Songs ahead of its time

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Tho Who - I'm a Boy
A song from 1966 that is about a transboy and discusses parental rejection and self cutting. It actually was a minor hit in the UK


The Who - Pictures of Lily
Also from '66 about masterbation


Tom Robinson Band - Glad to Be Gay from 1977
Gives a pretty accurate description of the the general attitude of the society towards gays back then and in some ways towards autistics in 2016


Janis Ian - Society's Child
1967 song about a teenage interracial couple

https://youtu.be/6yy6qICUTe0

Back in the late Forties, long before Bob Dylan wrote "Blowin' in the Wind", and John Lennon wrote "Give Peace a Chance" Louis Jordan recorded this plea for peace, and understanding! And in the process he also invented rap music a generation before the Sugar Hill Gang recorded "Rapper's Delight" in 1978.

Meshuggah's entire album Chaosphere was incredibly ahead of it's time and maybe the most imitated in heavy music today.

This song doesn't sound like it's from 1991.

Purgatory Afterglow by Edge of Sanity and Bergtatt by Ulver were the most ahead albums I can think of.

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I'm Spasticus Autisticus. Disabilty acceptence/
pride from 1981


The Pleasure Seekers - What a Way To Die Women singing about getting plastered 1966


Fanny was the first all female rock group to release an album on a major label. On this video Cher says "gracious, girls act like that"


Even today with all the diversity emphisis there are not to many pop songs dealing with both sides hating you for your mixed ethnicity or race. Yet Cher had a hit with this theme in 1973 with the song "Half Breed". This is very relatable to what many post about here of bieng called not autistic because the are too high functioning and at the same time feeling left out by auttistics that are milder then them.

Evidently this was ahead of its time since the media has exploded recently with evidence that its not that bad. I think it was pretty socially unacceptable in their day and age and it still is to a lesser extent.

punk rock from Peru 1964
Los Saicos - Demolicion

Autechre - Characi
1997 saw a shift in autechre's work as they approached more and more to the beat deconstruction of Confield in 2001