Bridget St John's "Lazarus" sure seems like a Bad Seeds track issued 12 years before that was possible, and given that both she and the Birthday Party were Peel favorites, I assume Cave was exposed to her, though I've never heard the influence spoken of directly. The bashing steady rhythm, warbles of feedback and harmonics, the slow build without a chord progression, the half-spoken prosaic bible imagery rendered as southern gothic...>
Was he still playing her at the time taht Cave arrived from Australia? Not sure he would have been hearing him before taht. Or was Peel on International broadcasts by the BBC?
I hear a lot of the Bad Seeds in Charlie Rich's turn of the 70s stuff too.
― Stevolende, Monday, 18 September 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
Dancing Barefoot by Patti Smith basically invented The Mission
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
Mission of Burma's first single came out in 1980 though. Maybe they invented Comsat Angels?
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 18 September 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
I remember hearing Jeff Tweedy claim, in onstage banter, that he and his youthful colleagues "invented country rock." Presumably he meant Uncle Tupelo. False. They didn't invent alt-country either, but it would have been a more defensible claim.
― Tegumai Bopsulai (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 September 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
rats, I thought academy fight song was 81. Maybe there's a pere ubu song that invents them both anyway
Xp 2 cp
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
swans soundtracks for the blind -> gybe
― marcos, Monday, 18 September 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
oh yea and pere ubu modern dance -> black eyes
― marcos, Monday, 18 September 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
What's Happening by the Byrds basically invented baggy in 1966
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
"aegean sea" (aphrodite's child) pretty much invented air. eviva ellas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Je131KuyE
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 18 September 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
Not my area of expertise but Bowie's "Cat People" sounds to me like it invented latter period Sisters of Mercy.
Also 'Icy Lake' and Night Slugs/Fade to Mind, although they didn't discover and reissue it until later on. Maybe 'Moments in Love' for real though?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2017 16:18 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh I recently claimed this song invented MBV!
― imago, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
Def hear why you'd say that.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Gregorian chant invented almost everything btw
― Tegumai Bopsulai (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 September 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
That beat just reminds me of the funky drummer shuffle thing that the mock turtles and those goobers who covered 'I'm Free' were really caning in 1990-ish xps
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Ariel Pink's lo-fi records (The Doldrums, Worn Copy, House Arrest, Scared Famous, Loverboy, FF>>) basically invented chillwave. unfortunately
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
We can go earlier for chillwave I'm sure
― imago, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_LX-m74uw
― Number None, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
He inspired a raft of kids to buy old 4tracks & 8tracks and make that very specific muddy/washed out bedroom pop. Distinct from 'bedroom pop' sounds & artists prior. His influence is still obvious & prevalent. Chillwave fizzled out, but his methods & his sounds & his influences (80s pop, 70s soft rock) continue to permeate home recording.
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― flappy bird, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
you could say R. Stevie Moore invented Ariel Pink though
― Number None, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Sure. But AP ultimately had far more exposure & influence. He helped RSM's career significantly.
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
I was going to go with "Feel Flows" as the Beach Boys song that invented Chillwave, but maybe that's more of a Hypnagogic Pop sort of thing.
― MarkoP, Monday, 18 September 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
And Jan Hammer invented Air:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7oilg2Satg
― MarkoP, Monday, 18 September 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
Ryuichi Sakamoto circa Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia basically invented vaporwave
― frogbs, Monday, 18 September 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
Ha, I am listening to yasuaki shimizu's music for commercials right now and was thinking the exact same thing about that!
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
That's what I was thinking of. AP popularized hypnagogic pop, which persists. Chillwave was a flash in the pan.
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
Don't worry, there will be second, third and fourth chillwaves...
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
Credited by some as the first ever acid house record.
(The Teardrop Explodes - Serious Danger)
― new noise, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
He created techno by accident
(Manuel Gottsching)
― new noise, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Clyde inventing drum & bass: https://youtu.be/DgcepicZxaE?t=102
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
youtube insists kid baltan and tom dissevelt invented acid house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-n6GWFAvI
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 18 September 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
and blast's damned flame invented... something...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCUIeyfEy0
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 18 September 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
youtube also insists this is the first heavy metal song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYqvyxK3Qpo
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 18 September 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
And Jan Hammer invented Air
ha, I always thought it was this Marcos Valle tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVIzZm31_1g
― rob, Monday, 18 September 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
tommy james & the shondells > guided by voices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuo3yzG6DE
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 18 September 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
I thought Delia Derbyshire invented techno?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512490.stm
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Thursday, 21 September 2017 08:29 (six years ago) link
"Oh, Atlanta" by Bad Company basically invented the Black Crowes.
