There's tons of music out there that influenced the stage for the future of the music that came after it, music relies heavily on innovation.

However, there are tracks out there that you might say accurately predicted the future. You know tracks that managed to fit a certain sound or genre before it actually existed as a fully defined idea. Especially songs that manged to withstand the test of time when put in direct comparison to their fully contextualized successors.

Post a tune and defend your position. <3

ps. You probably shouldn't post your own tunes in an attempt to influence the future that has yet to come. We don't want to create any wormholes on AS?

Or do we . . . *dun dun dun*

 

New Order - Blue Monday

Nobody had heard it done in quite this way before in 1983. I think a lot of the 80's pop, like the SAW productions, that came after it used the sound as a template. I think a lot of the EDM/pop of today owes it a debt of gratitude as well.

 

Nadir's Big Chance by Peter Hammill:
1975 pre Punk, this guy saw it coming

 

It's also worth mentioning Joy Division too, who are still influencing the bands of today

 

Eddie Cochran influenced everybody who came after him. This one is from 1959

 

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You couldn't answer this question without mentioning Bowie as a total artist package. The OP's question needs to be more specifically stated because artists were influential for different things.

 

The MC5 were instrumental in the punk and hardcore musical styles that came into consciousness years later. They played hard and fast and used the word fuck a lot. They were all about political, human and thought freedom and we're seemingly too far ahead of their time to matter much in the time that they they were in their prime. Also, the singer Rob Tyner had a most amazing fro for a white guy.

 

These guys were pretty accurate, I think:

 

In 1965 Steve Reich glues 2 tape loops - "It's Gonna Rain".. a minimalist musical composition for magnetic tape
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... and now we have LOOPS. Oh and Ableton (2001 or smthn..)

and coz the Wollensak recorders cant keep the same speed u also invent "phase" as a side effect

 

The Beatles- Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)
this track (for me) is incredible "sounds like" the Big beat of chemical brothers (but 40 years before )

 

that the music of chemical brothers is heavly influenced by the beatles is evident ,but have to say that i did'nt know about it
thanks for the info cheers !

 

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They almost got sued because three Beatles thought they had sampled Tomorrow Never Knows in Setting Sun. They had to hire a musicologist to debunk that claim.

https://www.everipedia.com/Legal_issues_surrounding_music_sampling/
Two paragraphs up from 2000s.

I'd say these guys:

And them:

Without a doubt.

 

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Love Cocteau Twins, never been anything like them before or since.

Papua New Guinea of course sampled Dead Can Dance, another amazing 4AD band.

 

Second that. For the song I'd say db's "The Man Who Sold The World"

 

Ohh.. Cocteau Twins. Must still have their Victorialand vinyl.. The point is - in the 80's (trying not to be nostalgic here, but it was "my" decade) you woke up in the morning and there was a chance that that day you will hear something that wasn't remotely similar to anything you heard before. Same for other things. It was like - hey, there is something new.. called "Personal Computer".. and it even doesn't take space of the entire room.
Probably same for 70s 60s.. even 90s maybe. Now, not so much.. Or it could be just me getting

 

Almost anything Eno did in the 70's predicted something that followed.

 

From Wikipedia:At this time the Brothers usually used a fusion of "Chemical Beats" and The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" as their encore.LOL:/)

 

To me, new things often start when individuals change or add to an already existing style or sound. By adding their own, they create an answer to what was already known, not just by being a copycat.

This track from 1978 is a cover from Steve Winwood - I'm a man, written a decade earlier. Nothing new you'd say.. but the way it got produced was.. Paving the way for electronic uptempo dancemusic, this track was a couple of decades ahead of time. Nowadays you could find it sounding weak, but back then, it had more power than any other track:

Starting at the break, Macho with I'm a man:

 

It is pretty hard not to watch the Dakota Pipeline police/military action and not think Trent Reznor presaged the future on 2007's "Year Zero".

"Survialism" and "The Good Solider" jump out as particularly fitting, but the whole album is pretty much a pre-documentary of our time now.