I'm not sure that you can judge this very accurately, but I was listening to "Get yr freak on" last night and thinking; "How the living fuck do you write something like this?"
Also:
Brandy - What about us? (light years ahead of the pack)
Anything else?
beatles - tomorrow never knows
Atlas by Battles???
Maybe??
Except it sounds a lot like
Rachel Stevens 'Sweet Dreams My LA.X' to my ears at least.
me too!
Pure speculation
There may never be a time for such music.
why ?
Other than the weird vocals (pioneered by the chipmunks) whats so advanced about it?
altas is just
the beautiful people as covered by primus
SOAPY+NAIL=HEADBANGING
Tomorrow never knows
is the correct answer
KLF - Fuck The Millenium
Genuinely one of the few times, if not the only time, I've ever been terrified by a piece of music.
Year 3000 by Busted
:D
goretex weather report by the shining
weird as hell, and also scary
How is "Get Yr Freak On"
ahead of its time?
Because it sounded completely alien at the time of release
And still does. Nothing before or since sounds as utterly bizarre and inventive.
No it didn't,
I was around at the time of its release and it didn't sound completely alien or utterly bizzare. It's inventive though, I'll give you that.
In terms of mainstream R&B
I'd say it sounded pretty unique at the time of its release. Mind you, not long afterwards Timbaland basically replicated its sound and a bunch of other songs he produced, so that may have dampened its potency.
Guess so...
I'd suggest "When Doves Cry" as a song way ahead of its time. Still sounds completely original and fresh.
totally
heard it in a club the other day. couldn't believe how fresh it had kept
Ah yes
But you drink Fosters...
I also like Oasis...
I have to accept that my opinion counts for nothing :-(
anything by the Dum Dum's
^5
I still love that album.
The clear winner is Zager and Evans
"In the Year 2525"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8
Thus endeth the thread
Pigbag
'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag'
anything from the fall
1982-1985
I must start listening to other bands
when...
boards of canada's geogaddi fisrt came out i thought some of that sounded like nothing i'd ever heard before. well, maybe a bit like music has the right to children... just future-proofed. to a certain extent, i still think that.
BoC
themselves have said that they want to make music that is difficult to determine what time period it was made.... it certainly has an eerie future/past quality, which is rather unique. Maybe more past than future though?
I kind of agree
their music is timeless - sort of 70's warmth with horrible futuristic emptiness. Or something. Certainly no-one else could get away with 'doing' what BoC do, because mainly it would sound just like BoC.
As for Geogaddi sounding a bit like Children... - that's true, but the continuation of their music through their albums is one of the things I love about their music the most.
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
oh, yeah...
i agree completely about their sounds progessing through their releases, it's just that, to me at least, that geogaddi was the biggest leap forward. music has the right... was amazing, but probably more for you've described as it's warmth. geogaddi sounded like aliens.
Insides - Orbital
still is
Agreed
This album came out the same week as "Everything must go"
Not a bad record, but I fear that the country chose poorly...
television - Marquee Moon
.
The Distant And Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties
by 65daysofstatic or many other songs by them.
-Much of Kid A and OK Computer
-Any song by volcano!
Good call on volcano!
radiohead?
Marillion-esque prog-rock or warp electro? Hardly ahead of it's time...
Also Battles.
Maybe Don Caballero.
No
Battles: you can't say a current band is ahead of its time.
Don Caballero: very much of their time.
...
Wrong on both counts. Severely.
Er
explain why, please.
I would disagree on Dance parties
although I think some of 65days other stuff would stand up to this claim.
I was going to suggest Black Box
but i guess they were ride on time.
Torn between a high five and a groan...
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
ask any guitarist pro or amateur and they will scratch their heads in amazement how Johnny Marr thought of producing those sounds out of a guitar!
controversially
How Soon Is Now is my worst smiths song. i just really dont like or get it.
So much love
for that post.
