ahead of their time
 

which bands do you think qualify in this often said phrase?

I would say the Velvet Underground (duh!) and the Monks

Jimi Hendrix

I think VU are the prime example of a band ahead of their time.

The Residents. But they're ahead of time itself.

I'd say more outside of time, cheesy synths stopped being synonymous with THE FUTURE a decade ago, which I'm kind of sad about actually.

Yellow Swans.
Arab on Radar.

Captain Beefheart
Michael Yonkers
The Fugs
Yahowha 13
Pentagram
Les Rallizes Denudes
VU
Residents
Throbbing Gristle
Kraftwerk
TVBC


I will think of some more later I'm sure.

Vyachaslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electro-Musical Instruments

Kraftwerk definitely, yes.

Many have also already been mentioned, but I would also say Buddy Holly was.

Throbbing Gristle.

Psychik TV.

RED HOT CHILI PEPepers. duh.

Nah, seriously. No-one is ever really ahead of their time. There are just good, induvidual artists who are ripped off a decade or so later on.

Psychick TV were really onto something up until around 1986/87. Too bad about what happened after that.

jimi and the vu

Isn't being underappreciated in your own time only to be revered or influential later on the definition of being "ahead of one's time?"

The Carter Family


Countless other early American recording artists, that fall into the genres of blues, jazz, and folk.

John Fahey
Robbie Basho
The Stooges
Earth
Ruins (kind of, they really don't sound like they were around in the 80's)
Repulsion
Neurosis (doing a similar thing to Isis, Cult of Luna but years before)
Slugfuckers
Rocket From the Tombs
Electric Eeels
Suicide

Earth
Throbbing Gristle
KRAFTWERK (I dig these guys so much now)
Parliment-Funkadelic
Dr.Octagon
Bjork
Dalek
Velvet Underground

yeah yeah, we all know: "__________________ (insert favorite bands) are/(if broken up) were so ahead of their time"

so yeah, let's all hear how sebadoh and the strokes are ahead of their time. of course, we know sonic youth and my bloody valentine were ahead of their time.

stupid thread.

Devo were so ahead of their time, no one has even caught up to their maxi-turtlenecks yet.

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DEVO!

Yeah, man.

One has to be able to apply objective standards though.

I don't like Throbbing Gristle. Yet I recognise them as innovative musicians.

So I am not merely "inserting" my favourite bands. And to be honest, I can't see that everyone else is either.

Threads are what people make them, I agree. But it's not a stupid question.

What about bands behind their time?