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Post by ganews on Aug 15, 2023 14:57:10 GMT -5
It's usually arguable where a particular genre or style started in music; art isn't created in a vacuum. But in September, nominate an album of an artist (preferably the album in question) that has a defensible claim to being the first. Also note what genre, style, innovation, etc. they are credited with creating. Two nominations each until I make a poll late next week.
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Post by repulsionist on Aug 15, 2023 16:19:27 GMT -5
First Nomination
This nomination fails your measure of "first album to", but the band represented on the album formed prior to Tangerine Dream and Tonto's Expanding Head Band. This implies that the group of musicians establish themselves as the first synthesiser ensemble.
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company - Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. (1970)
Second Nomination
This nomination is truly a compilation of singles by the group containing the first female MC, Sha-Rock. All of the "Back to the Old School" compilations issued by Sequel Records in the early 2000s are indispensable artifacts of a history still making history.
Funky 4 + 1 - That's The Joint (2000; Sequel Records)
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 15, 2023 16:48:20 GMT -5
Trip-hop: Massive Attack's Blue Lines usually gets the progenitor nod here but, as ganews says, art isn't vacuum-derived. This comp is a particularly good Ground Zero of the Bristol Sound.
Smith & Mighty - The Three Stripe Collection 1985-1990 (2012)
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 15, 2023 21:31:21 GMT -5
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Generally regarded as the first stoner metal album.
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe Vaporwave.
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Post by ganews on Aug 15, 2023 22:31:25 GMT -5
The Byrds, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" - with Gram Parsons in 1968, the first album one could call country rock or progressive country
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 16, 2023 7:20:03 GMT -5
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe Vaporwave. I considered nominating Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 for vaporwave, mostly to irritate people. But you'll at least get Rosa's vote with Floral Shoppe.  Also, the new DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ data dump is really good. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 16, 2023 8:41:22 GMT -5
The Ramones - self titled debut. Arguably the first punk album, in terms of what we think punk music to be.
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Post by Prole Hole on Aug 17, 2023 11:39:40 GMT -5
Electric Warrior, T-Rex (1971)
Arguably the first full-on glam album.
Arguably the only good one by a glam artist, really (putting things like Ziggy Stardust to one side - Bowie may have dabbled in glam but he wasn't a "glam artist" or an artist predominantly defined by glam over the course of his career).
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Post by ganews on Aug 22, 2023 13:48:20 GMT -5
No artist, I think, has as strong a claim on creating a genre as Bill Monroe. Not only did the genre "bluegrass" take its name from his band, but Munroe truly created the sound. People think bluegrass is just what old-timey music sounded like, when in fact it was a mixture of popular styles that Monroe very intentional blended post-war as he transitioned from a more traditional string band. Thus my nomination, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, "Knee Deep In Bluegrass" (1958). This was the first LP released after many years of singles, which is how the business worked at the time.
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