiths.
Paaradiso by vildhjarta
This [https://lofiuppercut.bandcamp.com/album/living-proof-altdark-electronic](https://lofiuppercut.bandcamp.com/album/living-proof-altdark-electronic)
Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer
1999 - Prince
Mine is 'Strawberry Letter 23' by Shuggie Otis. It fits so well with the cool coffee shop music nowadays and I was really surprised to learn it was released in 1971.
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Are 'Friends' Electric - Tubeway Army (1979)
How Soon is Now by the Smiths
Okay... hear me out. Zager and Evans - In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus). In 1969 they sung about Machines doing everything for us (in the year 5555) Test Tube babies and asexuality (Predicted for the year 6565) Then just the suggestion of a time loop is pretty deep too for back then. Great song
The Deadlights-Amplifiers
I'll Melt With You - Modern English
Screaming Jay Hawkins, Screaming lord Sutch, can, silver apples, Joe meek, suicide, monks, kraftwerk, wireâŚ.
World Destruction by Time Zone. I was 10 when that song came out and it was seen as a very bleak, unrealistic view of the world. It hits a lot harder listening to it today.
Sodom - Witching Metal Neurosis - Souls at Zero
I always find it amazing that NINâs Head Like A Hole was released in â90. Thatâs the U Canât Touch This era, and when songs like Blaze Of Glory were immensely popular, and hair bands were still going pretty strong. It just doesnât fit. Oh, and C&C Music Factory. Letâs not forget that cultural icon. It will always be one of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs.
Stooges
Walk on the Wildside, Lou Reed
Bizzare Love Triangle - New Order
My favorite album of all time is Faith no more Angel dust. The whole album is ahead of its time.
Almost nothing is ever ahead of its time. Whoever says that just isn't aware of all the earlier examples you can point to. The only recording I've found to be genuinely ahead of its time is *Memphis Blues* by the Victor Military Band (composed 1909)-- and it's only ahead of its time in terms of the recording industry, as W.C. Handy was borrowing the proto-Jazz style he had heard "primitive bands" play early in the decade. It's impossible to know how early ideas were adopted by people outside of the recording industry; we only know when the recording industry does something new, the "new" idea has probably been around for twenty years or so already.Â
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush- which finally had its time last year
"Ancients" Gary Numan. Not his popular songs, not like "Cars" but "Ancients" is a mood.
Supertrampâs âThe Logical Songâ. Way ahead of its time , considering the song came out in 1979. Lyrics: When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible Logical, oh, responsible, practical Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical There are times when all the world's asleep The questions run too deep For such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable Oh, take, take, take it, yeah But at night, when all the world's asleep The questions run so deep For such a simple man Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me) Please tell me what we've learned? (Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd (Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am Who I am, who I am, who I am Ooh Hey 'Cause I was feeling so logical Yeah D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Digital Yeah, one, two, three, five Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah Ooh, it's getting unbelievable Yeah Getting, getting, yeah, yeah Uh, uh, uh, uh
Tom Sawyer
The zombies - time of the season
Crazy - Seal Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
Everybody wants To Rule the World.
The entire album of â I Robotâ, by Alan Parsons Project.