When the so-called "Future of [insert genre]" LPs actually had a visible influence

I had a great snarky Refused response, and then I remembered the album title is "Shape of Punk to Come".

i remember liking that record.

daft punk! everyone raved about how cool they sounded and then everyone wanted to sound as cool as them. or sound like them. or be them.

radiohead too. and massive attack. and chemical brothers. and oasis. oh the list is endless.

A lot of records that you can pinpoint as having a huge effect like this really didn't seem like the future at the time of their release.

I'm thinking of stuff like Travis's The Man Who and The Killers' Hot Fuss (which has had a huge impact on American emo-pop/punk-pop - e.g. the last Good Charlotte album).

Not really to do with this thread though...

That kind of album virtually never seems like the future at the time of its release. If it does, then the hype is usually over 6 months later.

What about the "experimental" records that critics thought were "the future of Rock"?

I'm thinking of stuff like Travis's The Man Who

Interesting. (They certainly seem to be the bridge between 1990s Radiohead and the Great Terror that is Coldplay...)

That kind of album virtually never seems like the future at the time of its release. If it does, then the hype is usually over 6 months later.

Right, which makes this a narrow enough category to be a good idea for a thread. Umm - - I'm not sure about LPs, but I keep thinking of "Get Ur Freak On."

I think Nelson George once wrote in the Voice way back when based on a Bobby Brown single, that artists who could sing and rap would be the future.

Voivod's Dimension Hatross was touted as "the future of metal". Though not a lot of lay people have heard it, a zillion bands from Faith No More and Soundgarden, to Tool (I assume) and Mushroomhead (ew!) have cited it as an influence.