The most "ahead of it's time" albums you know of.

1ThoughtKnown

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

tempo_n_groove said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

tempo_n_groove said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

Another album was ahead of its time. It’s still might be. Just timeless:

Great band, great album.  I don't see them as groundbreaking though?

I disagree. The mix of Caribbean beats with disco and a sprinkle of rock/punk was all new. That album still sounds weird.  The band and Eno nailed it

It's Ska-lite or just look at James Browns or anything he's done.  It may have changed peoples lives but I think it was done before.

Great album but I don't see it.

It wasn’t done before. I respectfully disagree. 

I enjoy discussions like this actually.  it brings out the passion in people.

I can go on about it but I'd like to hear others thoughts to why and then I might retort.

Talking Heads were a great band, no doubt!  I saw them in '82 and what a show!  This was with that great expanded band that included Adrian Belew, Steve Scales, and Bernie Worrell.  And Byrne's energy was off the charts.  (This was also a time when pretty much everyone was doing coke.  I'm guessing that was an influence. (My friends and I were definitely a bit cranked up pre-show, lol.) That show was a few years after Remain in Light Came out, but what they were doing was still pretty much along that album's path. 
But I would say their more ground breaking work was from the first couple of albums.  From the get-go, they were combing elements of r&b, soul, and new wave, and Byrnes herky-jerky robotic moves and singing were certainly unusual.  So to me it would be '77 that would rank as their album that was a bit more ahead of it's time.  I wouldn't say hugely so, but it definitely had a distinct flavor within new wave and art-pop/ art-funk. 

Once again, I like those albums as well. This album added in the Haitian influence and Eno introduced the band to Fela Kuti and the Afro Beat.  It’s just such a blend of influences that it really is their most ambitious and ahead of its time record.  

You can also blame Byrne for the shoulder pad suits of the 80s 😂. 

FiveBelow

HughFreakingDillon said:

I fucking LOVED Pantera before the alternative wave. Both CFH and Vulgar. Two top notch metal records. 

Getting caught in a Pantera pit as a 15 year old is easily the most frightening concert experience I have had.

tempo_n_groove said:

FiveBelow said:

Good albums but nothing groundbreaking.

Of the three, CFH is the one I would push the most as being ahead of it’s time. Pantera’s influence on metal is undeniable and CFH was their coming out party. The other two, you’re right. Both are integral parts of my musical journey but didn’t necessarily differ from previous releases.

dankind

JeBurkhardt said:

MC5 Kick Out the Jams

“Leaving the solar system!”

1ThoughtKnown

Post-punk is a pretty diverse genre, but this album must have blown a lot of minds in 1980. I never heard it until 10 years later
and had no idea the album was a decade old. Thought it was a new release when my friend played it

dankind

JH6056

dankind said:

I don't know how they score on the "most ahead of their time" measuring stick, but I LOVE THEM LIVE. Karen Oh is one of THE most capitvating frontpeople ever to stalk a stage. Love her! And I do think this is a great album.

dankind

JH6056 said:

dankind said:

I don't know how they score on the "most ahead of their time" measuring stick, but I LOVE THEM LIVE. Karen Oh is one of THE most capitvating frontpeople ever to stalk a stage. Love her! And I do think this is a great album.

I suppose I had heard elements of their sound from other bands, but never quite combined in the way they did here (and continue to do).

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

Jimmy Hendrix Are You Experienced
Black Sabbath First Album
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Bad Brains Pay to Cum
Van Halen I

This one really stands out.  And now, having seen the film "Control", I'm practically obsessed with this band and Ian Curtis.  It's almost scary.

tempo_n_groove

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Jimmy Hendrix Are You Experienced
Black Sabbath First Album
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Bad Brains Pay to Cum
Van Halen I

This one really stands out.  And now, having seen the film "Control", I'm practically obsessed with this band and Ian Curtis.  It's almost scary.

If you're really enjoying them why don't you try Brian Jonestown Massacre.  You'll like them too.

HughFreakingDillon

I know most of you don't know this album, but for me, the east-meets-west music, the lyrics, groundbreaking for me:

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Jimmy Hendrix Are You Experienced
Black Sabbath First Album
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Bad Brains Pay to Cum
Van Halen I

This one really stands out.  And now, having seen the film "Control", I'm practically obsessed with this band and Ian Curtis.  It's almost scary.

