New topic
Printable| Author | Message |
Songs that changed the game Every so often (less frequently these days it seems) a track comes along that is a musical game-changer in that it sounds like nothing that came before it. I am talking about the innovative songs (musically not lyrically) that seemingly were pulled out of another world and dropped on your eardrums, rocked your body and soul like never before. My favorite genre is funk so I will start with some of those for this list, but feel free to cite some from any genre. The ones I list here blew my mind when I first heard them and I could not get enough of them. Here goes 10 for starters ...
If you've got funk, you've got style. | |
- E-mail - orgNote -  Report post to moderator |
Papa¿s Got A Brand New Bag
But why these songs were such a game-changer? | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Because they are awesome and nothing sounded quite like them before they were unleashed into the world. And so in many cases they also ended up being very influential on music that came after them too. Housequake is another one that comes to mind. It is helpful if you either experienced directly or can imagine the musical frame of reference in which each of these came into existence, that is the context in which their innovation becomes revelation. If you've got funk, you've got style. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Like a Rolling Stone-Bob Dylan. End of story.  | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
HardcoreJollies said:
Because they are awesome and nothing sounded quite like them before they were unleashed into the world. And so in many cases they also ended up being very influential on music that came after them too. Housequake is another one that comes to mind. It is helpful if you either experienced directly or can imagine the musical frame of reference in which each of these came into existence, that is the context in which their innovation becomes revelation. And out of all of Prince's songs, "Housequake" is neither. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
|
Thats The Way Of The World - Earth Wind & Fire
When Doves Cry - Prince
Thank You Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Agin - Sly & The Family Stone
Protect Your Neck - Wu Tang Clan
Night Fever/Stayin Alive - Bee Gees
Holiday/Lucky Star - Madonna
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Flashlight - Parliament
Good Times - Chic
Rappers' Delight - Sugarhill Gang |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
 I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Ohhh, I haven't even heard of most of those. Is there a more objective list with logical choices? I imagine it would have stuff from Hendrix, The Beatles, Beegees, Giorgio Moroder, etc.
FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Strings of Life - Derrick May Alleys of Your Mind - Juan Atkins On and On - Badu Smooth Operator - Sade Love to Love U - Donna Summer I Feel Love - Donna Summer Moments in Love - Art of Noise Follow the Leader - Rakim | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Graycap23 said:
Not everybody is a P-funk fan, Gray.  | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
NorthC said: Graycap23 said:
Not everybody is a P-funk fan, Gray. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
There are 9 artists on that list. FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Hardcorejollie just posts a bunch of songs. Most didn't change anything. All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
2freaky4church1 said: Hardcorejollie just posts a bunch of songs. Most didn't change anything. They're awesome and "innovative"/ he likes them therefore they changed the game. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Sun - "Wanna Make Love" (First taste of Roger Zapp Troutman's talkbox in then current-day R&B) Natalie Cole - '75-'79 (Gospel/Soul meets Pop) Fatback "King Tim (Personality Jock") - Rap presents in then current R&B!) Michael Zager Band/Foxy "Let's All Chant"/"Get Off" (Here come the OO-ah OO-ahs and the whistles!) Donna Summer - "Hot Stuff" (Rock being introduced into Dance/R&B) Melba Moore - "Love's Comin' At Ya!" (First computer-generated basslines presenting a la Kashif) Yarborough & Peoples - "Don't Stop The Music" (first introduction of the 808 Roland Drum Machine) Janet Jackson/Jam & Lewis - "Rhythm Nation" (First use of industrial sound samples in 80's R&B) C&C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You Sweat" - (Techno meets R&B/Dance!) Soul II Soul - "Back To Life" (U.K. Soul arrives in The States!) Erykah Badu - "On and On" (Neo Soul is HERE!)
MY ideas of gamechangers soley. Some may/may not agree. I think I done GOOD tho! Hungry? Just look in the mirror and get fed up. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
off the top of my head
Mavin Gaye' - "What's Goin' On"
Curtis Mayfield - "Freddie's Dead"
Carpenters - "Rainy Days & Mondays"
Dinah Washington - "What A Difference A Day Makes"
===================================
| |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
TD3 said: off the top of my head
Mavin Gaye' - "What's Goin' On"
Curtis Mayfield - "Freddie's Dead"
Carpenters - "Rainy Days & Mondays"
Dinah Washington - "What A Difference A Day Makes"
=====
| |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
WHY CAN YOU FEEL IT | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Before "House Music" was defined as such, underground clubs were mixing "Can You Feel It' to death; that song had fanatical following under ground. More importantly, of all the albums / songs the Jackson's recorded for Epic, "Can You Feel It" was a a precursor to Michael's solo music career... music arrangments, the sound, the look and video production. Listen to an artist discography in order, you discover the tipping point... they've pulled all together.
"That's The Way Of The World". In my humble opinion (Gaye's, What's Going On) its a break the mold kinda song. I havent heard anything like then or now. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
If you've got funk, you've got style. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I had been a lifelong music fanatic and DJ for many years when Housequake dropped and I can tell you the initial experience was revelational because I had never heard anything like it. It took some funk, some hip-hop and all the special sauce that only Prince can manage to produce something that at the time sounded like nothing any other human could have conjured. A true WTF where did that come from, mind-bending and booty shaking experience. If you've got funk, you've got style. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
(
UGH!!!! AWful band! I FEEL u!!! <3 Hungry? Just look in the mirror and get fed up. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
"maybe your baby" by stevie wonder... changed the game... it really redefined funk... ftr... i'm from the era... and james brown was the "self proclaimed" originator of funk... but we didn't think what james did was funk... he was pretty country to us... and i don't mean country and western... but down home country... the jumpsuits and the begging was far from cool... which was one of the basis of funk...
james brown was the "self proclaimed" of a lot of things... he gave himself those titles and repeated it so many times that people came to believe it... just like he tried to proclaim that the "rumble in the jungle" was really about him... and not about ali and foreman... even he couldn't get that one to stick... lol
others that changed the game were "niggers are scared of revolution"... last poets "que sera que sera.... sly and the family stone "maggot brain" parliament/funkadelic "low spark of high heeled boys"... traffic "cloudburst"... the pointer sisters "benny and the jets"... elton john and bernie taupin "so in love with you"... al green
jmo [Edited 8/31/15 20:14pm] | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Good stuff! I was going to mention Maggot Brain too. I was not around then but I imagine maybe Satisfaction and Purple Haze had that kind of impact? Or maybe Voodoo Chile? I am sure there is a Beatles song or two that also merit mention but I am not an expert on their catalog. More recently, Public Enemy's first album and NWA's Fuck Tha Police/Straight Outta Compton come to mind. Perhaps Grand Master Flash's The Message. Maybe even Rapper's Delight. [Edited 9/1/15 13:51pm] If you've got funk, you've got style. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
2freaky4church1 said: Hardcorejollie just posts a bunch of songs. Most didn't change anything. Please do tell us which songs did change the game Rolling Stone critic. [Edited 9/1/15 7:26am] Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
yup, this one hands down. some day the rest of music will catch up, but not yet
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Hips Don't Lie
| |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
i thought hardcorejollie's list was excellent... as were some of the other posters... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |