You could take your pick from:

- Early works of Louis Armstrong and Duke,

- Bird's Charlie Parker With Strongs (changed the game across the board),

- Coltrane's A Love Supreme a

- Dave Brubeck's Time Out (a monster artistic and commercial success)

- Miles' Bitches Brew.

- the early works of Little Richard and Chuck Berry, as well as Muddy Waters, from there,

- the usual suspects: Beatles, Dylan, Stones, Zeppelin, Hendrix.

- James Brown's early hits ("Cold Sweat" would get my vote),

- the Motown Songbook ("My Girl" being tops),

- Ray Charles

- Aretha Franklin

- Stax Songbook (particularly those penned by Isaac Hayes, whose Shaft preceded Superfly).

- Sly Stone

- Marvin and Stevie's 70s canons are chock full of candidates.



Specific nominees in no order would include:

"Rappers Delight," Sugar Hill Gang

"PSK (What Does It Mean." Schoolly D (the template for the gangsta rap hits to follow)

"Rebel Without A Pause," Public Enemy

"When Doves Cry," Prince & The Revolution

"Billie Jean," Michael Jackson

namepeace said:

You could take your pick from:

- Early works of Louis Armstrong and Duke,

- Bird's Charlie Parker With Strongs (changed the game across the board),

- Coltrane's A Love Supreme a

- Dave Brubeck's Time Out (a monster artistic and commercial success)

- Miles' Bitches Brew.

- the early works of Little Richard and Chuck Berry, as well as Muddy Waters, from there,

- the usual suspects: Beatles, Dylan, Stones, Zeppelin, Hendrix.

- James Brown's early hits ("Cold Sweat" would get my vote),

- the Motown Songbook ("My Girl" being tops),

- Ray Charles

- Aretha Franklin

- Stax Songbook (particularly those penned by Isaac Hayes, whose Shaft preceded Superfly).

- Sly Stone

- Marvin and Stevie's 70s canons are chock full of candidates.



Specific nominees in no order would include:

"Rappers Delight," Sugar Hill Gang

"PSK (What Does It Mean." Schoolly D (the template for the gangsta rap hits to follow)

"Rebel Without A Pause," Public Enemy

"When Doves Cry," Prince & The Revolution

"Billie Jean," Michael Jackson

Billie Jean is clearly based on a Hall and Oates song. I believe MJ talked with H&O. Listen to H&O's I can't go for that."

kewlschool said:

Billie Jean is clearly based on a Hall and Oates song. I believe MJ talked with H&O. Listen to H&O's I can't go for that."

Fair enough, the nom can be debated.

since 1999:

I Want It That Way - BSB

Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

Maria Maria - Santana

Stan - Eminem

Take a Look Around - Limp Bizkit

Bye Bye Bye - N'SYNC

Lose Yourself - Eminem

Clocks - Coldplay

Gold Digger - Kanye West

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Umbrella - Rihanna

Pokerface - Lady Gaga

Empire State of Mind - Jay Z

I've Got a Feelin' - BEP & David Guetta

Rollin' in the Deep - Adele

But chenge the game? or they were big hits with huge pooular impact?

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Cheers to datdude for the Juan Atkins and Derrick May mentions below. Gotta check some of the others out

JoeTyler said:

since 1999:

I Want It That Way - BSB

Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

Maria Maria - Santana

Stan - Eminem

Take a Look Around - Limp Bizkit

Bye Bye Bye - N'SYNC

Lose Yourself - Eminem

Clocks - Coldplay

Gold Digger - Kanye West

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Umbrella - Rihanna

Pokerface - Lady Gaga

Empire State of Mind - Jay Z

I've Got a Feelin' - BEP & David Guetta

Rollin' in the Deep - Adele

goldigger?? that was the worst peice of crap since "you say he's just a friend"... umbrella??.. lmao.. sorry dude but this is a list of what will never... ever be on my playlist... with the exception of lose youself and maria maria...

^I didn't know "Game-changing" meant "top quality"

JoeTyler said:

^I didn't know "Game-changing" meant "top quality"

I took it as songs that were so popular, influential and/or creative that they changed music's course. Of the ones on your list, since 1999, I'd agree that "Crazy," "Lose Yourself" and "Rollin' In The Deep" qualify.

