Songs that are ahead of their time
Thu, 2005-03-31 10:55
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Anonymous
Songs that are ahead of their time
The two I always think that fall into this category are
Love Letters and Give Peace A Chance.
Love Letters by Ketty Lester originally came out in the 1950s. although lyrically it is of that era, melodically and arrangement-wise it is way ahead of its time.
As for Lennon's Give Peace A Chance, surely it was the first rap song, 20 years before anyone had heard of rap.
mississippi
'Give Peace A Chance'
A rap song!
I don't think so somehow.
Liana
The c was silent.
get it, wink, btw
Ah, well being aurally challenged I missed that.
maxwell eddison
The topic's a joke, surely.
hahahaha
stephen_d
a momenatry lapse of reason - pink floyd
infact every song on that album is way way ahead of time
Hellen
Relay by the Who was about the internet
maxwell eddison
I've never heard that album. Will have to have a listen. I was talking with a mate about what was the first british pyschedelic album. He reckons piper, i reckon revolver.
Tony Cook
everything by Frank Zappa.
Radio-redneck
Even "Catholic Girls" Tony?
Tony Cook
Most certainly - I'm married to one.
Radio-leatherneck
My brother-in-law got divorced over that song.
Flash
Tomorrow from Annie
JazzPirate
Windowlicker by Aphex Twin - released six years ago and still weirder, more original and in my opinion better than anything I've heard.
Hendrix, especially Electric Ladyland.
Nothing about these days, mainstream music is so depressing. But I could easily be proved wrong, I don't listen to a lot of it...because it depresses me...
Milton
Mississippi have you heard Give Peace A Chance recently? It has most of the main ingredients of modern rap, except I grant you it is entirely original and better crafted.
Lennon produced his share of crap songs as well (Tomorrow Never Knows, Ballad of John and Yoko, Imagine) but when he was on form he was a genius and his genius included being able to anticipate the rap song by about two decades.
emily yaffle
Savage Garden. Genius.
Not two things I ever expected to see in a sentence.
As for Lennon anticipating Rap, I can't remember the name of the song, but is in the soundtrack to Nic Roeg's Performance and it is clearly a forerunner of rap, and I think the film is early Seventies - it stars a very young Mick Jagger (and is incidentally a very fine film, if a little odd in the middle)
mississippi
That was an impostor Milton, though I DO agree with they said. I disagree that Lennon was a genius, he was an OK songwriter now and then after the Beatles split. That's just a personal opinion obviously and you won't agree. It's horses for courses and I prefer to take the bus.
flash
In the year 2425.
by zager and evans..........or some double act.
flash
oh yes and that annie thingy
The sun will come out tomorrow.
mississippi
You're certainly ahead of your time Flashy, by 100yrs!
It was called 'In The Year 2525'.
flash
i got the act right and the name of the song wrong!! hahahaha!
Well i never. Thankyou Sir.
ROFLTAISTYLE
maxwell eddison
ah, aphex twin just got daddy to buy as many processors as he could whinge out of him, cranked 'em all up and midi sync'd 'em...then aux'd some flange :)
Faust will ALWAYS be ahead of time. Late sixties, early seventies Krauts had it sussed.