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
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...
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
anyway though the 1978 options that wouldn't really break for another three years: kraftwerk, speed metal and grandmaster flash
― 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
Great Scott! Doc!/We need to go back in time to when motherfuckers could rock!/88 miles per hour, bring it back to the block!/Peel the fuck out before the lightning hit the clock!
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, March 24, 2006 10:11 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 February 2009 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i am fucking dying here
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 February 2009 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
omg
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 February 2009 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Those bastards didn't print my question, Argh!
― mehlt, Saturday, 7 March 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I think we need to remember that what freaked out the crowd was not Marty playing 'Johhny B. Goode.' After all, he told the band to play a simple blues riff and they kept up just fine. When he started to shred, that's when he lost the crowd and the band. Based on this, the song we're looking for has to include the instruments and sound familiar from the time period but used in a completely foreign style.
Synthesizers would have been familiar to a high school crowd in 1979, what with Bad Girls being the #2 song of that year. Just like the electric guitar; a bit novel but still accepted.
Taking all this into account, my answer is Crank That (Soulja Boy). It's made using cheap synths and drum machines, but used in a way totally foreign to a 1979 crowd. All that technology and what he produced was Crank That? Awesome
― Ivor, Sunday, 8 March 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
For '79, I'd say "Fuck wit' Dre Day."
― Eazy, Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Or "Groove is in the Heart."
― Eazy, Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
"Gimme a blues riff in B, yeah, you know what you wanna do with that, you wanna put a bangin' donk on it"
― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 March 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 8 March 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
OV by Orthrelm would be pretty sweet.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 9 March 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
At a dance in 1979? Bombs Over Baghdad - Outkast
― DustyLoops, Monday, 9 March 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
In 2020, the answer to this question will be Firestarter by Prodigy or Block Rockin' Beats.
― makeitpop, Monday, 9 March 2009 06:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Torn between Blue Monday, Upside Down, and Walk This Way (Run-DMC ft. Aerosmith).
― Millsner, Monday, 9 March 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
So it's 1980 now.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I think this would still fit the bill.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Naw more like Wu Tang - C.R.E.A.M
― Green Manalishi (Viceroy), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
real estate - fake blues
and they all get kinda misty-eyed in unison
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
he plays "Biko" by Peter Gabriel
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd just like to point out that Craig Robinson's character in Hot Tub Time Machine has the chance to do just this and chooses fucking "Let's Get It Started" by the fucking Black Eyed Peas.
― A solo Beatle--Paul, George, John, Yoko, etc. (Whitey on the Moon), Sunday, 7 November 2010 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Skrillex.
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 July 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
"Gimme a blues riff in B, yeah, you know what you wanna do with that, you wanna put a bangin' donk on it" --Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC)
Oh man
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 July 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
xp skrilla would be what he plays via walkman (now a droid) when he tells george mcfly he's darth vader from planet vulcan
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 1 July 2012 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
Or that he's Donnie Darko from Planet Matrix.
― pplains, Sunday, 1 July 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link