Bands/Albums/Songs Ahead of Their Time
 

Well...This thread is to discuss music/musicians that were ahead of thier time. Err...this sounds lame but perhaps it could work.

I shall begin with King Crimson's album Discipline. It seems hard to believe that this was made in the early 80's. Even listening today it sounds fresh and original...like nothing else. The strange blend of obsucre time signatures, complex drumming and guitar arpeggios, Adrian Belew's quirky personality/narratives, and the atonal melodies and solos scattered across the 7 tracks work to form one of the coolest and most intruiging rock records ever. Buy it...you will be impressed. Listen to "Thela Hun Ginjeet".

Alright....

Led Zeppelin

Screamo, emo... it shouldnt of been come up with at all, there for its ahead of its time by a longshot.

[QUOTE=Sham]Led Zeppelin[/QUOTE]

/slap

Maggot Brain.

Joy Division

Supersilent

a band for the future.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Whoever wrote the [I]Big Break[/I] theme.

Marty McFly played some futuristic stuff in the 50s.

hendrix was a little ahead of his time. it sounds sometimes like he was being limited by the equipment that he had...like was trying to do even more weird things than he was already doing...

but down to the nitty gritty,this thread is something that can be done without.

[QUOTE]I shall begin with King Crimson's album Discipline. It seems hard to believe that this was made in the early 80's. Even listening today it sounds fresh and original...like nothing else. The strange blend of obsucre time signatures, complex drumming and guitar arpeggios, Adrian Belew's quirky personality/narratives, and the atonal melodies and solos scattered across the 7 tracks work to form one of the coolest and most intruiging rock records ever. Buy it...you will be impressed. Listen to "Thela Hun Ginjeet".[/QUOTE]

Finally, a Crimson fan on this board! [I]Discipline[/I] is a fantastic album, worth checking out, especially if you're a Talking Heads/King Crimson fan.

I've always been a Crimson/Fripp fan :upset:

To keep this going: Mahavishnu Orchestra

The most intense music that could ever be conceived of as jazz. Well maybe except John Zorn's work like Naked City. Anway MO could be brutal, elegant, funky...whatever. And whatever they did they did well. Their first two albums are both jazz fusion classics "The Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds of Fire" but you'd be hard-pressed even today to find a group with more passion in their playing than Mahavishnu Orchestra.

boyz 2 men

[QUOTE=pudding time]To keep this going: Mahavishnu Orchestra

The most intense music that could ever be conceived of as jazz. Well maybe except John Zorn's work like Naked City. Anway MO could be brutal, elegant, funky...whatever. And whatever they did they did well. Their first two albums are both jazz fusion classics "The Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds of Fire" but you'd be hard-pressed even today to find a group with more passion in their playing than Mahavishnu Orchestra.[/QUOTE]

i'm liking your two choices so far :-)

shakti could be considered far ahead of their time (and still ahead to this day!) since they didn't get much commercial success in the late 70s

I was gonna do my usual King Crimson rant but I was beat to the punch.

The band is simply amazing and [i]Discipline[/i] is their best album in my opinion.

Also, a band that was ahead of their time was The Who. I mean just listen to [i]Quadrophenia[/i] and it's pretty obvious.

Two bands of my generation, that I think will be revered as a head of their time is Tool and Radiohead. They just have some of the most insane ideas that most people really can't appreciate until they really reflect on it.

[QUOTE=Atman]i'm liking your two choices so far :-)

shakti could be considered far ahead of their time (and still ahead to this day!) since they didn't get much commercial success in the late 70s[/QUOTE]

I don't think that Shakti really cares about commercial succes, though.

And my choices would be Bumblefoot and Mattias IA Eklundh.

[QUOTE=Stunt Guitar]I don't think that Shakti really cares about commercial succes, though.[/QUOTE]

oh i definitely agree

but it's a measuring stick for "ahead of their time-ness"

[QUOTE=Atman]oh i definitely agree

but it's a measuring stick for "ahead of their time-ness"[/QUOTE]

aaah like that.

I bought "A Handful Of Beauty" and "Shakti" a few weeks ago.

Gotta love em ^_^

urrr, Dark Side of the Moon anyone?

err considering it's one of the best selling albums ever

no

[QUOTE=JoshIsNumber3]I've always been a Crimson/Fripp fan :upset:[/QUOTE]

Same here....

[QUOTE=Atman]err considering it's one of the best selling albums ever

no[/QUOTE]


doesn't matter on how many albums it's sold, it still makes it an album ahead of its time, which it was

then you're using a really unconventional definition dude

i think dsotm was just perfect for its time

i would think actual pink floyd fans would vote for meddle as being the most forward thinking anyway

anacrusis. cynic.

[QUOTE=David_Gilmour]doesn't matter on how many albums it's sold, it still makes it an album ahead of its time, which it was[/QUOTE]

How is that?

[QUOTE=fenderfretfreak]Screamo, emo... it shouldnt of been come up with at all, there for its ahead of its time by a longshot.[/QUOTE]
Way to, at the same time, not make any sense, AND beat a dead horse.

pink floyd in general, they were some of the few pioneers (that i know of) to try to have a "Dolby 5.1"esque sound system at their shows to completely wrap their music around the audience, quite ahead of their time for being in 71'-73' or whatever

I don't think you guys really understand the phrase "Ahead of it's time."

It means like, something that wasn't recieved well by the public when it was first released, but later was hailed as good.

IE, Fauvism, early cubism in art.

[QUOTE=purple_hazer]pink floyd in general, they were some of the few pioneers (that i know of) to try to have a "Dolby 5.1"esque sound system at their shows to completely wrap their music around the audience, quite ahead of their time for being in 71'-73' or whatever[/QUOTE]
No, wrong again.

That's not ahead of their time, because people LIKED IT then.

this kwash2 guy knows what he's talkin about keep it up bro

[QUOTE=Krabs]How is that?[/QUOTE]

well the sound effects used were very modern for the time. The music itself sounded very good back then and the music wouldn't sound out of place if it was released now. As a piece of musical engineering it was superior to everything else around it. Stereo sound back then was not a common occurance as well.

[QUOTE=Kwash2]I don't think you guys really understand the phrase "Ahead of it's time."

It means like, something that wasn't recieved well by the public when it was first released, but later was hailed as good.

IE, Fauvism, early cubism in art.[/QUOTE]

why can't ahead of its time mean that it was disliked? surely it would mean the music was 'ahead of its time' in that it wasn't following the trends of the era and went for something different. Which is what Dark Side of the Moon did

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umm

what

[QUOTE=David_Gilmour]well the sound effects used were very modern for the time. The music itself sounded very good back then and the music wouldn't sound out of place if it was released now. As a piece of musical engineering it was superior to everything else around it. Stereo sound back then was not a common occurance as well.[/QUOTE]

Stereo was almost mandatory after like the mid 60's. :smash:

Sound effects? The only places where I consider sound effects playing a large role is in Time.

[QUOTE=Atman]i would think actual pink floyd fans would vote for meddle as being the most forward thinking anyway[/QUOTE]

yep

and this guy's username is pinkfloyd so i win

123 with Meddle.

Iron Maiden had yet to come along and Pink Floyd made Meddle.

Foward thinking there.

Also, the song,"The Nile Song," by Pink Floyd, I didn't think it was Pink Floyd the first time I heard it.

[QUOTE=David_Gilmour]why can't ahead of its time mean that it was disliked? surely it would mean the music was 'ahead of its time' in that it wasn't following the trends of the era and went for something different. Which is what Dark Side of the Moon did

edit: ****, double post[/QUOTE]

Shut up now while your still ahead.