What ever happened to Chris ? He did like this 1 video and we never heard from him again. I feel like I'm going to see this kid on a milk carton one day or something
I saw your comment and the thumbs up and now I'm 20 min into the album on your recommendation. But I don't get it. Electronic/post punk has been around for awhile and the hip hop/funk parts aren't all that innovative. Not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand why people feel so strongly about this album... highly listenable but far as I can tell it's not all that ahead of its time
imagine being the intern filming the intro and you have to wait for a grown man to dress up as a character, put on a fake moustache, stand together in a very small corner while the grown man yells things to a camera, but actually to himself but not dressed up
All Björk's albums are literally something came from the future, but especially Post, which is from 1995. Guys, that album is SO ahead of its time, in the electronic genre is certainly one of the most avant-garde things so far, give it a listen if you didn't.
come on, it's well known how much velvet underground was ahead of their time, but i think they wanted to mention some lesser known artist and albums so velvet underground wouldn't really find place in here imo
@@xenosyrinx No one needs to say Talking Heads were ahead of their time, yet, they top the list. However, I do agree with you, wise decision from Melon.
Good pick. The album was put out right among other punk records, showing that the band was already evolving from the simple raw aggression of punk. Other post-punk records wouldn't come out until years later.
Started scrolling the comments to find if King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" and Television's "Marquee Moon" are suggested. Thanks for making my search easy.
Dan Terlizzi Yeah... I get that. But Autotune was already prominent to some level and Kanye abandoning the style of his previous masterpieces (Late Registration in particular) to make an 'Autotune album' of him crying about his grandma was a shitty move. Sure, it was a turning point, but for what? Pop rap to become a moneymaking mammoth with no artistic credibility?
Kraftwerk's early stuff like Trans-Europe Express, The Man-Machine and Computer World I also think Gary Numan's s stuff link Tubeway Army and Pleasure Principle.
What about the following albums: Can - Ege Bamyasi John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money The Velvet Underground & Nico Tom Waits - Rain Dogs The Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Doolittle Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation The Vaselines - EP & Dying For It Ween - Chocolate & Cheese Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968) The Stooges - The Stooges (1969) The New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1973) Eno - Another Green World (1975) The Jesus and the Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985) Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1987)
Same thought here, I feel it's actually incredibly of its time. That kinda blues-y rock sound they took on Morrison Hotel and LA Woman was massive in the early 70s, and it absolutely feels like a record of that time. I can see how maybe Riders on the Storm could be seen as timeless/not belonging to a specific period in any strong way, but listen to The Changeling, Love Her Madly, Cars Hiss By My Window, basically any other track on there and it seems if anything dated. incredible record but far from progressive or ahead of its time.
+Teresa Gomes Your correct, Low, "Heroes", and Lodger are the albums. All were partially recorded in Berlin, and all were produced and co-engineered by Brian Eno. Plus, literally everybody agrees that those are the albums.
Madvillainy seems really ahead of its time, there's a lot of hip hop producers out there who seem to be really inspired by its short and weird beats. Eccojams/Floral Shoppe were also vaporwave before vaporwave. Edan's two LPs also seem a big influence on a lot of hip hop producers, even if they aren't all that well-known.
@@bskdopeboy the music is good apart from the weird try hard experimental noises and the lyrics are all 16 year old who smoked weed for the first time fake deep wanna be hippy nonsense its actually embarassing to listen to. But i love revolver
@@unholylemonpledge9730 The lyrics are from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They were full on hippies who delved deep into psychedelics to try and understand the World. The experimental noises were the band pushing boundaries in music at the time, using instruments from around the World. You love it but you hate it all? ok.
Really now that I think about it, what people were calling 'shitty' that Lil B was putting out 6 years ago is now the type of rap music that's hot on the radio now.
+Care Bear Zach not really ahead of its time really? it was just the best thing that came out of that shoegazing scene, but plenty of other bands were doing the same thing (just not as well)
The Femmes were a very popular underground band in the 80s. They were alternative before the damn mainstream created the genre. You heard them in the 90s because they were already an influence on that new generation of artists.
doomfan12345 Yeah, word in the street is they copied Taurus to make Stairway to Heaven. Some people go even further and say that most Led Zeppelin early hits were copies of other band's hits.
Goddamn Fantano, almost every time I watch a video I discover someone new, another missing piece to the puzzle I'm using to construct my own sound. And today it was Scott Walker, I cant get enough of him now. I already purchased Scott 1-4 and have watched the documentary "30 Century Man" several times through. Seriously, thank you. Keep posting great videos so musicians like me with limited knowledge and resources can continue to push ourselves and excel...who knows, maybe I might be lucky enough to have you review one of my albums one day.
I'd have to throw Little Richard's first album 'Here's Little Richard' up there. Little Richard's early work was unbelievably influential and his debut was a perfect embodiment of all the quality his music possessed - excitement, energy, slick lyricism, charisma etc. I still believe that he was one of the best singers to have ever lived, his vocal range and power was unbelievable.