Phuture - Acid Trax
the first acid house track that pretty much kicked off so much stuff e hear today. Its a freakin acid tweakin beast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Q7tyNq4Cw&feature=related
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVdg3aZjGE
techno originator pretty much made in 1987. there is some seariously good electro from way back as well that still sounds like it was made the other day or even in the future
60% of VU & Nico
About the same percentage of Loveless.
Nearly anything by Bjork.
Can kind of see what you mean about Missy.
And 110% yes with the Tomorrow Never Knows suggestion.
good thread, my shouts...
donna summer- i feel love
nwa- straight outta compton
wink- higher state of consciousness
missy- hot boyz
'da real world' was earlier timbaland than get ur freak on and more otherworldly/ next in my opinion
aphex twin- windowlicker
dizzee- i luv u
almost forgot
mogwai- hunted by a freak
the world can carry on turning now.
VU & Nico f'sure
also: Aphex Twin's ambient stuff. It's hard to believe he was making that stuff in the mid-80's.
Disagree about VU and Nico.
Fair enough about the 'noise' thing, but the indian theme running through it all had already been discovered.
how about:
Dirty Three
The Enemy
Away From Here?
busted
year 3000
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
if only DanielKelly hadn't posted that yesterday
OXES - Afri Cola
How about
'Discipline' by King Crimson? So math rock, yet in the early 80s. Actually, much of King Crimson's music was about 15+ years ahead of its time.
Kraftwerk
more
plastikman- spastik
primal scream- shoot speed/ kill light
clipse- grindin
Cybotron
'Clear'.....truly a blueprint moment.
wow yes
Cybotron is soooo good
Yep
second Cybotron (along with almost and anything everything Juan Atkins did around that period)
words way wrong round
Juan Atkins
is a legend!
Groove Is In The Heart
Deee-Lite. Bit like Star Wars. Timeless classic.
Silver Apples - You and I
doesn't sound like it was made in the late-60s.
^ I was going to say this
Most of the Cardiacs stuff
especially The Duck and Roger Horse or whatever it's called.
As someone has mentioned..
Kraftwerk.
Also;
Herbie Handcock - Rockit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dAxvj2mlU
anything by Arthur Russell
or John Cale
King Crimson
I was gonna go with King Crimson as well:
21st Century Schizoid Man is light years ahead of most things even now in terms of heaviness/technicality/originality
Also Lark's Tongues in Aspic or Discipline.
GY!BE
surely deserve a mention
get yr freak on
is actual real life brilliance, timbaland's finest moment
This Heat - 24 track loop
can-paperbag
maybe a jackson five song
cher-believe?
i have a better one
Suicide-Frankie Teardrop
Eight Miles High
only by about one year though.
Crocodile Shoes
by Jimmy Nail
LFO
LFO by LFO. 1991 and it still sounds awesome. Way ahead of its time. And first album on Warp. I think...
Joy Division
personally I think they were way ahead of there time *shrugs*
or
yeah erm Kraftwerk.
:D
Donna Summer
I Feel Love
Having just heard Entertainment by Gang of Four
definitely that.
I think Locust Abortion Technician is ahead of its time as well.
everything on Mirrored
and Daft Punk's Homework.
^^^^ This
and, although they've been mentioned, anything by 65daysofstatic.
Also, The Field for making really melodic techno music.
But yeah, Homework re-invented dance music.
dunno what its called,
but theres a beach boys song on "smile" where brian wilson has used some sort of phasing thing, that lierally sounds like an 80's pop synthesizer.
it sounds really wierd next to all the other songs
is that Look?
Lee Scratch Perry - People Funny Boy
1968 I think
has a sample of a baby crying
also Lee Perry started using drum machines in the mid seventies. 10 years later everyone else caught up
James Brown...
I don't think any explanation is necessary.
Grandmaster Flash
word.
Blue Cheer - Summertimer Blues
1968 this version invented heavy metal