― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― PB, Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Reviving this thread is the inevitable intersection of the Chuck Berry poll and the revival of the "1984-1994 time travel" poll.
All great threads!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/oi5gmw.jpg
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
nobody would time travel to 1978.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway though the 1978 options that wouldn't really break for another three years: kraftwerk, speed metal and grandmaster flash
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Kings of Leon are from the US?
― David R., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Question answered!
― Carlos 2, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I love this: "Not many of the rock answers on here would sound unprecedented in '76, if you had any knowledge of Krautrock, the VU, contemporary Classical, avant-garde etc. So the real answer pretty much has to be Hip Hop."
I love it because it's like, yeah, totally, prom bands in '76 would totally be into krautrock, contemporary classical and the VU.
I mean, fuck, Chuck Berry wasn't even unprecedented in '55—there's jump blues, Rocket 88, etc.
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
"Kick Out The Jams"
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm. I realise we are speaking 1978 here, not 1968.
Well, make that "Don't You Want Me" instead then.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
The Run-DMC version of "Walk This Way." A familiar song in 1978 given a twist that absolutely nobody would expect, yet might actually work in a school dance setting.
Either that or the intro from Gang of Four's "Love Like Anthrax."
― mike a, Thursday, 7 August 2008 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
UPTOWN TOP RANKING
― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
pass the dutchie
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Has to be hip-hop, still. This question will be a lot harder in 2010.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
had "Ace of Spades" been released?
― milo z, Thursday, 7 August 2008 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Mark OTM with this really. Has a drastically different general genre like hip hop and other electronically based genres come along since 1980? I can't really think of one...
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 7 August 2008 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Chuck Berry was about to become one of the biggest musical acts in the world - much bigger than any hip-hop artists until the late-80s (or any electronic-a/ally/etc. artists to this day).
If you stretch the time out, "Walk This Way" might work. (Also mirrors the movie in use of familiar elements in a new setting)
― milo z, Thursday, 7 August 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
MATTHEW WILDER BREAK MY STRIDE
― andrew m., Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
oops wrong thread
...or is it?
― electricsound, Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
nah i was just kidding. right thread, wrong time, SUNG TO TUNE OF RIGHT PLACE right oooof. boring self. high. leaving.
― andrew m., Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
first of all - brilliant thread. king james and i have come up with a lot of them (i'll let him post his), but i think that "don't stop believin'" would pretty much kill.
― cryfok, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
House was only in its proto stages in 1980, techno would take 5-6 more years to emerge, and even electro was still a couple of years ahead. There was synth pop, of course, but the coming electronic genres would be quite different to it formally. So I guess the Marty McFly of 2010 could easily confuse people with house or techno. The question becomes more difficult if we move 10 years ahead, though - I can't think of any radically new genres to have been born since the late 80s.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
WANGO TANGO
― amateurist, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:08 (fifteen years ago) link
COMPUTER LOVE
For pure sonic shock, Dimmu Borgir's "Progenies of the great apocalypse"
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The Smiths.
"Wow, and I thought this newfangled disco thing was gay!"
― skygreenleopard, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't think of any radically new genres to have been born since the late 80s.
let's ask Lex
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Burial's Unite, off the Soul Jazz Box Of Dub: Dubstep And Future Dub compilation.
Or the F---k Buttons.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 8 August 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
My Neck, My Back
― skygreenleopard, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
What about pig fuck?
― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 8 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(I like to ask that question in any discussion about music, no matter what the specific topic)
― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 8 August 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
1978? "Blue Monday"
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 8 August 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Quite a good answer, actually. People were kind of getting at this above with the post-punk and all the British rock, but this is a damn good example.
Although "Confusion" would add some American electro, I think that'd be too much to handle.
― skygreenleopard, Saturday, 9 August 2008 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Surely some Soulja Boy.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
it's your cousin, MARVIN ASTLEY
― A Good Story (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
"Head" by Prince.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Voodoo Ray.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Fight For Your Right
― boyfinley, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
― Cunga, 28 January 2009 06:30 (7 hours ago)
yeah, first thought exactly
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Loveless, duh.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, I got some runner up prize for Resident Advisor where: I get to ask one of the artists a question about a song that is close to them. The question must begin with: "What song would you listen to whilst...."
Here are the people you're able to ask: DJ T, Gilles Peterson, Storm, DJ Hell, Kevin Saunderson, Laurent Garnier, Chloe, David Holmes, Ewan Pearson, Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, Francois K and Coldcut.
I'm thinking of borrowing this question, otherwise help me brainstorm!
― mehlt, Saturday, 7 February 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a good question!
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Saturday, 7 February 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay so seriously, what would win in a fight, a silverback gorilla or a grizzly bear?
― caek, Saturday, 7 February 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
So who to ask "What song would you listen to whilst taking stage at a high school dance in the fifties, a la Marty McFly, in order to blow people's minds?" to, since I'm guessing the other people who get to ask are all going to jump on 'cardo, richie, and kevin right away.
― mehlt, Saturday, 7 February 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
No, no, you're not at a dance in the 50s, it's in the late seventies now...that's really the beauty of the whole thing.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 7 February 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, August 5, 2008 9:08 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark
Pocket Calculator was the first thing that came to mind.
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 February 2009 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link