1) Nico - The Marble Index (Gothic Rock) 2) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (Punk, New Wave, Post Rock) 3) Sandy Bull - Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo (Raga rock) 4) The Stooges - The Stooges (Punk, Hard Rock) 5) The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land ("Free-Form Rock" Psychedelic Music) 6) Joe Meek and The Blue Men - I Hear A New World (Concept Album)
You have mentioned my favourite song ever!!! I never thought about "The End" as a proto-gothic rock song, but it's an interesting point of view. Thanks for commenting ... you really have good tastes, a few people know Sandy Bull. Right two hours ago, I think, I was listening to Robbie Basho and it was the first time. With Sandy Bull he represents one of the greatest guitarists ever. If you listen to "Blend" by Bull you find that is similar to "The End", the atmosphere.
I would say the first one of Black Sabbath, i know that there was that whole Detroit rock, the Kinks, Led and Deep Purple were already doing and experimenting with heavier rock, but Black Sabbath came ultra heavy and darker for their time, i mean just the tension on the first track... I would say it's ahead of their time because they would only get really recognized with Paranoid.
Gotta mention the Pixies, because while they aren't specifically AHEAD of their time, they blend so many styles of rock, surf, punk, garage music, and have subsequently stayed relevant to modern music.
Brian Eno - Another Green World Television - Marquee Moon (See: The Strokes, Is This it) Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat, Self Titled Albums
Another Green World doesn't feel like 1975, it's so dystopian that it's scary. Marquee Moon really set the blueprint for 00's rock; The Strokes, yep. Velvet Underground??? lol In this case, water is wet.
Definitely agree with This Heat (both their albums really). It blew my mind when I heard 24 Track Loop for the first time and realized when it was produced.
Through watching this vid a couple years back I ended up pretty deep down the scott walker rabbit hole. Owe you a lot for that Anthony. Keep doing your thing my man
"Illmatic" by Nas, is hands down one of the most albums ahead of its time, in all of history, in ANY genre. The influence it had on Hip Hop is tremendous. No one can truly understand its impact, unless they've been listening to Hip Hop for a long, long time, or as long as me. But seriously, check it out.
Kid A - Radiohead (but not really) The Head On The Door- The Cure (specifically the songs Close to Me and In Between Days) Surfer Rosa - Pixies (Where is my Mind. Need I say more??) Stankonia - Outkast (Not at all. I change my mind on that one). Dj Shadow - Endtroducing... (Just the Sampling, the way he constructed each track. Revolutionary for the time.) At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (Melodic Death Metal bands learned a lot from it.) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie ATIS (The production overall sounds very ahead for 1995.) Bjork - Homogenic (maybe not so much anymore. It's electronica / trip hop in the late 90s after all.) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (Pretty much changed the game for industrial music imo.)
Lol, then I guess Kid A is the exception. Idk it's really different than your average rock album, but I suppose by the late 90s, early 2000s a lot electronic music was getting made.
Mex Zesty Aphex Twin did a lot of what Kid A did almost a decade earlier. I wouldn't say any of Radiohead's albums are ahead of their time, they're just fantastic amalgamations of experimental music. I always feel like they sum up a particular experimental musical idea and make it sound complete, if that makes sense. All the others I completely agree with, especially the Downward Spiral
Yes that does make sense, I couldn't have said it better myself. I was trying to think of how I could describe Kid A or other Radiohead albums, and you summed it up very well.
My Top 10 Bob Dylan - The Freewheeling Bob Dylan The Beatles - The White Album Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath The Stooges - Raw Power Sex Pistols- Nevermind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols Wipers - Is This Real Pixies - Surfer Rosa Nirvana - Bleach Radiohead - Kid A
Surfa Rosa or Doolittle by Pixies, their ideas and musical concepts where years ahead of their time so much that people where not ready to really hear them until the 1990's! also had a huge influence on the direction that music would take for the next decade!
Umm......BLACK SABBATH? Their first 3 albums were so ahead of their time. What other band souded like Black Sabbath back in 1970-71? The Beatles released Let It Be the same year as Black Sabbath's debut. They also inspired a whole new genre with Master of Reality.
Black Sabbath was definitely the first metal band. Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin have never been metal. Also "I Want You So Bad" and "Helter Skelter" from the Beatles are heavy but not metal.
Considered one of if not THE first emo album of all time. (Granted that's not something to be proud of.) Was initially hated upon release because it was too dark, but thanks to the internet and word of mouth has achieved a cult following and is now almost universally applauded as an amazing album. It was ahead of it's time.
Giorgo Moroder's From Here to Eternity is worth a shout. Some of the melodies sound a bit dated but the overall production sensibility and fusion of disco with burgeoning electronica is quite incredible and prescient. A classic album in my book.
