― Nick, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― m jemmeson, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
In the Eno case, we're possibly just talking about instrumental textures which became easy to attain and rather fashionable 15 years later, but with Les'n'Mary, they were overdubbing and messing with tape-speeds much like the electronic composers of the period, but like (I suspect) few others in (lightly jazzy) pop. Psychedelia in glorious mono, and at 78rpm.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fritz, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom Lewis, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Joe, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan Fitzgerald, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jess, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I go with Herbie Hancock's Raindance from Sextant. Play that to people and then go ... that was 1973 they just won't believe it.
Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds are fantastic. Though they don't sound like they would be made now or any other time either.
― phil, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
At school, and throughout my childhood, I'd hear and sing songs that I assumed formed a part of our heritage as a species. Old, battered folk-songs handed down to us from our ancestry. Then they ALL turned out to have come from The Beatles...
― Kodanshi, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Venga, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The Neu thing is a bit odd. I wouldn't argue that they sounded particularly ahead of their time, but that their antecendents (ie Stereolab) sound like Neu were influenced by them, rather than vice versa. To my ears Neu do sound much more modern than Stereolab, but no more contemporary than you'd expect.
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― keith, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
On the 'Lost Trident Sessions' album that was released a couple of years ago, they do this fast syncopated funk section that sounds exactly like what musicians to do imitate drum n' bass now, except it was in 1973.
― Jordan, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Some Buddy Holly recordings sound a few years ahead of their time. His version of 'Slippin and Slidin' could be 1966 Who. Parts of Skip Spence's Oar sound spookily like 90s lo-fi.
― Curt, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan Fitzgerald, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My nominations for now: Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden, Madonna's "Secret Garden"
― Tim, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nathalie, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Hm. The 'Dr Who' theme tune.
― DavidM, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Clarke B., Monday, 27 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bowie, Sunday, 7 May 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 7 May 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― ratty, Sunday, 7 May 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rombald, Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Ach, I know it sounds retro-futuristic now, but wtf.
― boney (b0n3y), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Lifetones - Good Side [Dub/New Wave/Psychedelic Pop](1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLk9YIfbm0
I could tell you this was released in 2016 and you would believe it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
Solo project from This Heat's vocalist/guitarist who also sounded ahead of their time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
Listen to the Reece bass and the drum sound on Ralph Lundsten's 'Horrorscope' (1979).
https://youtu.be/WACqp1iXkGY
― Noel Emits, Friday, 5 February 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Some remixes of Aksuk Maboul's 'Saure Gurke' around but here's the original from 1977.
https://youtu.be/bLW2zPUawS4
― Noel Emits, Friday, 5 February 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
Also this: Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgLhEGEetc
Don't really know what genre to put this in... Japanese New Wave? Sounds like Grimes - Genesis.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
Those are some good suggestions!
Also mentioned upthread but Raymond Scott's Cindy Electronium is mindblowing for a 50's track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHJ6CcML80
what is this sorcery!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 February 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
holy shit at "das licht" that's incredible
― get a long, little doggy (m bison), Saturday, 6 February 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
citing early electronic stuff is almost too easy, but nevertheless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetzY-W78gg
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 6 February 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
Whoa! that Beethoven incidental ragtime moment is very underrated! I had never heard about it and it's very impressive.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
This slice of 60s texan psych sounds to me like wire and a whole kind of herky-jerky 'new wave' rhythm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwzTSX6e4jU
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
I was just searching thru Delia Derbyshire too, trying to find something that actually sounded modern rather than soundtrack music to scary '50s/'60s movies. Maybe this one from 1965:
― Lee626, Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
Oh oops, you already posted that
― Lee626, Saturday, 6 February 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
ok, how about Tom Dissevelt from 1957?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-n6GWFAvI
― Lee626, Saturday, 6 February 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
great revive idd, with all the discussion on youtube embeds in rolling threads and spotify lists... well, clearly a thread like this benefits from the vast archive youtube has become
10 Ragas to a Disco Beat is the only thing that comes to my mind, even though it's widely known I'll go ahead and embed because it's still fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4RYBpwV0A
― niels, Saturday, 6 February 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Leiyla Visitations by Halim El-Dabh are from 1959. As an example is Visitation 4 (mp3 link here) which when played to an uninformed subject resulted in suggestions of early 80s industrial, maybe Bianchi or Lustmord.
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Saturday, 6 February 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
"zizwih" and "theme from noah" are perhaps more immediately accessible and comprehensible in terms of later musical forms, but i'd say delia's best works are "blue veils and golden sands" and "the delian mode". ("tutankhamun's egypt" is also highly underrated.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyUkmxy5VMI
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 February 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
those and "Love Without Sound" (with White Noise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6pTdzt7BiI
― Lee626, Sunday, 7 February 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
I was gonna post Beethoven piano sonata 32 but someone beat me to it
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 7 February 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link
T. Rex's tracks "Monolith" and "Mambo Sun" both have a hazy sound around a loopish back beat that to me doesn't sound all that unlike some triphop from the 90s.
― earlnash, Sunday, 7 February 2016 02:35 (eight years ago) link
MX-80 Sound invent Slint in 1981:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWEQL1cQ7o
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 February 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link
1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wDnFbcocfE
― clouds, Sunday, 7 February 2016 02:58 (eight years ago) link
Manuel Gottsching's "Quiet Nervousness" and Rammellzee's "Beat Bop," both mentioned at least once upthread. And "Number 33," Jan & Lorraine (1969), which sounds like some weird post-punk B-side from 1981.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DF2ns-u8U8
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 February 2016 03:26 (eight years ago) link
Would The Millennium's Prelude be considered ahead of it's time or merely the sort of thing that would get sampled in the future?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09QgHBEs6l0
― MarkoP, Sunday, 7 February 2016 05:16 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9wSWuxZp4
If you ignore the Ravel melody, Kebekelektrik's "Bolero" (from 1977) sounds like minimal techno from the 00s.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 7 February 2016 08:16 (eight years ago) link
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― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:05 (eight years ago) link
Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger. Wonky 606 + 303 beat from 1985.
https://youtu.be/vT6YCUSX930
Mind you, Eurythmics - Monkey Monkey is from 1982.
https://youtu.be/m6zhSXSiOpg
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:24 (eight years ago) link
Some great showings for Delia but 'The Dreams' (1964) with Barry Burmange deserves a mention for being teh awesome.
https://youtu.be/WCF_mHKBH3k
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:29 (eight years ago) link
Simply Saucer - Mole Machine (1974).
https://youtu.be/G7k94-HJO5k
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:32 (eight years ago) link
blast- damned flame (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llaDswZVdLY
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 February 2016 11:55 (eight years ago) link
> Also CAN - MUSHROOM> The first time I heard it I thought it was an indie band from the 90's.
the mary chain were covering it in '86
― koogs, Sunday, 7 February 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
This kind of thing is catnip for me.
Never knew whether to think this song was ahead of its time, or just completely out of time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJtvFWc7FDE
― Soundslike, Sunday, 7 February 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Love the lyric "In 1980, we seem so crazy". . . yes, indeed, even for that generally crazy fecund year of exploration and try-anything.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 7 February 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Anne Joyal - Eveil (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmxGNZ3MBh8
add some more reverb and this could almost be an outtake from the Cocteau Twins' Victorialand
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Sunday, 7 February 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
Wow, that Anne Joyal track is gorgeous.
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - "Patriarcat" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oyVndrmfw
Robotic feminist synth funk, well ahead of its time
― J. Sam, Sunday, 7 February 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
And I always thought this Siouxsie track held a heavy influence on early-2000s to now types of electropop (could have readily been covered by Adult or The Knife, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCfc0TqN_c
And yeah, that Fontaine/Areski track is a standout.
A couple classics for interpolation/sampling in a more or less "pop" context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2_1Jfgo4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAu1wBYuCJQ
― Soundslike, Sunday, 7 February 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
That Anne Joyal needs a reissue--seems like maybe something Lion or Drag City could pick up, or Light in the Attic.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 7 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
The Fontaine/Areski track pairs in my mind with the Emmanuelle Parrenin track "Topaze," which sounds nothing like the rest of the album it's from either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLeAqReD2XI
― Soundslike, Sunday, 7 February 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
I posted this to the other thread, but it fits here too... Some Finnish IDM from 1968:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPopMt6Zh0
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
i had never seen this IHOP commercial until today.
http://goodness.greatergood.com/ihop-ad-1969/
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 March 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
that is some next level stuff.
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 March 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
Okay so this isn't that far ahead in time, but I've often wondered what inspired Kid Rock to use autotune for Only God Knows Why given that Cher's Believe wouldn't be released till several months after this album. Was he just trying to go for Peter Frampton type sound? Is this even using autotune?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DQup4hd1_o
― MarkoP, Sunday, 6 March 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
I'm gonna have that weird IHOP song stuck I'm my head all day now.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Sunday, 6 March 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Not kidding-- but I actually think "Cotton Eyed Joe" by Rednex was ahead of its time, and would have been an even more massive hit now.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
But Rednex didn't even start the "country + Eurodance" mini fad of the mid-90s! The Grid was the first, and 2 Cowboys' Everybody Gonfi Gon preceded "Cotton Eye Joe" too. Rednex were just following a trend.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
I don't agree that it sounds ahead of its time but eurodans+country should definitely make a slight modern comeback.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 6 March 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
I think "Timber" kinda filled that gap
― los blue jeans, Monday, 7 March 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
What's that late 70s/early 80s disco record that sounds like microhouse
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 7 March 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
Kikrokos - life is a jungle? (6 min in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0d8nJlEnw
― los blue jeans, Monday, 7 March 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
it's funny how so many commenters on that IHOP commercial insist that it sounds weirder than they remember and that there must be something wrong with the playback, as if they're not willing to admit that they were exposed to such crazy shit when they were growing up. imho it sounds very much of its time (in a goofy Raymond Scott/Perry-Kingsley vein) but it would fit right in on a Focus Group album
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 7 March 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link
Holger Hiller's sampling experiments predate glitch pop by a solid decade. As Is (my fave of his) still sounds visionary, it could've been issued by Morr Music in the early aughts and nobody would have blinked
― cock chirea, Monday, 7 March 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
This angry calypso/jazz/punk number from Harry Belafonte in 'Odds Against Tomorrow' (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFd3u8mCb_U
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Monday, 7 March 2016 07:24 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, that's the wrong clip, and can't find the right one.
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Monday, 7 March 2016 08:21 (eight years ago) link
This Mannfred Mann song is the title track from their 1966 EP where it already sounded futuristic. But theremin band Lothar and the Hand People took it to a new level two years later - From the clashing machinery keeping the beat to the detached deadpan vocals to the dissonant guitars and synths, this could easily have been the work of Gary Numan or any of his early-80s new-wave synth pop disciples, or even current-millenium acts like, say, Modest Mouse. But this was released way back in 1968!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDUFaRiUwsk
― Lee626, Monday, 7 March 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
oh wow, I get a big Albert Marceour/Zolo vibe from that
― frogbs, Monday, 7 March 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link