"[song / album] basically invented [band / genre]"

nah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH0G1o8xbt4

one of my favorite grunge songs of 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxEinJoYmI

Judas Priest's "Victim of Changes" invented Jane's Addiction

Los Saicos - Demolición invented punk in 1963

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=haVaaDLwWvI

Well either them or The Phantom - Love Me a year before:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgsIdMa8qA

Los Saicos have the edge over the claim imho because "demolicion" is closer to a rebellious anarchist song.

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

Early T Rex feels like it was an influence on Animal Collective as well...

(Grass by AC particularly)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOmQzW6tQE

hahaha, flappy bird literally posted this video yesterday :)

oh DAMN! yeah never saw that, but right on flappy :)

Sacred Harp singing invented Animal Collective

https://youtu.be/TWmCplTgflA

Bah, actually wanted that to embed, for once

http://youtu.be/TWmCplTgflA

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

Mississipi John Hurt was an essential influence on the first Devendra stuff

Modern Lovers s/t invented 2nd wave emo imo

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.

"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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Na6vnizsb8

Remo Four's "In the First Place" invented the Circulatory System

Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle x Holy Modal Rounders' Indian War Whoop = Animal Collective

hildegard von bingen basically invented animal collective

Backstreet Boys -> Max Martin

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.)

But Max Martin wrote those songs.

@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.

also, one more AC thing = "Melt the Guns" by XTC is uncannily similar to AC's Here Comes the Indian, particularly "Native Belle."

"invents" site:nobilliards.blogspot.com (Then Play Long basically invented this)

oh, just google it

This Is The Dream of Evan and Chan -> The Postal Service

Well yeah but then “evan and chan” is a postal service song.

Also their best song imho

T. Rex "Elemental Childe" invented Van Halen

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 Pie
https://greilmarcus.net/ask-greil-2/