I got more Ep's I consider ahead of their time. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division - 1979 Autobahn - Kraftwerk - 1974 Reggatta de Blanc - The Police - 1979 Hot Butter - Hot Butter - 1972 Parallel Lines - Blondie (Pointing out that Heart of Glass Song) - 1978 Violator - Depeche Mode (Pointing out that Enjoy the Silence Song) - 1990 Private Eyes - Daryl Hall and John Oates (Pointing out that I can't go for that song) - 1981 Computer World - Kraftwerk - 1981 Here Comes the Judge - Pigmeat Markham - (Comedy Song Precursor to Rap Music) - 1968 I Hear a New World - Joe Meek - (Sounds almost as futuristic as Kraftwerk) - 1960 Tarkus - Emerson Lake and Palmer - (Sound much like Pink Floyd in the late 70's while other parts sound like an early 90's song)
Good call on Scott Walker 3, his best album of the 60s. The Stooges - Fun House Bathory - The Return… Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby Wire - Pink Flag To name a few more.
The name of that violent femmes compilation that re-popularized them was "Add It Up". Many of the songs from that were from the first record though, which is one of my favorite albums of all time.
The Strokes - Is This It Man this album to me just brought rock (and the burgeoning indie genre) into the modern 21st century with its lo-fi-in-the-basement dark recording, the sultry croon about being young in the city, the relentlessly rigid 4/4 straight driving guitar "strokes" and backbeat that defines the band's sound, and just the band's new-york-rough-and-tumble-rolling-stones-messy-hair sex appeal, decked out in "hip" dress attire that would be a major aesthetic element in indie music to come (pre-tumblr era tumblr dress haha). These songs are like timeless New York shadows; listless and eternally young cosmopolitan specters whose behavior is captured by a silent observer with a cigarette dangling from his lips. This album made it -feel- as if rock was this young and exciting art form again, with all the eccentricities and fumbling passions that made it so appealing to the youth all those years ago. Though now the chugging rhythm of the locomotive (the previous century's icon of modernity) is replaced by the linear drive of the modern subway; as if these cats took their young gritty attitude and spray painted their mark on the beloved ol' rock n' roll wheel that's been a rolling for half a century now. Or maybe just made an entirely sleeker one altogether. 10/10. damn I'm stoned lol
I love that Chris looks completely green-screened in due to being closer to the camera and in front of the album cover green screen. He never left the calzone...
I'm really new to this groups music but cLOUDDEAD-cLOUDEAD sticks out to me here, it's pretty much modern cloud rap project that came out in 2001, and not just the beats but the kind of rappers/topics/flows as well, check it out also Ashra-New age of earth, and cluster-zuckerzeit are two great examples of krautrock that sounds like modern edm another thing i'd like to say is to me it's not so much ahead of it's time if it's something that created the times, like burials untrue had massive influence on modern electronica but he's not really "ahead of his time" because he's like ground zero. It's more so stuff that was overlooked then but forecast the future 5-20 years in advance or something like that. yeeeee..
i AGREE WITH KRAFTWERK AS OTHERS LISTED BELOW, APHEX TWIN ARGUABLY AS WELL. HOWEVER A LOT OF ALBUMS THAT ARE LISTED BELOW AS AHEAD OF THEIR TIME IE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, VELVET UNDERGROUND, AND RAMONES , WHILE THEY ARE AMAZING ALBUMS, THEY ALSO SEEM VERY APPROPRIATE TO THEIR TIME AS WELL, GROUNDBREAKING AND REVOLUTIONARY, BUT STILL VERY RELEVANT TO THEIR SPECIFIC TIMES . REFUSED SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME, WIRE PINK FLAG, TELEVISION MARQUEE MOON, ALOIS THE EASY LIFE, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PRAYERS ON FIRE, AND THE SPACE JAM SOUNDTRACK (REMAINS TO BE SEEN) ARE SOME THAT COME TO MY MIND.
In the 80's New Wave and Alternative was a new thing back in 83 when Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes was released, but if you were one of the cool kid music snobs like my self, you knew every lyric to this whole Album. In my crowd I realized how popular the Femmes were in my group of Cool Kids when we went tubing down a Arizona Salt River with a group of 10 - 15 friends and a big gettoblaster, we had Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes on repeat the whole way down the river, to my suprise ever one there knew every lyric as well and we had a BadAss Sing A Long the whole way down, with all the mainstream Michael Jackson, Hall & Oates, Billy Joel, Lionel Richie Lovers of the early 80's on the way down looking puzzled and perplexed by this Strange Future Music ?. I wish I had my Bauhaus or Siouxsie that day too.
eh, feels very of its time. its always unique so its pretty hart to compare it to anything. electronically, its not really that unique, nor is the shoegaze anything ahead of its time, but the combination of both makes it so great
Corey Feldman - Anglelic 2 The Core
Is our future truly that dark???
