Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles

Share a song you feel was ahead of its time. There are some obvious tracks, Blue Monday (‘83) sounds like a track from the mid 90s club nights, I Feel Love (‘77) setting up electronica that wouldn’t appear for at least a decade, Teardrop (‘98) laid tracks for trip-hop artists to follow, and you could even argue that Smells Like Teen Spirit (‘91) set a pathway for rock music through that decade. But I love the Chemical Brothers, so I’ve always found it startling to hear them involved in a track from 1966 which was, and I checked, written 4 years before they were even born. It’s hard not to hear them in this track, and it’s one I forget about until I’m in an album mood and Revolver is always part of that rotation. Tape loops, playback speed manipulation, LSD experimentation, a reflection on Eastern meditation, the hypnotic repeated beats, all can be heard the coming years, through artists like Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Byrds. You can trace it on into dance and hip-hop genres, the tape…