"A Day In The Life" by The Beatles sounds like nothing has been ever made back then, even a-list psych-rock bands such as Beach Boys or The Doors couldn't come up with such a complex, bizzare instrumentation.

Plus, let's just agree that anything in Kid A or OK Computer by Radiohead was at the time something WHOLY unexpected by any musician/band, especially "Everything In Its Right Place". They actually based their efforts on a whole new musical theory, even if left unnamed, it was there; The band basically brought a new sound to the game, a sound you can't easily describe or categorize.

Shawy89 said:

"A Day In The Life" by The Beatles sounds like nothing has been ever made back then, even a-list psych-rock bands such as Beach Boys or The Doors couldn't come up with such a complex, bizzare instrumentation.

Plus, let's just agree that anything in Kid A or OK Computer by Radiohead was at the time something WHOLY unexpected by any musician/band, especially "Everything In Its Right Place". They actually based their efforts on a whole new musical theory, even if left unnamed, it was there; The band basically brought a new sound to the game, a sound you can't easily describe or categorize.

I'm not so sure about that, as it's commonly thought that the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds was a driving influence behind Sgt. Pepper's.

I don't disagree with you about Radiohead, but would love to hear more about how you think those albums influenced music as a whole.

MC Shan "The Bridge" 1985

MARLEY MARL! -

1st song with chopped up drum samples from a record to make new patterns/beats.

namepeace said:

Shawy89 said:

"A Day In The Life" by The Beatles sounds like nothing has been ever made back then, even a-list psych-rock bands such as Beach Boys or The Doors couldn't come up with such a complex, bizzare instrumentation.

Plus, let's just agree that anything in Kid A or OK Computer by Radiohead was at the time something WHOLY unexpected by any musician/band, especially "Everything In Its Right Place". They actually based their efforts on a whole new musical theory, even if left unnamed, it was there; The band basically brought a new sound to the game, a sound you can't easily describe or categorize.

I'm not so sure about that, as it's commonly thought that the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds was a driving influence behind Sgt. Pepper's.

I don't disagree with you about Radiohead, but would love to hear more about how you think those albums influenced music as a whole.

Oddly enough, I just finished watching the Love & Mercy biopic about Brian Wilson. It was fun.

The thing is, that was just an opinion, probably presented it as a "claim", but I really think that A Day In the Life features a more unorthodox instrumentation than that of, say, That's Not Me.

The orchestral crescendo, the song's concept (lyrically speaking). Sure Pet Sounds DROVE The Beatles to approach a new way of making music (basically baroque/chamber/avant-garde music), but it was all in the same fashion of psychedelic music that The Beatles first brought to mainstream. Everything was handled in a short period of time, so I think that Beach Boys had an obvious influence, but influence enough doesn't push you THAT far, "A Day In The Life" far, I would assume that it took John Lennon and McCartney to think way ahead of everybody in the room.

As for Radiohead, I'm really nervous when I try to describe a song or an album by this band, because at the time that Kid A came out, it was just... special. And as we're talking about how Pet Sounds had an effect on Sgt. Pepper's, think about Miles Davis, Alphex Twin and a whole bunch of very distinctive, eclectic artists that it had never occured to any musician that there could be a sound mixing all of their sounds. Songs like "The National Anthem" or "Idioteque" don't only represent the band's take on experimental music, but they actually mean, at each listen, that those guys have attempted to COMPLETELY change their sound and it worked. That alone is game-changing, no artist can ever follow up an album like OK Computer, which is basically alt-rock, with something wholy new and original.

What do YOU think of Radiohead, though?

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I also think that The Strokes' "Is This It" SONG was very new, not probably a game-changer (the album was, though). I sorta regard it as a very unpopular rythmic turn, sonically.

Shawy89 said:

namepeace said:

I'm not so sure about that, as it's commonly thought that the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds was a driving influence behind Sgt. Pepper's.

I don't disagree with you about Radiohead, but would love to hear more about how you think those albums influenced music as a whole.

Oddly enough, I just finished watching the Love & Mercy biopic about Brian Wilson. It was fun.

