Songs that were ahead of their time?

[Bonkers225]

From 1986. This one threw me for a loop. It would start like many other pop songs from that time, than the main chorus starts with the girl, and the bass and guitar hits hard. Reminded me somewhat of Persona 3/4. Be sure to have headphones on, because that main chorus is a banger.

 

[Stare best girl]

the entire Kyuusai No Gihou album

 

[nintara]

program by silver apples, the use of sampling is way ahead of it's time for 1968, not to mention the sort of proto-breakbeat drumming

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (1969)

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

iggy pop and the stooges. They created brit alt-punk sound in the late 60s.

Also, gonna throw out Black Sabbath. One of the first metal bands, although Jimi Hendrix was playing around with distortion and heavy riffs before them.

 

[NatalieZaki]

the entirety of /\/\ /\ Y /\ by MIA. This is literally proto-PC Music and proto-Death Grips and proto-SOPHIE and proto-Arca like this album did all these things first and I love it for that even if MIA is now an annoying right wing grifter.

 

[nintara]

i know that dalek were making industrial hip hop before death grips, but another early artist that i don't see mentioned as much is www neurobeat, this song is from 2006:

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

anything Vocaloid, specifically Hatsune Miku. I'm partial to Wowaka's songs, but the more Pop focused ones are ALL the rage rn. If you told me that in 10-15 years, the whole world would be fawning over Hatsune Miku and she'd be in multi bilion dollar franchises I woulda lit up like a jack-o-lantern and squealed like "YIPPEEEE" cause then I'd know that people wouldn't be making fun of me anymore for listening to "anime music" xD

 

[Fray Guillermo]

Kinda obvious one but a lot of Kraftwerk stuff

 

[Antilocal123]

 

[pipolaplaya]

The entire Kid A album (and Amnesiac recorded during the same session).

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

This one predicted everything that happened online since: