This is awesome. Well, there goes my productivity for the weekend.
There’s also George Harrison’s Electronic Sound.
There is. I bought when it first came out, and I’d say it was the equal of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. I’ve tried to like them - I really have, but I’ve failed dismally.
Early Yellow Magic Orchestra and various albums by band members Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto - especially the last. His album “The Thousand Knives of…” is a classic.
Many of the “synth” parts of Who’s Next are not actually synthesized. The opening of Baba O’Reilly was created (from what I can gather from the Classic Albums DVD) by chords played on an organ, run through ARP 2500 filters controlled by the ARP’s sequencer - Townshend was getting the best of both worlds, a rich polyphonic sound from the organ and the control of the sequencer.
You might also check out Todd Rundgren’s Initiation. The first side is rock songs, but the second side is an instrumental suite called A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.
The Residents.