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Ground breaking ...
Influential, In music, it’s an overused term…
Been thinking of ground breaking tunes…tracks, genuinely, there was nothing like them before.
Ill start with
Donna Summer - I feel love. This must have sounded like something from outer space when it dropped in 1977. Hugely influential track to this day.
Chris and Cosey - Bust Stop … The first Acid House record? Released in 1981, 5 years before Acid House hit big time
Soft Cell – Memorabilia, another proto house record released in 1981 good few years before house music.
Anymore you can name?
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The original of this one...
Humiliative by Meshuggah. To me, that was the first real introduction of their trademark "revolving riff over multiple measures of 4/4" style.
Akufen - My Way
More or less started the micro house genre.
I thought that this might be of some interest considering the topic.
A good deal about Gary Numan's ground breaking and what leads up to it in this.
As soon as I saw your post Sebastian this documentary came to mind.
Another fantastic documentary on the rise of Synthesizers in modern music, from the early room sized modular synths from the 70's to the portable and cheap synths that helped categorize the distinctive sound of the late 70's and 80's.
As well as showing us vintage synth geeks an impressive amount of hardware porn- it gives us some insight into the political and aesthetic culture of the 80's and the genesis of some of the most influential and creative groups ever.
Documentary (BBC)- Synth Britannia- the history of the synthesizer
@Sebastian said:
I was wondering how long it would be before Gary Numan was mentioned. Thing is, Gary himself admits he just copied what ultravox mk1 ( with john foxx on vocals) had done 4 years earlier.
@Tritonman2
Yeah, I know that one. Great documentary.
"That's allright Mama" Elvis Presley
Hey, what's with all those knobs and buttons on that there piano???
This thread would in no way be complete with out mentioning "The Beatles" Rubber Soul, Revolver, and The Magical Mystery Tour ect. They really went on a roll with ground breaking work.
The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds Album
Aqua - Barbie Girl. Oops, sorry. Wrong forum!
Roxy Music, Virginia Plain. Jaw dropping originality. The production on that first single and album is still incredible. Drums are beefy and upfront but not at all dominant and have a beautiful clarity.
Took Elvis and Cochrane gave it all a very English twist. Genius.
I'm sure I'll take some abuse for this, but these guys were pioneers before they got rich and started abusing their respective talents.
Muddy Waters and Rolling Stones.
@boone51 no abuse from me. This is still brilliant. I can clearly remember hearing this on The John Peel (Top Gear?) show on a Sunday afternoon. A 20 minute exploration that never loses its way. I listen to this at least once a week.
Sorry to put another in but Rappers Delight, Sugarhill Gang definitely got a new genre going
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On
The Sex Pistols
The Smiths
I Feel Love was unusual in the context of the pop charts at the time, but not so groundbreaking when you consider what was happening in a wider context.
Jean Michel Jarre had a big hit with Oxygene in 1976, the year before, with Oxygene part 4 particularly presaging the Donna Summer backing track, albeit with a swung rhythm rather than a straight 4/4.
Also, listen to what Soft Machine was gigging in Paris in 1977. Start at the 15:30 mark and listen out for the switch to a major key just before the melody comes in, something that also occurs in the Donna Summer song.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue ("Hey, modal scales and shutting the fuck up sounds great!")
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold (Not terribly ground breaking but it started a 5 year stretch of that jimi hendrix drum beat... Boom-BAP-bo-ba-ba-boom-Bap ... everywhere)
Lee Perry - Blackboard Jungle Dub
+1 on Rapper's Delight. I'd add Public Enemy's Yo! Bum Rush the Show too - changed how people sampled forever. I guess Licensed to Ill should get a nod in the 'ground breaking/influential' thread because... you know... white people.
PS Tubeway Army > Gary Numan!
@syrapcore +1 for Kind of blue. Reminds me of supposed conversation at a dinner for Ronnie Reagan between Miles and Nancy. She asked him what he had done in life, his response....."I changed the course of jazz 5 times, what have you done apart from fucked the president"
Aphex Twin - Pretty much his entire song catalog.
Jeez, I guess you have to say Skrillex too. That hurts to admit.
cant believe Kraftwerk haven't been mentioned yet
Sisters of Mercy for Goth even if Andy Eldritch hated being associated with it
Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix... both influenced by electric blues bands such as Muddy Waters and B.B. King. All of whom influenced Rock, both in sound and technology.
10cc I'm not in love. Great song and all those choral bits. Plus Un unit a Paris without which there'd be no Bohemian Rhapsody
@Ian said:
Yup !!
Pink Floyd, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Boards Of Canada, Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine.
Switched On Bach by Walter Carlos, started the whole synthesizer sound, sounded like nothing you'd ever heard before, and predating the use of synths by the likes of Yes / Rick Wakeman, Genesis, King Crimson and Tangerine Dream.
Figured I'd give the obligatory Stockhausen/John Cage/Luigi Russolo/Musique Concrete shoutout...
edit: I'll include "Bitches Brew" and the whole Headhunters album.
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