I really need to hurry up with my band, get famous and revive good music!
"AngLELic"
SurpriseMF please do not abuse your internet access
30 years from now this comment will be appreciated ironically as prophetic .
SurpriseMF go to your room.
Did this guy die in season 1? Why isn’t he in any of the current seasons?
Anthony killed him on the season finale.
@@_PuppetMaster86 ur kidding😩 don't spoil it for me jeesh
@@_PuppetMaster86 Fantano is famously a Scott 4 man
notice how fantano cut the part where he said "forever" after chris said his name. Yeah, thats pretty much foreshadowing his death on the finale
He was in intern. Interns move on. He is now president of Decca.
What ever happened to Chris ? He did like this 1 video and we never heard from him again. I feel like I'm going to see this kid on a milk carton one day or something
His name is Chris Capello and he no longer works at the needle drop, but he's made a few albums that are up on bandcamp
He makes music.. Under his name and with a band named Loner Chic
he dieded
He was in the "Assholes In Music" video
Loner Chic are actually pretty good! Didn't know it was this poor intern guy.
speedin bullet to heaven
hmmm
jaahahhaahha probably
ns prof pic
lol
I saw your comment and the thumbs up and now I'm 20 min into the album on your recommendation. But I don't get it. Electronic/post punk has been around for awhile and the hip hop/funk parts aren't all that innovative. Not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand why people feel so strongly about this album... highly listenable but far as I can tell it's not all that ahead of its time
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ah hell yeah this is that hard hitting shit ive been looking for
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imagine being the intern filming the intro and you have to wait for a grown man to dress up as a character, put on a fake moustache, stand together in a very small corner while the grown man yells things to a camera, but actually to himself but not dressed up
All Björk's albums are literally something came from the future, but especially Post, which is from 1995. Guys, that album is SO ahead of its time, in the electronic genre is certainly one of the most avant-garde things so far, give it a listen if you didn't.
Hard agree, Mr. 7 years ago
And it still is
this list is begging for some Velvet Underground
I know! The viola sound was insane, Lou reed's dark disturbing but extremely poetic pop lyrics, everything about them was completely original
come on, it's well known how much velvet underground was ahead of their time, but i think they wanted to mention some lesser known artist and albums so velvet underground wouldn't really find place in here imo
Pad Mac nailed it. NO ONE needs to say that the Velvet Underground were ahead of their time-- everyone knows they epitomize "ahead of their time".
Totally agree, I'd say either The Velvet Underground And Nico or White Light/White Heat
@@xenosyrinx No one needs to say Talking Heads were ahead of their time, yet, they top the list. However, I do agree with you, wise decision from Melon.
The first Stooges album, definitely.
And I couldn't agree more with the self titled Violent Femmes album either, damn good LP.
King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King
The Beatles - Revolver
for sure king crimson
for sure king crimson
for sure king crimson
for sure king crimson
for sure king crimson
Television: Marquee Moon
Yes!!!! The "og" strokes
+Storanzo98 yes
Good pick. The album was put out right among other punk records, showing that the band was already evolving from the simple raw aggression of punk. Other post-punk records wouldn't come out until years later.
Started scrolling the comments to find if King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" and Television's "Marquee Moon" are suggested. Thanks for making my search easy.
Fuck yes! Many homies thought it's some 00's indie rock band but it's actually a 70's group. Crazy huh?
White Light/White Heat
Abraham Gimenez first noise rock album, and my fav VU album
In the court of the crimson King. Although it wasn't the first prog album, it pretty much shaped the sound of all early 70s prog albums
Ramsey Brown And came out in 69....
I think the album’s cover helped out even more.
It was The first prog album
@@gdmatter2286 I'd say moody blues had the first one with days of future past, but yeah king crimson helped define what prog would become
we want chris back
808 and heartbreak!!!
You're kidding right.
+J. Deiss 808s and heartbreak is basically the blueprint to alot of new pop rap
Dan Terlizzi Yeah... I get that. But Autotune was already prominent to some level and Kanye abandoning the style of his previous masterpieces (Late Registration in particular) to make an 'Autotune album' of him crying about his grandma was a shitty move. Sure, it was a turning point, but for what? Pop rap to become a moneymaking mammoth with no artistic credibility?
tru. cudi, drake, the weeknd, gambino, chance all offsprings off that record
jamalgwapoderrick Cudi ain't no offspring he made that album with him!
Kraftwerk's early stuff like Trans-Europe Express, The Man-Machine and Computer World
I also think Gary Numan's s stuff link Tubeway Army and Pleasure Principle.
Bigg agree with Gary numan
What about the following albums:
Can - Ege Bamyasi
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa & Doolittle
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Vaselines - EP & Dying For It
Ween - Chocolate & Cheese
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Love the Eno pick - Most of his early albums could appear on this list, including those with Fripp or Bowie.
