Songs Ahead of Their Time

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I'll start. 1985, Aretha Franklin - Who's Zoomin' Who?

[GAjon]

David Bowie has an iPad in the 1980 Ashes to ashes video!

[MitchT]

Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger (1983)
At 2m 18s Dave Stewart appears to be using a smartwatch and smartphone.

Enya - Smaointe (1991)
9 seconds in she appears to reference Go Pro.

[Penelope Stopit]

Lou Reed - Waves Of Fear

[Riley Blue]

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tiers of a Clown

Who'da thunk Boris would be described so accurately in a song title 50 years ago.

[Wonderman]

Riley Blue said:

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tiers of a Clown

Who'da thunk Boris would be described so accurately in a song title 50 years ago.

Hmm lets see how much we bent over for the Brexit deal but in the same vein...

Stephen Sondheim- Send in the clowns

"Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want-
Sorry my dear
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here"

[Lotobear]

Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525

[rjfp1962]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

[cherryowen]

Not a song, but an instrumental way ahead of its time on its release in 1978:-

Eruption

[Old_Skool_Fool]

1991 - Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea.

At a time when dance music was moving in all directions at a fairly hectic rate, everything from doug lazy house / hip hop, the acid house, madchester, hardcore / jungle, this (Papua New Guinea) sounded like something from another world. Nearly 30 years later it still sounds as good as it ever did. Intro is 2 minutes long on this version though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWMv8Y1V5E

[ninja-lewis]

Johnny B. Goode - Marty McFly (1955)

[cherryowen]

Old_Skool_Fool said:

1991 - Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea.

At a time when dance music was moving in all directions at a fairly hectic rate, everything from doug lazy house / hip hop, the acid house, madchester, hardcore / jungle, this (Papua New Guinea) sounded like something from another world. Nearly 30 years later it still sounds as good as it ever did. Intro is 2 minutes long on this version though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWMv8Y1V5E

1991?

Seriously?

Christ, now I feel old

[gazza285]

I Feel Love, by Donna Summer. Arguably influenced a generation of dance music.

[rjfp1962]

Art Of Noise - Close to the Edit V1 (1984)
Not sure there was anything like it since either.....!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU

[10126 Torino]

1999.

Did we party like it's 1999 ? ....or were we waiting for the millennium bug to wipe the planet out ?

[irocfan]

Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

[chrisch77]

Green Day - American Idiot

[Bodo]

(electronic) Thom Yorke, released 2013, still ahead

[Bodo]

Kraftwerk live 1970 with flute and self-made instruments

[Pebbles167]

ninja-lewis said:

Johnny B. Goode - Marty McFly (1955)

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