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The way this tune starts (the synth drone and the sound of the drums) is reminiscent of some of the things Gary Numan was doing in the late '70s, early '80s. A lot current indie-pop/so-called dream pop, such as Beach House, rely heavily on this type of sound.
Pinch harmonics and right handed hammer-ons.......WAY before EVH.
Jazz and blues guitarists in the 30s were pinching and doing right handed hammering. In fact, for all the press EVH got for it back in the day, it's a very small, simple extension of something classical guitarists have been doing since the instrument has existed. And pinches were seen as errors before Hendrix and Townsend turned amp feedback into an art form.
And 5 years before we heard Gibbons wear out pinches in "La Grange", Jimmy Page was rocking them in "Dazed & Confused."
Back on topic -
Motorhead - Ace of Spades/Overkill/Iron Fist. They invented an entire genre.
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath/Paranoid/Iron Man. They invented an entire genre.
Kraftwerk - whole "Autobahn" album. They invented an entire genre.
DEVO - Jocko Homo. Almost all new wave paid homage to this band.
Led Zeppelin - Dazed & Confused. One of the single most influential songs on all of hard rock, ever.
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen and/or Anarchy in the UK. Again, whole genre owes thanks.
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations. Still considered by plenty to be one of the most influential pop songs ever, and still a great jam anytime you hear it.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Lords Prayer. Maybe single handedly invented goth, complaint rock, alt rock, etc all at once.
Any song by any artist that creates whole genres or that whole genres can thank/riff/borrow from to me is ahead of its time. There's a thousand others I'm sure I missed, but these all popped into my head right off the bat.
I'll call the following pieces of music ahead of their time. (To meet the standard, the composition could pass almost as, or just as, timely 2 or 3 years later than when it actually emerged--or be as influential.) These anticipated new wave several years prior to '77:
Motorhead:Ace of Spades Hawkwind:Motorhead Be-Bop Deluxe:Sister Seagull Jonathan Richman:Pablo Picasso
A lot of the underground rock from the 80's like The Pixies, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., etc...In the 90's Nirvana exploded, but their sound was far from being unique and original, since they basically copied the aesthetics of the bands I mentioned before.
There's another band that I think was doing the grunge thing way before PJ, or Alice, their name was King's X. Their song "Out of the silent planet" basically sounds like an earlier version of Alice.
One song that I think was way ahead of its time was "I remember California" from REM's Green album. Here's an album from 1988 with a song that sounds heavier than anything at the time!
Finally, and this is no joke, Ace Frehley's solo album in the 70's had a song named "Ozone" that if you hear it today, you might think a grunge band in the 90's recorded it!
Agree about The Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. REM also. However, they owe so much to the Velvet Underground.
I'd say that "Sister Ray" on the "White Light White Heat" album was about as advanced and ahead of it's time as anyone could wish for.
It came out some 20 plus years before any of the "underground" college radio darlings of the 80s.
The Velvet Underground were doing this in 1968 - playing with noise as music and dealing with issues such as sex, drugs, tansgender individuals, murder, sadomasochism - whilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0okhYKHWYe writing some of the most thoughtful and touching love songs of the century.
All four albums by the Velvet Underground may have inspired more new bands than they did sell records. - attributed to Brian Eno.
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