He can't include Everything.
good choices!
Yeah Ween!
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)
The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)
The New York Dolls - New York Dolls (1973)
Eno - Another Green World (1975)
The Jesus and the Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1987)
Honourable Mention: Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (1984)
I was going to put the Violent Femmes down, but you already included it :/
You have good taste in music brother
Aphex Twin. nuff said.
True that
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90's dance sounds.
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Mezzanine - Massive Attack (1998)
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) [Album] - Eurythmics (1983)
Post - Bjork (1995)
Blade Runner (Soundtrack) - Vangelis (1982)
L.A. Woman - The Doors (1971)
Cross - Justice (2007)
Massive Attack is pretty awesome
L.A. Woman? I love the album, but I dont see how it was ahead of its time
Same thought here, I feel it's actually incredibly of its time. That kinda blues-y rock sound they took on Morrison Hotel and LA Woman was massive in the early 70s, and it absolutely feels like a record of that time. I can see how maybe Riders on the Storm could be seen as timeless/not belonging to a specific period in any strong way, but listen to The Changeling, Love Her Madly, Cars Hiss By My Window, basically any other track on there and it seems if anything dated. incredible record but far from progressive or ahead of its time.
I’d say The Doors debut album was more ahead of its time than LA Woman
Maybe Blue Lines deserve his placement of this list. Also Mezzanine is a stratospheric record, ma BL came first
The Berlin albums from Bowie: Low, Heroes and Lodger.
It's actually station to station, heroes and low
Not reallly Marcos Encarnação
+Teresa Gomes Your correct, Low, "Heroes", and Lodger are the albums. All were partially recorded in Berlin, and all were produced and co-engineered by Brian Eno. Plus, literally everybody agrees that those are the albums.
You are correct, my apologies
Teresa Gomes i think scary monsters was way ahead of its time too
Madvillainy seems really ahead of its time, there's a lot of hip hop producers out there who seem to be really inspired by its short and weird beats.
Eccojams/Floral Shoppe were also vaporwave before vaporwave.
Edan's two LPs also seem a big influence on a lot of hip hop producers, even if they aren't all that well-known.
Imagine if The Money Store get a reissue in 10-15 years from now and becomes an instant radiohit
with the way hyperpop/experimental pop artists like charli xcx are becoming pretty mainstream nowadays i'd say that wouldn't be too far from reality
Whatever happened to this kid?
Molestation
good for him
winfield pearson 2018 where is he now?
Underfireman he's somewhere being molested
Wth I don't remember saying dis
Might be a cliche, but... The Beatles - Revolver.
Mind melting almost 50 years since the release. 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is just... stunning!
Dude... yeah. It's like a musical joint for you to smoke literally anytime. I think even the melodic songs are such ear candy!
I hate that song
@@unholylemonpledge9730 Unlucky.
@@bskdopeboy the music is good apart from the weird try hard experimental noises and the lyrics are all 16 year old who smoked weed for the first time fake deep wanna be hippy nonsense its actually embarassing to listen to. But i love revolver
@@unholylemonpledge9730 The lyrics are from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They were full on hippies who delved deep into psychedelics to try and understand the World.
The experimental noises were the band pushing boundaries in music at the time, using instruments from around the World.
You love it but you hate it all? ok.
Lil b - blue flames is the base totem of hip hop in 2015
Really now that I think about it, what people were calling 'shitty' that Lil B was putting out 6 years ago is now the type of rap music that's hot on the radio now.
real
I hope chris is doing good
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine should be on this list.
+Care Bear Zach not really ahead of its time really? it was just the best thing that came out of that shoegazing scene, but plenty of other bands were doing the same thing (just not as well)
+Care Bear Zach Psychocandy
why u watching this shit man
Greg Nah that record gets more than enough praise.
Overrated album
- Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
- Any three six mafia mixtapes from the early 1990s (especially 'Smoked out , Loced out')
- John Cage (duh)
Yeah the first time I heard Captain Beefheart I thought they were a 90s band.
Good to see the Femmes get some love...
Pescado Rabioso - ArtaudRaymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc.
pescado ♥
The most Argentinean thing I've seen in years, anyways, amazing album
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Envy - All the Footprints
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Earth - Earth 2
Damn, that's some deep music taste. I'm serious about it. Just got into Swans, freaky shit.
The Femmes were a very popular underground band in the 80s. They were alternative before the damn mainstream created the genre. You heard them in the 90s because they were already an influence on that new generation of artists.
REM's Murmur stands out to me. Really defined the alternative sound that didn't come to full fruition until the early '90s.
he's so good at making it extremely believable that anthony and cal are 2 different people
Slint - Spiderland
GY!BE - F# A# Infinity, Lift yr. Skinny fists, Yanqui uxo, Slow riot
Honestly probably my favourite album of all time
The Shape of Punk to Come deserves to be on here
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Spirit - Spirit .