The thing is, that was just an opinion, probably presented it as a "claim", but I really think that A Day In the Life features a more unorthodox instrumentation than that of, say, That's Not Me.

The orchestral crescendo, the song's concept (lyrically speaking). Sure Pet Sounds DROVE The Beatles to approach a new way of making music (basically baroque/chamber/avant-garde music), but it was all in the same fashion of psychedelic music that The Beatles first brought to mainstream. Everything was handled in a short period of time, so I think that Beach Boys had an obvious influence, but influence enough doesn't push you THAT far, "A Day In The Life" far, I would assume that it took John Lennon and McCartney to think way ahead of everybody in the room.

As for Radiohead, I'm really nervous when I try to describe a song or an album by this band, because at the time that Kid A came out, it was just... special. And as we're talking about how Pet Sounds had an effect on Sgt. Pepper's, think about Miles Davis, Alphex Twin and a whole bunch of very distinctive, eclectic artists that it had never occured to any musician that there could be a sound mixing all of their sounds. Songs like "The National Anthem" or "Idioteque" don't only represent the band's take on experimental music, but they actually mean, at each listen, that those guys have attempted to COMPLETELY change their sound and it worked. That alone is game-changing, no artist can ever follow up an album like OK Computer, which is basically alt-rock, with something wholy new and original.

What do YOU think of Radiohead, though?

[Edited 9/2/15 20:19pm]

All that's fair.

Radiohead essentially proved that rock didn't die after grunge went pop. Not being a huge rock fan I'm not so sure that I can expound as you can, but their progressive, muscular sound was just what rock needed.

Rehab from Amy Winehouse

"I Feel Love" by Donna Summer (1977)----The song that started the whole techno/electronica genre.There's a story that John Lennon heard this song and proclaimed that it is "the sound of the future".He was right,in many ways.

NorthC said:

The Clash- Rock the Cashbah. Check it out, it's awesome! Did it change the game? What game? I dunno... Just a great jam and if the shareef don't like it... So what... Rock the Casbah! [Edited 9/3/15 14:48pm] [Edited 9/3/15 15:08pm]

LMAO...smh...i HATED that song when it came out...radio played it endlessly...and as a youth i had no idea wtf the song was even about... who the hell is Sharif and wtf is a cazbar?

datdude said:

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

Great list

IstenSzek said:

OfftheWall said:

yup, this one hands down. some day the rest of music will catch up, but not yet

The first time I heard that track I thought it was a contemporary track. I stopped what i was doing and and enjoyed every second of it. I had no Idea the Beatles were this badass. And in 1967!!


Great track, could have been released today and still blown people away.

namepeace said:

You could take your pick from:

- Early works of Louis Armstrong and Duke,

- Bird's Charlie Parker With Strongs (changed the game across the board),

- Coltrane's A Love Supreme a

- Dave Brubeck's Time Out (a monster artistic and commercial success)

- Miles' Bitches Brew.

- the early works of Little Richard and Chuck Berry, as well as Muddy Waters, from there,

- the usual suspects: Beatles, Dylan, Stones, Zeppelin, Hendrix.

- James Brown's early hits ("Cold Sweat" would get my vote),

- the Motown Songbook ("My Girl" being tops),

- Ray Charles

- Aretha Franklin

- Stax Songbook (particularly those penned by Isaac Hayes, whose Shaft preceded Superfly).

- Sly Stone

- Marvin and Stevie's 70s canons are chock full of candidates.

"Rappers Delight," Sugar Hill Gang

"PSK (What Does It Mean." Schoolly D (the template for the gangsta rap hits to follow)


"When Doves Cry," Prince & The Revolution

in what way?

*i do happen to love the song.. but Game changing?

RJOrion said:

"Youre The One For Me"- D.Train

SoulAlive said:

"I Feel Love" by Donna Summer (1977)----The song that started the whole techno/electronica genre.There's a story that John Lennon heard this song and proclaimed that it is "the sound of the future".He was right,in many ways.

Y'know...I 4got about THIS ONE comPLETELY! And J.L. was RITE! AGREED! Hope you're well, Soul! <3