ITT albums that were literally a decade ahead of their time and it blows your mind that they came out when they actually did
REM was basically doing alt rock 10 years before it was mainstream.
Surfer Rosa and DoolittleDestroy Erase ImproveHell Awaits
Downward Spiral for sure
>>121594312rem were basically doing shitty gay awful music>>121594482moron
>>121594312yeah and the byrds were doing it 20 years before them
The first track is literally post-punk before punk was even a thing.
Specifically the last track, De Futura>unintentionally invent extreme metal with growled vocals in 1975https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyOi5XRu_g
When I first got into Blossom Dearie I thought that she was a contemporary artist trying to sound like someone from the 50's.
>>121594287ITT: Zoomers who think good music didn't exist before 2000
>>121594741that's not what post punk sounds like.
>>121594896I think most Zoomers are aware that music has been worse for most of the time that we've been alive than before. That's ehy most Pet Sounds Era Beach Boys Fans,most Krautrock listeners,a significant portion of Beatles Fans,and most Prog nerds are zoomers at this point. Also the zoomer obsessions with Black Metal and Nu Metal and Pop-Punk and Shoegaze are all very "oh God oh fuck let's just return music to how it was in the 90s".
>>121595006It's not really. I'd argue Krautrock is closer to extreme metal than anything it's just that people in those countries view extreme metal as being conservative or right leaning and "kosmiche musik" partially because it tied into both African American Music and what Brits were doing was seen as being about cultural understanding and enlightenment and all that stuff so they'll never in 100 years admit it but some of the guitar work and thematics share more obvious similarities to Thrash Metal or Black Metal. Amon Düül ii maybe moreso than CAN on that idk but still.
>>121595023that's not what extreme metal sounds like
This unironically does sound like a ~1979 post punk album.
Didn't think I'd be posting this today.
>>121594896no, you're a fucking retard who doesn't realize OP's talking about an early '80s album that sounds like a '90s alternative band, YOU FUCKING RETARD
>>121594312It's always bizarre to me when I listen to early 80s REM and it sounds right at home in the 90s.>>121594648>>121594725The only other album that sounded like Murmur before Murmur was Chronic Town, and that was REM's first EP. They were very open about the Byrds influencing their style of guitar playing but that's where the similarities end, the Byrds are clearly a 60s group while early REM feels strangely at home in the 90s.
>>12159533980s REM could not sound more 80s if it tried.
>>121595354I strongly disagree, especially around the time that they changed up their style and gave Stipe clearer line reads they sound very much like an early 90s alt rock band. Document in particular is a very clear turning point but it goes all the way back to Murmur.
>>121594287It's just generic guitar shit
>>121595539Ok zoomer.
>>121595354Nah 80s REM was a very clear blueprint for where 90s rock music would go. Everyone from Nirvana to Radiohead to Pixies to Smashing Pumpkins cited them as a direct influence.
Always striking how trap music sounds like this album more and more as time goes on. Specifically the plugg sound
>>121595539you're a fucking retard and you know nothing about music, fyi
Down on the Road by the Beach (1983) sounds decades ahead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7bNgu0kuo&t=329s&pp=ygUdZG93biBvbiB0aGUgcm9hZCBieSB0aGUgYmVhY2g%3D
>>121595539KYS
>>121595788Wow this feels like some bedroom hypnagogic pop from 2013
>>121595804It sounds so fresh, I thought this was some kind of hoax. Everything from the cover, singing, audio quality, guitar playing feels like a 2017 Japanese concept album that you discovered on YT
Precursor to indie
>>121595976smiley smile rip off
>>121595681>>121595783>>121595803>struck a nerveCope
>>121596017nah you're just an idiot and it's annoying because most people on the planet are like you
>>121595539lel its hardly generic when its all acoustic and mostly just chords
the three first eno solo albums.especially TTMthird uncle is insane for 1974
>>121594287Did you mean post Hallowed Ground?
>>121594287why do so many alternative albums have random little girls on the cover?
>>121594312Came to post this. Probably the clearest case in rock. Except maybe TVU&N.Picrel was the basis for much of commercial hip-hop in the 2010s.
>>121594312R.E.M up to and through 1986-89 are unimpeachable. Life's Rich Pageant is the best alternative rock album ever made.
>>121597754>Life's Rich Pageant is the best alternative rock album ever made.oh dang you've heard every alternate rock album ever made? that's legit impressive
>>121597762Yeah I listened to em all over again right before I made that post just to be sure I wasn't speaking out of turn. LRP's the best one. Verification not required
>>121597348Every man has struggles living up to societal expectations. So it's like, you are somehwere between the idealized expectation and the little girl. The little girl is just the dramaticized shadow of what you're not. And alternative rock is about like, "fuck societal expectations anyway". So it's like i am a man but in some ways i am childish and in some ways i am effeminate
>>121597738Unironically every kanye album was ahead of its time and influenced the landscape of rap, in one way or another. Even his last couple of albums, which were mostly shit music, which most of the current rap/hip-hop landscape is built on.
1968
>>121595339I'd argue REM kept their core sound from Chronic Town to Life's Rich Pageant, then changed sound with Document, then worked into the early 90s with a more mainstream production and sound, until they ironically put out a grunge rock album, until one final "band" album with NAIHF with a 90s modern rock sound. Then the difficult, weird Up and their waning final albums, with extremely mixed results. Weird gow they started off so ahead the curve, then just kind of slowed down until they were contemporary, then just kind of rambled off by the 2000s.
>>121597830nice analysis, bro, i just thought it was pedo shit but you might be onto something
>>121597920On The Corner is still years ahead of its time. It's Future Funk.
>>121598703i agree. nothing else like it
>>121594287https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yCpYYLEsEmeat puppets were doing something similar at the same time
>>121597754why those years? Chronic-Murmur-Reckoning is the peak before they started transitioning to what brought them commercial success. fables and pageant are both holdovers of that but by document it's gone.
>>121594725but R.E.M. actually made good music
>>121594287hallowed ground is one of the most underrated albums of all time>>121597347based...
>>121600273no they didn't