― henry s, Thursday, 21 September 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
Jon Anderson invented Animal Collective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHPTwVj5ps
― MaresNest, Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
In that case, he can go fuck himself.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Wendy Carlos invented new age (with "Winter", "Spring", and "Fall") and dark ambient (with "Summer")
Anne Joyal invented the Cocteau Twins (with "Eveil")
This thread be for finding bands/songs that accurrately predate the sound of a really popular artist that came later invented this thread
― the old rugged crocs (unregistered), Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
Woah that Jon anderson does sound like animal collective
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
whoa it really does. also the ascending vocal harmony in the very beginning sounds exactly like one of the movements in the first half of Koyaanisqatsi.
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 September 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
Wendy Carlos def. invented new age! right on unreg
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 22 September 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
im pretty guilty of this lol many people have chased me out of Beatles threads for saying they invented drum and bass or something.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
rn im into:
The Doors "Strange Days" invented goth rock
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 September 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
The Cure's "Pornography" album in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSz-9qqgKE
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
The story I read is that John Cale brought these two singles back from a visit to the UK, and when he and Lou listened, they looked at each other and said, jeez, we gotta put out a record soon, or else everyone will think we're copying these bands:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPUe6INoiAYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Dc9BsHhDY
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
Hehehehe I remember reading somewhere that 'Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere' kept getting returned to record stores because those that bought it thought there was sone kind of fault with the pressing due to the feedback.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 23 September 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link
That Jon Anderson one is a good catch! One I always thought sounded like Sung Tongs-era AnCo is 'The Sea Beasts' by Tyrannosaurus Rex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO_azafYw20
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 23 September 2017 09:35 (six years ago) link
ha whoa, good catch! not to derail the thread, but on the T-Rex / AC tip, "Grass" sounds so much like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOmQzW6tQE
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 September 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
maresnest, flappy bird, moka etc if you haven't heard YES's "lightning strikes" / "can i?" / "face to face" sequence on the ladder check it out for the invention of merriweather post pavilion
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 24 September 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
Early T Rex feels like it was an influence on Animal Collective as well...
(Grass by AC particularly)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 24 September 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
hahaha, flappy bird literally posted this video yesterday :)
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 September 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
oh DAMN! yeah never saw that, but right on flappy :)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 24 September 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
Sacred Harp singing invented Animal Collective
https://youtu.be/TWmCplTgflA
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 24 September 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Bah, actually wanted that to embed, for once
http://youtu.be/TWmCplTgflA
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 24 September 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
Right on that T. Rex and Yes songs do sound very much like different Animal Collective albums. The early Marc Bolan albums I suppose pretty much invented 'freak folk'.
You could play a song like Afghan Woman or One Inch Rock or Atahualpa to fans of Devendra Banhart and fool them into thinking it was a deep cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaccPsMuBWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRDr_k09EYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK8AQKuF-Ec
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 24 September 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Mississipi John Hurt was an essential influence on the first Devendra stuff
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 24 September 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
Modern Lovers s/t invented 2nd wave emo imo
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 24 September 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
revisiting codename dustsucker and i've gotta say (and someone probably did) that track one basically invented grizzly bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba2vCuIxQAw
Surely Nelson Angelo and Joyce invented Grizzly Bear in 1972.
― Melissa W, Monday, 25 September 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
"The early Marc Bolan albums I suppose pretty much invented 'freak folk'."
i figured when that lot started going on about the 'old, weird america' they were talking about hoyt "floyd" ming and his pep-steppers, and not marc bolan. could be wrong on that though.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 25 September 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
A kid I went to college with was really into the idea that "Taxman" basically invented Beck.
Taxman invented Television. feel like Beck (at least Odelay era) was more influenced by Them, to the point of sampling multiple times.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 25 September 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Na6vnizsb8
Remo Four's "In the First Place" invented the Circulatory System
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 25 September 2017 11:10 (six years ago) link
Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle x Holy Modal Rounders' Indian War Whoop = Animal Collective
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
hildegard von bingen basically invented animal collective
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 25 September 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
Backstreet Boys -> Max Martin
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.)
But Max Martin wrote those songs.
― abcfsk, Monday, 25 September 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
@qualmsley - I will check out that sequence! lol @ the image of AC being inspired by a Yes album that came out in 1999, but I believe it based on that previous Anderson clip posted.
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 September 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
also, one more AC thing = "Melt the Guns" by XTC is uncannily similar to AC's Here Comes the Indian, particularly "Native Belle."
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 September 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
"invents" site:nobilliards.blogspot.com (Then Play Long basically invented this)
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 30 September 2017 07:35 (six years ago) link
oh, just google it
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 30 September 2017 07:36 (six years ago) link
This Is The Dream of Evan and Chan -> The Postal Service
― octobeard, Saturday, 30 September 2017 08:00 (six years ago) link
Well yeah but then “evan and chan” is a postal service song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 September 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
Also their best song imho
T. Rex "Elemental Childe" invented Van Halen
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 30 September 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
That takeoff after the sad, slow first verse—it’s what the word rollicking was invented for. The song invented the word.Greil Marcus on American Piehttps://greilmarcus.net/ask-greil-2/
― niels, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link