# Musical artists that were weird, extreme, or ahead-of-their-time in the 1960s/early 1970s. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895 "2015-09-29T00:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/21 "2015-09-29T18:27:13Z")
Another vote for Neu!. And proposing The BBC Radiophonic Workshop for the Doctor Who Theme music. I’d say well ahead of its time for [1963](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4ClJZME4). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/22 "2015-09-29T18:36:04Z")
Oops. ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/23 "2015-09-29T22:14:44Z")
Silver Apples!! Earliest example I know of electronic dance music, using a hand-made osciallator machine (“The Simeon”) plus even have a song mostly made of samples (“Program”) - all in 1968!!! If one considers Kraftwerk the “fathers” of electronic, that makes Suicide the “grandfathers”, and the Silver Apples the “great-grandfathers”! one little nitpick… with the term “ahead of their time”. If a band actually recorded and released an album that got heard, it can’t be “ahead of it’s time” - rather it \*defines \* it’s time… ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/24 "2015-09-30T03:03:13Z")
Don’t forget Alice Cooper. I mentally put the Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, and Wild Man Fischer all together in the Frank Zappa group. Though, come to think of it, I don’t know if AC was associated with Zappa at all and don’t care enough to look it up. There was talk back in the day in my Jr High that the Fugs were going to join the Mothers so they could be the Mother Fuggers, but that could just have been a joke between the few or us who had heard of the MoI. David Peel and the Lower East Side would probably qualify as one of those oddity groups. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/25 "2015-09-30T03:06:33Z")
[Big Star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Star) ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/26 "2015-09-30T14:57:45Z")
I hate this board. I click the post so I can say “The Sonics!”, and there they are in the first two posts. I need to find a stupider board that will be impressed by me. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/27 "2015-09-30T15:04:39Z")
[Glenn Gould.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895/28 "2015-09-30T15:40:57Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Don’t forget Alice Cooper. I mentally put the Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, and Wild Man Fischer all together in the Frank Zappa group. Though, come to think of it, I don’t know if AC was associated with Zappa at all and don’t care enough to look it up. > > There was talk back in the day in my Jr High that the Fugs were going to join the Mothers so they could be the Mother Fuggers, but that could just have been a joke between the few or us who had heard of the MoI. Alice Cooper’s first two LPs were on Zappa’s label, but I don’t think they interacted much. Zappa didn’t care for the Fugs. The combination would never have worked because of Zappa’s insistence on musical proficiency and the Fugs’ willful disregard of same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-artists-that-were-weird-extreme-or-ahead-of-their-time-in-the-1960s-early-1970s/732895.md?page=1)