Random order:
1. Beatles - Please Please Me
Not "Love me do", not because it's a bad record, but all it needed was a harmonica and two (or three) voices. It could be "Liverpool Folk Music" of old. "Please Please Me" needs the instruments.
2. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Rewrote the rule book, whether or not you liked it.
3. New Order - Blue Monday
It seems so strange that there was just over 6 years between "Anarchy in the UK" and this.
4. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (the song)
Music as something scary and dark. Did this have any precedent? in 1969?
― Mark G, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:46 (thirteen years ago)
any number of Roy Orbison and Phil Spector produced girl group records?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:51 (thirteen years ago)
That's a big gap to "what is this that stands before me" ..
― Mark G, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:54 (thirteen years ago)
Orgasm by Cromagnon was released in 1969, so...
― emil.y, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:07 (thirteen years ago)
Bubber, you've given me a wah wah
http://youtu.be/bBOBHB4jR8g
Maybe not the first use of plunger, but the beginning of texture trumping melody, something only really possible with recorded music.
― bendy, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:58 (thirteen years ago)
embedding this time, The Moochie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBOBHB4jR8g