A 1969 art rock album that sounds like an orchestra ... a very nice mix of instruments that will please Led Zeppelin fans A LOT...
Awesome man, if you like hard rock obscurities, you should check out Epitaph-Epitaph from 1971.
Lol isn't that the band Led Zepplin copied?
doomfan12345
Yeah, word in the street is they copied Taurus to make Stairway to Heaven. Some people go even further and say that most Led Zeppelin early hits were copies of other band's hits.
LOL. Spirit were great.
Goddamn Fantano, almost every time I watch a video I discover someone new, another missing piece to the puzzle I'm using to construct my own sound. And today it was Scott Walker, I cant get enough of him now. I already purchased Scott 1-4 and have watched the documentary "30 Century Man" several times through. Seriously, thank you. Keep posting great videos so musicians like me with limited knowledge and resources can continue to push ourselves and excel...who knows, maybe I might be lucky enough to have you review one of my albums one day.
I'd have to throw Little Richard's first album 'Here's Little Richard' up there. Little Richard's early work was unbelievably influential and his debut was a perfect embodiment of all the quality his music possessed - excitement, energy, slick lyricism, charisma etc. I still believe that he was one of the best singers to have ever lived, his vocal range and power was unbelievable.
1) Nico - The Marble Index (Gothic Rock)
2) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (Punk, New Wave, Post Rock)
3) Sandy Bull - Fantasias For Guitar And Banjo (Raga rock)
4) The Stooges - The Stooges (Punk, Hard Rock)
5) The Red Crayola - The Parable of Arable Land ("Free-Form Rock" Psychedelic Music)
6) Joe Meek and The Blue Men - I Hear A New World (Concept Album)
You have mentioned my favourite song ever!!! I never thought about "The End" as a proto-gothic rock song, but it's an interesting point of view. Thanks for commenting ... you really have good tastes, a few people know Sandy Bull. Right two hours ago, I think, I was listening to Robbie Basho and it was the first time. With Sandy Bull he represents one of the greatest guitarists ever. If you listen to "Blend" by Bull you find that is similar to "The End", the atmosphere.
I'd say the original 3 Stooges albums and MC5's Kick out the Jams were definitely way ahead of their time.
+Will Howard yeah screw you.
*****
Did I not basically say the same thing?
Odyssey and Oracle by the Zombies
Why? wasn't it highly inspired by Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys? Better said, it would be Pet Sounds the one ahead of its time.
I would say the first one of Black Sabbath, i know that there was that whole Detroit rock, the Kinks, Led and Deep Purple were already doing and experimenting with heavier rock, but Black Sabbath came ultra heavy and darker for their time, i mean just the tension on the first track... I would say it's ahead of their time because they would only get really recognized with Paranoid.
Gotta mention the Pixies, because while they aren't specifically AHEAD of their time, they blend so many styles of rock, surf, punk, garage music, and have subsequently stayed relevant to modern music.
The Velvet Underground - White Light/ White Heat
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Television - Marquee Moon (See: The Strokes, Is This it)
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat, Self Titled Albums
Another Green World doesn't feel like 1975, it's so dystopian that it's scary.
Marquee Moon really set the blueprint for 00's rock; The Strokes, yep.
Velvet Underground??? lol In this case, water is wet.
Definitely agree with This Heat (both their albums really). It blew my mind when I heard 24 Track Loop for the first time and realized when it was produced.
Through watching this vid a couple years back I ended up pretty deep down the scott walker rabbit hole.
Owe you a lot for that Anthony. Keep doing your thing my man
"Illmatic" by Nas, is hands down one of the most albums ahead of its time, in all of history, in ANY genre. The influence it had on Hip Hop is tremendous. No one can truly understand its impact, unless they've been listening to Hip Hop for a long, long time, or as long as me. But seriously, check it out.
Kid A - Radiohead (but not really)
The Head On The Door- The Cure (specifically the songs Close to Me and In Between Days)
Surfer Rosa - Pixies (Where is my Mind. Need I say more??)
Stankonia - Outkast (Not at all. I change my mind on that one).
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing... (Just the Sampling, the way he constructed each track. Revolutionary for the time.)
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (Melodic Death Metal bands learned a lot from it.)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie ATIS (The production overall sounds very ahead for 1995.)
Bjork - Homogenic (maybe not so much anymore. It's electronica / trip hop in the late 90s after all.)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (Pretty much changed the game for industrial music imo.)
kid a is not ahead of its time
i agree with all the others
Lol, then I guess Kid A is the exception. Idk it's really different than your average rock album, but I suppose by the late 90s, early 2000s a lot electronic music was getting made.
