"[song / album] basically invented [band / genre]"

Ariel Pink's lo-fi records (The Doldrums, Worn Copy, House Arrest, Scared Famous, Loverboy, FF>>) basically invented chillwave. unfortunately

We can go earlier for chillwave I'm sure

sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_LX-m74uw

He inspired a raft of kids to buy old 4tracks & 8tracks and make that very specific muddy/washed out bedroom pop. Distinct from 'bedroom pop' sounds & artists prior. His influence is still obvious & prevalent. Chillwave fizzled out, but his methods & his sounds & his influences (80s pop, 70s soft rock) continue to permeate home recording.

xp

you could say R. Stevie Moore invented Ariel Pink though

Sure. But AP ultimately had far more exposure & influence. He helped RSM's career significantly.

I was going to go with "Feel Flows" as the Beach Boys song that invented Chillwave, but maybe that's more of a Hypnagogic Pop sort of thing.

And Jan Hammer invented Air:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7oilg2Satg

Ryuichi Sakamoto circa Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia basically invented vaporwave

Ha, I am listening to yasuaki shimizu's music for commercials right now and was thinking the exact same thing about that!

I was going to go with "Feel Flows" as the Beach Boys song that invented Chillwave, but maybe that's more of a Hypnagogic Pop sort of thing.

That's what I was thinking of. AP popularized hypnagogic pop, which persists. Chillwave was a flash in the pan.

Don't worry, there will be second, third and fourth chillwaves...

Credited by some as the first ever acid house record.

(The Teardrop Explodes - Serious Danger)

He created techno by accident

(Manuel Gottsching)

Clyde inventing drum & bass:
https://youtu.be/DgcepicZxaE?t=102

youtube insists kid baltan and tom dissevelt invented acid house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-n6GWFAvI

and blast's damned flame invented... something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCUIeyfEy0

youtube also insists this is the first heavy metal song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYqvyxK3Qpo

And Jan Hammer invented Air

ha, I always thought it was this Marcos Valle tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVIzZm31_1g

tommy james & the shondells > guided by voices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuo3yzG6DE

I thought Delia Derbyshire invented techno?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512490.stm

"Oh, Atlanta" by Bad Company basically invented the Black Crowes.

Jon Anderson invented Animal Collective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHPTwVj5ps

In that case, he can go fuck himself.

Wendy Carlos invented new age (with "Winter", "Spring", and "Fall") and dark ambient (with "Summer")

Anne Joyal invented the Cocteau Twins (with "Eveil")

This thread be for finding bands/songs that accurrately predate the sound of a really popular artist that came later invented this thread

Woah that Jon anderson does sound like animal collective

whoa it really does. also the ascending vocal harmony in the very beginning sounds exactly like one of the movements in the first half of Koyaanisqatsi.

Wendy Carlos def. invented new age! right on unreg

im pretty guilty of this lol many people have chased me out of Beatles threads for saying they invented drum and bass or something.

rn im into:

The Doors "Strange Days" invented goth rock

The Cure's "Pornography" album in particular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSz-9qqgKE

The story I read is that John Cale brought these two singles back from a visit to the UK, and when he and Lou listened, they looked at each other and said, jeez, we gotta put out a record soon, or else everyone will think we're copying these bands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPUe6INoiAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Dc9BsHhDY

Hehehehe I remember reading somewhere that 'Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere' kept getting returned to record stores because those that bought it thought there was sone kind of fault with the pressing due to the feedback.

That Jon Anderson one is a good catch! One I always thought sounded like Sung Tongs-era AnCo is 'The Sea Beasts' by Tyrannosaurus Rex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO_azafYw20

ha whoa, good catch! not to derail the thread, but on the T-Rex / AC tip, "Grass" sounds so much like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOmQzW6tQE

Therefore, we can basically ascertain that, in turn, Animal Collective basically invented fuck-all.

im pretty guilty of this lol many people have chased me out of Beatles threads for saying they invented drum and bass or something.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, September 22, 2017 12:58 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A kid I went to college with was really into the idea that "Taxman" basically invented Beck.

Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" basically invented Rufus Wainwright.

The first Ace Frehley solo album basically invented Foo Fighters.

Sometimes I like to playfully assert that Lucio Battisti 'basically invented' Bark Psychosis with the first track on Anima Latina. So I'll do that here. It's very nice anyway.

xxpost:

Sure, if Beck had only ever released 'The New Pollution'(!)

devil's haircut too

nah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH0G1o8xbt4

one of my favorite grunge songs of 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdxEinJoYmI

Judas Priest's "Victim of Changes" invented Jane's Addiction

Los Saicos - Demolición invented punk in 1963

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=haVaaDLwWvI

Well either them or The Phantom - Love Me a year before:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgsIdMa8qA

Los Saicos have the edge over the claim imho because "demolicion" is closer to a rebellious anarchist song.

maresnest, flappy bird, moka etc if you haven't heard YES's "lightning strikes" / "can i?" / "face to face" sequence on the ladder check it out for the invention of merriweather post pavilion

Early T Rex feels like it was an influence on Animal Collective as well...

(Grass by AC particularly)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOmQzW6tQE

hahaha, flappy bird literally posted this video yesterday :)

hildegard von bingen basically invented animal collective

Backstreet Boys -> Max Martin

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.)

But Max Martin wrote those songs.

@qualmsley - I will check out that sequence! lol @ the image of AC being inspired by a Yes album that came out in 1999, but I believe it based on that previous Anderson clip posted.

also, one more AC thing = "Melt the Guns" by XTC is uncannily similar to AC's Here Comes the Indian, particularly "Native Belle."

"invents" site:nobilliards.blogspot.com (Then Play Long basically invented this)

oh, just google it

This Is The Dream of Evan and Chan -> The Postal Service

Well yeah but then “evan and chan” is a postal service song.

Also their best song imho

T. Rex "Elemental Childe" invented Van Halen

That takeoff after the sad, slow first verse—it’s what the word rollicking was invented for. The song invented the word.
Greil Marcus on American Pie
https://greilmarcus.net/ask-greil-2/