If you're really enjoying them why don't you try Brian Jonestown Massacre.  You'll like them too.

I will check them out (and try not to let my dislike of the name get in the way!)

HughFreakingDillon said:

I know most of you don't know this album, but for me, the east-meets-west music, the lyrics, groundbreaking for me:

Same with this one!  I will try not to think of it as American politics!

1ThoughtKnown

HughFreakingDillon said:

I know most of you don't know this album, but for me, the east-meets-west music, the lyrics, groundbreaking for me:

Good choice HFD

1ThoughtKnown

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Jimmy Hendrix Are You Experienced
Black Sabbath First Album
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Bad Brains Pay to Cum
Van Halen I

This one really stands out.  And now, having seen the film "Control", I'm practically obsessed with this band and Ian Curtis.  It's almost scary.

If you're really enjoying them why don't you try Brian Jonestown Massacre.  You'll like them too.

I will check them out (and try not to let my dislike of the name get in the way!)

HughFreakingDillon said:

I know most of you don't know this album, but for me, the east-meets-west music, the lyrics, groundbreaking for me:

Same with this one!  I will try not to think of it as American politics!

They considered changing their name I believe but decided against it. Band was before “the movement”

HughFreakingDillon

1ThoughtKnown said:

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Jimmy Hendrix Are You Experienced
Black Sabbath First Album
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Bad Brains Pay to Cum
Van Halen I

This one really stands out.  And now, having seen the film "Control", I'm practically obsessed with this band and Ian Curtis.  It's almost scary.

If you're really enjoying them why don't you try Brian Jonestown Massacre.  You'll like them too.

I will check them out (and try not to let my dislike of the name get in the way!)

HughFreakingDillon said:

I know most of you don't know this album, but for me, the east-meets-west music, the lyrics, groundbreaking for me:

Same with this one!  I will try not to think of it as American politics!

They considered changing their name I believe but decided against it. Band was before “the movement”

that I hadn't heard, but I do know they were offered a HUGE sum of money to sell their band's website url. They ultimately decided against it, and they actually used to sell a poster "no politics, just rock and roll". 

brianlux

According to Wikipedia, "The bandname is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre."  That's going to make a fair an objective review of their work difficult for me.

HughFreakingDillon

brianlux said:

According to Wikipedia, "The bandname is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre."  That's going to make a fair an objective review of their work difficult for me.

we were talking about the Tea Party band name, Brian, unless you were just commenting independently of that. 

brianlux

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

According to Wikipedia, "The bandname is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre."  That's going to make a fair an objective review of their work difficult for me.

we were talking about the Tea Party band name, Brian, unless you were just commenting independently of that. 

Ah, I see.  Seeing as they are Canadian, what is the story with The Tea Party band name?

HughFreakingDillon

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

According to Wikipedia, "The bandname is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre."  That's going to make a fair an objective review of their work difficult for me.

we were talking about the Tea Party band name, Brian, unless you were just commenting independently of that. 

Ah, I see.  Seeing as they are Canadian, what is the story with The Tea Party band name?

They had decided to name their new group The Tea Party after the infamous hash sessions of famous Beat generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

tempo_n_groove

brianlux said:

According to Wikipedia, "The bandname is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre."  That's going to make a fair an objective review of their work difficult for me.

It's all about the music Brian!

brianlux

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

According to Wikipedia, "The bandname is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre."  That's going to make a fair an objective review of their work difficult for me.

we were talking about the Tea Party band name, Brian, unless you were just commenting independently of that. 

Ah, I see.  Seeing as they are Canadian, what is the story with The Tea Party band name?

They had decided to name their new group The Tea Party after the infamous hash sessions of famous Beat generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Ohhhh, that kind of tea!

tempo_n_groove said:

brianlux said:

According to Wikipedia, "The bandname is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre."  That's going to make a fair an objective review of their work difficult for me.

It's all about the music Brian!

I guess I'm being a bit like Joy Division's Peter "Hooky" Hook when he was asked if he liked the Buzzcocks, "Their OK, but who would use the word  "cock" in their name"?  LOL.