Mex Zesty Aphex Twin did a lot of what Kid A did almost a decade earlier. I wouldn't say any of Radiohead's albums are ahead of their time, they're just fantastic amalgamations of experimental music. I always feel like they sum up a particular experimental musical idea and make it sound complete, if that makes sense. All the others I completely agree with, especially the Downward Spiral
Yes that does make sense, I couldn't have said it better myself. I was trying to think of how I could describe Kid A or other Radiohead albums, and you summed it up very well.
My Top 10
Bob Dylan - The Freewheeling Bob Dylan
The Beatles - The White Album
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
The Stooges - Raw Power
Sex Pistols- Nevermind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Wipers - Is This Real
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Nirvana - Bleach
Radiohead - Kid A
Surfa Rosa or Doolittle by Pixies, their ideas and musical concepts where years ahead of their time so much that people where not ready to really hear them until the 1990's! also had a huge influence on the direction that music would take for the next decade!
Umm......BLACK SABBATH? Their first 3 albums were so ahead of their time. What other band souded like Black Sabbath back in 1970-71? The Beatles released Let It Be the same year as Black Sabbath's debut. They also inspired a whole new genre with Master of Reality.
Vol. 4 was pretty dope too
Vol. 4 is arguably their best (my personal favourite), but it's not really that innovative.
Speaking of The Beatles, Helter Skelter was very ahead of its time.
Black Sabbath was definitely the first metal band. Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin have never been metal. Also "I Want You So Bad" and "Helter Skelter" from the Beatles are heavy but not metal.
The Beatles made Helter Skelter in ‘68 or ‘69 and was very heavy comparing to Black Sabbath.
Silver Apples self titled electronic psychedelia album that was released in 1968.
White Light/White Heat by Velvet Underground. That shit came in '67!!!
Dude these old videos are pretty awesome and more real.
Anything by Nine Inch Nails from the 90's still sounds surprisingly up to date.
Pinkerton-Weezer
Pinkerton is so so good.
Pinkerton was in no way ahead of its time.
Considered one of if not THE first emo album of all time. (Granted that's not something to be proud of.) Was initially hated upon release because it was too dark, but thanks to the internet and word of mouth has achieved a cult following and is now almost universally applauded as an amazing album. It was ahead of it's time.
What? Ever heard of Rites of Spring? Sunny Day Real Estate? ANY ACTUAL POST-HARDCORE BAND FROM THE EARLY 90s?
J. Deiss Pinkerton was the bridge between those bands and mainstream emo.
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Giorgo Moroder's From Here to Eternity is worth a shout. Some of the melodies sound a bit dated but the overall production sensibility and fusion of disco with burgeoning electronica is quite incredible and prescient. A classic album in my book.
Pixies-Surfer Rosa. The overall sound on that record didn't get popular until the 2000's
Weezer-Pinkerton. Nothing to say.
The Whole Enchilada Pinkerton was 1996, but I get what you're trying to say.
***** oh, ok
The Dark Side Of The Moon, OK Computer/Kid A and Deltron 3030's debut should be in the list as well. Loved the inclusion of Remain In Light though!
I got more Ep's I consider ahead of their time.
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division - 1979
Autobahn - Kraftwerk - 1974
Reggatta de Blanc - The Police - 1979
Hot Butter - Hot Butter - 1972
Parallel Lines - Blondie (Pointing out that Heart of Glass Song) - 1978
Violator - Depeche Mode (Pointing out that Enjoy the Silence Song) - 1990
Private Eyes - Daryl Hall and John Oates (Pointing out that I can't go for that song) - 1981
Computer World - Kraftwerk - 1981
Here Comes the Judge - Pigmeat Markham - (Comedy Song Precursor to Rap Music) - 1968
I Hear a New World - Joe Meek - (Sounds almost as futuristic as Kraftwerk) - 1960
Tarkus - Emerson Lake and Palmer - (Sound much like Pink Floyd in the late 70's while other parts sound like an early 90's song)
+BetterSkatez I'm pretty sure Unknown Pleasures is an LP, not an EP.
Alon Dotan Oh, ok
Pretty sure everything he listed is an LP
I misread the title kinda, What is an EP and is ahead of it's time is Cabaret Voltaire - Extended Play.
Good call on Scott Walker 3, his best album of the 60s.
The Stooges - Fun House
Bathory - The Return…
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby
Wire - Pink Flag
To name a few more.
The Residents Duck Stab! should be here
Velvet Underground and Nico
Influential =/= Ahead of its time.
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
The name of that violent femmes compilation that re-popularized them was "Add It Up". Many of the songs from that were from the first record though, which is one of my favorite albums of all time.
VU-Light/White Heat has to be considered as well. Influencing noise rock groups the world over.
