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Post a song that was ahead of it's time! (Original Post) Tabasco_Dave Oct 2012 OP
Dylan--Hard Rain is Gonna Fall randr Oct 2012 #1
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man NRaleighLiberal Oct 2012 #2
Hendrix released this in 1968 -" 1983 A Merman I Should Turn to Be" livetohike Oct 2012 #3
Definitely ahead of his time. Here's another n2doc Oct 2012 #4
It's a great one and in the top five of my all time favorite Hendrix songs livetohike Oct 2012 #5
Crazy. SalviaBlue Oct 2012 #11
This has always been my favorite Hendrix tune aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #15
Hey ain't_no_life_nowhere livetohike Oct 2012 #17
Hell Ain't No Bad Place To Be - ACDC L0oniX Oct 2012 #6
Beatles song Hey Bulldog where John Lennon raps at the end.... nt riderinthestorm Oct 2012 #7
Take Five: Ptah Oct 2012 #8
All early Bob Dylan kwassa Oct 2012 #9
Peter Gabriel's solo work from the 70's-- TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #10
This song was WAY ahead of its time Art_from_Ark Oct 2012 #12
France Gall - "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" (1964) aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #13
The Dr. Who theme from 1963 mucifer Oct 2012 #14
Brian Eno: Before and After Science... GReedDiamond Oct 2012 #16
And the one before it. sendero Oct 2012 #18
Here's a rap from late 19th century Japan Lydia Leftcoast Oct 2012 #19

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
4. Definitely ahead of his time. Here's another
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 08:40 PM
Oct 2012

Eerily prophetic

Jimi Hendrix -Up From The Skies


I just want to talk to you
I won't uh, do you no harm
I just want to know about your diff'rent lives
On this is here people farm
I heard some of you got your families
Living in cages tall and cold
And some just stay there and dust away
Past the age of old.
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you.

I just wanna know about
The rooms behind your minds
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind ?
Or is it just uh, remains of vibrations
And echoes long ago ?
Uh things like "Love the world" and uh
Uh "Let your fancy flow"
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you
Let me talk to you.

I have lived here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I'm so concerned
And I come back to find
The stars misplaced
And the smell of a world
That is burned
A smell of a world
That is burned.


Yeah well, maybe, hmm...
Maybe it's just a... change of climate
Hmm, hmm...
Well I can dig it
I can dig it baby
I just want to see.

So where do I purchase my ticket ?
I'd just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
Yeah...

Aww, shucks
If my daddy could see me now
Everything, everything, everything, oh everything.

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
5. It's a great one and in the top five of my all time favorite Hendrix songs
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 08:44 PM
Oct 2012

Just finished listening to 1983, so time to play this one .

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
15. This has always been my favorite Hendrix tune
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 01:58 AM
Oct 2012

"May This Be Love". It's so unique a sound that I think it will probably always be ahead of its time. It seems to capture that Hendrixian world of the beyond. And he seems to evoke visions and sounds of water droplets falling into a pool with his guitar. "One Rainy Wish" by Hendrix is another one with otherworldly visions. And in "If Six Was Nine", Hendrix goes into a rap:

"White collared conservative flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me.
They're hoping my kind will soon drop and die.
But I'm gonna raise my freak flag high.
High."

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
17. Hey ain't_no_life_nowhere
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 08:57 AM
Oct 2012

One Rainy Wish - my favorite - oh hell, they are all my favorites! And when I listen to Hendrix, I am that 16 year old girl (in 1968), sitting in my room dreaming of other worldly places.

What a beaufiful video....

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
13. France Gall - "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" (1964)
Sun Oct 28, 2012, 01:35 AM
Oct 2012

French pop icon France Gall was only 16 years old when she recorded this Serge Gainsbourg hit in the summer of 1964, just a few months after the Beatles invaded America. This tune was featured in the soundtrack of the 2007 Quentin Tarantino film "Death Proof".

"Laisse Tomber Les Filles" means "Quit Messing With Girls". The mini-storyline is about a high school girl who was hurt by a boy and who now lectures him that he'd better stop messing with young girls' hearts or one day he will be the lonely one. The tune has a very fresh kind of new wave sound for 1964. I will bet it's also the first music video in history or one of the first. The little storyline is acted out on location in a high school with Miss Gall lip syncing in several locations and has the style of a music video of the 80s. Almost all other filmed music clips from the era had singers and musicians performing on a stage or simulating a stage or studio recording performance. Unfortunately, in this clip, a scene was cut out of the original showing the philandering boy kissing girls in the classroom and instead some snapshots of the young France Gall were inserted.

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