10 Rock Music Albums That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

10. Silver Apples - Silver Apples

As much as diehard purists might hate to admit it, rock and electronic music go together like bread and butter.

Plenty of bands have made this combination work over the years; hair metal acts like Van Halen; art rockers like Radiohead; emo bigwigs like Bring Me the Horizon.

The entire genre of prog would be nothing without synthesisers!

The heyday of electronic music is usually said to be the 80s, when it bled over into the mainstream, but one band was combining it with rock music in the late 1960s.

New York outfit Silver Apples released their first studio album in 1968 and it was a revelation. It combined early oscillator technology with psychedelia to create a sound unlike anything else around at the time and laid the groundwork for all the success that electronic rock would find in the future.

So why haven't we heard more about this band?

In 1969, the band released their second album Contact. The back of the record depicted a Pan Am Airlines plane that had crashed into a field, prompting a lawsuit from the company.

This essentially sank Silver Apples, leaving everyone to wonder what might have been.