Dude, last 30 years.
1975 cutoff.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2005 2:50:30 pm PST #1208 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2005 2:52:00 pm PST #1209 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dude, last 30 years.
Oops, sorry. Guess I'm stuck in the past.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2005 3:38:34 pm PST #1210 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oops, sorry. Guess I'm stuck in the past.
Heh. Just yanking your chain. I can easily think of the canonical reinventing-the-studio from the 60s and early 70s. After that I have the nagging feeling that I'm missing a few. Also, while R.E.M. (for example) were widely imitated, I don't think their use of the studio was as innovative as (say) The Smiths.
erinaceous - Nov 16, 2005 3:57:20 pm PST #1211 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
I do like Ana Ng! Really. I just like those other ones MORE.
There's very little *bad* TMBG, in my opinion.
dw - Nov 16, 2005 4:14:49 pm PST #1212 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
That is, records which exploited the studio in some new way such that records which came afterwards reflected that new approach to sound. Obvious examples range from Pet Sounds to It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
I'm still not sure I get it. Is this a technical question or a musical question? Because these are two different things to me. Are you talking about the sort of technical innovations Tom Scholz did in his home studio, or the massively imitated "sound" of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless?
Michele T. - Nov 16, 2005 4:45:55 pm PST #1213 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I'm going to have to say Never Mind the Bollocks, because nothing sounded like it before. I don't know how much of that is technical, though, since I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman.
Tom Scola - Nov 16, 2005 4:50:33 pm PST #1214 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
The Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
DavidS - Nov 16, 2005 5:51:01 pm PST #1215 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
or the massively imitated "sound" of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless?
More like Loveless I guess.
The Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
I would've said Remain in Light or even My Life In the Bush of Ghosts was the breakthrough record.
Tom Scola - Nov 16, 2005 5:52:47 pm PST #1216 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Remain in Light
That's probably what I meant to type.
Jon B. - Nov 16, 2005 6:22:33 pm PST #1217 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Dinosaur Jr. - "Bug".
Loveless wouldn't have happened without it.
And while I think "You're Living All Over Me" is a better album, it was the dozen-overdubbed-guitar-attack of "Bug" that was more influential in terms of sound.