The Strokes - Is This It
Man this album to me just brought rock (and the burgeoning indie genre) into the modern 21st century with its lo-fi-in-the-basement dark recording, the sultry croon about being young in the city, the relentlessly rigid 4/4 straight driving guitar "strokes" and backbeat that defines the band's sound, and just the band's new-york-rough-and-tumble-rolling-stones-messy-hair sex appeal, decked out in "hip" dress attire that would be a major aesthetic element in indie music to come (pre-tumblr era tumblr dress haha). These songs are like timeless New York shadows; listless and eternally young cosmopolitan specters whose behavior is captured by a silent observer with a cigarette dangling from his lips. This album made it -feel- as if rock was this young and exciting art form again, with all the eccentricities and fumbling passions that made it so appealing to the youth all those years ago. Though now the chugging rhythm of the locomotive (the previous century's icon of modernity) is replaced by the linear drive of the modern subway; as if these cats took their young gritty attitude and spray painted their mark on the beloved ol' rock n' roll wheel that's been a rolling for half a century now. Or maybe just made an entirely sleeker one altogether. 10/10. damn I'm stoned lol
Velvet Underground & Nico! :D
well it still sounds fresh today 50ish years on for one, listen to the vocals on love is a warm gun and tell me anyone else was doing it back then
King Crimson - Red
Big thanks for putting the list in the description
Why is this comment section filled with the most obvious most popular "ahead of the times" albums? Like no shit everyone here knows about those.
My list:
Spiderland
Loveless
Garlands
Forever Changes
Zen Arcade
VU
Silver Apples
Suicide
The Piper at the Gates of down
Kanye West- 808's and Heartbreak.
looking back I would say 808s and heartbreaks is one of these
Television - Marquee Moon
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
MF Doom - MM Food
Cynic - Focus
I'm like 8 years late, but The Commercial Album from the Residents. It's a crime you didnt put it on here.
Violent Femmes doe
Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Marquee Moon (1977)
Revolver (1966)
Kick Out the Jams (1969)
anthony cut out the "forever" at the end, seems like foreshadowing
CAN - Future Days definitely deserves to be there
The La's - The La's
I love that Chris looks completely green-screened in due to being closer to the camera and in front of the album cover green screen.
He never left the calzone...
I'm really new to this groups music but cLOUDDEAD-cLOUDEAD sticks out to me here, it's pretty much modern cloud rap project that came out in 2001, and not just the beats but the kind of rappers/topics/flows as well, check it out
also Ashra-New age of earth, and cluster-zuckerzeit are two great examples of krautrock that sounds like modern edm
another thing i'd like to say is to me it's not so much ahead of it's time if it's something that created the times, like burials untrue had massive influence on modern electronica but he's not really "ahead of his time" because he's like ground zero. It's more so stuff that was overlooked then but forecast the future 5-20 years in advance or something like that. yeeeee..
Evan Langenberg yeah it's pretty dank
+MegaCnlSanders wow nice to see my favorite album of all time get namedropped out of nowhere lol
I love the beginning of this video.
"Why would they call themselfs Joy Division... if they're not happy?"
Oh Cal, I love you.
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i AGREE WITH KRAFTWERK AS OTHERS LISTED BELOW, APHEX TWIN ARGUABLY AS WELL. HOWEVER A LOT OF ALBUMS THAT ARE LISTED BELOW AS AHEAD OF THEIR TIME IE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, VELVET UNDERGROUND, AND RAMONES , WHILE THEY ARE AMAZING ALBUMS, THEY ALSO SEEM VERY APPROPRIATE TO THEIR TIME AS WELL, GROUNDBREAKING AND REVOLUTIONARY, BUT STILL VERY RELEVANT TO THEIR SPECIFIC TIMES . REFUSED SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME, WIRE PINK FLAG, TELEVISION MARQUEE MOON, ALOIS THE EASY LIFE, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PRAYERS ON FIRE, AND THE SPACE JAM SOUNDTRACK (REMAINS TO BE SEEN) ARE SOME THAT COME TO MY MIND.
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In the 80's New Wave and Alternative was a new thing back in 83 when Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes was released, but if you were one of the cool kid music snobs like my self, you knew every lyric to this whole Album. In my crowd I realized how popular the Femmes were in my group of Cool Kids when we went tubing down a Arizona Salt River with a group of 10 - 15 friends and a big gettoblaster, we had Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes on repeat the whole way down the river, to my suprise ever one there knew every lyric as well and we had a BadAss Sing A Long the whole way down, with all the mainstream Michael Jackson, Hall & Oates, Billy Joel, Lionel Richie Lovers of the early 80's on the way down looking puzzled and perplexed by this Strange Future Music ?. I wish I had my Bauhaus or Siouxsie that day too.
What happened to that kid? I feel like he’s going to be a reviewer and give WLR a 5
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eh, feels very of its time. its always unique so its pretty hart to compare it to anything. electronically, its not really that unique, nor is the shoegaze anything ahead of its time, but the combination of both makes it so great
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Meet the residents by the residents.
Aphex twin was pretty ahead of its time
Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock by Talk Talk.