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― latebloomer: someone's been drinking my youth! (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
it would blow everybody's mind to the moon
― lf (lfam), Saturday, 8 April 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
"And you, the bass player. Take a lap."
― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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― 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