Eureka-like moments in music history

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Seeing the recent Giorgio Moroder post referencing the moment when Brian Eno heard Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and stated the next 10 years or so of music had just been forecast..

What are some similar instances that either DID or LIKELY happened?

― ZionTrain, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lou Reed hiring John Cale and Tony Conrad to play some gigs as The Primitives and telling them that the song "The Ostrich" was easy to learn because "All the strings are tuned to the same note"

― Pradaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Another legend is Seymour Stein outside CBGB's hearing the New-Wave egg being hatched as Talking Heads played "Psycho Killer" inside. Rumor is that they were signed that evening.

― ZionTrain, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I would guess one would be the first Suicide practices in 1974 in a loft in New York City. I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Seeing the recent Giorgio Moroder post referencing the moment when Brian Eno heard Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and stated the next 10 years or so of music had just been forecast..

didn't he do the same thing with MBV's "Soon"?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The song title "Video Killed The Radio Star" was probably much more prophetic than even Trevor Horn realized at the time.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Les Paul figuring out a better way to electrify a guitar.
2. Les Paul experimenting with multi-tracking, using a tape machine that Bing Crosby brought back from Germany.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

3. The Beatles realizing that American white people were deathly afraid of American black people taking over the music industry.
4. Berry Gordy realizing that if there were syncopated handclaps on every record, everyone would suddenly be able to find the rhythm.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

When the first MASH-UP tops the Billboard chart, that's the one everyone's going to remember. But this thread is all about when those planted seeds gave way to life..... it's deep, man.

― ZionTrain, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

when gary numan found some dusty old synth leaning against a wall in his rehearsal space, picked it up and started dicking about randomly..."Are 'Friends' Electric" innit.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

New Order decides to create a song they can play as an encore just by pressing a button.

(EMI? Food?) tells Damon Albarn they don't hear a single on MLiR.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"chemical world" is hardly a Eureka-like moment though is it?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"For Tomorrow" is, though.

"We don't hear a single" = creation of "For Tomorrow"
"We don't hear a single that'll play in the US" = creation of "Chemical World"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The old story about how Ike Turner's band was driving to the studio to do Rocket 88 and the amp falls off the truck, damaging it and resulting in the first distorted guitar tone.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

3. The Beatles realizing that American white people were deathly afraid of American black people taking over the music industry.

Even as revisionism, this is pretty uninstructive. Funny to imagine, though.

― brianiac (briania), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Napalm Death - Scum

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

this gives me a thread idea...

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"when gary numan found some dusty old synth leaning against a wall in his rehearsal space, picked it up and started dicking about randomly..."Are 'Friends' Electric" innit.

-- CharlieNo4 (starsandheroe...), April 27th, 2005."

would they not have been fairly new shiny synths at the time?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

on one of the neil diamond box sets, he tells a story about going to see 'E.T. the Extra Terrestial' with burt bacharach. the movie so inspired both of them that they went straight back to write 'Heartlight'. i would give up a few body parts to be able to watch this magic unfold.

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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